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Adult Swim Ad in South Boston by Vanderlin.
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xjohnpaulx  Pro User  says:

tell ERR that Ignignokt is in West Philly
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raginplatypus says:

Looks like someone may be having a little talk with the bomb squad about cleaning up their guerilla advertising messes.

cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_0311355 07.html
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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Moero says:

yea theyre kind of freaking out about the "packages" over here
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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donayer  Pro User  says:

Are you fucking kidding me?!?!?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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Ric Wallace  Pro User  says:

hah at the least they will make them pay the sign tax
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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jonanmbc says:

bwahaha the mooninites are in trouble....
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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Paul Stew says:

Idiot sensational media.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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ChefMattRock  Pro User  says:

We've been talking about them all morning at work. I personally think it's hilarious. But I don't think the bomb squad is laughing.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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MrDuncan says:

the media is negligent.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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staveitoff  Pro User  says:

FBI: "This is not terrorism."
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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masonmcd says:

Headline: "Osama Uses Lite-Brite - Flips Off America"
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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whywouldyou says:

when was this photo taken and where?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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wickedcool1 says:

you people need to grow the hell up
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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roberto0 says:

People are getting really twisted up about this:

www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breakin g_news/2007/...
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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diver6971 says:

the MEDIA blew this up , the bomb squad was not smart enough to see it was : lights " people lost in out side reality.
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whywouldyou says:

um. question. did any of u live here the am of 911? and have to deal with this city on THAT day? out-of-towners, go back to YOUR cities to do "art" there. we have "little pentagon" over here, so we deserve to b a little panicky.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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sirenbrian  Pro User  says:

Back up...the Quad Laser is about to fire.
Da Moon Rulez.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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diver6971 says:

hey "why " RELAX -- it`s a : light ! and you`r answer is " yes"
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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averageuser69 says:

Hilarious. You actually posted pictures of yourself along with these things. You are so fucked dude.. lol. Can i have your girlfriend while your in jail? ill take good care of her!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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diver6971 says:

look moraly maybe not a good idea.. fact: it`s a light... simple
5-10 year`s in jail CUT me a break. u listening to the news... they wanna hang someone... they need to hang laden , wher`s THAT out rage !!!!!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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Happy Weasel  Pro User  says:

This is too awesome. It's also lame that there was so much panic over a circuit board with some LEDs on it. Oh, and whywouldyou, I live in D.C., I lived in D.C. on 9/11, and you need to relax.

I hope they can see this, I'm doing it as hard as I can.
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diver6971 says:

last post :
we lost over 3,000 soldiers, laden`s a free man... and you have congress divided cause everyones got a better idea...but in the mean time they need something else to sink their nasty teeth into...so hang the light boy`s... stupid thing is... someone actualy tryed to make someone smile for a min, and he`s the one exacuted. ... now tell me this COUNTRY AINT FK`D UP.
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whywouldyou says:

it's much funnier when "lights" are not hung on the bridges I would need to use to evacuate this place. maybe...hang them places that are NOT terrorist targets? that could be funny.
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diver6971 says:

Noted :
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whywouldyou says:

and Happy, big pentagon is much less scary than MIT. think-about-it.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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krazykritta says:

Fuck you all Turner and u stupid cartoon loving freaks are going down
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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diver6971 says:

no ride on my bike for you Kritta
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charles.hope says:

Sure looks like a bomb to me. Every bomb I've ever seen has a glowing cartoon character on the side of it, and believe me, I've seen dozens!
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newhorizon2000 says:

Panicking Boston aint' cool, dude.
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jbzimmerman says:

whywouldyou: The main point here is that these things were in place TWO WEEKS. Two weeks. Think about it. THEN everybody panics, runs around, screams 'HOAX!' Hoax of what? A 'hoax' implies you're trying to fool people into believing something that it's not...like a bomb. Er, okay, danger, it's a...FAKE VIRAL LED AD!!! Get a grip. Promoting this mindless panic response just makes everybody less safe and screws whatever concept of the United States we have left. I'm not saying the bomb squad was wrong to look at them; if they get called and told 'hey, electronics under a bridge' then sure. But IMMEDIATELY AFTER seeing the thing they should have been convulsed in laughter, and the governor of the state shouldn't be on record angrily ranting about 'hoaxes.' The ones who panicked Boston weren't the people who made and put these up, but the ones who called in 'bomb scares' and the media outlets who promoted the bombs story (by the way, Fox News, thanks for telling me 'Suspicious Devices Diffused Are Not Bombs' [sic]).
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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bostonbird says:

Maybe it looks cute and innocent, but who's to say that a bomb couldn't be made to look cute and innocent? It happens in other countries. Bombs are disguised as toys, and kill children.

Turner made very bad decisions with this campaign, including where to locate these devices. I also wonder why it took so long for them to come forward. I had been watching it on TV for a couple of hours before they announced it was them, more than 8 hours after the first one was reported.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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whywouldyou says:

hi jbzimm. someone called the cops every 15 minutes on the 15 minutes begining at 12:45, for one hour to "let the police know where to look next" for the "devices". sorry: sounds like it MAY have been aimed to cause some m-f-ing panick. as that is the way the IRA used to call in to London right before they'd set something off at Harrods.
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donayer  Pro User  says:

What are you talking about, whywouldyou? These things have been up for weeks. There was no trouble intended. This story is just about a bunch of panicking idiots.
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whywouldyou says:

donayer. I am talking about the calls the BPD got around 1:00pm. if u were here, u would know what I was talking about. no idea who could have collaborated on the orchestrated cascade of police tip-offs other than someone who knew where all of them were. the city didn't spend $750,000 because of a billboard campaign. why do u think the feds got in? boredom?
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staveitoff  Pro User  says:

i would just like to remind people that this is not a forum. you're having an argument in someone's photo comments.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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uzi978  Pro User  says:

I think the whole thing is hilarious -- nice shot!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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losermike says:

my friends and i saw this on fox news. we laughed so hard.
fucking cunts man, i swear i hate those people
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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lexicon10055805 says:

Being "a little bit panicky" doesn't justify being a whole lot stupid.
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lexicon10055805 says:

OMG! There's a BOMB on the top of this tower by the bank! It's got some sort of clock on it counting up to something, probably when it's going to blow up!
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Joe Fernandez says:

bostonbird, Turner wouldn't have known they were talking about their ads. They said that there were suspicious packages. These ads are not packages. It wasn't until they were saying that it was a hoax and just a Sponge Bob flipping the bird that Turner would have noticed that they were freaking out over their ads.
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Faust Fashionista says:

I'mma chargin mah lazaaar.

..Seriously, this is retarded. This is about as validated as freaking out over a neon "Open" sign.
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whywouldyou says:

I guess it must have just been a coincidence that the ads were up under the 3 main artery bridges and on the two major city hospitals. sure: adult swim must be really important in the hobo and invalid communities, but maybe pick less sensitive real estate if you don't want people to freak out. and if you don't want to tie up ambulances and inter-city traffic. and maybe don't call the cops. anonymously. cuz that can sometime freak people out a little.
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bostonbird says:

Joe Fernandez,
Sure Turner knew. There was a picture of this shown on the news hours before they came forward. I saw it. They could have too. Even if they didn't, the description and location of the first device (Sullivan) should have tipped them off. The "device" was described in detail, as a circuit board with wires hanging off it, as well as the location at Sullivan. When that info came out, they should have considered that it was possibly theirs. They had an obligation.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they had the obligation to call off whoever they had selected to place the 1 pm phone calls. No, that hasn't been reported yet, but I'm sure it will. It's no coincidence that four calls were placed reporting bomb-like devices within minutes of each other. Even if they didn't know the item at Sullivan was theirs, they knew the city was dealing with a bomb-scare and that reporting suspicious devices was a stupid-ass thing to do.

I simply don't buy that they didn't know until right before you and I did.

Maybe I'm a little more upset than some because a loved one was at a location where one of these "ads" was placed. The fear I felt for them has dampened my sense of humor for this marketing ploy.
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moncreyweasel says:

Lets look at what these actually were. They were light up home-made boxes of mooninites, paid for by Turner broadcasting. Dont you think that there is a chance that some Boston officials took a big risk in causing such a state of chaos? I mean really, its rediculous. I saw one of those mooninite boxes over a week ago in central square. I looked at it and said "hey cool" not "oh god its a bomb!"

Seriously, the people in charge are fools. To bostonbird, obviously you had a reason to be scared ( i live next to sullivan, i was worried too ) but who scared you? It wasnt the artist, it wasnt turner broadcasting, it was the fucking city officials, the T (if you rode it and heard the constant warnings) and the media. THEY are to blame for the scare.... in my opinion.
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chears says:

what a strange, strange time we live in. A fun advertising campaign and they are talking about sending people to prison and making arrests. horrible.

This is the most ridiculous situation I have ever seen. The officials are complete idiots, it will be horrible if anyone goes to prison for this....
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dj_invasive says:

Wonderful photo! Ignignokt is pretty terrifying... after all, he's from the inner core of the moon!
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dvanderlin says:

Hey im todds brother davis im pretty awesome too..Probably more awesome than todd! But good work bro getting your damn on tv!!
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kappuru  Pro User  says:

Orwellian thought. Fucking ridiculous.
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RhiannonDaire  Pro User  says:

This may have already been asked, but how did you get it down?
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orangekid13 says:

Does this remind anyone else of the two people that got arrested for making the mario blocks and deploying them in their small town?

april fools day on campus should be fun
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rev_siddhartha says:

this is so dumb the reason its such a scandal isn't because of the signs its about the lack of security. whywouldyou the question you should be asking is why someone could even do something like this. if the locations are so sensitive, you shouldn't have to call them and let them know they've been compromised. i'm not saying it should be a police state but throw some cameras up on the bridges. that's why the fbi gets involved to cover their asses. i mean if a couple of goof balls could pull this off...
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morphogen  Pro User  says:

So embarrassed to be Bostonian today.
NYC Christmas 2005
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Eric Silva  Pro User  says:

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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dictatorjuu says:

My name is...
Shake-Zula.
The mic-rula,
The old schoolah,
Ya wanna trip? I'll bring it to ya.
Frylock and I'm on top, Rock you like a cop
Meatwad you up next with your knock-knock.
Meatwad make the money, see.
Meatwad get the honeys, G.
Drivin in my car, livin' like a star.
Ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus

Check it.
Check it, check it.

'Cuz we are the aqua teens,
make the homies say ho! and the girlies wanna scream
'Cuz we are the aqua teens,
make the homies say ho! and the girlies wanna scream

Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Number 1 in the Hood, G
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Expendabl3 says:

So just how many of the bomb squad watch Adult Swim? We've got an electronic device with a big black rod on the bottom that might be batteries, might be an explosive, hung in a public place without permission by the city. Oh look, there's more of them. And what do public officials hear? It's an electronic device with led's on it that could be a bomb. Gee, why would they over-react?

It's a stupid advertisement that blew up in everyone's faces.
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Coolnamestaken says:

we're all gonna die!!!
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djmakfly says:

I think it is so stupid to think that could possibly be a bomb. I knew the second i seen it that there was no possibility of that device being a bomb. I cant believe the bomb squad couldn't tell it was a harmless device instantly. The circuit was way too simple to be a bomb. All it consisted of was batteries and LED's. Even if they thought the batteries could be the explosives there would be no way of detonating them with no power or detonator. This thing was blown way out of proportion. I just hope the poor guys who put these things up wont get into too much trouble!
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jonlars0 says:

Boston is wearing a Lite Brite "KICK ME" on their backside.
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mAnNy_sHoRt47 says:

its funny that boston people thught it was a bomb...................what the fuck is wrong with those people you can tell dats no bomb from a mile a way stupid
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pnrmtapuumb says:

it was such a great idea, i wish it hadn't turned out like it did. now we won't get cool things like this in the future.
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