The two kiddie show marketers, undoubtedly at the advice of their counsel, are trying to laugh their bomb scare prank off by only talking about their hair. Personally, I hope Boston and populace recover all of their expenditures/losses as well as handsome punitive damages from Turner Broadcasting. I also hope these two spend a little sober time in prison -- at least six months to a year. I normally wouldn't be so harsh, but they let the scare play out all day to get maximum publicity before calling in to say it was "advertising."
I'm not clear to what extent the publicity stunt was their idea. Do they dream this up or were the executing someone else's marketing plan?
I think the reason they let it play out is they weren't aware that it was even their promotion causing the trouble. The people who came up with the promotion didn't make it look like a bomb, and it wasn't a bomb hoax. They should laugh it off, becuase the reaction was absurd. To think that the mooninites from ATHF(which isn't a kiddie show) could cause someone to believe they had planted explosives is insane. They can't be responsible for people who have lost their reason rational way of conducting themselves.
That's a good question. From what I have gathered so far, it was an idea they sold to one of the Turner divisions, Cartoon Network. If so, shame on both parties.
If they were following the advice of counsel they wouldn't say anything at all. It's questionable whether or not anything they did was even a crime. I don't think it was. As for a civil recovery, punitive damages? Please, tabling the legal issues as to while they wouldn't be applicable, just because some people overreacted does not make them liable for punitive damages.
Yeah they could be taken down for misdemeanor littering and trespass, other than that I don't think they could go down for felony hoax device charges for reasons I put in the other thread.
Do you believe that people who put up bilboards with pictures of characters from movies like Flags of Our Fathers should be shamed as well? Because that is basically all these people did. They put up a representation of a character from their show that was in lights. I am not sure why you hope they get prison, or should be shamed. I am also why you are referring to them as the terror pair. Terror was only brought into it when the officials in Boston were two irrational to know that amounts to a light bright isn't the same thing as a bomb. Terror was never part of the original marketing campaign.
They sure shut down Boston -- and these weren't billboards or clearly recognizable advertising media. And Sam, their attorney was standing next to them during their "interview."
Actually Boston shut down Boston....which is why Chicago, Atlanta, New York, LA, and other cities that had them remained functioning. Anyway - it doesn't matter that they weren't recognizable as advertising to you (at least to you, to me it was, as it was to the millions of people in other cities who saw them). That doesn't mean they're recognizable as bombs either. ...and wishing they would STFU, no doubt. PS, I'm glad the Mooninites are reaching a wider audience, I find them freaking hilarious for whatever reason.
The devices were placed under a major freeway and at other arteries in an historical American city, the kind of place terrorists would love to put on their scalp belt. Boston civil authorities would not have acted with due diligence had they not treated them as they did. And please tell me why the Turner network did not report it as soon as the news broadcasts began? Concur. (This is all from information reported on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. I confess I must research what Mooninites area.)
The signs were put in prominent locations where people would see them, I totally agree. If you watch the youtube video they put them next to a vacant lot, on the corner of a building awning, etc. They didn't exactly go to the basement of the john hancock building and mine the interior columns. So you're saying every single other major city that had these signs was negligent for not overreacting to a neon sign of a cartoon character? Warped. If we had that kind of overreaction to every spare piece of electrical or industrial equipment left lying on the street or on the sidewalk, or every piece of unauthorized signage in a prominent location in Manhattan then the city would never function. Probably because they were incredulous that a major city would go insane over a neon sign of a cartoon character? But anyway I don't think you or I know enough about that particular sequence of events to comment.
I'm sure when they saw on the news that Boston was shut down because of suspicious packages that might be IEDs, it didn't occur to them that their plastic boards with lights were the culprits.
Here is where we somewhat agree. Most of the facts of the case will come to light in due time and all comment up to then is gratuously judgmental. Still, it is difficult to understand why Turner did not quash this "event" before it had a chance to grow legs. Personally, I can't help but deduce (at this point in time) that they were milking it for all the publicity they could get. If so, then Turner et al should be held accountable in greater measure than the advertising benefit acquired.
