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Aqua Teen Hunger Force shuts down Boston
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Well those who play Civilization would say that Fascism is the best form of government, so it ain't so bad
Terrorists could accomplish far more with a booby trapped car, so should we report any unaccompanied cars? Should they be blown up?
Where do you draw the line?
I guess you're right. But it doesn't make it any less frustrating for those who were impacted by the road blocks, I'm sure.
Sorry but I'm a bit staggered here.
An artist is paid to openly put up some video art, seemingly without breaking any laws, and he gets arrested and charged with felony charges.
Bush sends thousands of your soldiers to their deaths, piddles the US budget away on his war machine, abolishes habeas corpus, operates secret prisons and spies illegally on you, and nobody does anything?
An artist is paid to openly put up some video art, seemingly without breaking any laws, and he gets arrested and charged with felony charges.
Bush sends thousands of your soldiers to their deaths, piddles the US budget away on his war machine, abolishes habeas corpus, operates secret prisons and spies illegally on you, and nobody does anything?
Looks like the terrorist have allready won when we Fear everything. Because of this fear that BushCo has been so good at selling we have them
spying on Americans,picking up people and shipping them to other countries,holding people with no trials for years now,getting us into a 400 billion dollar war with over 3,000 of our soldiers dead, and now shutting down a city for some advertising signs. Yeah I feel real safe I felt safer before the govt got started on its false war. Fear has won big time. We need a new president who can follow these words... There is nothing to fear except Fear itself.
spying on Americans,picking up people and shipping them to other countries,holding people with no trials for years now,getting us into a 400 billion dollar war with over 3,000 of our soldiers dead, and now shutting down a city for some advertising signs. Yeah I feel real safe
I felt safer before the govt got started on its false war. Fear has won big time. We need a new president who can follow these words... There is nothing to fear except Fear itself.
Laugh at it
Print out some posters of this one-fingered alien guy and put them up in your window, or at the bus stop, or glue it down onto the sidewalk and make a call to the police... How long before the T-shirt comes out?
"I stopped the City of Boston. Swivel on that!"
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I think Im going to wrap my house in plastic just in case. Feeling safer now. I would feel safer if they would just secure our borders and stop letting in these knuckleheads but old George doesnt see that as a option. Same goes with Iraq/Iran. They think open Borders is a policy.
Not quite, but almost.
Yikes! Capitalism sure moves fast when it wants to
According to a rather horrified Fox, the artist also put a video of himself putting up the pieces on his website.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249241,00.html
Dang, what a dastardly thing to do! Certain proof that his aims were nefarious!
http://www.zebbler.com/ is his personal website but I couldn't find the video. Maybe FOX meant a different website.
According to Zebler, he's also a Mac user, - dang! am gonna report all you Mac terrorists to the police and FBI instamunte.
And myself too, just to be on the safe side.
I agree entirely with Dont Hurt Me. We've been trained to fear everything around us. Bush has ****ed up America worse than anyone thought possible. And incidentally, if the bomb squad can't tell the difference between a bomb and a circuit borad with LEDs on it, then I'm sure how much confidence I'd have in the bomb squad.
Paranoid and scared is no way to live life.
Paranoid and scared is no way to live life.
The Boston police response to these "devices" is the most moronic thing I've ever seen. I can't see how anyone could think these little blinking signs are bombs.
I think the criminal charges are absurd and done mainly so the cops can cover their own embarrassment from being fooled by something so stupid looking.
What a farce.
I think the criminal charges are absurd and done mainly so the cops can cover their own embarrassment from being fooled by something so stupid looking.
What a farce.
I was in an airport in Seattle yesterday as this story was breaking. Based on CNN reports, they were describing these as packages with tubes and wires and potential explosives. They had terrorism experts on, talking about how these things could have been placed and how Homeland Security responds to situations.
Here I thought something real was happening.
Here I thought something real was happening.
Well, to play devil's advocate, I doubt many cops watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force and would recognize it for what it is. And I guess I could see someone being worried about anything being placed on bridges. I mean, if you're a really clever terrorist, you'd want to make your bomb look like something else, right?
But sure, they overreacted. Other cities didn't react in this extreme way.
Still, I place blame on the ad guys, too. It never occurred to them that placing these things on bridges might look suspicious to motorists? They never contacted the city for approval? Duh.
I still wouldn't throw 'em in jail, though. If they're guilty of anything, it's stupidity.
In the end the whole thing is kind of perversely funny. I mean, even they don't exactly look worried, do they? They're like, "Dude, we're goin' to Guantanamo."
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I agree, how the moronic police state mistook these for bombs is just more of the" we want you to be scared of everything and only we can keep you safe" the Bush administration has pushed. These are cleary light signs, not the spin the media is using such as Hoax bombs or whatever they are called. When i was little kid we had these light boards that had different color pegs you could insert to make a picture. This is what this looks like to me, not some hoax bomb that the media is pushing.
It was lite Bright and you could make any picture you wanted with its pegs
In the end the whole thing is kind of perversely funny. I mean,even they don't exactly look worried![attachment.php]()
They're very happy cos now their career is made. Everyone knows their name now which is the ultimate if you're an artist working in the commercial sector.
I know cos I get some funding for my sign language arts from the UK Arts Council and also work with another public sector deaf arts company. Media press like that is absolute manna from heaven.
angry, bitter new englanders; bad weather and worse accents to name a few. at least in RI we are not as bitter. tho the badness of accents is debatable.
Just read the summary and the linked article, and I still don't understand this at all
What's a 'magnetic light board'?
And from the photo in the article, I see it's some sort of arty/badly drawn character in lights, placed in various places.
What's so scary about this? Why are americans so fearful of this?
Perhaps for the same reason London police shoot innocent people in subways?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/23/london.tube/
The police were cautious and no one got hurt. Arrests may be overkill in this case, but they can be undone.
I used to take the subway from that very station twice a day.
That was pretty disgusting too, and I blame Blair for licking Bush's arse despite having the undeniable intelligence to know better, which in a way, makes Blair 10 times worse.
Seems the police were watching the guy's flat, and the supervising copper couldn't be arsed and went off for a piss or a jazz mag or a curry, and our guy calmly walked out and took the bus to the tube.
Cue major panic and shooting.
Especially foul was the way the police released to the papers all the witness stories about seeing a bloke in a heavy padded jacked run in and jump over the stiles and run down and leap onto a train, with a pack of coppers in full pursuit.
Eg. in the article you linked to. It's all lies, dirty cop lies and cover ups.
It came out in the investigation a few weeks later (actually it was leaked by the complainants dept cos they were so disgusted) that the police knew full well at the time that the heavy padded jacket guy was actually one of them, an armed undercover copper.
He was the one who did the shooting, and the suspect had actually walked in calmly 5 minutes before, brought a ticket, gone through the stiles, and waited patiently for a train before getting on. All the time with another undercover cop following him and right next to him.
When the alarm went off, this copper that was already there grabbed him and held him down, then Mr Padded Jacket Maniac burst in and shoots him 5 times in the head. The holding down copper was pretty pissed off too and said so in the investigation. Apparently he nearly got shot too and went deaf for a while.
The police realised straightaway they'd ****ed up and released a bunch of misleading statement to the media and international media and smeared the dead guy to hell and back. They also tried to claim there were no CCTV cameras at the time.
Bollocks. I know that station, and there's 15 or so cameras. The police stole all the tapes and tried to wipe them, but one turned up later, ****ing up the police story.
Sorry to go on about this, but I was pissed off about it.