The Boston Bomb Scare As Covered By YouTube

February 03, 2007 01:31 +0000 | Nifty Links Society & Culture 5

Shamelessly stolen from Colin's blog, I had to share with you a YouTube reaction to the recent "Bomb Scare" in Boston.

Comments

Annie
11 Feb 2007, 1:44 a.m. |

I couldn't even watch that whole clip. I think it's DISGUSTING how people have been making fun of Boston for their reaction to the Bomb scare. As someone currently living in Boston, I'm damn glad they reacted the way they did. The bottom line is, city officials had no idea what these things were and acted in the safest way possible. Honestly, I can't even finish getting my thoughts out on this whole thing because those jokers reactions have gotten me so mad!

Daniel
11 Feb 2007, 2:19 a.m. |

This is probably going to piss you off but... COME ON. Are you really going to blame the chaos in the city on anyone other than the people who generated it? These blinking light boards looked nothing like a bomb. One person makes a call to a civil servant with an IQ in the double digits and all of a sudden there are bombs on the streets of Boston?

The media ate it up: unidentified packages have appeared all over the city. We don't know what they are, but you should be scared anyway. The police, the fire department and every politician in a 400km radius is blaming this on the two pranksters when they should be looking in the mirror.

Can you say overreaction? I'm going to have to go with my good friend Colin on this one:

Congrat’s America, yes Sept 11/2001 was terrible but look at what it has reduced your country to. The damage you have done to yourselves is many times worse than what the terrorists could have dreamed of.

Annie
13 Feb 2007, 4:21 a.m. |

Yes. Actually, from far away (without the hindsight of knowing that they were in fact not bombs), they did look like bombs. Basically they were circuit board with big cylinders taped to them but I guess the MEDIA didn't show you that view...

Des
14 Feb 2007, 11:11 p.m. |

I have to agree with Annie...in the daytime (ie, no blinking lights), viewed from a distance, with no prior knowledge of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (which you honestly can't expect an adult policeman to have), and given the locations of the devices (on the support columns of bridges over the Charles River and major highways), it is COMPLETELY reasonable for the city to react the way it did.

Which is the better outcome...police saying that they mistook a prank for a bomb, or that they mistook a bomb for a prank?

Kelly
3 Apr 2007, 10:57 p.m. |

>Which is the better outcome...police saying that they mistook a prank for a bomb, or that they mistook a bomb for a prank?<

I don't know why it has to be so black and white. I admire the assembly and reaction of the Boston city, but honestly I wonder why the amount of time it took to lock the city down wasn't also directed at figuring out what the pictures of these dangerous electronic devices were referring to.