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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare The infamous \
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare The infamous \\\"lite-brite\\\" scandal]]. Want to know why the police were so antsy that day? They\\\'d just found a \\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' pipe bomb in someone\\\'s desk, put there as a prank by a coworker. So why did they go after the Belarusian stoner? It turns out that while there are laws against starting a bomb \\\'\\\'hoax\\\'\\\', planting \\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' (legitimately obtained) explosives as a prank, without intent to detonate, was not actually illegal in Massachusetts.
** Starting a bomb-hoax is considered a part of psychological warfare and a terror act in itself (although Berdovsky never intended to do so). Planting an legally acquired but unarmed bomb is a breach of munitions storage protocol at worst.
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Deleted because entry mis-characterizes the whole nature of the 2007 Boston bomb hoax. No bomb threat was ever made by anyone. The entire hoax arose when paranoid people, ignorant of what they were looking at, called police and assumed that they were looking at bombs. Law enforcement tried to justify this by saying \\\"well, they had a power source, a circuit board, and wires, all components in an IED,\\\" but in fact, that description could fit a lot of things seen at the side of the road. The guy who started the ad campaign did nothing illegal or immoral - at worst he put up a logo that most people didn\\\'t recognize. It was the general public who turned it into a hoax/bomb threat.
** Starting a bomb-hoax is considered a part of psychological warfare and a terror act in itself (although Berdovsky never intended to do so). Planting an legally acquired but unarmed bomb is a breach of munitions storage protocol at worst.
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Deleted because entry mis-characterizes the whole nature of the 2007 Boston bomb hoax. No bomb threat was ever made by anyone. The entire hoax arose when paranoid people, ignorant of what they were looking at, called police and assumed that they were looking at bombs. Law enforcement tried to justify this by saying \\\"well, they had a power source, a circuit board, and wires, all components in an IED,\\\" but in fact, that description could fit a lot of things seen at the side of the road. The guy who started the ad campaign did nothing illegal or immoral - at worst he put up a logo that most people didn\\\'t recognize. It was the general public who turned it into a hoax/bomb threat.
