Kind of wonder what God was thinking sometime???

ReverendFun.com : Cartoon for Sep 7, 2007: "God's Kitchen"

Check it out, I thought it was funny

Aquateen Revisited

FOXNews.com - Defendant Charged in Boston Marketing Stunt Scare Videotaped Police Response - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"One of the men criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city and causing a terrorism scare videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless.

Surveillance cameras caught 27-year-old Peter Berdovsky videotaping officers removing what they thought was a possible bomb last week."

I had been willing to cut the guys a little slack that they did not realize what they were doing was wrong. Unfortunately, if the facts are that he videotaped the police man disarming what he thought was a bomb and did nothing about it then throw the book at him (and maybe one of those light boards so he will have something to play with)!

Five Second Rule

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So this is how we got the five second rule. I always wondered.

Finally an article that lays the Boston Mistake where it should be

"The whole atmosphere is charged with stupidity," said Lou Colasuonno, senior vive president at Financial Dynamics, a business communications and PR firm. "There is enough to go around between whoever conceived the promotion and Boston's reaction to it.

"On one hand, "who in today's world would dream of leaving unattended packages lying around as part of a promotion?" he asked. Then again, "Boston shut down half the town, while other cities didn't even notice or saw them for what they were. That seems to indicate they were over the top."For Clarke Caywood, a professor of public relations at Northwestern University, "anyone with a sense of recent history and any peripheral vision would have said, 'We are in level orange or whatever, and these are kind of mysterious looking things.' I can't imagine there was enough oversight on this project."For their part, the authorities "were doing the typical overreaction to make themselves look tough," he said. "There were two mistakes here rather than one, and there are going to be two good case studies out of it on law enforcement's error and the Cartoon Network's error."

PR blunders abound in Boston promo stunt - MarketWatch

To be honest there is enough guilt and stupidity to go around on this incident. Turner, its companies, and marketing firms are to blame to put something like this all over not only Boston but several citties. Boston did over-react to some degree. Someone should have been able to look at it real quick on a bomb squad and tell it was not a bomb. It really should have been a footnote in a slow news day. Instead, it bacame the news. It went on all day. While I work days and do not have a TV close by that I can scan the news on I can tell you there were lots of news stories coming from various news sources in my RSS feeds. The story really took on a life of its own.