Mooninites Invade Boston

Aqua Teen Hunger Force:  #1 in the hood, g.

Turner Broadcasting plans to take responsibility for the "hoax devices" that were found at several locations in and around Boston Wednesday that forced police bomb units to scramble throughout the area.

The incidents were part of a marketing campaign that involved a character from the cartoon show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
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The company said that they have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
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The cartoon airs as part of the Adult Swim late-night block of programs on the Cartoon Network. It features characters called "mooninites," who were pictured on the found devices. A feature length film based on the cartoon is scheduled to be released late next month.
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The first device was found under Interstate 93, and the state police bomb squad was called and detonated the package in Sullivan Square just before 10 a.m. Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device," but they said it had no explosives.

What a bizarre and forseeably disconcerting marketing campaign.  Not just because of the homeland security implications, but because the Mooninites have long been unambiguously hostile toward Earth.

On the other hand, what terrific news that a feature length ATHF film is in the offing.

Of course there's nothing amusing about needlessly alarming and disrupting an entire city.  But it is mildly amusing that the picture on the local ABC affiliate's website (featured above) was blurred to sanitize Ignignokt's obscene gesture.  All 3 pixels of it.