I might think differently if the "ads" were not so blatently cheesy. Sure, if I wanted to plant bombs over a wide area I am going to make them stand out with blue lights and put them in plain sight so that they are easily identified.
Although I certainly enjoy seeing Ted Turner and his org squirming, it was not them who ran the advertising campaign. It was a small marketing agency without too many brains. The catch is that the marketing firm does not have deep pockets and Turner does. In addition, there are already plenty of people laughing at the overreaction of Boston to the immediate media hype and the village idiots up there want to look like adults again.
It would have been a great place to put a bomb, were one so inclined. Why? Because no one in their right mind would do that.
It still is, especially now, because no one in authority wants to look like an idiot, right?
At any rate, it looks like the ad campaign has been wildly effective. Now if the perp can just get out of jail and stay out of the red...