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[Dave Monroe]

And After This, They’re Going to Throw The Book at
Harvey Birdman
By: RJ Eskow on Thursday, February 1st, 2007 at 2:28
PM - PST 

How would you feel if you lived in Boston (as I did
for a year), and the entire city was thrown into a
panic because of some "devices" left around by some
guys promoting a cartoon?
 
I'd feel like my security was being safeguarded by
morons.  These were Lite Brites - children's toys that
light up.  The Mayor and the rest of the city
government threw the city into a panic, when they
could've solved the "crisis" by talking to a
ten-year-old. 
 
Good God.  Wait until somebody leaves a Speak and
Spell lying around.  They'll probably send in a
hostage team to negotiate with it.
 
Now, I know it's a tough job protecting people, and
that security comes first.  So we could be generous,
and say that they just overrreacted.  (That's being
very generous.)
 
Then, how would you fell if, after their fiasco, the
selfsame Keystone Kop types decided to thow the book
at the guys behind the promotional campaign - even
though the judge commented in the first hearing that
it did not appear the defendants met the test for
being prosecuted?  (That is, they had to have intended
to cause a panic - meaning that they would have had to
know in advance that Boston's police and civilian
leadership would lose it over these toys, while those
in 12 other cities knew what they were and ignored
them.)
 
You'd probably sympathize with the twentysomething
defendants, who refused to answer questions from
reporters about anything other than 70's hairstyles. 
When reporters repeated the suggestion that they
weren't taking the charges seriously, one replied: 
"Sorry.  That's not a hair question."
 
The Mayor and the District Attorney aren't just making
fools of themselves.  They're also wasting the
people's money on this fatuous indictment, which isn't
going to stick, and they're tying up a court system
that probably has a backlog of real cases to handle.
 
I'm not an "Aqua Teen" watcher myself.  I'm more of a
"Space Ghost" fan 
 my favorite character is Brak.
(UPDATE:  Actually I meant Zorak.  I don't know why my
fingers typed "Brak" - he gets on my nerves.)
 
But, hey - wait a minute.  A lot of people had weird
hair in the 70's. Me?  I had a Fu Manchu moustache and
shoulder-length 
 ah, well.  No need to get specific. 
Kids today don't appreciate their elders.  They don't
know how much fun we had in the seventies.  Young
punks.
 
In fact, I've changed my mind.  Throw the book at 'em.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/01/and-after-this-theyre-going-to-throw-the-book-at-harvey-birdman/

Video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJkTNJ7BM9I

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=25107

I live in another major US city- when I left the house
this morning (which I rarely do now day- with all the
terrorists) I saw dozens of boxes fitting the
description of the Boston IEDs. Not only are they
placed throughout the whole city- they seem to be
concentrated in HEAVY TRAFFIC AREAS.  This is a very
frightening development.  I suggest we all check our
towns and report these sinister devices IMMEDIATELY.
Here is a photo of one of the devices-

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs39j/fa04/images-students/scarey/gallery2/images/Stoplight.jpg

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/crooks/100114059


 
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