Damn! A dread busted for bullshit!

So it had to be a dread that got busted for planting fake bombs in a "guerilla marketing" scheme that seems to have back fired. I'm glad to see homeboy had a sense of humor about it all and refused to answer questions unless they were about hair styles.

Kid knows he's in deep shit and still wants to laugh about it. I personally don't think he should be in so much trouble because it had to be an obvious hoax. Terrorists would not lay these things out in the open for everyone to find them so easily and after sometime they had to realize they were not exploding. I guess they say bad press is better than no press so I hope the at least paid the guy to get busted for this.





Two men charged after Boston security scare - New Zealand's source for World News on Stuff.co.nz

Authorities charged two men on Thursday with planting battery-powered signs promoting an animated cartoon that were mistaken for bombs and caused Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11 attacks.

Investigators were also probing the role of US media group Turner Broadcasting, which has apologized for Wednesday's day-long security scare triggered by a "guerrilla" marketing campaign for one of its cartoon shows.

Sean Stevens, 28, and Peter Berdovsky, 27, were released on a $US2500 bond each after pleading not guilty in state court to charges of placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct.

Prosecutors said the two were paid by a New York marketing company hired by Turner, and Mayor Thomas Menino has said the city may sue the company, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

"We're not unaware of the fact that the defendants are not at the top of the hierarchy (of responsibility) here," state assistant attorney general John Grossman told the hearing.

Berdovsky – a Belarus native with flowing dreadlocks – and Stevens mocked the process in an appearance with reporters, insisting on talking about hairstyles from the 1970s rather than addressing questions about the incident.

"We are only taking questions on hair," Berdovsky said.

The lawyer, Michael Rich, said the men never intended to cause panic and that Turner Broadcasting would pay their legal fees. Outside the courthouse, fans of the cartoon character held signs reading Free Peter and 1-31-07 never forget".

The 30-cm signs – a total of 38 across the city under bridges, on storefronts and near busy train stations – were meant to promote an animated character for an adult-themed show on Turner's Cartoon Network called Aqua Teen Hunger Force. A movie version is also being produced.

The signs were encased in dark plastic with wires protruding and lights wired to an electronic circuit board, and included a character making an obscene gesture. After the first one was found on Wednesday morning, police responded to calls of similar devices in at least eight other areas.

"These devices looked like a bomb," Grossman said.

"When I talked to the bomb squad who responded there. . . they tell us that what they look for is a power source, which existed here. . .they look for a circuit and there was a circuit board with wires attached to it. And that wire was running to what to their eye appeared to be a possible explosive material. It was wrapped in duct tape," said Grossman.

Grossman added that the signs' location in some of Boston's busiest areas also looked suspicious. "The location was such that it was the type of location one would put a bomb if you wanted to interrupt the infrastructure," he said.

At the alert's height, authorities mobilized emergency crews, federal agents, bomb squads, hundreds of police and the US Coast Guard as traffic came to a halt in busy areas. Roads, bridges and even part of the Charles River were closed.

Officials say the scare cost Boston as much as $US750,000.

The Boston Police Department said it was also investigating whether a surge of phone calls to emergency operators on Wednesday were co-ordinated as part of a marketing campaign.

Turner said the magnetic signs had been installed in 10 major US cities and were not intended to be a public threat. Police in Chicago and Seattle said they rounded up about 20 of the devices in each city but made no arrests. Police in Portland, Oregon said the signs there looked harmless.

"It appears that there was no intent to commit a crime, so the Portland Police Bureau has no reason to investigate," said Brain Schmautz, spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau.