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Some of you may not have heard the recent debacle in Boston regarding a marketing campaign gone wrong. I’ll give a quick recap here.

There is a TV show on Cartoon Network called Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In January, Lite-Brite style images of one of the show’s characters started showing up in ten major cities such as Portland, Chicago, LA, Seattle, and Boston. These devices were intended to be part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for an upcoming movie based on the show.

The long and the short of the matter is that Boston freaked. They shut down the northbound side of I-93 and parts of the public transit system, sent out “an army of emergency vehicles”, and ended up blowing up the devices with waterbombs.

Meanwhile, the other nine cities were dealing with this obvious terrorist threat in a surprisingly peaceful manner. “At this point we wouldn’t even begin an investigation, because there’s no reason to believe a crime has occurred,” said a Portland Police Sergeant. In Seattle, “To us, they’re so obviously not suspicious,” and “[P]eople don’t need to be concerned about this. These are cartoon characters giving the finger.”

The media stations hyped up the event (particularly upset at the press conference where the “perpetrators” refused to answer any question unless it was related to hair). But online, Boston became the laughingstock of the world. One blog went so far as to create a Bomb or Not? quiz, featuring devices such as shoes and smoke detectors.

Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end here. Last week, Boston discovered this suspicious-looking device:

Interestingly enough, this was the first question on the “Bomb or Not?” quiz. Also interestingly enough, Boston had a different answer to the question.

There were some tense moments in Boston’s financial district Wednesday morning as police were forced to blow up a suspicious device. The bomb squad shut down busy Devonshire Street after someone spotted a green box chained to a no parking sign. The box turned out to be some kind of traffic counting device and was completely harmless.

Yes, it turned out to be a completely harmless “traffic counting device”! What a big suprise. Watch the Fox News Report, where they show the bomb squad evacuate the area and blow the traffic counter to smithereens. Welcome to “this post-9/11 world.”

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