I have to place this in the "get a grip on reality" file. People in the Boston area allegedly believed lighted signs depicting a Mooninite, from the television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force," were bomb threats from terrorists.

Yes, because terrorists always alert their targets with lighted signs before blowing something up... Really people, screw your heads on straight already.

One of the stupidest quotes I have ever read in a newspaper article was this one "It had a very sinister appearance," Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires." Sinister meaning the Mooninite was flipping you the bird. That's right, I said flipping the bird, because it's cool like smoking and stealing stuff (you have to know the Mooninites to appreciate that).

Really? Now a battery and wires is grounds for the anti-terror squad? Well everyone, hide your iPods because they might be considered miniature explosives.

"How exactly this was executed, we are still investigating." Coakley went on to say.

I have a theory:

THREE WEEKS AGO (yes, that is how long they were in place) the artists hired by a marketing agency placed the signs in 10 cities. They probably used a vehicle like a car to carry the signs and they probably did it in broad daylight, because doing it at night would have seemed suspcious. Amazingly stealthy and terrorist-like no?

Oh but I have an even better quote from Rep. Ed Markey, a Boston-area congressman, said, "Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," Markey, a Democrat, said in a written statement. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

So the first responders in Boston are apparently so busy hunting down terrorists they shouldn't even have time off to piss. Sure 12 hours of hunting down harmless signs is a waste of tax payer money, but how many terrorists have they apprehended in Boston in the last month or three? I find it hard to believe that an entire region was 'scared' and it probably boiled down to several skittish individuals who haven't a clue what a bomb looks like.

I know if I were a terrorist, I certain would be disassembling all those Smurf shaped neon bombs that I had been manufacturing of late, there is no way you will get them into position now.

The discovery of the light boards led state, local and federal authorities to close the Boston University and Longfellow Bridges and block boat traffic from the Charles River to Boston Harbor. In addition, the Pentagon said U.S. Northern Command was monitoring the situation from its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but said none of its units were dispatched to assist.

Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of Adult Swim, said the devices had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston; New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Source: CNN.com