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Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that caused a widespread bomb scare, the attorney general said Monday.

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STONERS
Feb. 5, 2007, 12:07 p.m.
More than three dozen blinking electronic signs with a boxy cartoon character giving an obscene hand gesture were found Wednesday in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. The signs, part of a publicity campaign for Cartoon Network's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," also appeared in nine other big U.S. cities in recent weeks, with little interest.
But in Boston, bomb squads responded to reports of the devices in a subway station, on bridges and elsewhere.
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blainegarrett
Feb. 5, 2007, 12:12 p.m.
Snap. I only sorta heard about this. That is odd the other cities responded "with little interest" and Boston reacted this way.
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johnthomas07
Feb. 5, 2007, 12:56 p.m.
Turner got an advertising bonanza and Boston turned a profit out of it. Conclusion, being stupid in America is very profitable.
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specialdoc2002
Feb. 5, 2007, 3:14 p.m.
This situation has just got to have produced one of the most glaring examples of "political correctness" or "the emperor's new clothes" that I have ever seen.
The simple fact is that this episode makes the "authorities" in Boston look like complete IDIOTS.
And yet, no one has had the guts to point this out.
The "responders" have been watching too many action movies. Since when do obvious "batteries" "wires" and "lights" equate to terrorism in the REAL world?
Now, just stop and think for one minute. If these had been BOMBS, would the perpetrators have made them look so distinctive, so attention-getting? Geez.