Tragedy or farce?

Above: Erinob sums it up.

Ooh, look, you can already buy I Survived the Mooninite Attack t-shirts!

Todd Vanderlin posted about the gizmos two weeks ago.

Michael on ChaosFactor: It's equal parts amazing, damning, and jaw-droppingly stupid that the city of Boston could be brought to a stand-still by 5 modified Lite-Brites.

Mass. Marrier: It kind of makes you wonder how they'll react if there is a real threat.

TC sums up:

I'm no fan of the security theater culture that has sprung up post-9/11, but I wonder if we could really have expected law enforcement in Boston to react in any other way to the sight of a circuit board and batteries and wires hanging from one of the main supports of I-93 than to assume the worst. And I don't think it's fair to expect somebody among them to be a fan of Adult Swim and figure it out for themselves in a short amount of time.

Jonelle: Seriously? Lite-Brites?

Ace: I'm less than sympathetic to the ATHF guys, because I don't find the show funny and am tired of people insisting that it is.

Brian McFadden: That show is still on?

Despite the Master Shake air freshner in my car, I haven't found Aqua Teen Hunger Force to be funny for at least two years.

David on Blue Mass. Group: Turner Broadcasting can go f%#& itself:

What on God's green earth were these people thinking, attaching weird-looking blinky-light devices under a bunch of bridges, apparently without even bothering to alert anyone in the city as to what they were doing? ... At the very least, the CEO of Turner Broadcasting should be paraded out at a press conference where he or she issues an abject, groveling apology to the Mayor, the Governor, and the people of Boston, and generously agrees to reimburse the city double the cost of the expense it incurred in responding to these things.

N.E. Republican: I still say we throw them from the Longfellow bridge.

Deb Geisler: Somebody smack Ted Turner for me?

Whose frickin' idea was this idiot marketing campaign, anyway? I want to find out what ad firm was behind it so I tell my students not to work there...since they are clearly idiots.

Carmen Two friends and I saw one of these hanging on a building in Central Square this weekend:

None of us thought, "BOMB!" Two of us said, "Look, a Mooninite!" And the other of us (me) said, "What's a Mooninite?"

Dave Copeland watches the press conference by city and state honchos:

As Deval Patrick said things like "It's a hoax and it's not funny," I was wondering what if it hadn't entirely been a hoax? What if the first wave had been the phony "bombs," and shortly after new outlets started reporting that the Governor said we had nothing to worry about, the real bombs started going off?

Michael Femia faces his first disagreement with Deval Patrick because he thinks the whole thing is pretty funny.

Jeff Egnaczyk: Morons:

I've come to find out that the city of Boston has been freaking out like ninjas because of guerrilla advertisements for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. NECN.com has at least 5 videos up on its website alone. I've heard Islamic terrorism and the IRA mentioned.

Rod Begbie: Somebody at Time Warner's about to get fired, I imagine.