Posted on 12/03/2007 9:15:59 AM PST by null and void
I just saw the most horrifying commercial of this Holiday Season.
It starts with "Dad" and kids in the car, the car stops off the road in the middle of the woods.
"Dad" grabs the GPS off the dash, and he and the kids march off into the woods.
Soon they come to a small clearing with a fir tree in it. "Dad" whips out a cell phone, and snaps a picture.
Scene change. Mom is wrapping presents by a soot and CO2 generating fire.
The computer chimes. She looks up. There is an image of the snow covered tree with her children in front. Under is the text: Is this the one?
She hits a few keys and a photo of a summer scene with the kids and the same tree pops up, she compares the pictures and texts back 'Yes'.
Scene shifts back to the woods in time to see the tree falling to the cheers of the kids.
Yes. Premeditated, long planned, sylvacide!
The horror of that moment is seared, seared into my memory.
The scene shifts to inside a well lit Radio Shack, full of happy, smiling consumers oblivious to the mini ecological disaster the store has enabled.
To rub salt into the wound, the voiceover announcer extols the virtues of how Radio Shack products made that act of vandalism possible.
People, we MUST DO about this outrage!
I’ll be heading over to Radio Shack to spend some money ... how’s that?
See you there...
time to ban CO2 fire extinguishers.
Drink more beer .... one must always be ready. ;)
LOL! Thanks.
I saw it too. Greenies will be standing in line behind the caveman to see their analysts this morning.
I killed a white pine this year.
Too bad the kids didn’t have on nice fur coats!
Gangway...
I’ll meet you both there. There’s one three blocks from here. Think I’ll drive my SUV ;D!
Hey Dad, while you’re out there, hunt down a caribou for Xmas dinner...
Huh?
We cut down trees in Colorado all the time. On the other hand you have to BUY A permit to do it.... and cut down from certain areas... etc (well, no problem there with that for me, otherwise we’d have NO trees anywhere! LOL)
I think I will spend money at RS this year too
Sylvacide
heh-heh
I saw it about an hour ago— and I’m still trying to get myself under control. To add insult to injury, they even had the unmitigated gall to end the commercial by wishing us all a “Merry Christmas” (whatever that is).
Just top 6 foot or so out of the pine on the ACLU’s front lawn.
Do as you see fit.
HATE CRIME!
Make sure you buy that nifty GPS unit so that you can find the best tree lot should you be locationally challenged in your neighborhood (or any other neighborhood), then take picture of treasured tree and send it to your love. After carting treasured tree home to your love, purchase carbon credit to offset your evil deed. It will make Al Gore’s Christmas that much merrier. All though I don’t know how Al and his “the world is burning up” friends can have a merry Christmas in such a dire age.
Merry Christmas!
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