Because the signs were up for weeks in Boston and other cities without incident is probably my guess.
Are you trying to imply that it's reasonable to assume a terrorist would decorate a bomb with neon lights, under the assumption that no one would happen to look in that diection at night? Stupid overreaction - the only reason anyone is still taking this seriously is to save face.
That doesn't fly. They had to be paying attention as soon as news reports started coming out. What you are saying is that on Day 1 there were no news reports. Therefore, there would never be any news reports. Rhadamanthus -- the first reports were that they were knapsacks. No one reported any neon lights until much later in the day. I didn't see anything about neon lights until the afternoon -- but that doesn't mean I didn't miss an earlier report.
i haven't read any of the replies yet.... but this is the stupidest thing ever. the mayor of boston pulls a chicken little, and now cause he's embarrassed about it, he's gonna press charges. those things have been in 9 other cities for 2+ weeks and nobody freaked out. give me a break... this is just another win for the terrorists.
That's exactly what happened. The signs were up in Boston (and nearly a dozen other cities) for 2-3 weeks. The city of Boston did not start sending in the bomb squads rolleyes: ) till yesterday. If you can find "news reports" that pre-date that, then find them.
Boston authorities are still checking out who called in about the dangling napsack. Could it be that, because no one was noticing this advertising ploy, one of the ad guys called in about said suspicious object to get the ball rolling? Not accusing....just wondering.
No one paid any attention to them until someone called in a suspicious object report. Without this stimulus, the advertising ploy would have failed utterly due to lack of any notice en neon.
This is really a no-win situation for the police, when some one reports a suspicious looking package, they have to check it out. Personally I rather they over-react and check out the said package under a freeway overpass than just assume its harmless.
Concur. Had it actually been an explosive device that was detonated, the same people here laughing it off would have been skewering Boston for not acting with due concern.
i haven't heard about this, so i can't say.... after detonating the first one, or maybe even the 2nd i think they could have decided that the other 8 were safe.... IED are not fashioned as light brights, and they're not placed in plain view for all to see.... even the crazed terrorists know this.
No. Plenty of people noticed them and did not overreact. Likewise they were removed without causing national news in other cities. Only Boston went insane and made an issue of it.
They didn't stop the over-reaction by Boston because while they heard their were suspicious packages, it never dawned on them that the pictures they put up were the suspicious packages being reported on. I will help you out here, because you seem to be saying that the advitsors themselves possibly called in the threat of their own promotion. If their intent from the beginning was to create the confusion that ended up happening in Boston, they would have made the promotion look more like a bomb, instead of nothing like a bomb. That would have been logical. The known facts of the case are this: 1. They had a promotion in which they posted the likeness of some characters from a cartoon made out of illuminated lights. 2. They were around for weeks in 10(I think) cities for several weeks with no disturbance. 3. After a few weeks, someone in Boston reported something suspicious under a bridge. Boston officials then didn't notice that the picture which has been posted in this forum several times wasn't a terrorist's bomb. 4. They over-reacted the media ran with it.
Sam, those "plenty of people" did not overreact -- they didn't react at all -- probably because they never even noticed the devices. The other cities didn't react because they had after the fact knowledge.
I agree that the cops should have checked it out. But once they got there and saw a lite-brite, then they should have notified everyone that there was nothing to be alarmed about. If they weren't sure, they could have tested one of them.
lol. Read the quote under Sam's comment. People obviously did notice them, as is demonstrated in the article. Moreover, the point of an advertising scheme would be to *shock* get people to notice said advertisement.
