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oh noes! it's the aqua teen hunger force!
last modified: Thursday, February 01, 2007 (3:50:51 AM)
Naturally, this would not blow over. When someone is embarrassed for mistaking a mooninite for a deadly terrorist plot, *someone* is going to have to pay -- and certainly not the idiot(s) who called the alarm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices

Yes, they're pressing charges.

Let's step back and look at this for a second... it's a light-up mooninite flicking people off. What kind of terrorist outside of Adam West's Batman goes through the effort of making such a deadly device so playful and colorful? This is more retarded than even the terrorist plots in the TV show "24".

The article includes a blustery moron deriding hoaxes as taxing the law enforcement infrastructure and the half-mil cost of getting said circus troupe to perform. To this I simply say, "lol."

The idea that your average American would know what makes a device suspicious is a dubious one at best. But law enforcement didn't see through this?

Hint! A bomb will not have a mooninite on it! It will not be ticking! It will not feature a intricate Rube Goldberg device attached to a crate marked "TNT" in block type. It WILL look like a trash can, a backpack, or a Nissan Sentra.

Hint! Terrorists are not interested in your Fort Knox, your Statue of Liberty, or your Grand Canyon. They probably cannot locate any of these on a map, much like most Americans have trouble finding the UK on a map. (No, that's Denmark. Try again.)

Hint! A terrorist will not look like a cartoon snake charmer! A terrorist will not look like a man who hasn't shaved or slept for days! A terrorist WILL look like a friendly, courteous, educated, and charming individual. The next deadly terrorist attack JUST MIGHT come from a single, white female beatnik undergrad from Oklahoma.

And I ask, do you know why? Because no one is expecting it. Because it's the path of least resistance. Because law enforcement -- particularly the gumshoe Boston PD -- is too busy looking for mooninites and arresting other people for their own incompetence.

I would also like to add that I am not a terrorist and have no desire to blow anything up. Please don't arrest me. You should be out looking for the real criminals, like Master Shake and Meatwad.
re: oh noes! it''s the aqua teen hunger force!Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 5:04:46 AM
Crystal

Okay, it must be official. Most of the people of Boston are idiots. Because just about anywhere else those signs (devices? WTF?!) would have been stolen and auctioned on eBay.

Here I was wondering what that odd message was for between shows. . . sheesh.


re: oh noes! it''s the aqua teen hunger force!Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 7:59:28 AM
RalphVboy

As an avid fan of ATHF, I must say this whole situation in Boston had my ROFLMAO. These signs had been up there for almost 3 weeks?!?! That just sheds to light how vigilant they are keeping an eye out for terrorist activities. If a quote "suspicious package" can be placed in relatively plain sight for almost 3 weeks than we''ve got problems. I think the Mooninites just showed us how airtight our Homeland Security really is >_< My only regret is I wasn''t in Austin before this mess so I could pick one of those signs up, and that they didn''t put any of ''em in Dallas T_T

- RalphVBoy <--- who is actually harboring the fugitives Master Shake, Meatwad, Frylock, Ignignokt, Err....and Carl :P


re: oh noes! it''s the aqua teen hunger force!Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 12:22:52 PM
birdie

I hope the judge throws out the charges on the two arrested. Sheer embarrassment on the part of the Boston PD for being so unhip not to recognize it for what it was. The nine other cities in the country managed to see it for what it was or ignore them completely.


re: oh noes! it''s the aqua teen hunger force!Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 11:16:18 AM
Startyde

"Okay, it must be official. Most of the people of Boston are idiots." As a Bostonian I agree. I blame the out of touch electorate. Even New York laughed at our reaction to "terrorism" of the cartoon type.