The crazies are out in full force today.
First up, space invaders unsuccessfully attempted to bomb several bridges in Boston but did manage to disrupt traffic and subway service throughout the city.
Seriously.
For those who haven’t heard (and most of you probably have), an advertising stunt to promote an Adult Swim cartoon featuring black boxes with lit up space invader-esque creatures placed on the infrastructure of several bridges caused near panic today. In an attempt to thwart this alien invasion, bomb squads were called in, part of I-93 was shutdown, buses were diverted (and promptly got lost), and at least one of the offending “devices” was blown up.
Thank you Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Perhaps they’re responsible for the Big Dig fiasco too?
Clearly someone neglected to tell the appropriate authorities about their innovative, though rather insensitive, advertising campaign. According to officials at the parent company, the “devices” (more commonly known as Lite-Brites) have been in place for 2 to 3 weeks and are also in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, among several other major US cities.
(To paraphrase Leonard Cohen: First, we take Chicago, then we take Boston!)
I’m just glad this didn’t screw up my commute, though I pity anyone else who was caught in that mess.
In other random “crazies” news, at North Station in the middle of the waiting area, this girl whipped out her toothbrush and started brushing her teeth! During rush hour, no less! I’m all for good oral hygeine, but cleaning your teeth in a crowd full of people is going a little too far. Especially when there’s a restroom right around the corner (which was nicely pointed out by the universal bathroom sign.)
At least she didn’t floss.