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Boston digs the "Faux Terror" do

Published Monday, March 26, 2007 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

This guy helped out at the March 20 "Iced Iced Coffee" karaoke contest at Copley Square.

This guy sat a few rows in front of me at the March 15 Shins concert at the Orpheum.

Both of these guys look suspiciously like the Zebbler, aka the "fake Boston terrorist," aka Peter Berdovsky, one of two guys arrested in the wake of Boston's freakout over their Aqua Teen Hunger Force promotional signs. The first photo above clearly is a different guy, based on testimony provided by sources on the scene that said he drove down from Maine for the event. The second photo isn't clear at all, mostly because I took it via camera phone. But the point I'm about to make remains the same...why would you want to look like Peter Berdovsky at a time like this? Do you want to be confused for him, especially by Boston's police? Or, rather, were you inspired by him to go with the dreadlocks and goatee? Or is this simply the look to have if you're a radical performance artist? How many other Bostonians are sporting this look? Could you imagine that police lineup? Or maybe a boy band? Now that I think about it, round 'em up!