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Aqua Teen scare in Boston.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: SithMaster on February 11, 2007, 01:19:11 am ---Mostly negative for being the cause of a terrorist scare.
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Doesn't matter, all press is good press, especially for a counterculture late night television show.
Four D batteries are more than enough to power a beeper or cell phone long enough to receive a detonation signal.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2007, 03:55:50 pm ---Doesn't matter, all press is good press, especially for a counterculture late night television show.
Four D batteries are more than enough to power a beeper or cell phone long enough to receive a detonation signal.
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True on both counts.
However...
If a seasoned explosives tech can't see that there simply wasn't enough volume in the device to hide an appreciable amount of explosives...
I'm sure the bomb guys said over and over again "Its not big enough to be a real bomb..." and the politicos kept hounding the issue. Shame we'll never know.
ChadTower:
How many seasoned explosives experts do you think they have? These items kept being reported all day.
And those seasoned explosives experts were too busy chasing down real looking fake pipe bombs that day to be everywhere at once. So what do the nonexperts do? They play it safe and shut down the potentially threatened areas until the experts can arrive.
What about that is unreasonable?
Ed_McCarron:
I never said it was unreasonable. I would have probably reacted the same way.
However...
After the fact, I'd also admit to a bit of overreacting and theatrics on the officials part.
"Sure, we had to be safe, but it turns out we got a bit scared and overreacted."
Think that'll happen? Not.
If I were behind the advert campaign, I'd also have labeled the damn things with my address, company name, and phone number. Would have saved a lot of problems.
In high school ('86-'90) I had a clock in my locker for four years. Block of modeling clay, digital clock, some curly wires... The teachers that saw it thought it was hilarious.
Try that today.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 10, 2007, 01:13:45 pm ---Seems like a good excuse to fire the entire boston law-enforcement division to me. I know the republicans made everybody paranoid of the invisible monster hiding in the closet, but the last thing we need is a city ran by trigger-happy paranoid types.
This promotion happened in at least 6 other major cities and none of them saw it as a terrorist threat. They saw it as some blinkly lights in the shape of a cartoon character, because, well that's what it was.
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Yup...amazing it was right dab in the middle of the bastion of "progressive thinkers" that they over reacted....
...and last I checked, we have a congress full of Democrats who voted to attack Iraq... seems a little "closed minded" for an "open thinker" such as yourself to blame everything on those damn Republicans?!? I bet Bush had a hand in Katrina as well?
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