The Abu Ghraib protester was first <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/3/boston_protester_faces_felony_charges_for" rel="nofollow">http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/3/boston_protester_faces_...</a><p>Then the ATHF thing you referenced
<a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/mooninites_from_one_of_th.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/mooninites_from_one...</a><p>Then a freaking traffic counter that had been put in place by the department of transportation
<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/28/boston-police-blow-u.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/28/boston-police-blow-u.ht...</a><p>and the MIT student with the LED sweater
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html" rel="nofollow">http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html</a><p>These are only the ones I know of. Maybe there are more cases of Boston PD going nutso over some imagined bomb threat. It reminds me of the aftermath of 9/11, all of the soccer moms in my rural home town, running around and buying up all the bottled water and duct tape in town, like they expected The Terr'ists to be interested in bombing Middelofnowheresburg, PA.<p>I'm sure Boston is a great city, but stories like these make me never want to visit there, lest I worry if I forgot a half-finished Arduino blinky-light project in the back seat of my car. I don't view Boston as <i>that</i> important of a city for someone to want to bomb it.