This has got to be a joke. I first read about this yesterday and thought it was going to blow over because it is so ridiculous. Turner Broadcasting, promoting Aqua Teen Hunger Force (an animated show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim) employed a non-traditional media marketing campaign of posting up lite-brite style images of a character from the show in 10 major American cities. See them assemble and install one such device here.
So what is the big deal? Apparently Boston officials didn't find the lightsnipes, as they're called, so entertaining. I can understand misunderstandings (that's poetry baby!), but jailing two individuals responsible for installing the devices under charges including inciting hysteria. According to the Boston Globe: "Elected officials said there is no room for battery-powered contraptions on bridges and overpasses in a post Sept. 11 world."
That statement really irked me. We live in a post 9/11 world, yes, and we always will. There's absolutely no way to go back and undo that event, at least until Marty McFly saves the day. So a neon, heavily pixilated alien giving people the bird is how the terrorists are going to get us? Nevermind the loosely secured railways and seaports- its the aliens giving us the bird that we should worry about. We live amongst morons...sad yet oddly entertaining.
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Out of the 10 cities this tactic was employed in, only Bostonians freaked out. What a joke. And now Turner Broadcasting has written out a check for a cool $2 million to the city of Boston. Hm, maybe the city of San Francisco should have done the same, and put the money towards its myriad problems. Oh wait, they're all caught up with Mayor Gavin Newsome's affair scandal and impending alcohol re-hab.
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