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20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event
coolnumbr12 tipped us to a tale of a contest gone wrong at LG's G2 release event. Quoting El Reg: "The PR boffins at LG decided it would be a good idea to release 100 helium-filled balloons, each carrying a voucher entitling the recipient to claim their 950,000 won ($852.54) smartphone. It then took to social media to promote the event, inviting people to witness the balloons' release and encouraging them to grab one of the vouchers. But what must have sounded like a good idea in the marketing meeting quickly dissolved into chaos. People aren’t stupid. They figured out that the only way to get the voucher was to burst the balloons, and they showed up equipped to do so with BB guns, knives on sticks, and other tools."
In the ensuing carnage, 20 people were injured. Whoops.
and vicey-versy.
"We couldn't have expected better results if we had planned it."
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
Apparently they are.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/12/20_injured_at_lg_smartphone_giveaway_as_pr_stunt_turns_sour/
So why did no one bother to ensure there was a link to the article from which the submission was plucked? Stop being so sloppy, Unknown Lamer.
Seriously, is it too much to ask for a link?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/12/20_injured_at_lg_smartphone_giveaway_as_pr_stunt_turns_sour/
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
http://www.ibtimes.com/lg-g2-release-goes-wrong-20-people-accidentally-shot-bb-guns-marketing-event-video-1382105
Seriously, i know you say it comes from The Register, but would it have killed you to link it?
You shoot a balloon. Someone else gets the (your) voucher. What to do, what to do?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
If it had been in some states (Florida), those wouldn't have been bb pellet wounds...
So, the "editor annotation" correctly states that 20 people were injured. And the summary also notes that implements in the crowd included knives, improvised spears, and of course BB guns.
But the title claims 20 people were directly shot with BB guns. Seriously now?! It's clear you freaking read the summary, but you gave that title a pass?
C'mon, give us a friggin link to the story, or don't post the friggin summary. WTF?
Without a link, this is just rumor-mongering. Is Slashdot really no better than a run-of-the-mill supermarket tabloid?
What a total, utter, and complete FAIL.
What I find extremely ironic (using one of the actual meanings of the word) is that the poster thinks that this activity shows that "People aren’t stupid".
Yes they are. This is yet another example (as if we needed one) that people are stupid.
Some are very stupid.
Some are so stupid you wonder how they survive at all.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin
How do you say "oh shit!" in Korean?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
I expected mayhem and gore. It doesn't even match the frenzy of a Black Friday opening at Walmart in a small town.
And don't they have model aircraft in Korea? No one thought to have a radio controlled balloon snatcher??
20 people were injured, big difference! injuries include things like falling over, stepping on toes, running into other people etc
Yes they are. This story proves that.
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Fortunately someone else posted the link to the article, which in turn has a Korea Times link. 20 people were hurt, but they seem to have been hurt in the riot; the fact that BB guns were shot is a separate statement and nowhere does the article sayor imply that the 20 people who were hurt were shot by the guns.
I don't see anything in TFS that says Koreans specifically can't shoot. There's a lot of evidence that people in general aren't good shots especially when hurried, not just Koreans. Now if all you got out of the article is "Koreans can't shoot" then sounds like you are racist.
I think I might have preferred a low-flying blimp, and a giant net.....
Off my head, I would say it calls for a two-shot strategy.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Just get a quadcopter up in there.
"My marketing plan attracted a record number of police and fire officials, but few stayed to bowl."
Didn't see it.
Mods: I have some simple requests:
- It's ok to edit poor grammar or at least add a [sic] when it's just unbearable to read
- Headlines should actually reflect the content of the story ACCURATELY
- Sensationalizing is for the source, it has no place here
- It's generally expected of us here in the comments to RTFA before going off blasting things out of our arses - we'd appreciate the same from you
- Post some crappy book reviews every now and then - why not?
- Make updates when it makes sense or when comments accurately point out misleading or important details - I notice this happening on some things (kernel-related stories) but not so much on "news" news.
"The BBs go up,
who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says
various Koreans trying to win a free phone.
(With profuse apologies to Tom Lehrer)
so for the cost of a exhibitor's pass, 1000 balloons, a tank of He and a dozen vouchers for free duck calls we could be rid of the NRA forever ?
Nullius in verba
... each carrying a voucher entitling the recipient to claim their 950,000 won ($852.54) smartphone.
What the hell does "950,000 won smartphone" mean?
Subject line says it all
(nt)
Well, it got you talking about him, his name on the tip of your tongue and in the mouths of those nationwide
Yes, people are talking about him. Negatively. So?
The publicity from his first scandal caused him to resign form the Congress seat he had already won.
The publicity from his second scandal is doing a fine job of killing his bid to be the NYC mayor.
The publicity is always about his sexual habits. Not about how good a leader/person he is, his achievements or qualifications, his contributions to society etc. None of that matters. And it gives his opponents a free shot at him that he can't dodge.
The fact that he resigned in 2011 and kept a low profile for a year I'm sure was because he hoped the publicity would die down and be forgotten. All in all, I'm pretty sure he'd rather not have to deal with this '"good" publicity.
People are dumb. The amount of dumbth is directly proportional to the crowd size.
Some of us are old enough to remember the Rolling Stones concert with the Hell's Angels drunken "security" detail and the Who concert with "festival" seating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert
I was a wee tyke when this happened, but I remember the news story.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eleven-people-killed-in-a-stampede-outside-who-concert-in-cincinnati-ohio
-- /christmas_story
BMO - "You'll put your eye out!"
Walmart must have made a killing that day.
In the ensuing carnage, 20 people were injured. Whoops.
Seems the word carnage does not mean any more what it used to mean.
There is also the little problem of a bullet shot upwards coming down somewhere. Not sure for how that is for BB guns, but for regular guns people can get hurt seriously by a bullet on its way down.
so the problem is the people who showed up with bb-guns and knifes-on-a-stick etc. not the marketingcampaign itself.. Goes to show that people will just do about anything without thinking..
> 20 People Shot With BB Guns
Well if you shoot one down with your bb gun and some asshole runs after it before you do, what do they expect you to do? I'm not gonna let the bastard get away with it!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
LG
Loonatics with Guns.
You clearly don't know how Slashdot works, so let me explain:
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The Slashdot editors then come to work, and spend about 15 minutes clicking Post/Reject to the many story submissions in the queue. They choose whichever stories sound the most interesting to them. They don't actually read the articles since this is a 15 minute per day job for them. They just assume that the summary is an accurate reflection of the facts, and if they're amused by what they read, they click the post button.
The Slashdot web site then displays these articles at random times of the day, making it appear as if they editors are posting articles all day long. It even makes sure to post only one or two articles overnight, just to annoy those who don't live in the U.S. time zones.
BlackBerry guns?
The advertisers just elevated stupid, and the people who wanted free stuff only helped make the case for Stupid a solid win for entertainment.
I read the summary and it just made me laugh. /facepalm
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
*passing through security* Oh this? It's just my knife of a stick.
Seriously, how did that happen? Morons!
They are BB's how much gore do you expect...
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Shot with battleships guns? 16" guns like BB-61 Iowa? Jeeze, those 2700 pound shells are enough to ruin your day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
B-)
A friend will come and bail you out of jail, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "damn that was fun!"
The marketing department will probably do the same thing, except have TSA agents at the entrance to the event.
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...disaster since WKRP in Cincinnati did its Thanksgiving helicopter turkey drop.
But I really thought turkeys could fly!