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  • Boston: The Dumbest City in America

    01/31/2007 8:04:39 PM PST · by bocopar · 119 replies · 3,681+ views
    Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 1/31/07 | Bob Parks
    It was bad enough when cartoons caused rioting in Muslim countries. As a native Bostonian, I am embarrassed at the level of hysteria caused by cartoons in my home city. In an effort to promote a late night Cartoon Network show called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”, Turner Broadcasting hired some guerilla marketers to attach magnetic boxes with the lighted image of one of the characters on several locations around the city of Boston. Now I don’t know much about making terror bombs, but city officials were notified and later considered the boxes dangerous. Have any of us ever heard of...
  • Breaking: 'Hoax Devices' Found At Several Boston Locations (Several 'Suspicous Packages' Found)

    01/31/2007 12:04:30 PM PST · by Howlin · 663 replies · 27,428+ views
    Boston.com ^ | January 31, 2007
    BOSTON -- Four "hoax devices" were found at several Boston locations Wednesday, hours after officials detonated a suspicious package on an elevated structure above the Sullivan Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station. The additional packages were found at the Boston University Bridge, the Longfellow Bridge and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus streets. A device described by officials as a pipe bomb was found in the basement of the Tufts New England Medical Center at 185 Harrison Ave. A spokesman for the Boston Police Department said that all of the packages appeared to be similar. "Our device was not...