Perhaps you've heard about the brouhaha surrounding the bomb scare in Boston. You know, the one set off by magnetic LED graffiti that was part of a marketing campaign (and so on...).
What I think is lost in all of the rush to assign blame (on all sides) is that this is the cost of having a bomb squad. Bomb squads get called in on false alarms all the time (like this). Sometimes you get it wrong. What happened in Boston was simply a false alarm; someone mistook an object for a bomb. Everyone clamoring for lawsuits against Cartoon Network or decrying the overreaction of Boston officials needs to step back and remember that there's no point in having a bomb squad if they're afraid to get it wrong some of the time.
Of course, that assumes that you believe in the relative merits of having a bomb squad...
... and that the security response is timely...
... which, in this case, it wasn't (the "bombs" had been up for 2 weeks prior to this incident).
Then, of course, there's the two actual fake bombs that were found the same day (with no arrests made yet).
[UPDATE] Here are a few more interesting comments on the situation:
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