Aqua Teen Hunger Force...Assemble!

I was given a suggestion to talk about THIS ARTICLE rather than the current heated debate about morality and ethics. Well, I guess it still has to do with both, but it sure is a whole lot funnier.

Here's a joke for you:

How many people does it take to recognize a supposed bomb is just a bunch of light bulbs?

Give up?

The police, Counter Terrorism, The Joint Terrorism Task Force, and Homeland Security (as well as fire departments and bomb squads).

Turner Broadcasting recently began an advertising campaign which included light-bright-like signs of Err from ATHF flipping everyone the bird. These were placed in at least 5 major cities on walls, bridges, signs, etc. Multiple weeks after they were hanging there, someone in Boston called one in as a bomb. All hell broke loose and $75,000 later (including costs to blow up at least one of the signs in order to suppress the "actual explosion") they realize it's an advertising campaign.

The problem is that they keep calling it a hoax, and that the attorney general made a bunch of comments about how the act was meant to cause fear and intimidation and the devices (which they keep calling packages?) were meant to look like bombs.

I'll let you decide if this looks like a bomb:



The strangest part is that they (the news) keeps calling this a "hoax." A hoax is something intended to deceive or defraud. If the original intent of the signs was advertisement, which it obviously was, than this was not a hoax meant to cause fear.

I don't know about you, but I have never been drawn in to use a product because they intentionally made me fear for my life (and I mean really fear, not roller-coaster fear).

Basically, the city went a little bit overboard, caused more panic than would have been caused if they had handled it differently (or done a tiny bit of research before jumping in head first) and tried to make everyone think they had no choice.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm glad the city responded so swiftly to what was seen as a potential bomb threat, but what's next? Someone is going to call in a phone booth as a potential bomb because someone has etched "F___ America" onto the glass?

I never thought I'd say this, but if the older generation were either more in tune with the younger, or would listen more to the younger, Boston probably could have saved $75,000 which, you know, might have been useful to use towards schools and such.