"What we have here is a failure to communicate!"

Or, just a Generation Gap:

Young, hip Bostonians who are familiar with the unconventional marketing tactics used by many companies tended to see the city's reaction as unmitigated hysteria.

Tracy O'Connor, 34, a retail manager, called Boston's response "silly and insane," contrasting it with the response in the other cities where no one reported any concerns about the devices -- an advertising gimmick for the TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"We're the laughing stock," she said.

But public safety officials, as well as a large segment of Boston's older generation, condemned the publicity campaign as unthinkable in today's post-9/11 world.

"Just a little over a mile away from the placement of the first device, a group of terrorists boarded airplanes and launched an attack on New York City," police Commissioner Edward Davis said in an interview with The Associated Press.

"The city clearly did not overreact. Had we taken any other steps, we would have been endangering the public," he said.

Oh, come on, you know what this is about.

And I love the justifications here. "Just a little over a mile away from the placement of the first device, a group of terrorists boarded airplanes and launched an attack on New York City." Um, yeah, and you didn't see New York City flip out about these things, did you? (Note to Boston: NYC had at least 41 of these things. Your link to 9/11 to justify hysteria only serves to make you look more stupid.)

But the last bit there, is the best: " 'The city clearly did not overreact. Had we taken any other steps, we would have been endangering the public,' he said." Three weeks late; and you reacted to lite-brite signs wired with D-cell batteries.

Nope, no overreaction there. Or here.




" — a more obvious sight when darkness fell."*

And I take it back: we're laughing at you, now.


*I have decided this should be not only the logo, but the motto, for this "crisis."