{"id":4751,"date":"2007-02-01T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2007-02-01T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:12:47","slug":"boston-police-should-watch-more-adult-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/boston-police-should-watch-more-adult-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Police should Watch more Adult Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would save them from that keystone cop<\/a> image.<\/p>\n

How the hooha started:<\/p>\n

Nine blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city on Jan. 31 in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a late-night Cartoon Network series, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n

Peter Berdovsky, 27, of Arlington, and Sean Stevens, 28, of Charlestown, were each arrested on one felony charge of placing a hoax device and one charge of disorderly conduct, state attorney general Martha Coakley told the AP.<\/p>\n

In a news release announcing Stevens’ arrest, she said the men worked together to place the devices. At an earlier news conference she said Berdovsky had been hired to place the devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Turner Broadcasting, parent company of Cartoon Network, said the packages in question were magnetic lights that pose no danger and added that the devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities<\/a>: Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The offense in question:<\/p>\n

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I need to re-investigate<\/a> the throwie movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via scifi wire for link<\/a>, 7d for heads-up, pentacleus for the vid, and quad-laser YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would save them from that keystone cop image. How the hooha started: Nine blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city on Jan. 31 in what turned out to be a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a late-night Cartoon Network series, the Associated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}