A friend of mine called from Boston this morning. Says there’s a giant Mooninite billboard not far from where the first device was found. And nobody put it together. Yeesh.
And what’s the deal with the media still calling this a "bomb hoax?" It was nothing of the kind. Ever. According to Google News, over 1300 news stories come up currently apply that phrase to this event. But the guys clearly had no intention of anyone thinking these were bombs, and they certainly never made any such claim. So how do the words "bomb hoax" remotely apply to their actions? Those things were up for weeks before the cops in Boston freaked out. The only "bomb hoax" here is on the part of panicky public officials who scared the bejeebus out of thousands of people with their own pronouncements, which they’re still repeating, as if they’ll magically come true:
These things had been up for three weeks in cities all over the country, and nobody freaked out. Except the officials in Boston. And yet the AG claims there was "clear intent" to scare people? Bullshit. That’s who’s pretending there’s any bomb story here. There’s your bomb hoax right there. Compare and contrast to the rest of the country:
Police in Philadelphia said they believed their city had 56 devices.
The New York Police Department removed 41 of the devices — 38 in Manhattan and three in Brooklyn, according to spokesman Paul Browne. The NYPD had not received any complaints.
But the bigshots of Boston now have to pretend it’s someone else’s fault — the alternative would be a public admission of their own panicky incompetence, and we sure as hell know that’s not coming. So instead, they’re now gonna waste even more of the public’s time and resources by angrily trying to cover their own asses.
How about trying a mirror?
