I Will Crush You And Your Dog!
This is the ad that brought the city of Boston (and CNN) to its knees. It’s the Orson Wells / Mercury Theater “War Of The Worlds” overreaction all over again, except we have light-brites instead of radios, the invaders were “Mooninites” instead of Martians, and, AFAIK, in this case, no one has died. The South Park guys are gonna have a field day with this one.
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By Citizen Deux, February 2, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Humorous, no doubt. A good decision? Unlikely. In an age where British citizens plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier in Brimingham and terrorists infiltrate a US base (disguised as US soldiers) to kidnap and execute five US servicement, a marketing plan like this is the equivalent of walking into a bank with a ski mask. It very much meets the test of “yelling fire in a crowded theater”.
The marketing company was NOT thinking when they placed odd electronic devices under public structures. Just because it had a figure from a cult Carntoon Network show on it is no cause for complacency.
I get a chance to walk past the spot in Olympic park here in Atlanta where the backpack nail bomb was placed during the 1996 Olympics. What’s considered safe is no longer easy to categorize.
By Johnny, February 2, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
There’s a pretty big difference between an inconspicuous backpack and a Lite-Brightesk figure flipping the bird. One screams look at me while the other is practically invisible. I think most terrorists would agree that a good rule of thumb when plotting to blow something up is don’t draw attention to the device. Clearly, these were designed to draw attention, not to blow up buildings.