Bad press isn’t bad, except when it’s awful

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So one of the men who’s been criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon ads around Boston and causing a terrorism scare reportedly videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless. A lawyer for the man said he was not aware the police were dealing with one of the devices that he (or an associate) planted as a promotion for Turner’s Cartoon Network.

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