When Mooninites Attack

[uridium]

I may be the only person who thinks this, but I'll throw it out there: In a way I’m actually proud that Boston was the first city to respond to the danger of the invading Mooninites.

Yeah, I know that in retrospect these were obviously not bombs. But at first pass they were textbook suspicious packages: they had exposed wires and duct taped

Comments

[ursamajor]

Oh, I'm vacillating between "Wait, these devices have been around for two weeks and we're just now responding?" and feeling sorry for the artist who got arrested - it sounds like he was just doing a job and was operating under the good-faith assumption that a well-known company like Turner wouldn't hire him to do anything stupid or illegal - and laughing my ass off at certain results of the furor. Because that face Menino is making? So needs to be iconified. This picture is destined for Internet parodies for the rest of time.

For me, in terms of comedy dollars ...

[cavedwellers]

... the police commissioner's face is fucking priceless.

[marcmagus]

Do you have a link to anything describing what the "devices" actually *were*? The only link I've seen so far is to FOX News, and their coverage sucks. (I suppose I could look it up, but I'm tired and lazy.)

[melissaagray]

Run away, run away, it's the attack of the Light Brights!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358745469/in/photostream/

No really they DID look this campy and they WERE up for almost 2 weeks before the Boston police came to the rescue! Either way they get a D for effort since not only did they over react, they over reacted 2 weeks late when we all would have long since been dead had this been the real thing!!

[epenthesis]

I love how you worked a Children of Men reference into a story about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The force is strong in you.

[idat]

We had no Lite Brite explosives on 5th Avenue, and now I suffer from Apocalypse Envy. Which would make a neat lipstick color, I think.