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Thu, 01 February 2007 02:10  |
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"BOSTON (Reuters) - A television network's marketing campaign went
badly awry on Wednesday, causing a day-long security scare in Boston
that closed bridges, shut major roads and put hundreds of police on
alert.
Apologizing for Boston's biggest security alert since the September 11
attacks more than five years ago, Turner Broadcasting said it had
placed electronic devices at bridges and other spots to promote an
animated cartoon.
Police mistook the small, battery-powered electronic billboards as
possible improvised bombs.
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The discovery of the first one on a bridge led police to stop morning
rush-hour traffic on an interstate highway just north of Boston, halt
a busy train line, cordon off the area and deploy a bomb squad, which
blew it up.
By afternoon, at least nine more of the "suspicious" devices were
found. Authorities mobilized emergency crews, federal agents, bomb
squads, hundreds of police and the U.S. Coast Guard as traffic froze
in parts of the city.
The billboards, encased in dark plastic, consisted of blinking lights
wired to an electronic circuit board to project an animated cartoon
image in an outdoor promotion for a show on Turner's Cartoon Network
called "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
"The 'packages' in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger,"
Turner Broadcasting System Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc., said"
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