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Boston Bomb Scare: Outraged Menino vows no mercy for stunt - Sham suspect jailed
Boston Herald ^ | February 1, 2007 | Laura Crimaldi & Michelle McPhee

Posted on 02/01/2007 3:16:22 AM PST by billorites

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To: bondjamesbond

Can't talk now, I'm hiding under my desk. There's a car parked outside and it looks just like a carbomb!


341 posted on 02/01/2007 5:34:35 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: Petronski
In the case of lite brites, no way.

For about the thousanth time, they were not Lite-Brites. They were not Lite-Brites, they were not Lite-Brites, they were not Lite-Brites. They weren't. Saying it over and over again will not make it so. They were custom made electronic signs, not familiar children's toys.

342 posted on 02/01/2007 5:35:30 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
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To: Petronski

If there is a car stuck magnetically to the side of your building 20 feet up, I suggest you evacuate!


343 posted on 02/01/2007 5:37:14 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
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To: billorites

Boston....city of wusses. Good lord.


344 posted on 02/01/2007 5:39:07 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: bondjamesbond

They were far more Lite Brites than they were bombs. Go hide under a rock.


345 posted on 02/01/2007 5:52:21 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: RightOnline
Boston....city of wusses.

Seriously.

The hyperbolic knee-jerk panic is embarrassing for them and thoroughly entertaining for the rest of us.

346 posted on 02/01/2007 5:53:37 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: bondjamesbond
If there is a car stuck magnetically to the side of your building 20 feet up...

...it would have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Don't drink the bong water.

347 posted on 02/01/2007 5:54:25 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: bondjamesbond
I suggest you evacuate!

BTW, when you say "evacuate," I hope you don't mean it in the same way as when Mumbles and his crew crapped their pants over some cartoon Lite Brites.

348 posted on 02/01/2007 5:55:45 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: Petronski
Frylock: Yeah? What about it? Igningnokt: Oh nothing, its cute! We have five... Err: Th..thousand. Ignignokt: Yes five thousand. Err: Don't question it!!!
349 posted on 02/01/2007 6:03:23 PM PST by Live free or die
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To: sgtbono2002

they broke no laws except littering.


350 posted on 02/01/2007 6:14:48 PM PST by tarnak
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To: bondjamesbond

Okay, go to YouTube (there is a link to the relevant page at post 36) and look at the lighted signs being assembled, and put up. Then go to the copy of the FOX News report, and look at the sign with the exposed battery case.

The reason the battery case is exposed in the FOX footage is someone took the housing off! (The housing--if you didn't see it, watch the assembly footage again, and look at them as they are being put up.) The way they were put up they did not have exposed wires or exposed battery cases, and the lights looked steady, except in one shot which I think was a video effect or a defective switch on the sign. They were rectangular flat panels with their circuits hidden, and lots of LED's.

They DID NOT look like the standard popular conception of a bomb.

I still like the LED getting misread as IED hypothesis.


351 posted on 02/01/2007 6:16:13 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
As you'd expect, you can now have one for yourself!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cartoon-Network-Mooninites-LED-Sign-Working-bomb-scare_W0QQitemZ300077185965QQihZ020QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Currently $355... Wish I had found a couple!
352 posted on 02/01/2007 6:30:48 PM PST by Ralph the Hun
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To: The_Reader_David

Well, they were "found" during the daylight hours. In daylight they turn themselves off. So the LEDs really weren't an issue, were they?


353 posted on 02/01/2007 6:54:01 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
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To: tarnak

I'm going to really enjoy watching these guys get shafted by the system. And shafted they will be.


354 posted on 02/01/2007 7:01:33 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
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To: bondjamesbond

"One of these punks is going to roll on the others. After that, the rest of them are going to be in a world of hurt!"

There's nothing for them to "rollover" on. There's a huge billboard on I-75 in metro Atlanta with the same character promoting that show.


Instead what we saw was a bunch of swats eager to gear up with all their toys and scare the city to death over a silly cartoon network promo.

Now the mayor is fuming because he looks like an idiot. So does his PD.

Noone is going to rollover. Course the city may pursue them to hell and back having had their incompetence exposed.

Since had they been real bombs, they would have exploded before the mayor and his LE discovered them. Apparently Boston is vacated by police and civilians after dark. Because they hung them in plain view with cameras rolling the night before. But the focus now is that someone has to pay for exposing the incompetence of the city of Boston and it's mayor.


355 posted on 02/01/2007 7:59:53 PM PST by takenoprisoner
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To: ItsTheMediaStupid

Nice language.


356 posted on 02/01/2007 8:24:59 PM PST by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: takenoprisoner
Apparently Boston is vacated by police and civilians after dark. Because they hung them in plain view with cameras rolling the night before.

And all night long they had the lights on and were dutifully giving every passerby the finger. Their purpose was clear, if obnoxious. In the morning, they shut themselves off, and they were found, identified as suspicious and removed within and hour or two.

I don't know what level of omnipresence you expect out of the Boston Police Department. But finding and removing nine items in random locations within a couple of hours sounds like a pretty good performance to me. Certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

357 posted on 02/02/2007 1:58:07 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
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To: billorites

Didn't the people of Boston vote to end the WoT last Nov? Don't their elected representatives say that Pres. Bush ginned up the whole terrorist threat? Why are they mad about some cartoon promotion? They should be mad that their police haven't gotten the message. The WoT is a hoax! The people have spoken.


358 posted on 02/02/2007 2:07:25 AM PST by TigersEye (Ego chatters endlessly on. Mind speaks in great silence.)
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To: sgtbono2002; albee; PureSolace; DB; steve-b
I disagree. Throw the book at them. This was beyond stupid and goes into criminal. Kids call in bomb threats at schools and disrupt classes,

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I disagree.
Welcome to the police state.


Suspicious Aqua Teen Hunger Force OH NO!

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359 posted on 02/02/2007 2:42:57 AM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: Major_Risktaker

Hey You guys have convinced me. These fellows are simply great, heroes actually. Nothing like a joke from cartoonists. they should get medals. Brilliant people Artists.

I dont know what I was thinking. I have now seen pictures of this brilliant artist with his filthy rastafarian hair and realise what an artist he is. Please excuse my nbelieveing they should hav any form of punishment , after all they provide pleasure to so many Americans who watch cartoons.


360 posted on 02/02/2007 4:13:50 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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