The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Derrick on Jan 31, 2007, 04:48:40 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A group of electronic light boards featuring an adult cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless.
Turner Broadcasting Co., the parent company of CNN, said the devices contained harmless magnetic lights aimed at promoting the late-night Adult Swim cartoon "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Law enforcement sources said the devices displayed one of the "Mooninites," outer-space delinquents who appear frequently on the show, greeting visitors with a raised middle finger.
"While the concern is lessened as a result of the investigation, I'd like to remind citizens to treat any suspicious devices with care and to call 911 if any such device is found," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said.
The devices had been placed as part of an "outdoor marketing campaign" in 10 cities, a Turner Broadcasting statement said.
"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the statement said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."
A Turner Broadcasting source said the devices were a component of a third-party advertising campaign conducted by a New York advertising firm, Interference Inc. That company had no comment on the incident.
The discovery of eight of the devices around metro Boston led state, local and federal authorities to close the Boston University and Longfellow Bridges and block boat traffic from the Charles River to Boston Harbor.
In addition, the Pentagon said U.S. Northern Command was monitoring the situation from its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but said none of its units were dispatched to assist.
Davis said police "are going to fully investigate this and get to the bottom of it."
The first suspicious device turned up at the Sullivan Square commuter rail station, near the suburb of Somerville, Wednesday morning. Wednesday afternoon, four other devices were reported -- near the Longfellow and Boston University bridges over the Charles, at New England Medical Center and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus avenues in the city itself.
Three others turned up in other locations around Boston as well, Davis said.
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How big were these? It just calls them "light boards" and "devices".
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The pictures showed them to be big. I await the [AS] bumps.
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They were about 2 feet by 2 feet. Maybe a little bigger, but they were square.
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Were they on billboards or the side of a building or what? I hate it when articles aren't specific enough. A "light board" could be anything. Fucking Lite Brite is a light board.
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Yeah that's what I'm imagining. Some sort of light bright type device.
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That's sort of what it was. Just a black board with lights plugged into and some kind of battery pack at the bottom
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I saw the bump last night. It was 3 screens of text but I didn't have my contacts in so I don't know what it said. I squinted a line about something congratulating the efforts of the boston police or somethin.
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I thought I was would miss Cartoon Network when I no longer had it, but it turns out I secretly hated it all along.
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Cartoon network sucks!!! It's been on the decline for years.
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Wouldn't care if ATHF and most of the other crap on the channel died an ugly death, but Venture Brothers and Harvey Birdman must continue.
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I'm starting to take a liking to naruto.
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I tried watching it and after a while just couldn't. I don't know if it's the dub or it's actually that hokey.
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I couldn't quite cut Naruto, but I took an instant liking to Bleach. And I hadn't realized that Eureka Seven was nearing the fortieth episode in its CN broadcast...the DVDs are only up to episode twenty or so. Talk about pissing me off. Same with Trinity Blood.
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I like bleach but I still just catch the occasional ep. I like that Naruto is on every day tho BELIEVE IT!
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Wouldn't care if ATHF and most of the other crap on the channel died an ugly death, but Venture Brothers and Harvey Birdman must continue.
Yeah I need my Venture Brothers fix. Especially since they've been taking their sweet ass time getting season 2 out on DVD. I can only guess they want to cross promote with the season premiere of 3 and are hold it back for that.
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I also instantly liked Bleach but then I saw more it. A huge majority of anime just looks and acts alike, and frankly it was feeling a lot like ten other shows I've already seen.
Venture Brothers is funny and all (usually) but one good apple in a barrel full of crap isn't good enough. Especially since it'll eventually be out on DVD, I see no reason to bother with the actual channel. The only stations I actually miss are Boomerang, International Music Feed, some of HGTV (because most it was reruns to me anyway), and whichever half of Bravo is slightly less gay. All of those channels had stuff I could sit on the couch for hours with.
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Well I enjoy ATHF, Moral Orel and Venture Brothers. Pretty mucch everything else not original does suck, though. My love for ATHF will always be.
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You liked Korgoth and that thing with those metal dudes?
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Well CN is in our basic pacakage...so as long we have dish, I'll have that channel. So it's not like I'd lose it even if I didn't watch it.
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We got rid of the Dish thing. I guess I could've paid for it so we could keep it, but then I realized I didn't like it enough to do that.
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I like korgoth and metalocalypse. Korgoth only had 1 ep tho.
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And it was enough to make me not like it.
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But you watched anyways. And Metalo... whatever, is great. I don't hate any characters.
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What do you mean "watched anyway"? It was one episode. It's not like it was a weekly thing I chose to endure. The Metal thingy I didn't even bother with. I hate a lot of their original stuff. Blood and boobies doesn't make something "adult".
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Venture Brothers is brilliant. I've seen the DVD's and I laughed my head off.
"Hey. Where's the key to your boat?"
"It's in my ass."
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I'd never watched Venture Bros. before New Year's...I just thought it was another crappy CN show. But I just surreptitiously caught it on the DVR and subsequently laughed my ass off. Being that it was season two, I went out and got season one and cursed over season two not hitting DVD until April.
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Venture Brothers is brilliant. I've seen the DVD's and I laughed my head off.
"Hey. Where's the key to your boat?"
"It's in my ass."
My fav. is still, "My pants are haunted." from Assassinanny 911. I almost spit taked on that one.
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There are just too many to count. But Brock's "Yeah, they never show that part on TV" after Race's bowels released when he died took the cake.
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I've never laughed or spat due to the Venture Brothers. I haven't had any bodily reactions to tv since I was thirteen. Crying doesn't count because its very easy to make me cry. The Michelin Man can appear on tv and I might cry.
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What about Hallmark commercials?
Only thing that I've watched that made me cry is when ET dies. Does it everytime. I also get really sad when pets die in films, but I couldn't care less if the people keel over.
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Hallmark commericals are too full of their own shit to solicit much more than an annoyed chuckle.
Pom Poko makes Merla cry. We saw it again the other night and she's all "don't, I'll cry, I always cry". How can you cry when there's ballsacks in your face for half of the movie? But sure enough, boo hoo, the poor little forest animals were homeless and there went the waterworks.
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It took me 2 watchings to get through pom poko because I kept falling asleep. Didn't the dead bad ass racoons auto-rezz at some point and do a zombie attack?
The fox is the true hero of that story.
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The fox is the true hero of that story.
Ha ha, yeah.
Didn't the dead bad ass racoons auto-rezz at some point and do a zombie attack?
It certainly looked that way.
I was actually eating while we were watching it and had to stop for a minute because the ballsacks started making me a wee naseous.
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They seemed to turn into those or one of those heads that are always bouncing around Yubaba's office in spirited away. What the fuck are those anyway? Since they're in both I'm guessing they have to be part of japanese folklore.
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I have no idea. I had just figured out what the whole hopping umbrella with a foot thing was and now I've completely forgotten.
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jihad! (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1741589)
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Derka Derka?
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That was your cue to post a gif of a hopping umbrella not a link to "college humor", you git!
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But the umbrella guy wasn't even in spirited away!
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Will somebody tell me the story behind that brolly guy?!?!
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brolly is the legendary super saiyan.
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Fuck a brolly. I bet there was an umbrella. At least in the background somewhere. There's ALWAYS an umbrella.
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The umbrella guys is a yokai. I've never seen an animated version of him but there is a movie i'm about to DL called the great yokai war or some shit where there is a live action one eyed bouncing umbrella yokai character.
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I've seen countless animated versions of the umbrella foot guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake) There he is. He's a kasa-obake.
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I care not. I do not. Is that snot?
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Yes, cause I just crammed the umbrella guy up your nose. How dare you disrespect him, sir. How DARE you.