Man arrested in Boston marketing ployBOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. Most if not all of the devices depict a character giving the finger.
Peter Berdovsky, 29, of Arlington, was arrested on one felony charge of placing a hoax device and one charge of disorderly conduct, state Attorney General Martha Coakley said later Wednesday. He had been hired to place the devices, she said.
In case you missed my added
emphasis up there, hanging up unauthorized signs is now a fucking
FELONY.Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River were shut down and bomb squads were sent in before authorities declared the devices were harmless.
Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc. and parent of Cartoon Network, later said the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," a surreal series about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.
"Aqua Teen Hunger Force"? Or maybe "Aqua Teen
Terror Force"!
Authorities said some of the objects looked like circuit boards or had wires hanging from them.
Um…how deadly can a bomb powered by four Duracell C-sized batteries be? I mean, you know, roughly…in megatons?
Wanda Higgins, a 47-year-old Weymouth resident and a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, heard about the threat as she watched television news coverage while preparing to leave work at 4 p.m.
"I saw the bomb squad guys carrying a paper bag with their bare hands," Higgins said. "I knew it couldn't be too serious."
Oh, Wanda, I beg to differ—we're looking at the new face of terror. Or at a vintage
Lite-Brite. Either way….
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um, that's pretty funny. sorta. I mean. a little. funny.
But, why do the Mooninites hate America so?
They're the turrists. Anyone knows that - any real American that's seen them try to cash their crazy uncle's gubmint check, that is...!
;)
~~jason
Hey, it's no coincidence that one of the characters is named "Master Sheik-- er, Shake"
4 C batteries can power a significant device. It just has to set off the detonator, which can require a low charge. The complexity of a trigger device for a megaton nuclear warhead is greater, but functions on the same principals. An electric charge triggers a detonator (or in some cases the explosives themselves) which causes the explosives to detonate.
But if more adults watched ADULT swim we wouldn’t have had this problem would we? We wont even get into the argument about quantity of explosives and that a flat sheet is not the best shape to cause structural damage.
Or maybe they do, and just hate ATHF.
4 C batteries can power a significant device. It just has to set off the detonator, which can require a low charge. The complexity of a trigger device for a megaton nuclear warhead is greater, but functions on the same principals. An electric charge triggers a detonator (or in some cases the explosives themselves) which causes the explosives to detonate. Also a flat sheet is not the best shape for structural damage.
But if more adults watched ADULT swim we wouldn’t have had this problem would we?
Or maybe they do, and just hate ATHF.
And I truly hate posting here the word verification only works 1 out of 3.
Or I just dont scroll down.
I blame alcohol.
Yeah, I know the word verification is rather spotty, MBWBAM. Believe me, I'd rather do away with it entirely. However, I get spammed straight around the corner and into the next county if I don't have it on.
Thanks for the technical info, though. Question answered, curiosity satisfied!
Some more interesting commentary on these 'bombs' etc. Lotsa ways to look at the situation.
1) These 'signs' were up for weeks and no one commented on them. I'd call that failed viral marketing. So these guys want their work noticed, so they start making these 'I noticed a bomb' phone calls. Which TW's news outlet CNN runs with. Kind of convienent.
2) Again, wouldn't you rather your police were involved looking into these things, hanging from overpasses? Other cities were set up similiarly. They never got a bomb squad involved for things that clearly involve wires, circuits and power sources. Again - we laugh at it, but consider that multiple cities sent out Public Works crews to handle it. I don't know. I suspect that's the kind of government you want - not cautious enough.
3) Who in their right mind would set up a mass plan like this and then not expect some kind of consequences. As far as a felony goes, it doesn't require much for ANY act to be a felony. I say them doing time is a fair enough payback for the amount of money the city and its citizens no doubt paid for overtime on the situation.
Random aside) Yes. It would be totally stupid to mistake a light-brite for a bomb. I mean, people certainly don't make toys into bombs. And people on flights in the US don't try to light explosives in their shoes.
Oh. Wait.
Just trying to keep you intellectually honest.
-=jason=-
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