FEAR Unit play of the year!

Numba 1 in the hood, G:

Nine blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. At least one of the devices depicts a character giving the finger.

Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River were shut down and bomb squads were sent in before authorities declared the devices were harmless.

"It's a hoax — and it's not funny," said Gov. Deval Patrick.

Turner Broadcasting, parent company of Cartoon Network, said the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"The packages in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger," Turner said in a statement. It said the devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

"We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger," the company said.

I can understand the caution to a certain extent, but it's so obvious that something with this character on it, flipping the bird, is not exactly what Al Qaeda would be doing:



Oddly, I thought Aqua Teen Hunger Force was done with new episodes for the year, why are they advertising now?

(Incidentally, FEAR Unit used to stand for Federal Even-yeared Anti-terror Response, but now that they're using them increasingly to bolster an irrelevant President's approval ratings, I'll have to rejigger... Maybe it's the Federal Emergency Approval Ratings division of FEAR Unit? The FEAR sub-unit of FEAR?)