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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Aqua Teen Bomb Scare Reply with quote

For anybody out of the loop, here's a link.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/index.html



I thought this part was pretty funny.

CNN.com wrote:
At a news conference after the hearing, Stevens and Berdovsky stepped to the microphones and said they were taking questions only about 1970s hairstyles.

When a reporter accused them of not taking the situation seriously, Stevens responded, "We're taking it very seriously." Asked another question about the case, Stevens reiterated they were answering questions only about hair and accused the reporter of not taking him and Berdovsky seriously.

Reporters did not relent and as they continued, Berdovsky disregarded their queries, saying, "That's not a hair question. I'm sorry."






So basically, here's what happened. Advertisers put up little lighted billboards around various US cities. Some victim of the fear-mongering media sees wires and fears that these little billboards are part of some Al-Queda terrorist plot and reports them. People go nuts and accuse the guys of making fake bomb for what are really just a bunch of lights and a black square.

In essence, a couple guys paid to put up billboards are the victims of a ridiculously fearful US society and are being labeld as criminals.

This is both hilarious and absolutely fucking retarded at the same time.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We talked about this in the Mini-Stick yesterday, and yeah... man, it was crazy. I love this city Very Happy

Edit: Word on the local news is that some people actually got arrested for this, though. What the heck?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two people who hung up the magnetic lights were arrested.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that one guy looks like tom cruise

anyone else think he looks like tom cruise

cause he does
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

People are idiots.
"OMG THOSE LIGHTS AREA BOMB OMGGGGGGGG"
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is pretty entertaining to follow. Do you think the prosecutor is going to push for the death penalty?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Mooninites will bust him out with the Foreigner belt.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, the hairstyles thing was pretty funny. I hope they don't actually get sentenced for this, that would be really fucking stupid.

Also one of the boards was found by some guy and he put it up on Ebay. It seems to have been removed, but last I checked the bids it was going for $5,000.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Boston fucking sucks.

LIGHTS = BOMBS.

And the news is sensationalizing them by calling them "SUSPICIOUS ELECTRONIC DEVICES."

They're fucking lite-brites
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alot of people are just too friken anal. Sure I understand that we should be concerned, but geez. Theyre treating them like they were REAL criminals. Aqua Teen Force is the cartoon with talking food? Oh that makes sense, a cartoon food group is going to suicide bomb us.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that the idiot people think that the light boards were meant to be interpreted as bombs. IE, they caused the scare on purpose.

But they didn't. Just because something has wires and a battery doesn't mean it's a bomb. Maybe I should break open an old VCR and put it on the street corner.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm going to make a bomb based on what I've learned from trauma center.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sharp wrote:
I'm going to make a bomb based on what I've learned from trauma center.

That was a stupid level.
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All you need is a tiny pyramid surrounded by a floating sphere of hexagons. Shouldn't be too hard.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

our school does this retarded current events thing every morning where we watch CNN AWESOME RAD HIP STUDENT NEWS, BRO, and that was the first story. they did refer to them as "suspiscious bomblike devices" and not once did they mention the name of the show even...i think they realized if they told everyone they were doing a scare piece about a show called aqua teen hunger force they'd be laughed at.
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