I love Cartoon Network - Mooninite Bomb Scare

JK II · Feb 2, 2007

You can buy one of these on eBay.. I think its awesome. Careful now with those Publix batteries.. Might make it actually explode :lol:.

Ryan D · Feb 2, 2007

Yes . . if I only had another 1k to blow . .lol

Thomas Rogers · Feb 2, 2007

For those following this, the guy that spread these throughout the city as part of a contract gig with an ad firm has been arrested. Seems Mass has a new law that makes it a crime to perpetrate a "hoax" with the intent to cause "panic".

Clearly this arrest is a gross misuse of that law and it will likely get thrown out. There was no hoax (a hoax would have to be trying to be a fake version of something, like a bomb, or a threat), and there was no intent to cause panic. I am surprised a DA would even serve the papers.

Stupid Mass!

TJR

Adam Smith 2 · Feb 2, 2007

I actually emailed the Mass Attorney General yesterday to express my disgust at the way this was handled and the trumped-up hoax charges against the guys who put up these signs. The Assistant A.G. John Grossman actually referred to the signs as "bomb-like devices" during their arraignment. Can you think of anything less bomb-like that a Lite-Brite cartoon guy? The fact that he was not designed to explode pretty much makes these as un-bomb-like as you can get, since that's pretty much the only trait that defines a bomb. I'm embarrassed for Mr. Grossman.

Gerald Pierce · Feb 4, 2007

I actually emailed the Mass Attorney General yesterday to express my disgust at the way this was handled and the trumped-up hoax charges against the guys who put up these signs. The Assistant A.G. John Grossman actually referred to the signs as "bomb-like devices" during their arraignment. Can you think of anything less bomb-like that a Lite-Brite cartoon guy? The fact that he was not designed to explode pretty much makes these as un-bomb-like as you can get, since that's pretty much the only trait that defines a bomb. I'm embarrassed for Mr. Grossman.

What exactally does a bomb look like? I am sure I have some friends in Iraq that could use the expert bomb identification abilities you must have. A tube, with wires coming out, going to a circuit card of some sort (remember it was daylight, they could not see the leds) sure as heck could have been a bomb. Everyone is quick to say the DA is going overboard, but if it had been a bomb, the same folks would be screaming that the govt did not do enough to prevent it. I hope they sue the crap of of CN and TBS. All they had to do was notify the city, so that law enforcement was aware. Hanging them on public property should be illegal also....

Thomas Rogers · Feb 5, 2007

The point is, Cruz, this was neither a hoax device (one made to look like a bomb) nor was it's intent to create panic. Even if you can argue ONE of those items, which you are doing, no reasonable person (IMHO) can make the case for both.

Or said more clearly, even if one can argue that the device might be confused with one that is made to look like a bomb, one cannot reasonably argue that the intent of the campaign and the devices was to create panic. The intent of the devices was marketing. That is very clear.

TJR