A scant few weeks after repelling the Mooninite Invasion, the Boston Police and Bomb Squad have turned their wrath on traffic counting devices.
While traffic counters are not child’s toys, they are capable of arousing Bostonian paranoia. The only difference between the counters and the Lite-Brites is that in the former case, there’s no big company from which to extort funds for police overtime.
Bruce Schneier sums it up succinctly:
Boston PD: Putting the “error” in “terror.”
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I’m still getting the minutiae of the “Year of the Chickenshit” stuff down.
Now, if I’m not mistaken, Boston has already been adorned with that designation. Now Boston again.
Now is it a “pile on” effect? Is that 2 or is it one and done? Like being pregnant, is it an all or nothing thing? Or can you be 2x the base level?
Maybe I’m overthinking this.
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[...] The Boston Police Department has already distinguished itself over the past year, with the paranoia over harmless LED devices, and the blowing up of their own traffic counters. [...]