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Somebody is so fired at Turner Broadcasting

Posted on January 31, 2007 5:43 PM
I'm ready to give good odds that there's going to be an opening in marketing at Turner or Time Warner or whoever they are real soon.

Check out what this astounding lack of judgment led to in the Lobstah and Chowdah state...
The day-long scare began when a suspicious package was found on a steel beam under a bridge in the morning. Police stopped traffic on a major interstate highway north of Boston, cordoned off the area, deployed a bomb squad and blew it up.

By afternoon, at least eight other similar suspicious packages were discovered, each triggering a security alert involving emergency crews, federal agents, bomb squads, police and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Boston PD blew up these packages, which turned out to be magnetic lights, part of a marketing campaign for Adult Swim's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Care to bet if Turner is going to get a bill for this that will cost a lot more than some marketing droid's salary?...
It forced the U.S. Coast Guard to close the Charles River that feeds from the Atlantic Ocean into the city and caused authorities to shut down major bridges linking Boston with neighboring Cambridge along with several roads.

"This has taken a significant toll on our resources," Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told reporters.
Resources equals money, and someone in Atlanta is going to have to send a big check to Boston, I think. Somewhere in the bowels of the Turner Broadcasting empire, that unfortunate marketing person is probably strapped to a table while masked entities do stuff to him or her not normally thought of outside of a Lovecraft story. Could be a storyline for "Without A Trace" coming up.

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Christopher Calandro

Hm. I'm not so sure. 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. How come there were no incidents in the other cities? Are Bostonians a little more sensitive since 9/11? Perhaps. Given time, I think this whole thing will simmer down, and authorities in Boston will maybe look at the whole thing like...a training excercise. The other thing you're NOT considering? The cash value of the exposure. They certainly got some bang for their buck today. Pun intended.

Posted on: January 31, 2007 8:44 PM

Fred

Here's the latest on this in Boston. Two arrests, charges being considered against Turner.

http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_031145356.html

Yeah, there'll be firings. The marketing firm has been canned already.

Posted on: February 1, 2007 3:20 AM

Rachel

boston police must be really stupid....or they never watch tv.

Posted on: February 1, 2007 11:38 AM

Allen

Ok.. first this is a little crazy. second... who the hell doesn't know a mooninight when they see one.. officials need to pull their heads out of thier asses..or others asses. three what great publicity this is generating for the movie!! yey! Go aquateen!

Posted on: February 1, 2007 9:00 PM

zak

i think some people working for the city of boston will get fired, not from turner. this was probably great for them, it made national news. Also, it happened in alot of other cities, and none of them freaked(one of the reasons bieng that all they were was litebrites, a childs toy, with cartoon images on the front).

Posted on: February 2, 2007 2:56 PM

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