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Feb 1, 2007
An Open Letter to the City of Boston
Dear Boston,
This is a cultish cartoon character. This is a popular children's toy from the 1970s. Editor's Note: I have never seen the aforementioned cartoon, nor have I ever owned a Lite Brite, despite repeated requests of my mom and numerous letters to Santa (sigh).
And this is the combination of the two. Not a bomb as you so hysterically thought. Lights, batteries, wires? Yes. Bomb? No. Let's remember. Just because you saw a monkey and it rained doesn't mean that every time you see a monkey it will rain. That is what we higher functioning primates call a logical fallacy. Comprende?
But now there are arrests, accusations and the threat of litigation against a major U.S. media conglomerate. Can't really critique that too much, though. Down with corporate media! But I digress ...
How could this be? Have we all forgotten how to have a good time? Or are we so caught up in paranoia and fear that we have lost the ability to distinguish threats from marketing? I guess so.
And why, dear Boston, did other major cities like Seattle, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Chicago have these same lighted toys - for they can be nothing else - on their streets and sidewalks for weeks without a single problem, let alone the full-on police response generated in Beantown?
$750,000 in labor costs just to determine that the lighted signs posed no threat, aside from the prominent middle finger? Are you looking for restitution from Sean and Peter because you want to punish them for their alleged misdeeds or because you are incredibly frickin' embarrassed at your inability to distinguish fact from fiction? Can you really continue your charade of characterizing this stunt as a bomb hoax with a straight face? And if so, for how long?
How about we just drop further criminal charges against our erstwhile guerilla marketers, admit that your knee-jerk response was unwarranted, and we all go home a little bit older and whole lot wiser?
"Not a chance," you say. "We can't permit this kind of foolishness in a post 9/11 world (whatever the hell that means)," you stress.
Really?
Well ... I thought so.
Sincerely,
Ignignokt and Err
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