{"id":55,"date":"2007-02-01T22:51:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T06:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.11h.net\/erich\/55"},"modified":"2007-02-01T22:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T06:51:35","slug":"boston-massachusetts-dumbest-city-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-dumbest-city-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston, Massachusetts &#8211; Dumbest city &#8230; ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least it seems to house some of the dumbest people ever.  The first on that list would probably have to be Howie Carr.  What a tool.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception to the Mass-holes would have to be Tom and Ray Magliozzi \u2013 they are cool.<\/p>\n<p>Howie has written a poor excuse for News &amp; Opinion journalism titled \u201cJoke\u2019s on terror-slacker scare \u2018Borat\u2019 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howie, I like ATHF, I&#8217;m gainfully employed, I don\u2019t live with my mom, I don\u2019t wear a baseball cap, and I don\u2019t have any tattoos.  I\u2019m sorry that pop culture and technology is over your head and most of the Boston public.  But don\u2019t over-hype a threat and then get upset at some else because you\u2019re spreading fear and panic.<\/p>\n<p>Howie has a radio show on WRKO, which has a poll labeled \u201cWhat should happen to the Belarusse gorilla graphic artist who put up the hoax devices in Boston?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are four radio buttons where 1=Jail, 2=Deportation, 3=First Jail then deportation, 4=Nothing<\/p>\n<p>With about a minute worth of Perl, I wrote a script that submits 4 to the poll.  Sweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>for(my $i=0;$i&lt;9999;$i++) {\n$mech = WWW::Mechanize-&gt;new();\n$mech-&gt;cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies-&gt;new());\n$mech-&gt;agent_alias(\"Linux Mozilla\");\n$mech-&gt;get(\"http:\/\/www.wrko.com\/poll.asp\") or die \"Can't load wrko poll!\";\n$mech-&gt;form_name('form1');\n$mech-&gt;set_fields('Response' =&gt; \"4\",);\n$mech-&gt;submit();\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OH MY GOD!!!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s got LEDs and four D size batteries, it\u2019s a bomb!!!<\/p>\n<p>Tome Menino, the mayor of Boston, said &#8220;It is outrageous, in a post 9\/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme.&#8221;  Perhaps it is you that is keeping this country in a post 9\/11 mindset.  Move on.<\/p>\n<p>Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, said \u201cIt&#8217;s a hoax \u2013 and it&#8217;s not funny.\u201d  It\u2019s sure funny for the rest of us who think that your state is now the laughing stock of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said \u201cWe haven&#8217;t had any calls to 911 regarding this\u201d the ATHF viral ads \u2013 which have been up for about three weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle  1<br \/>\nMass.    0<br \/>\nTom Menino -1<br \/>\nDeval Patrick -1<\/p>\n<p>Mooninites forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least it seems to house some of the dumbest people ever. The first on that list would probably have to be Howie Carr. What a tool.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception to the Mass-holes would have to be Tom and Ray Magliozzi \u2013 they are cool.<\/p>\n<p>Howie has written a poor excuse for News &amp; Opinion journalism titled \u201cJoke\u2019s on terror-slacker scare \u2018Borat\u2019 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howie, I like ATHF, I&#8217;m gainfully employed, I don\u2019t live with my mom, I don\u2019t wear a baseball cap, and I don\u2019t have any tattoos. I\u2019m sorry that pop culture and technology is over your head and most of the Boston public. But don\u2019t over-hype a <a href=\"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-dumbest-city-ever\/\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}