I’m not sure which is more pathetic — the news folks and their wall-to-wall coverage before they knew any facts, homeland security because these things were in place in 10 cities for two weeks before being discovered in Boston, or the marketing firm that dreamed up this miracle of modern marketing.

Read all about it here at Yahoo news

Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc. and parent of Cartoon Network, said the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a surreal series about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.

“The packages in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger,” Turner said in a statement. It said the devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas, San Francisco and Philadelphia.