When a bomb squad gets involved,they have to blow up something. What's the fun in being on the bomb squad unless you can blow up stuff? Seriously, though, please read my point in my latest two replies to rhadamanthus.
Best thing about that video is that the reporters are so frustrated that the guys aren't as serious and agitated about this heinous, heinous crime. Sad that we are in such a state of constant fear that it's so easy for people to twist something so simple.
I've been following this debate, and if there was a hanging package, then it would've been harder for the people at Cartoon Network to know that the terror threat was from their ad campaign. If news had reported a description of the lite brite boxes, then there'd be an opening in your argument that CN knew and sat on it to create attention. Then again, news crews usually don't give a detailed description to "suspicious packages", so it's hard for me to agree now that CN knew that Boston was dealing with their prank when they've done the same prank at different cities. Maybe there are hanging packages in these cities as well.
Um, 99.9% of guerilla advertising don't get media converage, that doesn't mean they don't get noticed.
Turner neither owns nor has controlling interest in CNN anymore. That is not correct. Last night on MSNBC they showed actual video of the two morons hanging up the advertisements pieces. Not one of them looked like a backback. They did look like the pictures shown in this thread. That was their own home video of them hanging up the pictures.
You are failing to recognize that they most likely didn't even know that it was their promotion causing the uproar. If it had happened one day after they had hung up the pieces, then maybe they could have guessed. But the fact that it happened two weeks later then how are they supposed to know that news reports of suscicious bomb-like packages was their lite-brite? There is almost no way they could know it was their adverts that caused the uproar, because their promotional pieces aren't suspicious nor are they bomb-like. The news uproar never showed what the packages were. They could only call in and clarify what the authorities thought were bombs, if they knew in the first place exactly what it was that had got the authorities over-reacting so.
Thumbs, any bag you saw appears to be one that the police used to put the mooninite piece in. It was not hung up with the bag on it.
I don't think they intended to cause a scare or a panic. They did, however, and instead of acting like jerks about it they should just apologize. They're not going to prison because it wasn't their intent but at least apologize to the people who got scared and move on. It's their reaction that's pissing a lot of people off.
I agree. Their reaction was just stupid. It was too planned that they would respond in this idiotic manner, and it makes them look bad. I understand that the charges against them are ridiculous and don't deserve a serious response, but they should have come up with something better.
Since I'm not a fan of guerrilla marketing I hope they get hard on this. How else do you discourage it? Turner broadcasting can't afford billboards??? And I don't think it would have been unreasonable to expect them to consider that placing electronic devises on infrastructure around various cities might cause a reaction such as this. Make them pay.
It's so frustrating to see Boston officials and some in the media continue to refer to them as "hoax devices." What's the hoax? What were they trying to trick people into believing these things were? I've also seen some footage of a press conference from the same day when a reporter says to the official that Turner Broadcasting had issued a statement saying that it was a marketing campaign and the official brushes it off saying that they are still investigating numerous leads and that the turner thing was just one possibility and still too premature to accept Turner's explanation. I don't know if it's been posted in this thread, but here's the video of the "terror suspects" actually putting up the Mooninite advertising devices. Clearly, there are no knapsacks or bags or boxes involved: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IW0AdO_TuOs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IW0AdO_TuOs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Clearly, they are not being hung up inside of a suspicious knapsack of anykind and they aren't "boxes." Picture of a happy San Francisco citizen after one of the devices was "disarmed" Look that big ole knapsacky box. Here is a whole set of photos from Flickr of the devices incase you don't trust CNN. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/sets/72157594512553078/ Don't adjust your monitor, they really do look that harmless.
