Wow, this is utterly silly. Must ‘vark.
Explosives experts removed the device at Sullivan Square. Northbound Route I-93 and Storrow Drive were briefly closed. A Coast Guard cutter blocked off a section of the Charles River for several hours. Officials from the F.B.I. and the Homeland Security Department were called in, as well as bomb squads, and extra police officers were deployed around the city.
Suspicious Devices in Boston Turn Out to Be Ad Campaign for Cartoon (New York Times)
Calmer reaction in S.F. — ‘I thought it was cool’ (San Francisco Chronicle)
The artists hired to do that campaign were friends of friends. It was unpleasant when they were arrested on $100,000 bail just because the city decided that it’d come off reaaaallly stupid unless it could make the terror threat thing look as real as possible. Let’s jail artists to save face! Woohoo!!