[BJEugene]

Oh my... When will the FBI Finaly get to RAID in CNN offices and RAID in Ted Turners house?

He will be at the Ranch in Nebr! Now TRAITOR JANE CAN PROTEST THE FBI AND THE BOMB SQUAD OF BOSTON!

[Andoror]

There doing there job. There was a serious dirty bomb alert in Boston this time last year.
Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Report: Search for Dirty Bomb in Boston? (Updated)

[iOqedeyH]

I still haven't seen anything about Turner facing five years.

[Jeffery]

There doing there job. There was a serious dirty bomb alert in Boston this time last year.
Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Report: Search for Dirty Bomb in Boston? (Updated)

So the bomb squad isn't supposed to be trained in any way about how bombs are made, simply how to blow them up in a bunker? That makes me feel safe to know that their job doesn't require any knowledge, or judgment.

[Inettypofonee]

This should serve as a lesson for those that believe in the nanny-state. It seems Boston's elitists are so naive, that it's possible to cause panic and basically shut the city down by hanging a few "LiteBrite" children's toys in various places. Is this the kind of overbearing panic that we wish to relinquish our freedoms to? Thank God a car didn't backfire during all this panic.

[Jeffery]

This should serve as a lesson for those that believe in the nanny-state. It seems Boston's elitists are so naive, that it's possible to cause panic and basically shut the city down by hanging a few "LiteBrite" children's toys in various places. Is this the kind of overbearing panic that we wish to relinquish our freedoms to? Thank God a car didn't backfire during all this panic.

I don't think this is quite the case of a 'nanny state' I think we can agree that bomb disposal is a role for the government to fulfill, when there is a legitimate threat. The problem is that this is not a legitimate threat nor could be conceived to be by any rational individual, not that it is government encroaching on an area best filled by the private sector.

[Gerribase]

So the bomb squad isn't supposed to be trained in any way about how bombs are made, simply how to blow them up in a bunker? That makes me feel safe to know that their job doesn't require any knowledge, or judgment.

Certainly, nobody who wanted to injure someone with a bomb would disguise it to look like a harmless object, right?

Matt

[TheBestCheapestOEM]

Why did it take them all day to figure out it was a lite brite toy?

[Jeffery]

Certainly, nobody who wanted to injure someone with a bomb would disguise it to look like a harmless object, right?

No one can make a bomb sufficient to kill someone or even damage the structures it was attached to which is shaped like that.

Lets say those weren't really batteries, lets say they were explosives, then there are two problems, one, what the hell has been powering the lights for the past 2-3 weeks, but two, not only does the volume of 4 C batteries (they might be D but it doesn't look like it) not amount to much in the way of explosives, it certainly isn't going to be able to take down or even damage a highway underpass. The explosive force would take the path of least resistance, and would have a complete lack of shrapnel.

So lets think about this, a circuit board 1 mm thick has LED lights attached to it, and batteries connected by a single wire, powering those lights. There are a few magnets on it and people have already stolen them without any injury. There are no explosives, no sign of explosives, no place to put explosives. The item is completely basic in its design with no frills whatsoever.

Now a cardboard box, could legitimately have a bomb in it, hell, it even has a third dimension to it and room where you could fit an explosive device in it. Should we explode all cardboard boxes we see? What about cars? Unlike flashing LED circuit boards which are used for all kinds of advertisements, they have a far longer history of being used as bombs. How about we blow up every car which is left unattended for more then 15 minutes? Because the terrorists might have put it there!

In fact lets blow up the pieces of paper that people staple to telephone poles, because the terrorists are apparently in your estimation, so devious, and so cunning that they can fit bombs into sizes that our own military cannot match. Then they attach lights to these bombs for some reason and put a character from a US Cartoon Show on them just to show how much they hate our culture! Then they put them up in ten cities, but the only ones which are a threat are the ones in Boston, because every other city apparently had a cop which used common sense.

Do you actually look at every piece of roadside debris, every billboard, every piece of graffiti, every improperly parked car, and suddenly jump to the conclusion that 'It must be the terrorists'. If so I pity you.

[Gerribase]

Do you actually look at every piece of roadside debris, every billboard, every piece of graffiti, every improperly parked car, and suddenly jump to the conclusion that 'It must be the terrorists'. If so I pity you.

Did I make any indication of the kind?

Matt

[Jeffery]

Oh no! More "terrorism"

YouTube - Interference LightSnipes Takes Peroni To NYC

[Jeffery]

Did I make any indication of the kind?

Matt

You seem to think that this could be a legitimate threat and should be treated as such. Roadside debris has actually hidden IEDs in Iraq. Bright flashing lights have not.

[annouhMus]

wait a minute, do those bomb squads have the least bit of training in electronics? This reminds me of the bombsquads which blew up the boxes stamped with "PROPERTY OF U.S.G.S." on the side of them in Florida before a hurricane, because "they looked suspicious"

Its a circuit board and its not freaking attached to anything dangerous. Of course its freaking harmless.

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but this seems to be a good a time as any to add my two cents (x100)

First of all, I agree with you. the damned things were flashing picture-boards.

(shades of fearmongering jump to the conclusion that anything different is a threat)

Simplly Message boards (and tho there is no verification of this, there was a snippit that the same thing was done in other cities) Giving the finger to something or other.

There is even a demonstration of people in Boston because of the over-sensitivity of the Authorities.

I will grant you that the Turner network should also have been cognizant of the present tentions and not done anything so stupid, especially without notice to the City. Firthat fact alone, they should have to pay the costs encountered. Criminality????? "NAH". Stupidity??, "YAH", on both sides.

[annouhMus]

There doing there job. There was a serious dirty bomb alert in Boston this time last year.
Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Report: Search for Dirty Bomb in Boston? (Updated)

Probably every bit as serious as this one.

[WeestDype]

Adult Swim is in deep doo doo. FOX is reporting it as being a network publicity stunt. Ted Turner is facing 5 years

They never intended it to be a bomb nor trick anyone into thinking it was.

The people who called it a bomb ought to be the ones in trouble here.
Bostonians sound like complete idiots as this same advertising campaign occurred in other states with no backlash.

Have you seen the signs? They look nothing like bombs.

[WeestDype]

Because they didn't account for a paranoid, idiotic populace who should have probably naturally selected themselves already? Listen people, just because something is new, doesn't make it a bomb. A bomb, among other things, REQUIRES EXPLOSIVES.



Its about having a mayor who is unable to calm idiotic fears. The cop reaction of shutting down the road added fear where there should have been none, and furthers this inane paranoia.



OMG ITS A BOMB!

Seriously people, its not even as complex as a lite brite.

LOL!
They do look like light brights.
I just dont know who accused them of being bombs and why the advertisers are in trouble for some morons romper-room interpretation of "a bomb".

I guess some bostonians are imbeciles.

[WeestDype]

Damn liberals terrorizing people. They are just using fear to get their ways.

I guess some people were stealing the boxes, not knowing what they were.

huh?

1) how did 'liberals' get into this.

2) were you just kidding?

[masaredera]

Somebody's going to be guerrilla marketing for a new job......

Idiots.

Matt

Really? I'd never heard of Adult Swim or their cartoon until this... They might be looking for a new job soon but it might be in a higher paid position.

No such thing as bad publicity.... isn't that what they say...

I doubt any legal charges will stick.... what, you cant place a box on the ground anymore in the USA. Perhaps they could be ticketed for littering....

Andrew

[WeestDype]

The mayor of Boston is SUCH a drama queen!!

[Jeffery]

Press conference by the people who put up the lite-brites

wbztv.com - CBS4 Boston Video Archive

Now I'm sure that people are going to jump all over this about how they're making a 'mockery of how serious the situation is'

Bullshit, the situation was never serious, the city made a mockery of itself by acting like a few litebrites were going to end civilization as we know it.