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Boston flips out when people report LED Mooninites as bombs
Flipped the fuck out.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_i...07_boston4.jpg http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/T...82492_9493.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderl...enhungerforce/ <=== to more pics of the signs http://zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/mission1.html <=== also pics http://www.boston.com/news/local/adultswim_video/ another vid |
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh my fucking lord. That is classic. Fucking mooninites. Haha, I wonder if they shot their 'laser of death' at them. |
Worst yet are the people on the boston.com message boards, suggesting
I'm not saying Turner isn't liable for anything, but...9 other major cities (including terrorism bull's-eye New York City) have these things all over the place too, and have for weeks, and no one said a thing. Why? Because there aren't mega-huge retards living in those cities, apparently. One big overreaction by the City of Boston, and I can't shed a tear for anyone if the people of Boston and/or Massachusetts have to pay for their own stupidity. Meanwhile, if Turner has to pay anything for this incident, I'm sure it won't matter in the long run when the network's ratings get a huge boost thanks to this incident. |
"Using a key to gouge expletives in another's vehicle is a sign of trust, and friendship."
"Who did this to my freakin' car?!" "We are not here. We will be causing bomb scares in Boston." |
This is the kind of thing that could only happen on the east coast because in the west coast nobody would have called them in as bombs, the taggers would have vandalized them without question and life wouldn't have skipped a beat.
It's how we roll in Cali, son! |
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Wow. This is awesome. I wonder how people in Montreal would react? Oh wait, this is Quebec, nobody would care.
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Wow, does everybody that lives in Boston automatically become fucking retarded? You'd think someone would KNOW what ATHF is and be like:
"Why are you fucking with those Lite-Brite Mooninites?" "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU'RE PART OF THE TERRORIST OPERATION THESE ARE BOMBS AIMED AT THE INNOCENT AMERICAN PEOPLE" |
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I'm not saying the city of Boston is ALL idiots (however much you want to remind me about the riots after the Red Sox won the 2004 ALDS and ALCS). Boston has a lot of college students in it, and I'm sure a majority of them know who the Mooninites are.
It was probably reported by some 40+-year-old who didn't see the LEDs and just assumed it was a black box of destruction. |
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Apparently Boston police have arrested the culprit. |
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It was reported by someone on the bus or the train who saw a black box with wires sticking out of it. |
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The all french people hate the gays bit was a joke, mucky.
And I could say it about any city, but I've been all over the world, and the biggest dens of absolute elitist bullshit are Montreal, New York and London. And sure, the island has liberals, it's a major city, but it's still predominantly catholic, and it reflects in the politics. |
Well this was quite funny and shocking how much it really was overblown, but I guess it doesn't hurt that much to be careful because alot of people don't know what ATHF is.
Anyway, "You cannot escape the quad-laser!" |
Someone at Adult Swim is fucking rolling right now.
Mooninites brought down the towers. |
Adult Swim apologized for the advertising campaign during tonight's intro. All the signs are going to be taken down.
A sad day for awesomeness. |
I wonder if they're going to have to face any legal action for all this? I would sure hope not, but I figure those idiots are probably going to be embarassed and they're going to take it out on whoever they're able to.
I can't believe that a 40-year-old ignorant piece of shit caused all this ruckus. If anyone is to blame, it's his stupidity. Why is cartoon network taking them down? They should leave them up. God, people in Boston are retarded. |
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"You cannot contain us in your three-dimensional prisons. We are beyond such mortal boundries." |
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Haha, wow. I would think BOSTON would be the least likely to be as dipshitted about something like this, of all places.
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You know what's ironic?
Boston is just playing right into Cartoon Network's hands. It was a publicity stunt--pure and simple. It's being blown out of proportion, and if the Mayor thinks starting legal action will hurt Turner Broadcasting....man, he needs to re-think. |
http://raplica.com/store/shirts/Adlt_Swim/mooninite
TOTALLY WANT ONE. Oddly enough...tonight's episode is the first one featuring the Plutonians. |
Obviously this may have been a scare for some Boston people, but it was a huge success to boost publicity about the show and adult swim. Ignignokt (sp?) and Err are just the coolest though.
Ignignokt: "And remember everyone there are no dumb questions here." Moth-monster man: "Umm, I have a question." Ignignokt: "Yes? The retard with the dumb question?" |
omg.....::running out of breath:: I saw this shit beofre I headed out for work, sounded like a prank anyways, I diddnt expect this, though its is all publicity for the recently announced theatrical film but, man, what an execution in promotion.
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Will be on front page of all regional newspapers too. Outstanding.
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"Err--explain our greatness to them."
"We scared the people in Boston." "That's right Err. Our mere image is enough to prove our greatness." |
hmmmm..off to get some newspapers tomorrow, this stuff is too hard to miss.
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This going to show up on South Park soon, right?
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I'm still amazed how much of an over-reaction this marketing ploy was. It reminds me of some Mission Impossible 3 advertising scheme where they put a little speaker thing on newspaper stands in some city and when you opened it up to get a paper, it would play the MI theme and someone reported that it looked like a bomb. So the police came and the bomb squad and they blew it up and then they realized, "Oh it's just a speaker promoting Mission Impossible 3."
"Well I'm not going to put those signs up all over Boston, I'm the digital ruler. You get a slave to do that. Would anyone like to join our slavery program? ......You'll get college credit. Shoot." |
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And that the only kind of fish you can eat is cod?! |
My PS2 had wires. That's probably why it blew up. :(
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The best part is how the TV news blurred out the device because of the middle finger.
I don't see any on Ebay yet, but I'll bet at least a few of these signs from the other cities wind up for sale. |
If they were smart they would actually make and sell some. It might get some redicule, but a lot of people would buy them now.
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the papers arent different at all. The Boston Globe and the Herald had it ont he frint page uncensored as well as the other papers from teh state above. |
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Wicked lol. =p
I wish they put some here in DC, but I guess that would most definitely not have gone so well... |
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Motion Denied! Objection Sustained! |
Two guys charged for this act of terrorism so far.
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Wil fucking Wheaton chimes in about this...
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(So Wesley can solve a goddamned Warp Bubble that is slowly crushing his mom's universe - but he can't save Boston from fake bombs? This kid aint no genius) |
Wow. that's AMAZING. seriously.
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I was just leaving the Pool hall and saw a glimpse of some breaking new on the TV... had no idea what it was about. Then I saw it on CNN.com. Honestly, I cannot believe that there would be a terror scare over that.... But I guess in this post 9/11 United States and many places around the world, things like this happen more frequently.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4 Hilarious. |
So Turner and the ad agency are going to pay $2 million to resolve this mess. From a PR standpoint, I guess this is the right thing to do, but honestly I wish Turner had just said, "Hey stupid, it didn't look like a terrorist device, and we're not paying for your paranoia!"
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Not only was the ad campaign fantastic, that press conference was amazing. Props to them.
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/cit..._broadcas.html
Turner will pay out $2M for the trouble Boston had to go through to blow up an LED panel and find the other panels. (Boston mayor) Tom Menino and (Massachusetts DA) Martha Coakley are all like, "haha, we win, we didn't overreact, this money is teh proofs!" |
Eh, 2 million is a drop in the bucket for a company like Turner. I don't see how those two can say they didn't overreact considering that they were the ones who pursued the matter this far.
I also think it's interesting about how they still plan on throwing the two guys who set it up in prison (for five years at the most). Guess they don't have 2 million to spare. |
I saw the report on the news the other day and I laughed so hard when I saw the image on the sign.
I don't understand how they could believe a light up sign with a cartoon image on it could be a bomb. |
this movie will generate MAD profits anyways, so all they have to wait and hope the movie doesent bomb.
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This little tidbit changes my opinion of the two guys that were arrested.
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Eh. Doesn't mean much to me.
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Since when is not helping the police out a crime? Is this Seinfeld?
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1.) If you were the person responsible for putting a "hoax bomb" up (when your intentions were CLEARLY not of a malicious nature), would you walk down, witness this "bomb scare" (which you intially didn't know involved your electronic board) and confess you PUT it there and it was harmless? Do you think anyone would believe you? At that point, I would videotape it if I could and keep it for evidence, if need be. 2.) He's a freelance videographer. Who the hell cares? He videotapes something that could arguably be completely separated from what he did. 3.) He really did the right thing to give his employer a call before he got involved in police affairs. The employer would provide an attorney, who would likely advise AGAINST confessions. So maybe the video taping was gratuitous and silly. But I would have likely done the same. You don't know what his actual reasons are, so you can't assume he did it for shits and giggles with his "bomb hoax." and lol at capo~ <3 |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/...icious_devices
Cartoon Network chief Jim Samples has stepped down as head of Cartoon Network, citing that he felt obligated to do so because of the gravity of the situation that occurred under his watch. Seems a bit extreme to me, but it is showing the government people who are on their case that they're serious in showing that they regret what happened. Still seems pretty foolish to me, but whaddyagonnado. I hope they keep the guy on in some position in the company, because to completely lose your job for what amounted to a miscalculation that was (at least monetarily) paid for would stink. |
Do you think he resigned because he felt responsible, or because of corporate pressure? Surely $2 million isn't an enormous sum for Turner, but the company seems committed to acting as contrite as possible about this whole situation, and they could have asked Samples to resign to show they're serious.
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