Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. All I want to know is what BONEHEAD thought this was a good idea? What network marketing bozo said in a meeting - hey, this guerilla marketing thing (so 2002 btw) is a great idea. Let's put a lot of boxes that look like bombs near major transportation hubs in major US cities - won't that be a gas!" - and no one at Interference or Cartoon Network raises the possibility that this in fact might not sit so well with Homeland Security? All to promote a cartoon with two characters most of us have never seen flipping the bird. My hope is that someone comes forward and can prove they tried to dissuade the fools from pulling such a meaningless stunt. I want to find out if that mythical person exists - because my hope is he/she is out there - and was given a ton of shit for not being a team player, or not being creative, or not having what it takes for voicing that opinion. Talk about the last laugh. BTW, everyone involved in this decision should spend at least one night in jail. At least one. Except for those at Cartoon Network - anyone affiliated with the network should get 10 x that sentence. Just because.
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Interestingly enough, 40 of these devices were planted in several other cities, including New York. And nobody made a fuss anywhere else. As a matter of fact, 38 of the signs in New York disappeared -- they were stolen!
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-nycart0202,0,399151.story
I'm sorry. I just think it was all much ado. Terrorists using Lite Brites to blow up the world?
People, puh-LEEEZE!
It's like that morning that there was that gas smell in New York, and the Mayor was suddenly in front of the press, assuring all of America that al Qaida had nothing to do with it.
Have we completely lost our minds? Don't answer. It was rhetorical.
~C~
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