I couldn't have put it better myself.

[wolfwings]

From /. article on Cartoon Network's CEO resigning over the Boston AdBomb Scare:
Q. Is it forseeable that pouring boiling water on a person will cause burns.
A. Yes
Q. Is it forseeable that pouring boiling water on a person will cause an earthquake in Uganda.
A. No.
Q. Is it forseeable that a lite-brite advertisement placed w/o permission will get taken down and a fine sent to the party who put it up w/o permission?
A. Yes
Q. Is it forseeable that a lite-brite advertisement placed w/o permission will cause an entire city to "duck and cover".
A. No

Geezus H. Chrystler, Boston, get your self-important head out of your ass.

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They were put in nine other cities...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...and were made nice and clear to be very obvious how they worked, and what they were. No other city but Boston freaked out at all, let alone to this level.

There's a difference between 'better safe than sorry' and 'shut down an entire city because of blinking LEDs' though. Seriously, this just tells everyone out there that less than $5 worth of parts can cripple Boston for a day by making something that's far less apparent how it works and would look far more like a bomb actually. Bondo, a D-cell, a strong magnet, and an LED rigged to blink.