Boston capitulates to Mooninite Invasion

fightinfilipino

fear the QUAD LASER:

The Boston Globe wrote:

Suspicious packages part of Turner Broadcasting marketing campaign
By Mac Daniel and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

Turner Broadcasting acknowledged late this afternoon that the suspicious packages that ignited fears of bombs across Boston today were magnetic lights that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign for an adult cartoon.

Turner was promoting Adult Swim's animated television show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" in Boston and nine other cities, according to a statement e-mailed by Shirley Powell, a company spokeswoman.

"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the state an e-mail statement said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

i just...how could no one at Turner or CN see this was going to cause severe problems?

Jimbo the Impressive

They wanted to cause severe problems. Do you know how much publicity this is gonna generate?

Ubik

What is this Aqua Teen Hunger Force thing with all the bombs?

I have heard so much about it lately.


Perhaps I shall tune in at it's regularly scheduled broadcast time.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Pictures maybe?

Sars_Boy

Oh, those billboards are cool.

All glowy and stuff.

Kovak

man at first it said adult cartoon and i though heeey

fightinfilipino

i actually do want one of those mooninite light brite things for my room.

i guess their plan worked.

taliosfalcon

fightinfilipino wrote:

fear the QUAD LASER:

The Boston Globe wrote:

Suspicious packages part of Turner Broadcasting marketing campaign
By Mac Daniel and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

Turner Broadcasting acknowledged late this afternoon that the suspicious packages that ignited fears of bombs across Boston today were magnetic lights that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign for an adult cartoon.

Turner was promoting Adult Swim's animated television show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" in Boston and nine other cities, according to a statement e-mailed by Shirley Powell, a company spokeswoman.

"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the state an e-mail statement said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

i just...how could no one at Turner or CN see this was going to cause severe problems?

i think the real question is wtf is wrong with the world when something like this does cause problems "OH NO! THAT MAGNETIC MOONENITE WASNT THERE LAST WEEK!! BOMB AHHH " ..its just fucking sad

Lord Dave

That is not a very descriptive news article.

There were magnetic light billboards in packages? Where were these packages? What?

fightinfilipino

here's an earlier article from the Globe, LD:

The Globe wrote:

Suspicious objects found throughout Boston after morning bomb scare
By John R. Ellement, Mac Daniel, and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

The discovery of suspicious objects on bridges, near a medical center, underneath an interstate, and in other crowded public places has ignited fears across Boston, snarling traffic and sending state and local police scrambling across the city.

None of the suspicious objects have been determined to be bombs. It was not immediately clear if the incidents were connected or part of some elaborate hoax.

A law enforcement source who has been briefed on the investigation said officials have found "commonality" among some, but not all, of the objects recovered by Boston, state and transit police throughout the day.

None of the objects examined by police contained explosives, the source said.

Governor Deval Patrick told the Associated Press: "It's a hoax -- and it's not funny."

Investigators have found that at least two of the packages that were similar -- both were composed of electronic circuit boards with LED lights attached. No one has called to claim responsibility for any of the items, the law enforcement source said.

The source said it appears the object scrutinized by State Police on the Longfellow Bridge may not be connected to the objects that were found with electronic equipment. The item on the Longfellow Bridge may have been left behind some time ago by a bridge maintenance crew.

The Coast Guard has closed the Charles River to all water traffic from the Museum of Science to the locks where the river flows into Boston Harbor because of the reports of bombs on several bridges, according to Chief Petty Officer Scott Carr.

This afternoon, investigators found a device on the BU Bridge today "similar to the Sullivan Square" package that forced the closure this morning of northbound Interstate 93, said Jennifer Mieth, spokeswoman for state fire marshal Stephen Coan, whose office oversees the State police Bomb Squad.

Like the item found at the Sullivan Square station, the BU package was attached to the underpinnings of the bridge.

"It was not an explosive device," she said of the suspicious item found on the BU Bridge.

State police bomb experts examined another suspicious item -- similar in construction to the items found at Sullivan Station and on the BU Bridge -- that was found attached to the Longfellow Bridge, which spans the Charles River from Boston to Cambridge.

Boston police are separately investigating suspicious items at Columbus and Stuart streets and near the New England Medical Center.
Storrow drive was closed at 2 p.m., according to State Police. Thirty minutes later police opened one eastbound lane to traffic.

According to Boston police, traffic from Charles Street is being blocked from entering Storrow Drive while several law enforcement agencies investigate more suspicious objects.

The MBTA suspended service on the Red Line for about 15 minutes between Park and Kendall stations. By 2:35 p.m., the T resumed service on the line.

Lord Dave

That's much better.

Still only describes the thing as "a circuit board with LED lights on it".

Doesn't sound like a very good promotion to me.

Sars_Boy

Lord Dave wrote:

That's much better.

Still only describes the thing as "a circuit board with LED lights on it".

Doesn't sound like a very good promotion to me.

They are used to make Mooninites.

On a billboard.

taliosfalcon

image blatantly stolen from the D&D thread

Lord Dave

who the hell thinks that's a bomb?
that is clearly a mooninite

Slungsolow

PICTURES!

Jordyn

Lord Dave wrote:

who the hell thinks that's a bomb?
that is clearly a mooninite

Like anyone in Boston knows that.

Lord Dave

maybe if I leave a Lite Brite in the lobby of the building I can get the day off due to bomb threat

sark

it's funny 'cause the same ad campaign was run in several cities.

i haven't seen any of those things, but my boss has.

the people that run boston are fucking idiots.

Jordyn

So, it was pretty dumb of them to freak out and think these were bombs, but it was also pretty dumb of Adult Swim/Turner Broadcasting to not tell the cops about their campaign.

fightinfilipino

so basically there was just a lot of dumb.


yep, that sounds like Boston alright.

Lord Dave

"Hey let's leave electrical devices lying in random places all over the city where excitable old ladies can stumble over them. Certainly they will then become part of our cartoon watching viewer base!"

Aneurhythmia

Jordyn wrote:

So, it was pretty dumb of them to freak out and think these were bombs, but it was also pretty dumb of Adult Swim/Turner Broadcasting to not tell the cops about their campaign.

I dunno. Personally, I probably would not have thought people were going to misunderstand a lite brite drawing.

Jordyn

And how long did it take Adult Swim to call someone about this?

It seems like this was on the news for a while before they took responsibility.

Druhim

So the consensus is that Boston is dumb, right?

Jordyn

Man, I want someone to do a freaky-deek ad campaign about a show I never watch and I can pretend it's terrorism.

Like...CSI.

Marco

GOLD

Druhim

POLO

Marco

Druhim wrote:

POLO

RED

Wallhitter

We are highly advanced jumpers.

Ashcroft

Jordyn wrote:

And how long did it take Adult Swim to call someone about this?

It seems like this was on the news for a while before they took responsibility.

They were probably laughing too hard to reach the phone.

Marco

The first episode with them in it is the best.

Jordyn

Marco wrote:

The first episode with them in it is the best.

The second Mooninite episode was absolute shit.

Defender

Marco wrote:

The first episode with them in it is the best.

I liked the check-cashing one. The scene where Shake bitches out and threatens the convenience store guy was great.

Wallhitter

I freaking love the Mooninite laser.



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Ashcroft

Jumping is useless.

revolve

We are thought highly of by those without jobs.

rockmonkey

Even if you've never seen or heard of a mooninite (which most haven't) you can look at that damn thing and the first thing I think of is Lite Bright. I mean those came out in the 1967. Who has not heard of or seen a lite bright before?

Weaver

rockmonkey wrote:

Even if you've never seen or heard of a mooninite (which most haven't) you can look at that damn thing and the first thing I think of is Lite Bright. I mean those came out in the 1967. Who has not heard of or seen a lite bright before?

stab

Jordyn

I am going to try to fuck with this ass ass in game a lot.

Weaver

It hasn't even really started yet I just wanted to stab somebody early

Wallhitter

rockmonkey wrote:

Even if you've never seen or heard of a mooninite (which most haven't) you can look at that damn thing and the first thing I think of is Lite Bright. I mean those came out in the 1967. Who has not heard of or seen a lite bright before?

A ragged-bearded man steps out of his cabin, which he constructed by nailing together pieces of old, rotten wood, using a moose antler for a hammer. He glances around, and suddenly spies strange glowing lights arranged in the shape of the word "HELLO"...he approaches this strange device...and screams in terror.