Way to go, Boston!

So I guess in addition to being the home of the Red Sox, the Boston Tea Party, and Cheers, Boston can now lay claim to being the first and only American city to be shut down by Lite-Brites:




AWESOME ACTION UPDATE -- "press conference" video from outside the courthouse of the two guys arrested for placing the light boards around Boston (via BoingBoing)


UPDATE #2 -- I realized this morning that this whole episode kind of reminds me of the hilarious Pittsburgh "sniper" incident of a year ago. However, in Pittsburgh's defense, I would also point out that that incident actually involved someone being observed with a weapon of sorts.