{"id":2420,"date":"2010-09-10T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2010-09-10T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T03:46:29","slug":"15-crazy-publicity-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/10\/15-crazy-publicity-stunts\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Crazy Publicity Stunts"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by ProspectMX<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Any economist will tell you that the world runs on hard work, natural resources and ceaseless innovation. Crafty companies and individuals have discovered that 100% of economists are boring and liars. The world in fact runs on a variety of drugs, broken dreams, and\u2013most important of all\u2013fame. To this end, they have gone out of their way to concoct the most harebrained stunts that rocket them to fame and success. Or infamy and sleaze, but this is pop culture so the line is a fine one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n In the quest for a PR stunt that would shock, appall and certainly be featured on FOX news, Real Men Outdoor Productions decided to host an \u201cadult paintball\u201d extravaganza. Male participants would go into the arena, shoot as many women as possible, then have the option of\u2026er\u2026\u201deating\u201d what they killed.<\/a> In case you can\u2019t see where this is going, the non-PG description is essentially the program was billed as a prostitution ring where first you were allowed to hunt and painfully bruise<\/a> the hookers.<\/p>\n Just about everyone from women\u2019s groups to conservatives were up in arms over the mixture of prostitution, human cruelty and destroying our childhoods by associating Bambi with sex. The truly ridiculous part of this story is, though Real Men Outdoor Productions initially pitched the concept as a farcical stunt in order to sell pre-existing videos of naked women being hunted by paintballers, society kind of liked the idea<\/a> and Real Men Outdoor Productions now offers the service for real.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n In 2001, someone apparently remembered the gambling paradise that is international waters and decided to apply this idea to other less-selfish illegal things. What sort of illegal things? Hows about abortion<\/a>. The group Women on Waves, which is based in the Netherlands, decided to get a giant ship and sail to Dublin, where abortion is illegal. Once they loaded up the pregnant mothers, they would sail to international waters, where Dutch laws apply on the ship and abortions could be legally performed.<\/p>\n Designed as mostly a publicity stunt to raise awareness of women\u2019s issues, the trip was wildly successful despite uproar from both the Irish and Dutch governments. According to some sources, it was even responsible for shifting public opinion positively in favor of abortion rights. But the crazy thing about international waters is that it\u2019s an area where Women on Waves\u2019 greatest asset (no laws) became its greatest liability. After a successful second voyage to Poland, the Portuguese realized they didn\u2019t have to screw around in these lawless waters and sent a freaking warship out to intercept the yacht.<\/p>\n\u201dHunting for Bambi\u201d<\/h3>\n
Women on Waves<\/h3>\n
Cashtomato.com\u2019s Cash Giveaway<\/h3>\n