Ah, learn something new every day. I guess I'm pretty skeptical towards the media, but aside from my misunderstandings, if the article that eat_toast linked to is compared to the one complich8 linked to, there is a clear difference in tone and who is taking what side.
"It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme."
All I got to say about that is EL OH EL.
Ok lets change this context a bit so your looking at what took place in abstract. Simply put people in a major population center wake up to strange electronic devices placed all over the city in heavy populated area's. I personally have watched ATHF and would not have recognised the figure. The cops getting calls reguarding these devices and being told they are all over the city. Consider that 38 of these were placed overall according to that artical and if any one of them was a bomb considering they were on busy bridges and in subways I don't think it was a over reaction at all.
Its very easy to say after the fact that it was a harmless advertising scheme cooked up by a few students looking to make some extra cash. Honestly they should have contacted the police about it ahead of time instead of just doing this and considering it was bankrolled by Cartoon Network making turner broadcasting pay for is very reasonable. Remember they got a lot of press out of this and the only actual people being charged are those in Massachusetts.
Overall it was a reasonable reaction and if they had found a bomb then they would have been geniuses in foiling a terror plot.
you forgot one little tiny detail that makes your scenario implausible: According to the guys that were arrested in Boston, the ads had been in place for almost 3 weeks before anyone freaked out. That and 9 other cities, including NYC, didn't freak out at all. It's not like anyone "awoke suddenly to a world full of strange blinking lights in weird/potentialy threatening places"Originally Posted by DDBen
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many of the costs were from calling in extra police officers to block off areas while on-duty ones did normal duties. Lots of overtime paid as well. If they try to factor in the "damage" to the economy from shutting down some of the bridges and making major traffic, it's way more than $1 mil.
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Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
I hate people like this, first of all its a post 9/11 America. Most of the world did in fact carry on after 9/11.
Second. What the hell? The signs were there for weeks with out causing any problems. Also after removing one could they not have been like "Ohh its not a bomb, well fuck this shit lets go home"? But instead they continue to remove them and then bitch about the $750,000 "Emergency Services" bill.
Just a question. Out side of a few explosive charges to dispose of the glorified light brights, what was disposable that was used? If the bill is from all the police etc that were there, were they not already getting payed to sit in a patrol car? Does that mean when i police officer pulls me over i cost the city money for the requirement of that police officer?
This video summed up a lot of what i thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-D0F4Q9yk
My friend put it best: A real bomb doesn't look like a bomb. It looks like a car parked along-side a street.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
lol, well said. i think you're friend may be part iraqi
I was listening to a radio show this morning on the way to school (Mancow in The Morning), and he was talking about this incident and said that the people that put up the lights actually CALLED IN and said they were bombs in order to get more publicity! This is, of course, blasphemous! Now, everyone in the media is treating this as if it were an actual hoax, when it clearly was not. They were up for three weeks before this thing blew up, as Masa mentioned.
The problem is not how the police responded to the claim that they might be bombs, as they have every right to investigate anything that may be a bomb (within reason), but how the media is twisting this and trying to turn lies into reality to save face for the police for messing up, and how the people that put them up are going to be sued for an exorbitant amount of money for someone elses screw up. This is all just really, really stupid. Thankfully, I lost faith in all media many years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4 <-- Gold.
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