20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event 151
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.
any pub is good pub (Score:2)
Re:any pub is good pub (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:any pub is good pub (Score:5, Funny)
but the phallusy that all publicity is good, hardly.
I so hope that was deliberate
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You misunderstand the GP, he's British and commented in the wrong thread. He's saying any TAVERN is a good tavern. Not that I agree with him, but...
"Any pub." Sheesh, you guys are lazy. If you're too lazy to spell it out, just lurk.
Is it good pub if it causes you to fail? (Score:5, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org].
The publicity from his second scandal is doing a fine job of killing his bid to be the NYC mayor [businessinsider.com].
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.
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Well, it got you talking about him
Yes, people are talking about him. So?
Talking about what? The article is about "a contest gone wrong at LG's G2 release event." So, apparently one two-letter acronym was releasing another two-letter acronym. I don't even know what country this event was in. It does quote "El Reg," so I assume it's Spanish-speaking.
Stupid acronyms.
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Well, it got you talking about him
Yes, people are talking about him. So?
Talking about what? The article is about "a contest gone wrong at LG's G2 release event." So, apparently one two-letter acronym was releasing another two-letter acronym. I don't even know what country this event was in. It does quote "El Reg," so I assume it's Spanish-speaking.
Stupid acronyms.
They talk about 950,000 won ($852.54) smartphone - the won, apparently is the South Korean currency (hell, I didn't realise til I googled it)
Re:any pub is good pub (Score:5, Funny)
any pub is good pub
Not this one [wikipedia.org], no.
Bullshit. (Score:5, Interesting)
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]
-- /christmas_story
BMO - "You'll put your eye out!"
Re:any pub is good pub (Score:5, Funny)
Les Nessman: I'm here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest turkey event in Thanksgiving Day history. All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there are going to be a lot of happy people out here. Now the crowd is...
[passers-by gawk at Les]
Les Nessman: The... the crowd is uh... curious but well behaved. And I think I hear something now. Uh... The crowd is moving out into the parking area. And... oh yes! I can see it now. It's a... it's a... helicopter and it's coming this way!
Andy Travis: A helicopter?
Les Nessman: It's flying something behind it and I can't quite make it out. It's a large banner and it says H A P P Y... T H A N K S... giving... from W... K... R... P! What a sight, ladies and gentlemen. What a sight. The 'copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it's looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air... There's a third... No parachutes yet... Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but... Oh my God! They're turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Folks, I don't know how much longer... The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to step inside. I can't stand here and watch this anymore. No, I can't go in there. Children are searching for their mothers and oh, not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this. I don't know how much longer I can hold my position here, Johnny. The crowd...
Dr. Johnny Fever: Les? Les? Les, are you there? Les isn't there. Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les. For those of you who've just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You want me, Mr. Carlson?
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah. Come in, Jennifer. Have a seat.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: No, thank you.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Well all right. At this particular point in time, I would like to dictate a press release.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't take dictation.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: What? Alright, I guess I can do this thing myself. It's probably going to be a long meeting though; so why don't you get coffee for all the guys here?
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't get coffee, Mr. Carlson. We agreed.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You have to draw the line somewhere.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: You got that right.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Will there be anything else I can do?
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: No. I think that about does it.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Thank you.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, no. Thank you.
Les Nessman: How does she get away with that?
Herbert 'Herb' Tarlek: Are you kidding?
[Les walks in, looking dazed]
Venus Flytrap: Les! Are you okay?
Les Nessman: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered but, some of them tried to attack *me*! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr. Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Venus Flytrap: [to Andy] *How* is it strange?
Andy Travis: Yeah, right. Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les Nessman: [freaked out] I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack! It was almost as if they were... organized!
[Mr. Carlson comes out of his office]
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
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The best part was:
Read the rest of this comment... [slashdot.org]
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What a cliffhanger.
Also known as... (Score:1)
"We couldn't have expected better results if we had planned it."
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"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
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Wild turkeys can fly. [wikipedia.org]
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"... unlike their domestic counterparts ..."
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Because domestic turkeys are bred for the amount of meat they have, nothing else.
In fact, they're so big that they can't be put back in the wild - they're too big to even mate. Domestic turkey farms rely on artificial insemination in order to breed them.
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Was Les Nessman doing a live broadcast for this event too?
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They should have included vouchers for Red Wigglers instead.
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Red Wigglers - the Cadillac of worms!
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Was Les Nessman doing a live broadcast for this event too?
Not sure if I'm lauging at the reference, or laughing at how many people will need to google Les Nessman Turkey
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lmgtfy [youtube.com]
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WKRP in Cincinnati [youtube.com] episode (for those who didn't see it back when).
Cheers,
Dave
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Or,
"I don't care who you are. That's funny right there."
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Thank copyright for not being able to see it in reruns
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Actually, I believe you can see it in reruns.
About the only difference between syndication and the original broadcast episodes are the music--in the original episodes (and, sadly, I'm old enough to remember them) they used music that you'd hear on the radio. In syndication, since they didn't want to pay again for the right to air the music, they replaced it with generic rock music.
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Does that mean you can't see the episode where Johnny Fever/Howard Hesseman is lip syncing to "Carabvan"?
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Bullshit. I have seen reruns of WKRP within the last week. Granted, it's on some oddball channel, but they are being rerun.
Same thing with Matlock, The Saint, Stargate SG-1 and a whole host of other "old" shows.
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SG-1 is old? *puts fingers into ears* LA-LA-LA-LA i can't hear you!
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You're not seeing the original episodes. They haven't taken out much of the original music.
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Uhh... (Score:4, Insightful)
Apparently they are.
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You don't bring a BB gun to a knife fight. Except in Fallout.
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Hey they didn't say they were stuffing the vouchers in mole rats.
Link? (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/12/20_injured_at_lg_smartphone_giveaway_as_pr_stunt_turns_sour/
Link? (Score:2, Informative)
So why did no one bother to ensure there was a link to the article from which the submission was plucked [theregister.co.uk]? Stop being so sloppy, Unknown Lamer.
Re:Link? (Score:5, Funny)
Be fair - nobody reads the stories anyway.
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Be fair - nobody reads the stories anyway.
I have no idea what you answered to, or even said, but I too want to participate.
Link? (Score:5, Informative)
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/ [theregister.co.uk]
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Yes, it is too much to ask. This is slashdot.
video (Score:1)
http://www.ibtimes.com/lg-g2-release-goes-wrong-20-people-accidentally-shot-bb-guns-marketing-event-video-1382105 [ibtimes.com]
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"This video is private" :(
Mirror?
Oh Shit! (Score:1)
Re:Oh Shit! (Score:4, Funny)
"Kimchi"
You're welcome.
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People aren’t stupid. (Score:2)
Yes they are. This story proves that.
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We'll at least they weren't american they would be using bird shot.
Inaccurate summary (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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Buzzkill.
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I agree. The bb gun guys (hopefully) waited until they were high enough to pick off. The people hurt were probably the idiots piling up on eachother trying to get up that wall.
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You have proof of that? How often do the guns make the decision to shoot? The reality is, the people who choose to shoot other people with guns, or otherwise hurt them with other tools, are where the evil comes from. And no, I am not a Republican.
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Actually, considering the number of people who are accidentally shot when the gun "just goes off" while it is being cleaned [kivitv.com], put in a holster [onlineathens.com], unloaded [tricountyleader.com], or simply held [wnep.com], I wouldn't be too sure that those guns aren't out to get us.
According to the NRA, all gun owners are highly responsible people, so it can't be the people who own the guns. It must be the guns themselves. They're out to get us, I tell ya!
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And what is that number exactly? It is fewer than incidents involving the daily cleaning ritual but why bother with reality when an asshole has a chance to bad-mouth a political opponent.
Actually, the NRA readily admits that a certain percentage of gun owners are not only irresponsible but should not be gun owners. The NRA usually refers to them as known criminals.
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Actually, the NRA readily admits that a certain percentage of gun owners are not only irresponsible but should not be gun owners. The NRA usually refers to them as known criminals.
Or Police Officers. [jacksonvilleprogress.com]
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you are silly, in 2012 there were 851 accidental deaths from firearms in the USA. Meanwhile, 26,000 people fell to their deaths (tall things ARE out to get you), 33,000 people died of poisoning (the little skull label is out to get you, or the rotten food if he doesn't), 33,000 in vehicle accidents (chrisine has spawn, and they're all after you), 7800 in fire (the match head will light you up).......guns are down the list...
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Actually, all of those things are out to get me. That's why I carry a gun wherever I go. If some tall thing tries to get me, I'll shoot it!
Needless to say, yes, I am being silly. It's sort of a reference to the joke about trees jumping in front of cars and skiers and such and how the trees are out to get us.
I'd be really curious about your references for those numbers, though. I tried to look up the number of deaths from falling, but the best I could find was the World Health Organization's fact sheet a [who.int]
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those were for the USA for 2012....for small numbers we can post all the digits, the big ones so many died it might be give or take a few hundred.
but I was wrong about the tall things, it's mother earth always sucking at us with her gravity hoping we accelerate for a long enough time to break our bodies
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I suspect 90% of people who die "accidentally while cleaning their gun" actually committed suicide but the family does not want to admit it.
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The amount of ignorance regarding the same handling guns is unbelievable but a couple things to keep in mind is: THE GUN IS ALWAYS LOADED, NO EXCEPTIONS and the other is TO ALWAYS KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER.
If you keep the mentality that the gun is always loaded and ready to fire then you and the people around you will be a lot safer; its kind of like t
Why BB guns? (Score:2)
I think I might have preferred a low-flying blimp, and a giant net.....
Re:Why BB guns? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, until some enterprising guy with a bb gun realized that you are really just another balloon.
From the Homer Simpson School of Marketing (Score:2)
"My marketing plan attracted a record number of police and fire officials, but few stayed to bowl."
Offtopic Alert (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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You're a clueless noob. Off with your head.
BTW, the lamer is about the only decent "editor" on slashdot. Bust his head when appropriate, but pat him on the back as well.
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20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event
Where appropriate.
I'll pat any editor on the back that posts a store that doesn't result in numerous "Here's the link to TFA" comments as well as "The headline is completely misleading" comments - I want (some) quality discussion.
Indiana 2014 (Score:2, Interesting)
BB Guns (Score:1)
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Ah yes, LG. (Score:2)
LG
Loonatics with Guns.
Wow, I tell you what, Wow. (Score:2)
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
knife of a stick? (Score:2)
Seriously, how did that happen? Morons!
Whoa (Score:2)
Shot with battleships guns? 16" guns like BB-61 Iowa? Jeeze, those 2700 pound shells are enough to ruin your day.
As God as my witness..... (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg [youtube.com]
B-)
Re:So, You're Saying... (Score:5, Insightful)
You shoot a balloon. Someone else gets the (your) voucher. What to do, what to do?
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Re:So, You're Saying... (Score:5, Informative)
"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 [youtube.com])
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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.
Re:False reporting - 20 people were not shot! (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, it's not false reporting. It's just Slashdot pasting a misleading headline onto what was otherwise an accurately reported story.
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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)
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Without a link, this is just rumor-mongering.
The link goes to The Register. So it's really not much better.
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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.
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(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
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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.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_won [wikipedia.org]
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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?
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Seriously. You can't recognize a unit conversion when you see it?
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They are BB's how much gore do you expect...