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On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices (IEDs), leading to a massive panic.

  • pitninja
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    281 year ago

    If the Boston marathon bombing had happened within a year prior to this I might understand, but come on…

    • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      181 year ago

      The Iraq war was still in full swing and cities were getting Homeland Security bulletins about possible revenge attacks.

      • norbert
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        201 year ago

        That was a very dark time for the country, we’ve definitely not recovered from it and it allowed a lot of Christian nationalism and budding-fascism to metastasize into the danger it is today.