Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 13, 2013, 10:56:37 AM
-
Yeah, no way this idea could backfire:
Twenty people were injured, with seven sent to hospital, when a promotional stunt in Seoul for LG's G2 smartphone went wrong, the company has said.
LG has cancelled a series of events promoting the handset as a result of the incident in Seoul on Friday.
People arrived with BB guns and knives on sticks for a race to grab smartphone vouchers hanging from helium balloons.
LG has taken responsibility for the situation and said it would cover related medical costs.
"LG Electronics deeply regrets that a number of Korean participants were injured during an outdoor promotional event in Seoul, Korea," a statement from the firm said.
LG released 100 helium balloons, each with a free smartphone voucher, at the so-called G in the Cloud event, which took place in an outdoor park in the South Korean capital city.
Customers arrived with BB guns to shoot down the balloons and surged forward when they were released.
One person carried a pointed staff to the event.
One regional TV channel has dubbed the scrum "World War G" - a comparison to the film World War Z in which zombies scramble over each other to climb over a wall.
-
"People arrived with BB guns and knives on sticks for a race to grab smartphone vouchers hanging from helium balloons."
Yep. Smartest idea in the world right there.
-
Any alcohol served?
-
If they held that event in Chicago with some of the toughest gun restriction laws in the world there would be a lot of dead people.
-
LG, for a company that makes some REAL nice stuff, makes very crappy smartphones....they're not even worth shooting someone over
-
And crappy dishwashers
-
LG, for a company that makes some REAL nice stuff, makes very crappy smartphones....they're not even worth shooting someone over
my LG has lasted me years. Then again its a few I.Q. points short of being a smartphone