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Oh, I just don't even know where to begin. This whole debacle is beyond stupid, it's George W. Bush-stupid.
Somehow, nine other cities across the country managed to have these little LED signs all over the place and no one thought they were bombs, but Boston's Finest came out and publicly decreed that a circuit board, some wires and a battery "were consistent with improvised explosive devices". I guess the light-up monster giving the one-fingered salute must be some kind of Islamo-fascist code, eh? (That's what seven generations of police in-breeding will do to people, I guess)
Somehow, nobody at the "guerilla marketing company" or Turner Broadcasting managed to take a moment to consider just what sort of reptile-brain thinking goes on in your major metropolitan police department. Then, when the shit hit the fan, Turner's own people at CNN were among the first to start banging the panic gongs for a "terror alert" and balls-to-the-wall live coverage. The paranoid among us have already jumped on this to say that the whole thing was a cleverly-designed maneuver a la "War Of The Worlds", but to me it only goes to show that the so-called "television journalists" are completely unable to do anything but parrot back what they are told. Frankly, that explains pretty much everything that has happened in this country for the last seven years, but it sure is getting old.
Then, "da Mayah" and our sparkly-new governor jumped the gun a bit with their public statements, only to have egg on their faces an hour later when every blogger on the planet except me broke the real story about the cartoon characters. Instead of ponying up to being mike-grabbing attention-hounds, the pols have spent every moment since issuing various stern pronouncements about what they're going to do to Turner Broadcasting. What they're going to do is jack-shit, and we all know it, so they might as well just have said "Oh, sorry, never mind" and admitted they and the Boston Police overreacted. Apparently they've been watching tapes of George W. Bush in action.
But, the stupidity doesn't stop there. The "struggling artist" who put up all the signs for the marketing company managed to videotape himself and a friend hanging the signs all over the city late at night and POSTED IT ON THE INTERNET. They arrested him last night on some bogus charges that I'm sure will get dropped once the politicians have covered their asses, but he deserves to be arrested again for being so fundamentally stupid as to post his self-incriminating video (complete with rockin' techno music that features a robot chanting "BOOM-chaka-laka"). Americans don't have to spy on each other, I guess, because they're obviously willing to implicate themselves in the dumbest possible stunts.
Somewhere in a cave in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden is cackling with glee. Who knew he was such an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan?
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