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.

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[Joviex]

You must hate classic 80's TV. WKRP reference FTW

Indiana 2014

[bugs2squash]

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 ?

Bullshit.

[bmo]

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 [wikipedia.org]

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 [history.com]

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BMO - "You'll put your eye out!" /christmas_story