Boston overreacts
Posted on February 1st, 2007 in Uncategorized by Dan || No Comment
A guerilla ad campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force scattered electronically lit pictures of the mooninites around Boston. Boston finally noticed them yesterday. And totally freaked out.
This is so goddamn stupid. Of the ten cities in which these things were installed, only Boston decided to birth a cow over it.
They’ve arrested the guy who was hired to install these, whose name is Peter Berdovsky. This is so fucking stupid.
Here’s info on Berdovsky.
Here’s his web page, zebbler.com. Click on Past Events to see the installation.
And here’s the goddamn bomb sqad removing them:
If anything happens to this Berdovsky guy, I’m going to be so disappointed with this city. I can understand the need to keep this level of response over a harmless ad campaign from happening again, but that can easily be done with some legislation. How about this: pass a law requiring registration of electronic art that is to be installed on bridges or in subway tunnels. Done. Lesson learned. I cannot see making an example out of this guy as anything but misplaced anger. This is a simple misunderstanding that got blown way out of proportion. Maybe if the authorities had just released a picture of the device in question earlier, I’m sure someone could have easily pointed them to the appropriate web page and the whole thing could have been resolved much easier.
Arrg.