"It's a hoax -- and it's not funny," said Gov. Deval Patrick.
Not a hoax, Deval. A hoax is an intent to decieve, to make something look like something else. These are small blinking signs intended to look like TV characters.
These blinking lights were in place for two weeks!
Because you will not back down, and admit that this was not a hoax, people are threatened with serious jail time.
"It used to be, if a terrorist wanted to bring a whole city to its knees it would take a group months of planning. ... Now days, all a terrorist has to do is leave some boxes lying around with some flashy lights, and suddenly the whole city is brought down. Terrorism has gotten so easy, people everywhere are doing it by accident."
What an overreaction. 9 other cities including New York have these things up and there is no incident. In Boston, of course, it becomes a logistical nightmare. They should arrest the nitwit who called 911.
We have 2-3 murders per week here and they buy some stupid gunshot locating system, when they find blinking lego sets they call in the SWAT team and make everyone's life miserable for 4 hours.
Then they say that people should take solace in the fact that they found such devices. Um, the things have been up for 2 weeks!
Who was the last bomb builder to make a bomb with a bunch of blinking lights and place it in the open for everyone to see?
Menino is a buffoon.
Whoever thought up this idea should be fired. What a moronic stunt.
If your city gets shut down because your police department is too stupid to figure out the difference between a bomb and a Lite-Brite, it's time to move to another city.
It's about people not taking a joke, wanting to scream "Terrorism!" at the slightest oddity, and watching way too much "24".
Dealing with terrorism is one thing.
Looking for boogeymen is something else.
"A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. There is often some material object (e.g., snake oil) involved which is actually a forgery; however, it is possible to perpetrate a hoax by making only true statements using unfamiliar wording or context (see DHMO)."
A retard, drama queen governor. Imagine that.
It wasn't a "marketing mistake." It was some idiot public officials over-reacting to a Lite Brite of Err giving the finger. This helps to explain why the Swimmer and J F'in K keep getting re-elected. The Boston mayor is a TFI.
Can we throw Turner in jail?
OMG!!!!!!A BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!
SOMEONE CALL THE BOSTON PD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem was in using public property without permission. It's public property, and that means no private use is allowed and this means YOU. Next time get the permit.
Man, you can't BUY advertising like this!