Did Boston Overreact???

Sparkey · Feb 3, 2007

There is a message board similar to this one on www.boston.com that talks about The 'Mooninite' scare. The topic is already 127 pages long!! Most of the posters are hammering the city for over reacting after the signs had been up for three weeks!

http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=bc-news&tid=11780

Drewbert · Feb 4, 2007

The media need to stop refering to it as a "hoax".

A "hoax" is when someone paints some toilet roll tubes red, sticks wires into them and tapes a cellphone to the side of it.

This was just some idiots overreacting, with the mania fed by full-time coverage by Fox NotNews Channel.

Sparkey · Feb 4, 2007

Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun Times wrote a great editorial about this event today.

So the Boston authorities panic and go crazy reacting to some dumb blinking signs scattered around the city, promoting a new cartoon. Blinking signs that didn't cause a ripple of concern in Chicago or eight other cities.

And it's supposed to be the fault of the network placing the sign?

I don't think so. If I walk through security in an airport, and a guard decides that my Moleskine notebook looks like a bomb because it is small and black and has an elastic band trailing off it, and they arrest me, evacuate O'Hare, divert all incoming flights for two hours, and shut down the whole U.S. transportation system, is that my fault?

Overreaction by the government is routine, but should not be accepted. Yes, these are scary times. But that doesn't mean we've outlawed whimsy. Terror bombs have not, to date, displayed flashing cartoon characters, and it was not irresponsible to set such signs out in public. We're still a free country, sort of, and might just continue to be, if we stand our ground.
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Source: http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/241649,CST-NWS-stein04.article

Drewbert · Feb 4, 2007

Amen to that.

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