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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
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'
How do you say "oh shit!" in Korean?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Yes they are. This story proves that.
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Actually, it's not false reporting. It's just Slashdot pasting a misleading headline onto what was otherwise an accurately reported story.
Breakfast served all day!
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.....
Without a link, this is just rumor-mongering.
The link goes to The Register. So it's really not much better.
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.
"My marketing plan attracted a record number of police and fire officials, but few stayed to bowl."
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"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)
Problem is, 'stupid' is relative. There are plenty of things that potentially benefit the individual but increase the risk to everyone else.
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_won
"The true measure of a person is how they act when they know they won't get caught." - DSRilk
That's not "stupid," that's "cost shifting." If you're trying to win a contest, you might even call it "strategy."
Who knows? It's impossible to work out from the context after all.
I mean if it said a X dollar smartphone, or a Y euro smartphone, or a Z peso smartphone no one could work it out either, right?
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.
but isn't it much better to imply that all injuries are from the evil guns? (we don't even care what type of gun anymore)
Seriously. You can't recognize a unit conversion when you see it?
Almost always it is the pursuit of short term and/or tactical gain at the expense of long term and/or strategic gain.
And, since everyone with a relevant amount of power knows this, most stupid is in fact evil.
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!
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LG
Loonatics with Guns.
(once I have not forgotten to log in...)
I understand what you are saying but I would say they are both evil and stupid in this instance.
They THINK that they are obtaining long term benefits but are not.
Hence the irony I mentioned in my original post. The irony is that they don't know that ultimately their greed is is harming them. Making them stupid.
There are always exceptions to the rule of course - I know I am generalising heavily. Its called social psychology. :)
But our conversation is probably far above the heads of most....ref: my original post.
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!
Looking at the tower of people trying to climb up the wall trying to get these things I think the company knew people were going to go crazy and did it because they wanted the publicity. ~$850 for a phone and people call Apple's crap expensive or were these really tricked out phones? The top model iPhone 5 goes for that I think but that is after paying the "Apple tax" ... LG isn't as respected a brand so I'd think they must think their hardware makes up for the brand difference.
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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