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We all remember the mooninites and Star Simpson. Now Boston can add another dummy debacle to its resume. Mannequins are the latest threat to our safety; specifically, mannequins who like the environment, and are chained (bike-locked, it appears—damn hippies) to banks in protest. As global warming might melt their plastic bodies, it is understandable that mannequins want climate justice. Still, we are skeptical that anyone, mannequin or otherwise, would be able to focus on the economy or the climate a week before Opening Day, and suspect that this mannequin a foreign import. At least it only caused a brief bank closure and was cleaned up in an hour and a half, unlike its animated cousins—who, thanks to Jezebel, now know how to dress for their shape (hint: invest in a good bag to carry your often-unwieldy quad laser). more ›

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. more ›