Nothing like a bomb scare to start the day off right
By adamg - 3/31/09 - 9:26 am
UPDATE: Not a bomb, but a dummy used to lock customers inside the bank branch by people protesting the bank's energy policies or something.
Looks like somebody heard about the fake bomb in Wellesley, so decided to try it out at the Bank of America branch in Kenmore Square this morning. Traffic and the T are, of course, affected.
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Protest
Apparently it was a 'protest dummy'. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19053348/detail.html
Oh, that's nice
So it's not enough to protest the bank, they have to lock customers inside?
Go Big or Go Home
If you're going to cause a scene and try to make the news, you've really got to do something worth talking about. Insanity.
was it this guy?
Marty, a local climate protester and former intern for RAN, is big on hating the BoA.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/12/10/rising-tide-boston-to-bank-of-america-were-still-breaking-up-with-you/
BoA may be the big old capitalist boogeyman, but last year they decided to factor in a future price of over $20 a ton for carbon dioxide in all cost/benefit analyses for deciding whether to invest in coal plants. That's kind of a big deal. Real reductions in CO2 emissions come out of decisions like that.
More on BoA's growing distaste for coal financing here.
p.s.
Also, bonus irony points to the climate protesters for shutting down public transportation.
Isn't this considered 'kidnapping'
if you lock people in a building and don't let them out?