Reply #29: Initially, yes. Mainly because the items were described in frightening tones [View All]

[MADem]

without a visual image on TV (circuit boards, tubes, wires--that was the description). And the first few were all found on BRIDGES. River Kwai, anyone??? Then, TURNER didn't call back, even after someone figured it out--and Menino wasn't about to accuse them of doing it without knowing for sure if they were in fact responsible, which delayed the resolution of the matter. Turner likely did a lawyer meeting, and when they DID tell Boston it was their shit, they didn't call directly , they did it via the FEDS.

They behaved badly--they could have stopped this shit at noon or one pm at latest, if they'd just admitted the things were theirs--but hey, what is that they say about publicity??? Any publicity is good publicity???

They got all-day, national coverage on every cable station and the nightly news. And even more coverage today, as the guys who put the things up are coming on TV in their "get out of jail" presser and acting like immature assholes, frankly. You can't pay for that--and they reached their target audience--juveniles who think it's "cool" to fuck with "the man." These same juveniles don't realize they've been totally punked by a multinational corporation, not a loosely-knit, free-spirited, counterculture outfit.