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> I'll never understand the reactionaries. Did they really believe that there were terrorists out there who'd build bombs and then put a Lite Bright on it?

Lots of wild stuff happening at that time. Would you believe that there was a little reported incident where someone put a bomb in their SHOE?? People were very on edge, so I can completely understand having an additional layer of paranoia about seemingly normal things being potentially dangerous.

> Was it that they were all dumb millennials who never heard of the toy?

In 2007 most millennials would have been late teens to early 20s. According to the 2015 City of Boston Workforce Report, the median age of the city workers at that time was 45.25.[1] So I’m guessing it was probably people over 30 who responded to the calls and did not call the panic off.

> When reporters interviewed cops about it, they should've started giggling, telling the cameraman to "pack it up, these cops are r***".[sic]

Again, it’s likely 18 year old Millennials weren’t reporters or police officer or firefighters, it’s probably people who had played with this sort of toy as kids and knew what it was on its face.

I think the main thing I would point out is you should consider having some grace for people at this different and distinct time in the world, and that zeitgeist.

[1] https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/2015.04.14%20F...

> Was it that they were all dumb millennials who never heard of the toy?

I know it’s fashionable to dunk on millennials now but as a millennial who remembers this event we were too young to be cops and knew what ATHF and Lite Brites were.

>Was it that they were all dumb millennials who never heard of the toy?

Millennials also played with Lite Brites, they were an extremely popular toy in the 80s.

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1990-Sea...

Beyond that, millennials were between the ages of 12-25 in 2007, they weren't running the Boston bomb squad, they were the target audience of this marketing campaign.

You're the out of touch one here.

The millennials were the ones who knew what the signs were.

You are the one who sounds pretty dumb.