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Did more details surface or was this like the Ignignokt scare in Boston?
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tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?
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C-dub wrote:
tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?
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C-dub wrote:
tacticool wrote:Ignignokt
What?
A few years back someone put a home-made battery-powered illuminated sign of a cartoon character named Ignignokt on or under a bridge in Boston. The whole city came to a standstill because somebody thought it was a bomb.
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Actually, it wasn't one placard under a bridge, but placards all over the city along with Cambridge and Somerville. It was a movie promotional stunt. Turner Broadcasting paid the bill on that one, some $2 million. Something like 30 of the devices were installed.
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Double Naught Spy wrote:Actually, it wasn't one placard under a bridge, but placards all over the city along with Cambridge and Somerville. It was a movie promotional stunt. Turner Broadcasting paid the bill on that one, some $2 million. Something like 30 of the devices were installed.
There were a bunch in LA and some other major city as well. They just realized that the devices weren't bombs and didn't shut down.
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VMI77 wrote:http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Im ... YhSwQ.cspx

Not much in the way of detail.
Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.
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The Annoyed Man wrote:
VMI77 wrote:http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Im ... YhSwQ.cspx

Not much in the way of detail.
Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.
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The Annoyed Man wrote:Probably left there by a photographer, after photographing the overpass.
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In Boston they probably call the flashbulb on his camera an IED.
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