It seems to be fashionable in the blogging world to make fun of the Boston government and police force for seriously investigating various boxes placed around the city. "Haha" say the armchair detectives, the intestigating 101st, "they were just lite brites. What rubes to be duped by lite brites!" "Morons in Boston" says kos gleefully.
Maybe these fierce protectors of our rights to place random boxes on bridges and tunnels should pause a bit to get the full story before they proclaim their superiority all over their blogs...a few more details below.
The "lite brites" were not the only devices found in Boston. Here you can read the police chronology for the day. Pay careful attention to this statement:
Six minutes later at 1:02 p.m. Boston Police received a call from New England Medical Center Security that they had uncovered a pipe bomb in their building in a desk drawer. Shortly thereafter Hospital Security reported that a suspect had been seen leaving the area of the pipe bomb in an agitated state stating "God is warning you that today is going to be a sad Day". The suspect was reported to have fled the hospital. Boston Police continue to investigate this incident. No further details at this time.
At 1:08 p.m. the Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived and confirmed the existence of an item which appeared to be a pipe bomb inside the hospital.
This was next to the hospital daycare. I suppose all our armchair blogger police chiefs would have preferred the police to go eat doughnuts instead of making sure that dozens of toddlers weren't about to be blown to bits. "Morons" indeed.
Note also a little further down:
Another type of device was located under the Longfellow Bridge, which is being investigated by the Massachusetts State Police.
Again, not a "lite brite", but hey, why worry that the bridge is going to be blown up? Let's just pick our noses and type on the keyboard.