Cartoon Lights In Boston Scare Wingnuts

An Islamic Terrorist SignalI love stories like this.

OK: There is a cartoon called "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." There are characters on this cartoon called Mooninites who like to flip the finger. Somebody put a bunch of LED-lit images of Mooninites up around Boston on the side of highways, in tunnels, on top of roofs. People freaked out and called bomb squads.

In typical Fox news "split-second-opinion" fashion, the right wing blogs all went into insta-hysterics, thinking that this was all a dry run for terrorists, testing response times, mocking the police, et cetera.

Actual Free Republic comments:

To: Howlin
Welcome to John Kerry's America

To: Bushbacker1
It's going to be hard to dismiss this many.

To: Howlin
I hate to sound like a conspiracy nutjob but it happened on the same day London police thwarted a planned attack.
Coincidence? I dunno....

To: theanonymouslurker
Exactly. in this case "hoax" = "practice".

To: DocRock
According to FOX one of the packages contained a photo of a guy flipping off the authorities.

To: Kimberly
What I heard on CNN is the circuit board LIT UP with a SMILEY FACE and the a MIDDLE FINGER as flipping one off.

To: cripplecreek
Do Islamists use the bird sign? Don't think I've ever seen one flip somebody off.

The paranoia is so thick in Far Right Land, you can stuff it in a pillow case and give Freepers a playful smooshy swat in the head with it.

Ahh... and here is a good, typical liberal response to the story, for comparison's sake:

How would you feel if you lived in Boston (as I did for a year), and the entire city was thrown into a panic because of some "devices" left around by some guys promoting a cartoon?

I'd feel like my security was being safeguarded by morons. These were Lite Brites - children's toys that light up. The Mayor and the rest of the city government threw the city into a panic, when they could've solved the "crisis" by talking to a ten-year-old.

Good God. Wait until somebody leaves a Speak and Spell lying around. They'll probably send in a hostage team to negotiate with it.

See? Now who do you feel more comfortable to have in charge of assessing and reacting to the "odd" things that pop up in life from day to day? Right wing hysterics, or left wing skeptics?