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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:10 AM
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Did Turner Marketing Crew Consider Possible Terror Freak Out As Reaction?
When the marketing people who came up with this idiotic campaign, do you think someone said "but people might think it's a bomb" and everyone at the meeting said "REALLY, that's GREAT... that will just help us get MORE EXPORSURE!"?

Hell, what are the odds a Turner marketing person called the Boston police alerting them to the pieces of garbage.

But a corporate ad team would never go that far...
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:15 AM
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1. didn't seem to be a problem anywhere but Boston.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:30 AM
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6. and maybe they were disappointed it took this long?
Maybe not.

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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:15 AM
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2. I think they were counting on it.
all media attention is good in the "ad bidness".
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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:18 AM
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3. They probably didn't realize how stupid and paranoid people would be
Good grief, no other city got so spooked.
The devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:25 AM
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4. It crosses the line from insensitive to comatose
Especially in New York and Boston, cities that played a direct role in 9/11. Absolutely NOBODY on the marketing team thought that it MIGHT be a bad idea to leave electronic-looking devices in suspicious places? And suppose someone had taken one of them AND PUT a real bomb in them?

:crazy:
rocknation
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:26 AM
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5. If they did then they will face charges
so they better not admit this was truly an intent.
Intent to scare is p1art of the "hoax charges".
As it is I think Turner will settle up and pay and that will be the end of it.

BTW anyone see the artist's wbesite with the locations photo'd?
It's down right now but here is the link: http://www.zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/mission1.html
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:48 AM
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10. I hear two have already been arrested.
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 01:09 PM
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12. Sorry, must clarify: They would be GUILTY of those
charges if there was intent to scare.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:31 AM
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7. no ,why would they?
some people in this country do not understand they must live in fear...funny all the other cities for over two or more weeks did`t freak out over a lite bright...if it`s on the east coast it`s the news of the day if it`s somewhere else in the country it`s a 1-2 minute story
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:40 AM
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8. I think too much blame is being laid on these guys.
The devices were in place for 2 or 3 weeks and are in place in other cities and with the exception of the freak out in Boston they were hardly noticed. The reaction to these signs was way over the top. Are we going to shut down a city every time a piece of trash falls off a truck? For crying out loud people need to get a grip on their fear.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 01:30 PM
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13. So 2-3 weeks & Turner got NO BIG REACTION. All the more reason to wonder if one of them
purposely got the ball rolling....

maybe not.

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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:46 AM
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9. Those signs were around for a couple of WEEKS, and they were in cities
all over the country. Has anyone considered that maybe, just maybe, the PLANNED, DESIRED brouhaha didn't arise, so someone in marketing took it upon themselves to place several phone calls purporting to be from concerned citizens, just to get the ball rolling???

I think they did this JUST TO GET IN THE NEWS. The panic was intended as an essential part of the marketing plan.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:55 AM
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11. maybe they considered that peopLe are fucking dopes
how anyone with a working brain couLd think those were bombs, or even suspicious is insane.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 01:32 PM
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14. I think they did and that they took the risk (at very least) of being considered a terrorist attack
The worst case scenario is that they intended for a scare like this to happen to advertise their cartoons. They did this 9 cities; at some point, some city was going to freak out.
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