It's scarier in the Globe

Reporting this morning on an incident in Newton, MA, a Boston suburb, in which officials evacuated a high school parking lot (evacuated a parking lot?) on discovering four “suspicious-looking” backpacks emblazoned with advertising for a web site, the Globe waxes nostalgic about other anti-terrorisim highlights.

Officials called the incident reminiscent of a publicity stunt that threw Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville into turmoil in January. Roads and bridges were shut down as authorities investigated 38 small light-up devices that turned out to be part of a guerrilla advertising campaign for a Cartoon Network show.

The 38 small light-up devices were, you will remember, on a sign. That would be a single sign. One sign. Which the cops blew up. Lucky for us all, it didn't take them 38 explosions to do it. Just one.

And then there was that other time, when they blew up a suspicious-looking traffic counter.

The parking lot, as far as can be determined, is still intact. The fate of the backpacks is unknown.

Link: Array of school backpacks leads to evacuation - The Boston Globe