Flip the bird? Whatayou, retahdid?

Flipping the bird, flipping out over dead birds, throwing people in jail for using unconventional ads in admittedly poorly choiced locations. Ah, the world of post-911 when dealing with the out of the ordinary.

OK, make Turner pay for all of the man hours, etc, that were wasted by the overreaction in Boston to a blinking neon cartoon flipping the bird, but are we seriously saying that we're going to jail the ad guys who were doing their jobs? I won't even get into the fact that these guys are also artists and we're stepping all over their freedom of expression. What hangs me up about this? Is this: "Turner said the devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia. As soon as the company realized the Boston problem, it said, law enforcement officials were told of their locations in all 10 cities." - AP reports

TWO to THREE WEEKS. In New York?! LA?! No reaction. The article even quotes an official in Seattle who was like, Yeah we took them down, but no one in our City Hall is claiming criminal negligence against a cartoon. Or he might have just said no one called 911 over them. Because they're cartoons.

In Austin we wigged when a bunch of birds died, but you didn't see us calling in the freaking Coast Guard over a CARTOON. Ok, we're not on a coast, and I need to chill about the fact that it's, you know, animated, but I think my point is still a valid one. This is ridiculous and Boston is just embarrassed that they went through all of this over an ad, and now they want someone to prosecute over it. It's wicked bs, and they need to pull the punch.