Some of you may already know, and for the rest of you this may come as a shock. Boston was the latest target for a terror attack!

I first found out on Wednesday when I got a phone call from my girlfriend, who currently lives in Boston. My plan was to go visit her for the evening, but instead I got this call that I "shouldn't come down, they've shut down a lot of roads and storrow drive." She didn't know why at the time. Oh how beautiful that ignorance was.

Then the media decided to tell us what it was: Terrorists left little boxes all over Boston. Boxes? Bombs.

So thanks to an overly-paranoid America, and an anxious media, these little, LIGHT-UP, CONSPICUOUS, CARTOON-PLASTERED boxes became our latest terrorist scare.

What really happened? Here's the scoop:

Cartoon-Network apparently hired a company (Interference Inc.) to do "Guerilla Advertising" (also known as corporate vandalism), and Interference apparently went out and did just that. As far as I know from what I've read, cartoon network wasn't aware of the exact methods Interference was going to use, they just write a check and look the other way.

So then Interference takes the check, puts these random boxes with a recognizable character from adult-swim all over Boston. And then people will see them and go, oh yeah.. that's cool. I'm gonna go watch cartoons and buy nikes.

But instead of inspiring a little smile in the hearts of people across boston - they inspired a fear of bombs everywhere. Bombs that a terrorist put stupidly bright-conspicuous lights on.

That sounds a lot like their master plan last time. I mean, sure, stealing a plane and crashing it unexpectedly certainly caught us off guard. But this one would set a new standard in tourising everywhere. Ehem. Terrorising.

So, feeling bad and guilty for doing something unusual (and I think illegal - littering), Interference apologized:

So hopefully everyone goes home happy, alive, and not hurt. Everybody's fine, interference gets a slap on the wrist.

Oh - and THAT little cartoon dude gets plastered on EVERY WEBSITE, WEBLOG, NEWS OUTLET, MAGAZINE, and NEWSPAPER across the nation (and maybe outside the US.. if there's anything out there. Not sure).

Is it so hard to believe that Interference Inc, in their new-age, hippy, creative out-of-the-box brain-storming way, could have plotted this whole thing out?

How hard would it be to stop by a public phone and tip off the cops that there are suspicious boxes everywhere, and you're afraid their bombs?

These advertisers get paid the big bucks to think of the most creative ways to get their client's messages heard.

So, cartoon network gives Interference a check, Interference breaks a few minor laws and gets the entire nations attention on these little boxes. Geeks across america try to figure out how to make their own (or steal). Interference apologizes, and cartoon-network can wash their hands of the whole matter. And best of all - all I want to do is watch aqua teen hunger force.

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