Reephdweller
01-31-2007, 08:06 PM
<p>Hats off to Turner Broadcasting for creating a free publicity stunt with a fake terrorist angle to it.</p><p> </p><p>And all for Aqua Teen Hunger Force no less!!</p><p> </p><p>Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert.</p><p>The day-long scare began when a suspicious package was found on a steel beam under a bridge in the morning. Police stopped traffic on a major interstate highway north of Boston, cordoned off the area, deployed a bomb squad and blew it up.</p><p>By afternoon, at least eight other similar suspicious packages were discovered, each triggering a security alert involving emergency crews, federal agents, bomb squads, police and the U.S. Coast Guard.</p><p>It said the devices were part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 American cities for an animated television show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" produced by its Adult Swim brand.</p><p>They had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.</p><p><img src="http://www.16bit.com/miscpics/adultswim/stickers/ignignokt-full.jpg" border="0" width="181" height="180" /></p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-01T001822Z_01_N31216023_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-BOSTON.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" target="_blank">http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-01T001822Z_01_N31216023_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-BOSTON.xml&src=rss&rpc=22</a></p><p> </p>