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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly discussed the scourge that are LED devices with Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters on them yesterday. Kelly said, "In hindsight, [Interference Marketing] should have thought a little more about this, certainly in a post-9/11 world. They had wires hanging out of some of them. It's reasonable to look a little askance at these things." Also: "We get about 6,000 suspicious-package calls a year in New York, but we got no calls for this." Hmm, we wonder if adult swim has demographic info on ATHF viewers - are there more in NYC than Boston?
Interference, the NYC marketing firm whose plans to infiltrate the consciousness of urban cities all over the country were seriously fouled up when Boston freaked out, has finally issued an apology on its website. Sure, it's sorry for the Boston incident, but it's not sorry for its other stuff (like hiring "leaners" - people to go to bars and chat up their cellphone client's product). The NY Times, in an article about guerilla marketing tactics, found this quote from Interference CEO Sam Ewen about ever being arrested, "Luckily I have avoided arrest, mainly by dropping fictitious names of police officers from other precincts in town."
At any rate, while New York did not (over) react to the Ingninokt LEDs, we should be ashamed that we don't know why the city smells like mercaptan or maple syrup! We need answers.
Photograph of a mooninite LED device being removed from an Atlanta building leased by the Atlanta Police Department (really!) by John Bazemore/AP
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That's Err.
I don't think Interference "seriously fowled up". Rather, they struck gold, and got more publicity than money can buy.
The innocent shall suffer - big time
"We get about 6,000 suspicious-package calls a year in New York, but we got no calls for this."
Hmm. Maybe because only a RETARD would think these devices were 'dangerous' in any way. There was something shiney and suspicious in my morning poop today, tho. Who do I report it to?.
I think there's evidence of some real genius at work here.
I'm sure there's some terrorist in a cave in afghanistan cooking up new and interesting ways to make his bombs attract as much attention to themselves as possible.
How cerebrally deficient is it that people thought these things are bombs??!! It really frightens me to think that our safety is in the hands of people within the grips of such morbid stupidity.
We should all be THANKING interference for making the public aware of just how monumentally idiotic the forces at work in our police force are.
How could anyone could possibly mistake one of these things for a bomb is well beyond my scope of comprehension.
I have always said, Boston is a want to be city. They want to justify their self importance by declairing themselves a terrorist state
exactly, how can we compete with countries where they can churn out physicists and engineers like an assembly line.
We are doomed. Just watch MTV and you'll know why.
So we can avoid being arrested by dropping made-up names of police officers? Police corruption continues, even for the friends of imaginary officers. What are we going to do about it? Nothing. We get the society we deserve.
Unless...?