This photo provided shows an electronic device that was removed from where it had been hanging beneath an overpass in Boston, Monday. (AP Photo)
Marketing Stunt Spurs Fear and Fury Story aired: Thursday, February 01, 2007
Electronic devices planted at key transportation sites threw a scare into Boston yesterday. The illuminated panels turned out to be part of a publicity stunt for a late-night cable TV cartoon. Most of them depict a character giving an obscene gesture.
Law enforcement officers had their own gesture. By the end of the last night, they'd made two arrests: 27-year-old Peter Berdovsky of Arlington and Sean Stevens, age 28, of Charlestown. Both are charged under a law that prohibits placing a hoax device that results in a panic.
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