That Dark Helmet was right:

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb — Dark Helmet, *Spaceballs*

Seriously, could the authorities in Boston be any more stupid? And now they have to press on, even though they sound increasingly ridiculous:

“It’s clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location,” Assistant Attorney General John Grossman said at their arraignment.

I’ve never seen the show (we don’t have cable actually) and probably never will. No matter – I think it was a creative advertising stunt, and any authority with a piece of brain should have realized it. And they put them up (hundreds across the country) two weeks ago, and people just noticed now? And we are safe? I more and more feel like people in government are just, well, dumb. Here’s the video of how they put these things up: