#overreaction

""Public Works found it and took it down and didn't even bother to call us" because the device didn't appear to be threatening, he said."

"Refuse to be terrorized, people!"

"Boston got a taste of what it's like to be one of The Reporters Who Cover Television yesterday when Cartoon Network's guerrilla marketing campaign sent the city into high pants-wetting mode."

"I have a hard time buying all this outrage. I’m guessing the better part of it stems from embarrassment at so grossly overreacting."

"BoingBoing's Mark Frauenfelder thinks Boston isn't ready for a real attack"

"There is no excuse for blaming Turner Networks, Adult Swim, and especially a single 27-year-old, for the overzealousness of Boston's government and the news media."

"Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."

"Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert. "