Dummy Shuts Down Kenmore Square

Global warming protesters mixed their messages today when a mannequin bearing the cryptic legend "THE REAL DUMMIES EVICT PEOPLE & CAUSE CLIMATE CHAOS" was locked to the Bank of America in Kenmore Square, prompting, as usual, a bomb scare and an evacuation. Credit for the prank was taken by Mannequins for Climate Justice, a group so obscure that it doesn't even have a website. (Not even a Facebook group.) Cops defused the alleged hoax device in a maddeningly dull fashion while shutting down traffic throughout the square for an hour and a half.

The dummy was locked to the door of the bank, preventing bank customers from leaving.

First Lite Brites now dolls? Maybe the bomb squad needs a tutorial on toys vs. bombs. [Globe]

Lyette Mercier contributed to this post.