Broadcaster to pay $2M in bomb scare

Yahoo News/AP ^ | 02-05-07 | GLEN JOHNSON

[mfnorman]

BOSTON - Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that caused a widespread bomb scare, the attorney general said Monday.

The agreement with several state and local agencies resolves any potential civil or criminal claims against the companies, said Attorney General Martha Coakley.

More than three dozen blinking electronic signs with a boxy cartoon character giving an obscene hand gesture were found Wednesday in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. The signs, part of a publicity campaign for Cartoon Network's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," also appeared in nine other big U.S. cities in recent weeks, with little interest.

[sarasota]

Cheap advertising cost compared with the $2.6 million for a 30 second SuperBowl spot.

[Red Badger]

...also appeared in nine other big U.S. cities in recent weeks, with little interest.

So, MA is the only state that is scared of cartoon signs or the others are more lax in their Homeland Security standards? Or the others are smarter?.......

[D.P.Roberts]

Wow, talk about enabling stupidity!

[desherwood7]

I think the problem with Boston is the overtly Liberal atmosphere. I don't think that the other cities are lax in their Homeland Security, But the problem has & always will lie with Boston.

[Gorzaloon]

So, MA is the only state that is scared of cartoon signs or the others are more lax in their Homeland Security standards? Or the others are smarter?.......

A fair statement.

Planes left Boston on 9-1-01.

Or the others are smarter?.......

Consider the politics of the state. JF'n K will be back and so will the Swimmer.

[I see my hands]

DO NOT OPEN ON YOUR LAPTOP WHILE IN FLIGHT!

[wku man]

The two hippie a**clowns who did it need to spend a few years playing bu** darts at the Gray Bar Hotel for their part in it. Especially that one who looks like Rasputin...wipe that stupid grin off his face.

Then again, maybe he'd enjoy the vacation.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[attackcartoons]

could be worse

http://www.attackcartoons.com/article.php/20070204095854454

[cyclotic]

C'mon, it was a great training exercise for the bomb squad.

[Dallas59]

[greasepaint]

does anyone have a pic of the sign?

'boxy'
my guess is that the culprit was Frylock,
butI don't know that for sure

[Ciexyz]

After a few rounds at the Shamrock Tavern in Boston, those blinking lights would scare me, too.

[TomGuy]

Yet the 6 imams were able to terrorize people aboard a Northwest Airline flight, and the imams, not the passengers, garnered the right to sue for damages.

Had those devices in Boston been planted by other than white guys, might there been such an uproar?

[canuck_conservative]

So, MA is the only state that is scared of cartoon signs or the others are more lax in their Homeland Security standards? Or the others are smarter?.......

I think anyone living in the other nine cities - the ones that did nothing - should be VERY concerned. This whole exercise just proved that a terrorist could plant a bomb on any major infrastructure there (bridges, buildings, etc.), and as long as it looks like a toy, people will do nothing! Sounds like Boston is the only city that gets serious about unknown, suspicious devices.

I wonder how many terrorists are taking notes about this incident??

[Blue Jays]

Hi ISMH-

I'm not going to open it at all! Sounds like it could be embarrassing or something.

~ Blue Jays ~

[TomGuy]

Hey Boston,

All your underpasses are belong to The Cartoon Network.


[What a bunch of ninnies.]

[bigbob]

Ted Turner should have to apologize for being stupid.

[I see my hands]

It's JIhad rated.

[grjr21]

Todd Vanderlin, a college student, spoke to WBZ. He apparently found one of these light boards and took it down for himself.