February 1, 2007

"I'm doing this as hard as I can"

I don't know why this isn't getting more media coverage -- certainly my station hasn't mentioned it.

Advertisements for the Cartoon Network, involving Mooninites flipping you off, were placed in several major cities. Only in Boston were they assumed to be bombs.

The arrested guys held a press conference in which they refused to answer questions that weren't about hairstyles of the 1960s. (No, really.)

Most insightful quote: 'Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards "bomb-like" devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged transportation infrastructure in the city.'

These "bomb-like" devices were essentially Lite-Brites with cartoon characters on them. So I guess they were bomb-like in that they, too, were solid matter.

Andrew - 4:51 PM
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From the article:

' Asked by the judge to describe what the figure on the light box was doing, Grossman said, "Colloquially, he was flipping the bird, your honor." '

I could have sworn I've seen nearly this exact sequence in some movie. Wait, I think I'm thinking of Top Gun.

James F - Feb 1, 2007 - 5:51 PM

Apparently those guys are friends of Kurt's. Why are we not surprised?

Andrew F. - Feb 1, 2007 - 7:39 PM

I'm sorry, that's not a hair question.

kurt - Feb 2, 2007 - 6:42 AM

You disabled images?

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RM - Feb 2, 2007 - 1:48 PM

hahahaha. The Boston Herald is reporting that the press conference was a promotional stunt for Perfect Hair Forever.

And I always wondered how the Wheel won reporting awards. . .

kurt - Feb 3, 2007 - 8:24 AM

My comment dies in the catcher, but "brother fucking sister porn stories" gets through? Bad Spam program!

RM - Feb 3, 2007 - 10:46 PM

Well, if you didn't start all your coments with "L@@K AND FEEL LARGER!" maybe that wouldn't happen.

Kurt - Feb 4, 2007 - 6:44 PM

Sorry guys, the new Movable Type has spam detection, but it ain't perfect. It's like the old saying, "You go to war with the army you have."

James F - Feb 5, 2007 - 12:38 AM

This didn't get coverage in Eugene? I can't believe that... it was huge here, as well as in NY and Boston and Chicago. I can't believe Eugenites don't consider themselves a terror target that must be constantly on guard.

Big Pinz - Feb 5, 2007 - 8:41 AM

I'm fairly certain it didn't get covered in my station's local broadcasts until one or two days into it. They aired a national package about it in one of the shows I don't direct...it was just about the guys who got arrested. We didn't even re-use it for the 11 o'clock.

Andrew F - Feb 5, 2007 - 10:54 AM

Can't you fix that? Haven't you been promoted to grand mof of the station or something? (sorry, sometimes I skim your posts)

kurt - Feb 5, 2007 - 6:47 PM