I may be a little late to the party on this one, but I want to comment on the recent bomb scare in Boston. If you haven't heard about it there was a guerrilla marketing campaign that involved hanging illuminated devices throughout the city that showcased a character from a cartoon making a lewd gesture. Well, someone thought that the device looked suspicious and reported it to the police. Now I understand that they have to take these things seriously, but after they found the first device it should have been apparent that these things were not bombs. But the police, and more aptly the media overreacted and sent the city into a panic. I can't blame the populous either; these are troubled times. Everybody is on edge when the word explosive is mentioned in the context of a major metropolitan area. The fact of the matter is however, that the PD over reacted and the media seized on this and whipped up a panic. So what does the city do in response? They arrest these two guys:
That was their press conference, and the guys talked about nothing but hair. I can't blame them. They couldn't talk about the situation at the advice of their lawyer, and instead they drew attention to the absurdity of it all. Bravo. Oh, and Turner Broadcasting, the company that owned the company that hired the company that hired these two guys has agreed to pay 2 million dollars to cover the city's expenses in the response. So no harm, no foul, says I. And in the end, maybe the silver lining is that this was a good test of the city's preparedness. If you are wondering what the device looked like, it was something like this: