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title: Terrorized by Gullibility
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- culture
content-tags:
- media
- funny
- law
- news
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![terrorist_moonite.jpg](/media/2007-02-02-terrorized-by-gullibility/terrorist_moonite.jpg)

> Public safety officials are all working together. There is no time for anyone to panic. We believe we have the situation in hand. Go about your business.

Two nights ago [Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens were arrested in Boston][2] for placing glowing electric signs of a cartoon character flipping the bird.  Seriously.  It was part of a guerilla marketing campaign across several cities, and they'd been in place for a while in Boston before a concerned citizen "took part in Homeland Security" and brought the area to a halt while the police blew up what amounts to a battery powered Lite Brite.

Yesterday they pled not guilty to disorderly conduct and placing, transferring or possessing a hoax device that "results in panic."  They then held a press conference on hairstyles of the 1970s.

[Phillip Baron says it best][3]: The press accuses of them of not taking it seriously but, in a sense, they're taking it just as seriously as they ought to.

   [2]: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/10892563/detail.html
   [3]: http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/47507/
