Friday, February 23, 2007

Mooninite mockery

I've seen these tasteless jokes around Boston, but a friend sends a photo from Washington, DC, where this image was pasted to a building:

If only the cops in New York, or at least Philadelphia, would blow up something obviously harmless, so Bostonians could start feeling better! In other Mooninite-related news, objects that were, at first, worrisome -- but upon closer inspection were (one might imagine) obviously not bombs -- continue to be detonated by police, in Santa Fe and a town in Ireland, reports Boing Boing. Santa Fe... nope, doesn't make me feel any better.

John Brownlee, of the Wired magazine blog Table of Malcontents, opined this morning about why this sort of thing keeps happening:

One of the problems with escalating law enforcement (and, particularly, escalating SWAT style law enforcement) is that these groups are created in small towns that don't need them out of a sense of paranoia and then find themselves constantly having to justify their funding. That's the reason you have SWAT teams kicking in the doors of high schools and aiming their rifles at kids heads for petty drug busts. That's why you have bomb squads exploding a purse found on a subway platform. And that's what caused the entire city of Boston to panic in the face of a coordinated Mooninite attack of Lite-Brites.

Boston, a small town? Ouch.

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Posted by Joshua Glenn at 02:06 PM

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