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I’ll just put in my two cents about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing ploy gone horribly wrong in Boston.

It was a bad decision. Very bad.

Last I read, they’ve arrested the person who put the devices out and criminal charges for Turner Broadcasting may be pending.

Fine of Turner to issue an apology quickly, but this is a bigger issue in regard to how the world is today and the threats to national security and whatnot. You just can’t do this stuff and not expect everything to be fine and dandy. The shit is going to hit the fan.

Sure, if you know what ATHF is (bizarre, yet hilarious cartoon shorts of the antics of a giant milkshake, a big wad of meat and a generic representation of a flying box of McDonald’s french fries), you may laugh at the very least for what the devices were supposed to represent, but I can’t justify how putting suspicious looking devices near public places would have played in to some “brilliant” marketing scheme. It would have made more sense to plaster areas with giant cut-outs or something equally as bizarre to reflect the show’s tendency to be off-the-wall with its content. If you don’t know of the show in the first place, I’m sure a giant shake on the side of the road is going to grab your attention, either way. Someone obviously didn’t do his/her homework.

If you were the flack for Turner, how would you handle this?

Hi.

How are all of you?

I am well.

I move in two days.

Trying to pack up life once again.

What a daunting task.

Very behind.

Will write more.

Cheers.