The placement of them on the underside of a bridge, out of reach, not facing upright (which makes the character hard to see), in a dark place, with the lights not on, painted black, with black tape, visible wires and battery pack exposed?
Would your mind truly have thought "Guerilla ad for Comedy Central show"? This was the first one found. And its location did not let them get close enough to really look at it before they "disrupted" it with the water charge. They were still examining this one when the reports of 3 more came in over the 911 system. 4 unidentified devices found in high traffic areas near public transportation, within a half hour. Again, my first though would not have been "that's a clever ad campaign". So, they rerouted traffic, had the police fan out throughout the city in a planned reponse to possible terror attacks to maintain public order and lower panic. Once they got to the other 3, though, they could get much closer to inspect them. And realized that they might not be bombs. They did not blow those up, but did take their time inspecting them. Then they got their hands on one, took it apart on-scene, and realized it was not an explosive at all. The news channels ran with the whole thing, being tipped off by the traffic troubles, and jumped on the story. Too much coverage, too much speculation (but not the Police's fault). The political types then scheduled a press conference for an hour hence. And informed CNN as well as all others. Turner knew the whole time that a panic was happening, but did not inform authorities. 2 minutes after the press conference started, and without informing the parties IN the press conference, Turner released a press release through CNN, saying it was their ads. Finally, they contacted the police, through their lawyers, to let them know. I think the police handled it right. I think the public did right by reporting it. I think the press went too far. I think the politicians tried to use it to their advantage. But it all comes back to Turner, who repeatedly did the wrong thing. On 2/1/07, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I might be wrong here...haven't been following the story that > closely...but wasn't it more the locations of the items (than the > appearance) that contributed to the concern? > > weren't they placed at strategic locations like the bases of bridges? > like, the places you'd put a bomb if you wanted to...i dunno...blow up > a bridge? > > i'll say this...it makes dumping turkeys out of a helicopter sound > like a genius publicity stunt (as god is my witness...i thought > turkeys could fly) :) > > On 2/1/07, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you kidding, did you look at the photos of these suspicious > packages? > > They look like light brites for christs sake. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226497 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
