ATHF's Mooninites prompt bomb scare in Boston
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 - 8:35pm
Well what else were they supposed to do? Drop giant meatballs shaped like Meatwad all over the country?
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In Boston, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moonrocks.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
Not one person in the entire Boston emergency services response team knows what the Mooninites look like?
How sad.
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That this was a bomb scare is hilarious to me. So ridiculously paranoid.
My, what cowards we've become. We're scared of Cartoon Network.
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How do you mistake a neon sign for a bomb? I'd really like to know. 'Cause, you see, whenever I see a neon sign, the first thought through my mind is "eww, tacky," not "GET DOWN!!! GET TO DAH CHOPPAH!"
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These responses take on lives of their own. Once they start, no one is willing to stick their neck out to stop them, because if they are wrong their career is over. So they let it roll on and on...
The only thing that would have stopped this is if early on some beat cop (or firefighter) called in on the radio and said "Hey Sarge, this isn't a bomb, it's Ignignot and Ur!"
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I like how cnn was describing them as Spongebob flipping the bird.
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These have been around for 2-3 weeks. Looks the the bomb squad is quick to action.
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Apparently we are afraid of Adult Swim fans who possess Lite Brite's.
I can't believe there isn't some cheeto-eating 22 year old cop in the Boston PD who didn't know what a mooninite looked like.
Scratch that. I just don't want to believe it.
Sounds like marketers just didn't plan on having a totally clueless and panicky audience. That was their bad - not knowing who they were marketing to. Forcing first responders to chase down anything - that sounds like their bosses.
MrDeVil909: I feel it necessary to point out that there are drug resistant strains of most STDs. Especially in developing nations.
Funkenpants: Great. Yet another area in which we're losing our lead to foreigners.
Goddamit. ATHF has sucked recently. It doesn't deserve a fake terrorism bomb scare. If there was any justice, Boston would have been brought to its knees by The Venture Brothers.
They don't have a movie coming out.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
It reminds me of that other "bomb scare" during easter when those two children made boxes that looked like the "?" cubes and put them outside, and there was pressure on the neighbourhood to charge them.
I love the comments from the politicians suggesting that this whole thing is abhorrent behaviour by the advertisers who should be ashamed of themselves, even though the article suggests the same campaign ran in other cities without problems.
Speaking of which, if the system you have in place works as well as they claim, why do they also claim that it took them 12 hours to tell the difference between a terrorist bomb and a lite brite?
I would think the first rule of PR is to ignore forum people, because they vacillate between crazy and liar. - Elysium
I love all the talk of prosecution. Because a bunch of idiots can't recognize a Lite Brite when they see it.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
On the moon we have evolved beyond rules and manners.
Well that sounds like a personal problem.
Fryman we're full of religion now. Everyone, bow your heads and pretend to be serious. Do it or we'll bow em for you!
Cmon dirty white boy, and bring your urine.
He got busted, man. For stealing and drinking and smoking in a non-smoking area.
Cmon, meat man, let's go break the law to fill your primitive needs.
What is this prison camp? I mean cmon, can no one have fun here?
We're here to take your pornography and sodomize our vast imaginations.
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Well at least they didn't order a whole bunch of pizzas and have them delivered to city hall with money due.
EDIT - And Pyroman is obviously a mooninite.
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
It sounds to me like the Bostonians have been smoking a little too much moonijuana.
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The is the bestest Mooninite quote ever.
The situation itself is kind of too pathetic to really be funny to me though.
Give me a minute to add Boston to my list of "Don't ever move there for any reason" places.
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What gets me isn't that it happened, it's their reaction afterwards. Absolutely no acknowledgment that they were perhaps a little quick to panic.
"Pay no attention to the fact that we are idiots. ALL BAGS CAN EXPLODE! Suspect your neighbor! Report any suspicious activity! 'WHO TOOK MY SHIRT?! THIS IS WAAAAAAAR!!!'"
"PEACE ON EARTH. GOOD WILL TO MEN. PUBLIC SHELTER. ADMISSION 50¢"
Ha ha, code orange!
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Next up: Some Enterprising, Self-Righteous Bostonians will use this newfound knowledge to push a personal agenda.
Headlines: "Police round up Rottweilers looking for explosive pooch."
"Smokers tackled in street as bomb squad eliminates potential threats."
"Mayor charged with Felony after fart during speech causes panic, refuses to apologize and seeks damages from Taco Bell."
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
I wonder how much money the city wasted? No wonder the mayor sounds so angry - he knows that, in the end, it'll probably come down on his head. He's trying to deflect as much of it off him as quickly as possibly.
Well done, Pyro. That must have taken quite a bit of time to put together.
***golf clap***
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"Poor Achmed, only three days away from retirement ... from Jihad." - Mike Nelson
As ridiculous as this whole thing is I know if my wife had been caught up in that mess on her commute in/out of Boston yesterday it would *not* seem funny to her. Fortunately she worked at home yesterday and avoided the whole fiasco.
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Don't worry,
Mayor Mumbles has it all under control.
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When I imagine the bomb squad, or bomb squad robot, carefully handling and detonating a mooninite, I can't help but laugh.
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This was my favorite quote from FOX news yesterday when they were describing the show.
"Three unique detectives, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, share a rental house in New Jersey. This mystery-solving trio is comprised of human-sized food products: Master Shake, the big-mouthed, self-appointed team leader with a short attention span and no work ethic; Frylock, the only reasonable member of the group, who happens to be a box of French-fried potatoes--spuds with power; and Meatwad, a talented round mound of meat who can take the shape of a hot dog or an igloo. Together, this triple threat tackles unusual cases from the luxury of a neighbor's swimming pool--unless they're confronted by danger. Then, of course, the three run like hell."
wordsmythe wrote:
Sort of like anything else with a circuit board and batteries has components consistent with an IED. The thing is, the EXPLOSIVES are pretty much the key part of the IED. The "improvised" and the "device" aren't the parts we worry about.
What? You don't fear devices?
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