Boston's response to 'Aqua Teen' stunt brings scoffs, satire

0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2007 | by Wendy Koch

Boston won an apology and a $2 million settlement Monday from Turner Broadcasting and a marketing company for a campaign that caused a terrorism scare last week.

The city, however, has lost ground on the comedy front. Cartoonists, comedians and entrepreneurs are poking fun at Boston officials for dispatching bomb squads and shutting down bridges and highways Wednesday in reaction to blinking electronic devices left on bridges and subway stations.

The devices, light boards that displayed a boxy cartoon character making an obscene hand gesture, were actually a marketing promotion for a late-night cartoon, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a surreal series on Turner's Cartoon Network about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a wad of meat.

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