Has anyone seen these in Chicago yet? I've seen the massive ad in wicker park while on the blue line, but I have seen no blinkies yet.

glynnisjohns wrote:Did anyone notice that the other cities that were TERRORIZED by this marketing campaign have seemed to well...you know... not give two shits.

Exactly... I for one am tired of this doofus attitude - if you see something, and don't immediately recognize what it is... THEN IT MUST BE A BOMB! (wtf.)

Is this still just demonstrating how humans are still ignorant and afraid of electrical devices? I mean if this was a paper poster, who would have cared, right? But OOH - it has lights and 4 'D' cell batteries - IT MUST BE A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!

The CNN article calls them 'hoax packages'... I would argue that they do not deceive, or create a hoax - they're fucking battery-powered lights and as far as I can determine they don't pretend to be anything else.

I think that Boston has nobody to blame but their over-reacting police department if they took it so far as to shut down bridge and subway and shit.

Jeez, Louise.

BadComrade wrote:Man, I want one of those things so bad.

I wonder if any of the ones they hung up in Chicago are anywhere.

If they're under bridges, and magnetic, I bet there might be some on Lower Wacker Drive, or under the bridges near Navy Pier.

Time to take a drive!

You find any?

Also referred to as "suspicious packages" - suspicious according to who?

Who gets to determine suspicious-ness (say for example if this were to go to court)?

"Hey guerrilla advertising dudes - you were irresponsible for setting out these suspicious packages. You're in trouble."

"Hey judge, and members of the jury - what makes them 'suspicious' anyways?"

"Um... you know... they have electric gizmos and what-not... so 'a reasonable person' should naturally & automatically suspect wrong-doing, and potential death & destruction..."

I would have way more respect for cnn.com and other news media if they took the angle that the Boston police flipped out and over-reacted, and bonus points if they had used a bit of a mocking tone to their piece.

Arson Smith wrote:I would have way more respect for cnn.com and other news media if they took the angle that the Boston police flipped out and over-reacted, and bonus points if they had used a bit of a mocking tone to their piece.

Hear hear!

"Five suspicious packages planted throughout Boston Wednesday forced the shutdown of major roads, a bridge and a stretch of the Charles River."

subject: packages

verb: forced

That is simply amazing, when you think about it.

I bet it's nonstop high-fives for all the "creatives" at the xxxtreme marketing firm right now. Awesome!

Angus Jung wrote:I bet it's nonstop high-fives for all the "creatives" at the xxxtreme marketing firm right now. Awesome!

[adult swim] was airing these really apologetic bumpers last night, which was really out of character for them. I wish there was a bit more "you folks are stupid," in it, but sadly there was none.

Arson Smith wrote:"Um... you know... they have electric gizmos and what-not... so 'a reasonable person' should naturally & automatically suspect wrong-doing, and potential death & destruction..."

OK - I know it's probably lame to just quote myself and keep rambling... but the above was written before I decided to check cnn.com today:

"It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

I thought that I was making an exaggerated hypothetical statement, but as it turns out, it really wasn't too far off the mark. Wow.

kerble wrote:[adult swim] was airing these really apologetic bumpers last night, which was really out of character for them. I wish there was a bit more "you folks are stupid," in it, but sadly there was none.

I'm guessing they are stoked to have a reason to use the apologies, which were probably written and taped at the same time as the rest of it.