<p>“Making a profit isnt a bad thing except to the socialists here. It was an advertising campaign. To suggest that they knew it would bring this reaction to gain free press is ludicrous. If it comes out that this was the plan then yes heads should roll but I serious doubt they would do that with todays mind frame”</p>
<p>Do you feel the same way when let’s say a electrician sends you a postcard telling you your panel is too old according to county records and may void your homeowners policy and they will provide a “free” inspection. During that inspection they find yes indeed your panel is old and for $### they can bring you up to code? Worked pretty well in the seattle area for awhile. But you have no problem with their advertising because all profit is “good” as long as it’s profit." Your neighborhood drug dealer makes a profit…enron execs make a profit… But it’s all good to you because to deny it is to embrace Communism?.. OK. just because that point’s far too stupid to argue I won’t.</p>
<p>I’ll bet my marketing degree as old as it is against yours that this was discussed, and if the paperwork still exists from the meetings, it was either blown off or excepted as the cost of doing business. </p>
<p>No way? the pinto quickly comes to mind. If you’re old enough to remember great if not, the manufacturer of the pinto knew the gas tank would explode with minimal impact. They could make a line change and recall at X amount of dollars, or settle lawsuits from deaths instead at a possible cheaper cost. So letting people burn to death in their cars was more profitable than fixing the problems. Yea,…all profits are good. :)</p>
<p>How often does business and business planners discuss negative possibilities and what to do if they happen? </p>
<p>If any paperwork or records still exist from the planning for this advertising campain, we’ll see what happens. Turner already throws a million out before the dust settles… OK care to guess why? cause they are swell guys and were going to do it anyway?</p>
<p>“This will likely come down to the question of whether the marketing company was promoting a teevee show or trying to cause serious public inconvenience and alarm. I would love to be the lawyer representing the defendants”</p>
<p>This one will interesting for sure. They are going to have to show that this “advertising” and more importantly “it’s placement” (bridge bulkheads, basements of hospitals, etc…) are generally considered to be normal advertising locations. They are going to have to show how the packaging and locations could not be mistaken for what they were mistaken for. </p>
<p>This is going be a good one. Then you have to wonder if their Liability coverage from their insurance carrier will cover the fines that will come of this. My bet is no. They might have been so smart, so smart that they smarted themselves into unemployment.</p>
<p>Like I said if it can be proven that they had previous knowledge or intention that it would draw this reaction then heads should roll. If not its just an advertising campaign and a gross overreaction. A foolish overreaction that they know was foolish and are trying to cover their butt. The law quoted above does not apply. They did not communicate a threat. The threat was created in somebody elses mind. </p>
<p>You are ridiculous to even compare this to the same action as drug dealers or con artists.</p>
<p>"They did not communicate a threat. The threat was created in somebody elses mind. "</p>
<p>I think you’re wrong. Placement, placement, placement or location, location, location. Are you assuming communication only means verbal? </p>
<p>There also were four calls around the same time calling atteintion to devices at different locations. Is it possible someone within the “Joke” made the calls? </p>
<p>As far as being ridiculous to compare things… how ridiculous do you sound saying profit is good, to think otherwise is liberal commies? </p>
<p>Is all profit good? You say it is, I threw out some very quick profit situations that blow your statement away. Maybe, you should refine your statement before you tell me mine is ridiculous. eh comrade? :)</p>
As, apparently, have terror tactics worked on some non-trivial part of the country that now starts by assuming everything is evil. I won’t live that way; it will indeed mean they have won.</p>
<p>There are an awful lot of empty Pizza Hut cartons lying around trashcans near major installations all over the city. They are just the right size to hold terrorist explosives. </p>
<p>Just as an update - of the 38 ‘‘things’’ found in the Boston area - 2 were pipe bomb appearing types of things - I still agree that this stupid prank could have possibly been something worse - one just never knows. The potential was there no matter what some may think - it always is - just considering where some of them were placed and the risk for problems because of the ‘where’.</p>
<p>A few thoughts from one who lives in the Boston 'burbs and whose husband rides the train into the city daily (although on the day of the Lite Brite “bombs” he happened to be working from home):</p>
<p>Did the city over-react? Probably, but I think it was understandable.</p>
<p>Is planting devices with wires and battery packs all over cities in this day and age a smart idea? DUH. NO.</p>
<p>Why would someone plant a bomb with cute lights in a visible public place? I dunno, but perhaps to attract a crowd before detonating for maximum victims? Or out of a twisted sense of humor? Or to make them less suspicious?</p>
<p>Why didn’t Bostonians recognize the character from a “trendy adult cartoon?” Maybe because Bostonians are too intellectual to watch CARTOON NETWORK past the age of 18!!! We snobby liberals are too busy getting our news from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report to waste our time watching anime on a cartoon channel.</p>
<p>COULD ALL THIS HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF SOMEONE FROM THE AD AGENCY BOTHERED TO GET THE REQUIRED LEGAL PERMITS TO POST ADS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY - OR AT LEAST GIVEN THE CITY A HEADS UP? Again - DUH.</p>
<p>Why didn’t other cities react like Boston? From what I read in the paper today, the devices weren’t placed in train stations and on highway overpasses in the other cities. Atlanta said they were mostly on vacant buildings across the street from bars. The Atlanta and Philly police commissioners said if they had found these devices placed where they were in Boston they’d have reacted similarly.</p>
<p>"There are an awful lot of empty Pizza Hut cartons lying around trashcans near major installations all over the city. They are just the right size to hold terrorist explosives. </p>
<p>Beware."</p>
<p>AW MINI, I thought at least you’d understand. Besides depending on what pizza you buy there’s an explosion later in most cases. </p>
<p>If I saw batteries and wires sticking out of a pizza box I’d be a little leary. </p>
<p>"I ordered the pan crust, extra ever readies and electirical wire. Better cut it into 6 pieces. I don’t think I can eat 8? " </p>
<p>A less frenzied response came from the Seattle and NYC police departments, the latter of which called Interference and learned the locations of any other LiteBrites they may have missed.
<p>It is indeed interesting that the one city in America that has done the most to undermine the security of the country (Kennedy, Kerry and Frank) was the only one to freak out over a couple of electronic signs. It is probably their consciences telling them they deserve to be attacked for helping to put the rest of America at risk.</p>
<p>Kerry and Kennedy are US senators; as such they represent all of MA, not just Boston. Barney Frank is US representative for the Fourth District–which does not include Boston.</p>
<p>Until Deval Patrick, we’ve had an unbroken string of Republican governors since William Weld in 1991. Could that be the reason Boston’s been at risk? 9/11 happened on their watch. Just joking. But let’s not get partisan politics into every thread.</p>
<p>Yea thats like blaming the night watchman who just came to work when the bad guys were already inside ripping the place off because of the negligence of the previous watchman.</p>
<p>“the one city in America that has done the most to undermine the security of the country (Kennedy, Kerry and Frank) was the only one to freak out over a couple of electronic signs. It is probably their consciences telling them they deserve to be attacked for helping to put the rest of America at risk.”</p>
<p>You know if you stretch just right, you might be able to see some daylight from where your head is right now.:)</p>
<p>What does anything your pointing out actually have to do with anything? Just makes you sound like a kook.</p>
<p>A blin man couldn’t swing a dead cat in Boston without hitting 5 alleded “intellectuals” who would explain to him the evils of singling out a group of Muslims behaving in an obviously threatenin manner in an airport lobby or on the plane itself. The same higher intellects then go bonkers over an electronic sign with a human figure on it flipping the world the bird - like A) Muslim fundamentalists don’t consider human representation idolatry and B) Muslin Islamofacists waging Jihad would be flipping folks the bird.</p>
<p>Bad enough Boston’s dumbest went bonkers with the first sign but then they didn’t get a clue even after it was spelled out to them. Again if they want to make Boston safe they ought to lock up Ted Kennedy for drowning his girlfriend.</p>
<p>“Again if they want to make Boston safe they ought to lock up Ted Kennedy for drowning his girlfriend.”</p>
<p>Again, What does anything your pointing out actually have to do with anything? Just makes you sound like a kook. </p>
<p>Stop politicizing a situation that has nothing to do with politics. It makes you sound foolish. </p>
<p>People from some political party (god knows which ones) saw items placed in unusual locations with batteries and wires visably attached. They assumed the worst. It isn’t how somebody voted, goofy. It’s what they think they saw. In hindsight you certainly can claim to be much smarter than those in the momment… it’s certainly much easier, isn’t it? ;)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Adult Swim, the part of Cartoon Network that contracts this show, targets the same demographics as Comedy Central with the Daily Show and Colbert Report. You silly intellectuals with your irreverant news commentary.</p>
<p>Opie, in this case hindsight is irrelevant. Other major cities in the U.S. had the advertisements, and there was no over reaction. The advertisements were foolsih, and so was the response to them.</p>
Worked pretty well in the seattle area for awhile. But you have no problem with their advertising because all profit is “good” as long as it’s profit."