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We New Yorkers are so into being un-phased that when the boxes, which ended up being advertisements for “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” were seen in New York a few weeks ago, none of us cared. Or else we, unlike Bostonians, all knew that a bomb wouldn’t grimace and flip us off.

For the most part, New Yorkers recognized the icon as “Mooninite” and some resourceful people have even sold them on eBay. The 20, foot-tall devices, of which only two were found by police, have sold for as much as $1,500.

Police Commisioner Raymond Kelly doesn’t think this is a laughing matter. He defends Boston’s panicked reaction when, like any good valedictorian, teacher or passionate drunk person, he referenced this “post 9/11 world.”

He said, “They had wires hanging out of some of them. It’s reasonable to look a little askance at these things.”

The guerrilla marketing firm, Interference, planted these devices in nine other U.S. cities. The Cartoon Network told artists, Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, to not talk about it as Boston went wild with fear. Both of them were arrested.

In an email to his friend, which was obtained by ABC, Berdovsky wrote, “my boss at the Cartoon Network’s ad agency just called - she is asking that I pretty please keep everything on the DL [down low].”

After they were released on $2,500 bond and during the press conference, Berdovsky and Stevens talked about their hair.

Berdovsky, who has lusciously-long dreadlocks, stroked his hair, “I feel like my hair is perfect.”

We guess this is what the world looks like when it’s run by the class clown. Not stoked.

N.Y. tooned out invaders [New York Daily News]

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