WendyMcElroy.com

Yeah, that looks like a terrorist device to me. (Not.) Yesterday Boston went on high alert because several suspicious devices had been sighted around town. Turns out it was a marketing campaign for Turner Broadcasting, and the devices were electric lightboards showing a cartoon alien. (It took me a while to actually find a photo of the "device.")

Having overreacted with pants-wetting hysteria, the city officials now blame Turner Broadcasting for the panic, and have actually arrested two culprits for the advertising gambit. They're charged with "placing a hoax device in a way that results in panic," a felony. (Never mind the fact that other U.S. cities have ignored identical devices for weeks.) It's a pity there isn't a felony "wielding official powers while demonstrably stupid," to charge the real culprits in this fiasco.