Thursday, August 7, 2008

Greyhound Cancels Strangely Prophetic Ad Campaign


Did you hear about the gruesome bus attack? I did, and frankly, I can't believe I didn't post something about it before this. In Canada, a man boarded a bus, and then later viciously murdered a seatmate for no apparent reason. It seems like a scene from a horror movie, but was all too real.

What's almost as weird, is that Greyhound came up with an ad campaign claiming that there was no such thing as "bus rage." Yikes. Synchronicity is a desirable thing in many advertising campaigns, but not like this.

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Greyhound has decided that its ad campaign will have to be pulled after the recent decapitation and cannibalism of one of its passengers by another passenger. Greyhound campaign proclaimed: “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.’” Well, we’ve heard a bit about it now. . .

Read more at: Jonathan Turley

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