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Title: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 13, 2011, 07:05:36 PM
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An advertising firm has been blasted after a billboard for The Walking Dead was put on the wall of a funeral parlour in Consett, County Durham.

An apology has been issued after the ad for The Walking Dead appeared on the side of The Co-operative Funeralcare.

Susan Jones, from the Willow Burn Hospice, in nearby Lanchester, said that while some people may see the funny side, others would not.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/13/article-1376415-0B9BAED500000578-738_634x337.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376415/In-bad-taste-Billboard-horror-The-Walking-Dead-posted-funeral-parlour.html?ITO=1490

I guess I'm in the former camp.
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Chris_ on April 13, 2011, 07:11:20 PM
That's a fancy-looking funeral home.  Do they get their caskets from Ikea?

There's a funeral home here that has a Chevrolet Blazer 4x4 as a hearse.  I guess they know their customer base.
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Thor on April 13, 2011, 07:41:35 PM
Quote from: chris_ on April 13, 2011, 07:11:20 PM
That's a fancy-looking funeral home.  Do they get their caskets from Ikea?

There's a funeral home here that has a Chevrolet Blazer 4x4 as a hearse.  I guess they know their customer base.

What would one expect of Tennessee Rednecks??
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Chris_ on April 13, 2011, 07:43:20 PM
Quote from: Thor on April 13, 2011, 07:41:35 PM
What would one expect of Tennessee Rednecks??
About as much as I would expect from Texas hillbillies.

It's in a squalid ghetto urban area of town.  You'd think they would have an '85 Caprice wagon on 24-inch rims instead.
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: BEG on April 13, 2011, 09:03:23 PM
I have never heard of a co-op funeral home.
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Chris_ on April 13, 2011, 09:04:46 PM
BYOF... Bring Your Own Embalming Fluid?
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Splashdown on April 13, 2011, 10:02:01 PM
yeah...putting that on my facebook...
Title: Re: Now THAT'S product placement
Post by: Karin on April 14, 2011, 08:11:06 AM
It's where 2 guys do all the work and rest of the hippies sit around smoking dope, strumming on the guitar and writing "poetry."