2-01-07 Reactions to the ad campaign that triggered Boston's bomb scare 26 Articles

by GOPMOM

OK, I'll admit it. For ten minutes or so yesterday, I was scared. And in my opinion, that is all it takes. I watch the news and listen to talk radio during the day. So when I heard the reports of the suspicious package...read more

by B. B. James

Having lived in several major urban areas in the U.S., as well as London, I am familiar with the inconveniences and annoyances created by so-called guerilla marketers. I'm delighted that the Boston escapade has apparently ...read more

by Tim Jones

I must confess that sitting here in the middle of the country, I was in stunned disbelief when it was revealed that the true cause of Boston's panic were actually lite-brites of the Mooninites from the Cartoon Network anim...read more

by Martin W. Schwartz

The guerrilla marketing campaign that "terrorized" Boston, was undertaken in a 15 other cities at the same time, including NYC, Los Angeles, and Chicago. ONLY BOSTON reacted by scaring itself and its citizens and crip...read more

by Christine Conte

// Reactions to the ad campaign that triggered Boston's bomb scare // A recent publicity stunt to promote the Cartoon Network show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," resulted in a bomb scare that effectively paralyzed the city o...read more

by Julio Johansen

We Lost the Battle of Boston. And the Terrorists Won. You'll hear republican pundits on the radio and on TV going on and on about how "we can't let the terrorists win." Turn on your FM radio right now and you can prob...read more

by Joann Johnson

I personaly think that whole scene could of been avoided.They had to know something when it was happening.Instead they just let it go on so they could get the use of the advertising out of it.They must of been awful greedy...read more

by Matt Pelishek

Everyone seems to be taking this issue to either one side or another, while I sit somewhere in the middle. I can sympathize with both sides of this arguement, those being it was either gross misconduct and scandolous, o...read more

by Realpolitikal

The ads were funny. The city of Boston is funny. This whole situation was funny. Personally, I do not understand the harsh attitudes being reflected on this site. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding at the most. (And th...read more

by Elke C

From my take on the affair, the company had been telling people about their plans on YouTube with blurbs about placing the "things that look like bombs". Also, that these devices had been in their locations for a period of...read more

by thinking stuff

Here we go again! Yesterdays test on Adult recognition of the gap between themselves and the twenty-something's proved not only an expensive one, that cost the city of Boston hundreds of thousands of untold dollars in lost...read more

by Joshua Murphy

The ad campaign was not even funny at all. My older brother is a resident of Boston and I don't want anything to happen to him and for the "anything goes" sort of society, that sort of attitude needs to be dropped complet...read more

by Bobby Walker

Since when is it funny to scare millions of Americans with outlandish campaign ads?I'm quite sure that this plan was well executed and thought out before the big wigs decided to hire common idiot's to do there dirty work. ...read more

by Ted Sherman

The thoughtless and dangerous ad campaign fits an oft-quoted phrase. Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes warned that ''the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a crow...read more

by Frances Ruocco

People who would cause one person let alone a whole City to be frightened with a bomb scare show that mentally they have not passed the age of two or three years old. If they had they would know better than to pull a stun...read more

by Chauncey Dumfry

Oh Boston, we really freaked out over this one huh? And why not? Who's to say that a terrorist couldn't be devious enough to hide a dirty bomb behind a beloved cartoon character? I was there when everything went down. I ev...read more

by Billy Sunshine

I think that Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, the two alleged perpetrators of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb scare" in Boston, are being unjustly persecuted by the media for Cartoon Network's stunt. It is all a ques...read more

by Rob O'Hannon

There is a paranoia in America about terrorists attacks, and perhaps some over reaction going on. But the ad campaign that triggered Boston's bomb scare was obviously not well thought out or controlled. The placement o...read more

by Maggie Kennedy

Downtown traffic was recently shut down in Boston, after ten blinking and magnetic devices were spotted on bridges. Apparently, terror ensued while these were merely part of a marketing campaign for the late-night comedy ...read more

by Ian Smith

Yep, the Fox News satellite really did shake with fear at those approaching Mooninites. At first, engineers at Fox's giant secret satellite HQ thought they were hearing things, but then their instrument panels showed the s...read more