I think the presence of the two pipe bombs and two legitimate scares explains a whole hell of a lot. The BPD is doing their job (essentially). They know the Lite Brites really aren't a threat, but because of two real threats they've got to treat the Lite Brites as a legitimate threat.
Should the two artists have been arrested? No. But I can understand why they were arrested.
As for the Lite Brites, I think I saw one of these things myself a couple of weeks ago driving through the MIT campus. It looks like a left-over Christmas decoration, so I can understand how people missed it or dismissed it. Is it a problem? Maybe. Especially since they really weren't anything.
However, it should probably be noted that when something that looked like a real pipe bomb cropped up, the BPD was all over it right away, despite the fact the city was already in chaos.
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I think the presence of the two pipe bombs and two legitimate scares explains a whole hell of a lot. The BPD is doing their job (essentially). They know the Lite Brites really aren't a threat, but because of two real threats they've got to treat the Lite Brites as a legitimate threat.
Should the two artists have been arrested? No. But I can understand why they were arrested.
As for the Lite Brites, I think I saw one of these things myself a couple of weeks ago driving through the MIT campus. It looks like a left-over Christmas decoration, so I can understand how people missed it or dismissed it. Is it a problem? Maybe. Especially since they really weren't anything.
However, it should probably be noted that when something that looked like a real pipe bomb cropped up, the BPD was all over it right away, despite the fact the city was already in chaos.