On one hand:

A former air traffic controller accused of planting homemade bombs outside the houses of former co-workers and a government official was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to damaging a building.

Prosecutors said Burke, a decorated Vietnam veteran, left five bombs outside homes in the Colorado city of Grand Junction in March 2006, including one where a Federal Aviation Administration official lived. Three bombs exploded, but no one was hurt. Minor damage was reported. Two bombs were defused.

On the other hand:

Tens of thousands of conversations were recorded. Some 230 […]

This is unbelievable. Turner is paying $2 million in “restitution” for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force “bomb scare”.

Authorities feared bombs had been planted when they found more than three dozen blinking electronic signs with a boxy cartoon character giving an obscene hand gesture Wednesday in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville.

The signs, part of a publicity campaign for Cartoon Network’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” also appeared in nine other big U.S. cities in recent weeks, but created little interest.

But in Boston, bomb squads responded to reports of the devices in a subway station, on bridges and elsewhere.

Talk […]