Havoc Wreaked!
Just how nervous have we become? An article in today's NY Times indicates that we have become very nervous, not to mention silly.
Boston temporarily closed parts of bridges, subway stations, an Interstate highway and even part of the Charles River on Wednesday after the authorities found what the police described as suspicious devices at nine places.
But the devices, which included circuit boards, turned out to be part of a marketing campaign by Turner Broadcasting to advertise a cartoon television show, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”
The devices, which were studded with a few little lights, sent the city's emergency response teams into high dudgeon. Even the state's new Democratic governor got taken in by what can only be viewed as a highly successful advertising gimmick. Governor Patrick has already threatened legal action.
C'mon, folks, get a clue! It's a freakin' cartoon show. The devices in question quite frankly looked more like handle-less slotted spatulas than nuclear detonation devices. Has 9/11 so saturated our consciousness that even cartoons are subject to censorship by the easily frightened?
Very, very silly stuff, this.
Boston temporarily closed parts of bridges, subway stations, an Interstate highway and even part of the Charles River on Wednesday after the authorities found what the police described as suspicious devices at nine places.
But the devices, which included circuit boards, turned out to be part of a marketing campaign by Turner Broadcasting to advertise a cartoon television show, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”
The devices, which were studded with a few little lights, sent the city's emergency response teams into high dudgeon. Even the state's new Democratic governor got taken in by what can only be viewed as a highly successful advertising gimmick. Governor Patrick has already threatened legal action.
C'mon, folks, get a clue! It's a freakin' cartoon show. The devices in question quite frankly looked more like handle-less slotted spatulas than nuclear detonation devices. Has 9/11 so saturated our consciousness that even cartoons are subject to censorship by the easily frightened?
Very, very silly stuff, this.
Labels: 9/11
posted by Diane at 10:32 AM
1 Comments:
i was thinkin that, if (NSA: ATTENTION! Note the conditional, "if"), if, that is, i were a particularly droll and futile terrorist who threatened to extract my vengeance on a section of automobile thorough-fare, i would take a certain perverse pleasure in thinking that the last thing some of my victims would see on THIS side of the divide were lite-brites flipping them a finger.
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