When Chemists Attack

Bostonians! All y’all owe me a new laptop keyboard and another glass of sweet tea. In lieu of that, simply repeat after me:

In case you haven’t heard, the city of Boston went certifiably insane yesterday over some light-up signs advertising the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Someone thought the signs were bombs.

Here’s one of the signs:

Inignot, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force: “I hope he can see this, because I’m doing it as hard as I can.”

The Massachusetts attorney general said

“It had a very sinister appearance,” Coakley told reporters. “It had a battery behind it, and wires.”

Rumors that the attorney general also added “Oh he did not do that! That dude back there just flipped me off!” turned out to be false.

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Update:

When you find yourself in a hole, it is generally advisable to stop digging.

It’s clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location,” Assistant Attorney General John Grossman said at their arraignment.

Yes, it was designed to get attention. it’s a circuit board with batteries that lights up to draw attention to itself. No, it was not designed to “cause fear and unrest” by making people think it was a bomb. It looks like a sign, not a bomb. STOP DIGGING!

Oh wait … this is Boston. Never mind. Carry on, then.

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