Thursday, February 01, 2007

Mooninites Invade Boston!

Uh, you probably think that's funny if you've seen Aqua Teen Hunger Force before. If not you may be calling some kind of bomb squad. Well, let me dissuade you. Its a stupid cartoon, not an IDE. Trust me. Apparently the Adult Swim guys thought it'd be cool to promote the Aqua Teens by placing lighted signs around Boston and other cities. And the freaks around Boston think they're so important that anything out of the ordinary must be an act of violence. Now, I haven't been able to find a picture of one of these signs but I can't imagine thinking one of them is a bomb. The bomb squads said that they "contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were 'consistent with an improvised explosive device,' but they said it had no explosives." So they blew them up. Uhhh... isn't an IED pretty much any kind of circuitry with explosives? You know, cell phones, clocks, sensors. WITH explosives. Yeah, that's great. "We don't know what this is. Well explode it before it explodes us." I hate being associated to this fearful and prejudicial social climate.
Update
Here's a couple links to Flickr galleries with the "devices"


Yeah, those are not bombs.

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