Anonyous

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:28:50 -0500

But the state is still prosecuting the guys who got hired to put these "really scary" signs up around town? They've been happy to forgive the company that built all the signs. They never arrested (or identified) the person at Interference who ordered that they should be installed on bridges, or who decided not to put any contact info on them. They knew at 10 in the morning that these signs were harmless, but they never explained why they hid that fact for most of the day from the public and from their own cops and encouraged a panic instead. There was an unrelated fake pipe bomb that day AT A HOSPITAL, and they decided not to arrest or prosecute the guy who placed the fake bomb. They've ignored the massive failures of communication that created such chaos that day, guaranteeing that it will happen again. And now the mayor is making jokes about it all while still claiming that Berdovsky and Stevens should be locked up? They made $300 from those signs, while Menino made $2,000,000. Who's the criminal? Berdovsky and Stevens now have a permanent felony arrest record that will screw up the rest of their lives, a night in jail, multiple court dates, travel restrictions, and tens of thousands of dollars of legal expenses. Menino has a souvenir he can joke about, and he still has the nerve to keep pressing bogus charges against those two scapegoats. In a real justice system, the Boston officials who decided to create the huge panic that day would be the ones facing prosecution.

jon

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:18:42 -0500

damn spell check and my laziness. not a good combination late at night.

Chris

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:13:40 -0500

Uh, that's *guerilla* advertising, not gorilla.

Bostonist: The Future of Guerilla Advertising: Watch Out

Anonyous

jon

Chris