adult swim cripples boston

[JAXvillain]

ahahahahah, wtf

this was some big misunderstanding and it was an adult swim marketing campaign it turns out

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/suspicious.packages.ap/index.html

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Five suspicious packages planted throughout Boston Wednesday forced the shutdown of major roads, a bridge and a stretch of the Charles River.

Authorities concluded the objects were not bombs.

"It's a hoax -- and it's not funny," said Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

Police said four calls, all around 1 p.m., reported suspicious devices at the Boston University Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, which both span the Charles River, at a Boston street corner and at the Tufts-New England Medical Center.

The package near the Boston University bridge was found attached to a structure beneath the span, where it crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike, authorities said.

Subway service across the Longfellow Bridge between Boston and Cambridge was briefly suspended, and Storrow Drive was closed as well.

Another device was found earlier in the day at a subway station, forcing a temporary shutdown of Interstate 93.

 

[theacoustician]

Sounds like someone is getting fired.

 

[Onnotangu]

what were the packages? pics of the moonites?

 

[Ryokurin]

Dude. its been on the news all day.

I can see it now. Company wastes resources of city to create content for its news channel. Oh boy!!!

 

[eileenbunny]

I don't understand.

 

[JAXvillain]

Sounds like someone is getting fired.

it was a 3rd party marketing company that did it...the boxes contained stuffs from here http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/aqua_teen_hunge_1.html

 

[BeerAd]

No pics of devices? How did you know it was adult swim? I think I am missing something in the article.

 

[theacoustician]

it was a 3rd party marketing company that did it...the boxes contained stuffs from here http://makezine.com/

!!!

GIMME!!!!

I don't see how MAKE is tied to Adult Swim though.

 

[JAXvillain]

rofl, the cops thought this was a bomb??

 

[JAXvillain]

!!!

GIMME!!!!

I don't see how MAKE is tied to Adult Swim though.

see edited url above

 

[BeerAd]

see edited url above

Bwahahahahahahha, much better!!!

 

[theacoustician]

see edited url above

Correction : it isn't from MAKE. Someone from their community intercepted one of the packages and posted it to their Flickr pool though.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/aqua_teen_hunge.html

 

[JAXvillain]

Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert.

 

[Jonny_B]

nice to see that we're really turning ourselves into a laughingstock.

 

[Ryokurin]

Allegedly they have been there for a few weeks and no one noticed it until now. Nice to see we are getting our advertising dollars worth out of those Ignignokt's

 

[theacoustician]

Allegedly they have been there for a few weeks and no one noticed it until now. Nice to see we are getting our advertising dollars worth out of those Ignignokt's

The pics were uploaded to the MAKE Flickr pool on Jan 15, so ... yeah. Why its such a big deal today is anyone's guess.

 

[Jonny_B]

The pics were uploaded to the MAKE Flickr pool on Jan 15, so ... yeah. Why its such a big deal today is anyone's guess.

today was the first day someone with an overactive fear complex saw them.

 

[JAXvillain]

apparently there's a pretty big panic upstairs and some of the execs are thinking the fbi is going to haul them out of here in cuffs

 

[theacoustician]

apparently there's a pretty big panic upstairs and some of the execs are thinking the fbi is going to haul them out of here in cuffs

Uh, I think someone has an overactive imagination. There's no way they'd arrest a C-level exec. for something like this. There's no reason to. They may arrest people at the 3rd party ad agency and their primary Turner contact, but that would be it. Even then, that would be excessive.

 

[Jonny_B]

apparently there's a pretty big panic upstairs and some of the execs are thinking the fbi is going to haul them out of here in cuffs

i thought you were at CNN.