Chicago Courthouse
(Source: news.yahoo.com)
A Boston judge has ordered two men held on bond after a publicity stunt promoting Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie backfired, shutting down parts of the city.
Sean Stevens, 28, and Peter Berdovsky, 27, had been hired by a marketing company, Interference Inc., to put up 38 blinking boxes promoting the animated flick. The 1 foot tall boxes resembled a circuit board with protruding wires and batteries. The boxes would light up, showing a image of a Mooninite, a character from the show, giving passersby the finger.
Instead, each man found himself held on $2,500 cash bond after Boston police, thinking the boxes were a homemade incendiary device, deployed bomb squads to destroy them. The two men pleaded not guilty to placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct, for placing one of the boxes in a subway station.