One of the guys videotaped the cops removing the device and didn’t tell them that it wasn’t a bomb. Nice:

One of the men criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city and causing a terrorism scare videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless.

Surveillance cameras caught 27-year-old Peter Berdovsky videotaping officers removing what they thought was a possible bomb last week.

“Mr. Berdovsky didn’t do anything inappropriate,” his lawyer, Walter Prince, said Tuesday.

Prince said Berdovsky had received a call that morning from a friend who told him there was a bomb threat at a transit station. He said Berdovsky was unaware it involved one of the electronic devices that he and Sean Stevens, 28, had hung as part of a guerrilla advertising campaign for Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc.

His lawyer is wrong, he did do something inappropriate, he didn’t tell the cops that they didn’t have to fear for their lives. The appropriate thing to do would have been to act like a human being and let the cops know that they didn’t have to thrown the city into a panic and stop traffic to remove the devices.
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The Boston Bomb Hoax