Topic: Cartoon supervillain brings Boston to its knees - sorry, I had to post this

[WindAndConfusion]

Some infernal devices were found scattered throughout Boston, bringing the mighty city to its knees as its leaders shrieked like children and ran in circles.



Some investigative reporting.
Must-See Interview: The culprits at a press conference.

1/31/07 - Never Forget!

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(I have to laugh because otherwise I'd cry.)

[beo]

yeah, man - this is some real funny shit! it's absolutely hilarious how the mainstream media has reported this "incident".

[Pugnate]

I've been following this on the news for the past few days. I think people are just dumb... how does that look like a bomb? I can't believe they are trying to hold them responsible.

[Xessive]

Haha Haircuts from the 70's It's a good alternative topic

[Pugnate]

What does Al Moot Baskaan Al Qamar Saad mean?

[Quemaqua]

Wow.  I heard about this a while ago, but I didn't realize what a fucking joke it was.  Seriously, how and/or why would you interpret that as a bomb?  And I mean... I can understand to a degree somebody getting nervous about it and checking it out for the simple fact that people are paranoid these days with at least relatively good reason, but shutting down the city?  Couldn't you like... look at it and see that it wasn't a bomb first?  Don't bomb guys know how to differentiate something that can explode from something that can't?

[Pugnate]

I am glad you said that. I didn't let my feelings come out as too strong in my post, in case there were others that agreed with the reaction  to the whole affair, but I thought it was fucking ridiculous. For the past two days this is all that's been on Fox News, and every critic and lawyer has agreed that the people behind the joke were at fault.

To that I say W T F?

Like the Que'ster says I can understand that people got nervous, but seriously now. And then to blame them?

Also why would any terrorist put bombs all over the city that looked like cartoons? Why go to all that trouble?

[Cobra951]

It has always struck me as odd that bomb squads will blow all sorts of shit up without knowing whether it would ever do so on its own.  They need to come up with better fact-finding methods.

I only saw the headlines on this, so I don't know the details.  I thought the whole thing was stupid, but I did wonder what the intentions of the professional pranksters were.  Did they count on city-wide panic to get free publicity?  Hard to know now.  (I doubt they would ever admit to it, if it's true.)  But if it can be established somehow, they should at least be made to pay all the costs the city incurred when chasing its own tail.

[iPPi]

The whole thing is pretty ridiculous.

[sirean_syan]

The coolest thing about this is, if the Mooninites were real, they'd be so proud of what they managed to do.

[WindAndConfusion]

I only saw the headlines on this, so I don't know the details.  I thought the whole thing was stupid, but I did wonder what the intentions of the professional pranksters were.  Did they count on city-wide panic to get free publicity?  Hard to know now.  (I doubt they would ever admit to it, if it's true.)  But if it can be established somehow, they should at least be made to pay all the costs the city incurred when chasing its own tail.

There's absolutely no proof of it. In fact, there is good evidence to the contrary: the displays had been up for a few weeks, in several cities, before a Boston transit worker (MBTA?) found one of them and reported it. (Boston was the only city that panicked and shut itself down.) Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay ~1 million USD to the city of Boston because Boston is run by fucking morons. John Kerry, who is obviously a fucktard (although I maintain that he is less of a fucktard than Bush), got involved somehow.

[WindAndConfusion]

What does Al Moot Baskaan Al Qamar Saad mean?

No idea. It's a graphic I found on another forum.

(Hey, Pug, how do you write "Death to Boston - 1/31/07" in Arabic, preferably using Islamic dates as well? )

[Quemaqua]

The coolest thing about this is, if the Mooninites were real, they'd be so proud of what they managed to do.

I thought that too.  It made me a little happy.

[poomcgoo]

My only regret is not snagging one of these things and putting it on ebay --  I walked by two of them while they were out.  What confuses me is how it took two weeks for anybody to even notice them.

[scottws]

I heard about this but didn't pay much attention.  I heard them referred to on the news as "electronic light boards."  I had no idea that this is what they were.  How ridiculous.

But it is Boston, home of the Big Dig, the biggest clusterfuck on Earth so what else is new there.

[poomcgoo]

What else is new?  It's 5 fucking degrees outside and the construction outside my apartment not only creates a roadblock for half the city, but it keeps me up each and every frigid fucking night.  The whole city is a clusterfuck.

[Quemaqua]

Okay, I'll bite -- what's the Big Dig?

[Pugnate]

Okay, I'll bite -- what's the Big Dig?

I think Scottws only gives that information to his girlfriends.

[poomcgoo]

The Big Dig is a project in Boston to move the interstate (I-93) into a tunnel underground, more or less.  It's famous because it took like 20 fucking years and cost billions and billions of dollars.  Not only that, but it's probably one of the shittiest construction jobs in history.  Last year a motorist was killed in the tunnel over I-90 when part of the ceiling collapsed, which you may have heard about.  Last fucking year.  The big dig has been going on since like '85.

They just reopened the tunnel last month I believe.

[scottws]

One thing that poom didn't mention is that it was supposed to be a state project, because really it only benefits the Boston area.  But the cost of the project went hugely over budget and the state couldn't afford it anymore and the federal government ended spending millions of dollars of federal tax money on it as well.

[gpw11]

The Big Dig is used as an example on how not to handle a major public works project.  I think you hit the nail on the head with calling it a clusterfuck.  It's amazing how just about everything that could go wrong with that project did.  How many people are in jail for corruption on that project now?  Probably not nearly enough.

[Quemaqua]

Wow.  Fun stuff.  Thanks for enlightening me.

[Ghandi]

The ironic thing is, this was just an advertising ploy for the new DVD release, and the news stations such as FOX gave it enormous press with all of their gibberish. It worked brilliantly.

[sirean_syan]

Oh yeah. I bet there wasn't even 1 in 500 people who knew what Aqua Teen was in America about a week ago and that's probably a gross over estimation. Now you probably have 1 in a hundred who at least heard about the story. Not back for a show about food items having wacky adventures.