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Wild, the police thought that the LED display, that had already been up for 4 weeks, might be a bomb, and then they somehow spent a million dollars handling the 'threat'.

Wilder still, Turner bought off the police after for 2 million dollars, and then censored the creators from releasing an episode critical of the Boston police response.

If you ask yourself where the money comes from, who gets to decides to spend it, and how much fun the police had playing with their toys, it all seems to make good sense.

That piece was done by my (then) neighbor.

It was a little unnerving to come home to a dozen black Suburban SUVs parked in front of my house.

What have you been up to that would lead to such an unnerving response? ;-)

That's not the unnerving part (answer would be "probably nothing"). The unnerving part is convincing the people in the black SUVs that you actually haven't been doing anything suspicious. While they tear your house apart. And take all of your stuff. And have you handcuffed on the floor.

Main article link made a lot more sense to me, having never heard of it (or ATHF) before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic