Why Boston PD needs a Jack Bauer

This is probably the funniest thing that I've ever seen happen on TV having to do with TV.

2007 Boston Magnetic Light Bomb Scare - Wikipedia

The long and short of it is that Cartoon Network commissioned several people in 10 cities to put up LED lights of two characters, The Mooninites, from the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

The funny part: people from Boston who saw the signs started calling the police department with concerns that they were bombs. And thus thousands of taxpayers dollars went to investigating the "bomb scare."

Here are the actual Mooninites, Ignignokt and Err:

And these are the "bombs" about them.

The two men responsible for putting up the signs in Boston have been arrested and according to Boston PD, they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Cartoon Network apologized for what is called "guerilla marketing" and told the police department the locations of all the signs. Now keep in mind, these signs were in 10 CITIES, the 9 others including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Now that's NINE CITIES that didn't have ANY reported problems.

This bomb scare, once it got out, was reported on all the major news networks, one of them being CNN. Which is kind of funny, since CNN and Cartoon Network are both owned by Turner Broadcasting and you would think that someone watching CNN who worked for Cartoon Network could let somebody know what was going on.

Clever Boston residents pissed off by the idiocracy of their police department and of their mayor (or maybe just wanting to stand out a little and raise hell) showed up at the police station and at the news conference holding signs that said "1/31/07 - Never Forget."

But I think one blogger said it best:

"It's sad that more than five years after 9/11, police still can't tell the difference between a bomb and a cartoon character."