UPDATE: Not a bomb, but a dummy used to lock customers inside the bank branch by people protesting the bank's energy policies or something.
Looks like somebody heard about the fake bomb in Wellesley, so decided to try it out at the Bank of America branch in Kenmore Square this morning. Traffic and the T are, of course, affected.
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Protest
By J258
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:17am
Apparently it was a 'protest dummy'. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19053348/deta...
Oh, that's nice
By adamg
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:21am
So it's not enough to protest the bank, they have to lock customers inside?
Go Big or Go Home
By J258
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:27am
If you're going to cause a scene and try to make the news, you've really got to do something worth talking about. Insanity.
was it this guy?
By Harris
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:43am
Marty, a local climate protester and former intern for RAN, is big on hating the BoA.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/12/10/rising-t...
BoA may be the big old capitalist boogeyman, but last year they decided to factor in a future price of over $20 a ton for carbon dioxide in all cost/benefit analyses for deciding whether to invest in coal plants. That's kind of a big deal. Real reductions in CO2 emissions come out of decisions like that.
More on BoA's growing distaste for coal financing here.
p.s.
By Harris
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:55am
Also, bonus irony points to the climate protesters for shutting down public transportation.
Isn't this considered 'kidnapping'
By Ron Newman
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 12:35pm
if you lock people in a building and don't let them out?