Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Arson & Explosives experts check
out a newspaper rack in Canyon Country.
Posted on 05/01/2006 4:21:13 PM PDT by Number57
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Arson & Explosives experts check
out a newspaper rack in Canyon Country.
A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming Mission: Impossible III got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a Californian news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the Mission: Impossible theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.
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LA should bill whoever was responsible for the installation for their time wasted on this PR stunt.
PR stunt gone bad..someone is going to be walking the unemployment line.
Well they say any publicity is good publicity. So actually somebody will probably get a raise, and a promotion.
Well, isn't it supposed to self-destruct in ten seconds?
Actually, it was five seconds.
I stand corrected. (Was never really a fan, could care less about Cruise's movie)
It would've been cool if Martin Landau or another one of the originals could've been in the first MI movie.
I love it!
I remember a short story about a man who lived in a Big Brother type era where he was constantly bombarded with ads. Even when he came home and opened the door there was an ad. Flip a light switch, there would be an ad. ads even appeared in his shaving mirror.
So through the Underground he finds an apartment that was unwired. Turns out it was a sting operation, and they hauled him off to a sanitarium.
Anyone else remember that, and knows who the author was? How prophetic.
Never read anything like it... I hope someone here refreshes your memory because it sounds like a good read & I wanna check it out :)
Another box office bomb.
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Oh, it was. If memory serves, it's at least 20 years old. I want to say I read it in an old Asimov sci-fi magazine, but am just not sure. It might have been in one of those collections that had forewords by Ellison or Bova, etc. (It was a short story, which is why I'm leaning to it being in Asimov's).
I'm hoping someone will remember too. Would like to find it and read it again.
... I swear I thought Turkeys could fly..
... I swear I thought Turkeys could fly..
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