What a joke- doesn't say much for the Boston intellect. Look out- it's .... a TRASH CAN!! Oh no!!! Call the Feds! Arrest the city! Call FoxNews! Fear, again, and again- with the media a willing accomplice. How tiresome.

You forgot about the idiot reactionary mayor threatening to sue Turner Broadcasting and having their FCC license pulled. What a spaz. IMHO, it was the Boston authorities who caused the hysteria, not the Lite Brite toy.

Prior to this week, I had no idea what "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" was; NOW I DO. This is guerilla marketing and publicity taken to perfection. It epitomizes what American creative marketing is all about! Cartoon Network will enjoy a huge jump in website hits, and the show itself will be seen by multiples of its former viewing audience.

Back in the day, you'd get tickets and fines for postering a record label release or film all over the city, but it worked; now these guys have done the exact same thing, but with brite-lites!

WHO da man?!?!

the only thing missing in Boston is a brain. The "government"has been watching too much tv. When a terror attack comes, they will not have a clue, singly or collectively.

What happened to our sense of humor? Who's the idiot that thought those things looked like BOMBS anyways? Wish someone would put those in my hometown to lighten my mood when I drive around town. I have the stickers of those little guys on my truck, cuz it made me giggle when I saw them.

ps. I love adult swim shows and have been a fan since I was 13.

In regards to the promotional advertising devices that were recently placed in/around the Boston area. With the security dollars the state has / is receiving from the federal government, following 9/11, these devices should have not been able to be put in place, this is an outrage. If we can not detect suspicious activity around our cities, how are we supposed to detect terrorists entering our state / and or country? These people are not terrorist, they are not trained to be terrorists as far as we know, and they are common people. I am just confused - I hear so much on the news about how airports are are stepping up security and how officials are trained to detect such suspicious activities, but yet two men put suspicious devices throughout the city. How could this be?
Are we not safe in our own homes?!!!! I feel an investigation is in order - where has the money for the post 9/11 training gone?

David & Monique - Southbridge, MA

So if I buy a pack of batteries in Boston, and carry them around without a bag, that could be construed as an act of terrorism?

I'll just say something about this is very strange. CNN and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim are both owned by Turner, yet no one at CNN had any idea about something that's on their sister network? An no one from Adult Swim could walk (probably) down the hall and notify someone at CNN??

Something just doesn't add up.

Pathetic. I can see why the city of Boston and law enforcement officials are going after these guys.
They are trying to distract attention
away from the fact the police in Boston are a bunch of morons.
Anybody with half a brain could tell with one glance that this was a sign and not a bomb.
Just pathetic. Words cannot describe how ignorant Boston police look.

A "bomb-like device???" Please.. Boston was just so EMBARASSED at their own STUPIDITY that they need someone to blame. Some people...

The police and authorityies should be fired. These (devices) absolutely could not be a bomb. After the first one was taken down an idiot could tell it was not a bomb. Why did the police terrorize the city by making a terror plot out of a grade school technology toy?

Well done Boston Police - you have helped the terrorists win... you are so clueless that you don't investigate (or Google even), you just run around like headless chickens and shut-down the entire transport system.
I'm not exactly up on "street art", but I just laughed when I saw the cop in a HAZMAT suit up a ladder investigating this 'device'... Thanks Boston Police for that comedy moment at least.

If I were a citizen of Boston I would be asking some serious questions about my safety - how are these clowns going to cope with a real terrorist incident?

I hope they don't hang those kids out of embarrasment at their own stupidity...

I don't even live in Boston or the other cities, but no one over reacted. In today's day in age jokes like this aren't funny. I hope these two and everyone else at Turner Broadcasting gets fined heavily and thrown in jail for a very long time. If it was true marketing they would have asked for permission to put these up and probably would have had to pay an advertising fee. I hope they all are severely punished.

Did anyone see the last big prank pulled on the city of Boston? I think it was called the Big Dig. Just like this one, it was metaphorically flipping the city the bird.

Seriously, this should have been a concern for exactly 30 seconds.

Long live Master Shake.

It shouldn't even be called a prank. They were just posting signs. It's either the police of the moron who called them who is to blame. Why didn't Philly or NYC or any of those other places melt down? What a bunch of idiots!

Being a resident of Boston, I feel that Turner Broadcasting, the Public Relations Firm and the two "artists" should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of State and Federal laws. What they did to Boston residents was beyond a "joke". Furthermore, those "artists" coming out of the court house today should have been ashamed and should have shown some sort remorse for what they put us through.
The "artists" should be fined heavily and do some jail time--that would take the smirks off their faces!

Why is it, that everybody nowadays is not only charged with the actual crime but also "disorderly conduct" too? Wouldn't it stand to reason if you committed any crime you were probably being "disorderly". It's like a bonus charge. These kids will probably be acquitted of the serious charge and get probation for the DC. I thought Boston is where all the brains were?

So let me get this straight... most major corporations, in their pursuit of profits, are considered "evil" by many of those in the counter culture. But in this case, the corporation that ignores the fact that the nation is on terror alert (I know, I know, it's all fake, but hear me out) and designs a campaign to secretly put odd looking electronic boxes in the supports of bridges and major highways is DA MAN in their pursuit of profits. Do I have that right?

I find this whole thing so comical. Many articles and news shows I have seen have been criticizing them for what seems like taking this as a joke. Well, this is a joke and an overreaction.

Dear Boston:
For future reference, neon signs are not bombs.
Signed,
The rest of the world

Feminized Boston PD! How will the panic when a real threat is posed?