what do you mean? That dkos is going nuts because the whole country is has been turned into paranoid hysterics or that we are not enraged at the marketers?

The marketing execs are to be blamed for this? Honestly?

As far as I can tell, nobody associated with Turner, [adult swim], the marketing agency or the artists who installed the light brite signs ever intended to pull off some sort of "terrorist hoax."

As far as I can tell, it was the media and law enforcement officials who started and continue to repeat that framing.

Of course, I'm all the way out here in California, so maybe the news that we're getting isn't entirely accurate . . . but it sure seems like this was a marketing stunt which was misinterpreted and blown way out of proportion.

When I had to get off my train in Walpole while the police & their sniffydogs checked all the cars (but not any people or their carry-ons) about 6 last evening, that's going a little beyond what I consider the norm.

This was after all commuters had passed by 3 sniffydogs on the platform at South Station just to get on the train.

I don't think I blame the police, but the snooze media? For sure. Politicians? Probably.

If so, why did you put it in your subject? Anyway, it is good to hear from someone who was actually there. I'm not sure the company is a fault though. It seems like the authorities could have established fairly quickly that there was no threat (by examining just one of the lights), and it could have ended at that.

9 other cities did not overreact. 9. Nine. IX.

Did those police not do their jobs? Or did they and their city officials figure out what was up and shrug, realizing it was no big thing.

How many cops on the streets in Boston knew this was just a stunt, and had to do what they did because some idiot at city hall or sitting at a desk at Police HQ can't do a google search, or hire a secretary that can?

How is it Turner's, Swim's. ATAF's, or the marketer's fault if 10% (10. Ten. X.) of their target audience went off the deep end?

Please. Boston's reaction was NOT the norm, severely weakening your argument.

Hey, maybe I'll get my old friend Orson to do a radio show about Martians landing in Cambridge. They'll close the state fer shure.