You’re telling me the reason my 12-minute subway commute was stretched to half an hour this morning was because some trigger-happy homeland security bureaucrat mistook a Cartoon Network outdoor ad campaign for a group of strategically placed bombs?
Our city’s cool quotient is threatened enough simply by the existence Boston College without having to deal with costly, embarrassing government gaffes and hysterical outbursts of rudderless security mom-ism like this one.
Truly, the age of Constant Hypervigilance has entered its absurd, self-parodic third act. I guess the cops up here eschew Adult Swim in favor of Law & Order reruns on TNT.
Attack of the Mooninites [Boston.com]
