Following the pulling of Killzone 2 adverts in Toronto, it seems that a nearby bus company is jumping on the bandwagon. The York Region Transit line of bus shelters had received a complaint about the "scary" poster, but ignored it until Sony Canada starting pulling them in Toronto. Now the company has sprung into action with quickness and efficiency.
On its own, this story isn't really news, but the nature of the complaint is just too funny to ignore. A three-year-old boy refused to go to school after seeing the Killzone 2 ad, complete with glaring, red-eyed Helghast mask. According to his father, the boy genuinely thought that a Helghast "monster" would be in the school, waiting to get him.
"He really thought what he saw was going to be inside the complex," explained Mr. Rennie.
While it's unfair, wrong and blatantly immature to mock an innocent and naive child, I'm still going to do it. What a stupid idiot, doesn't he even know that they're not real? I know that. Such a moronic little dickhead, actually. If I were his father, I'd have hit him in the head and given the little coward something real to be frightened of.
Crybaby.
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7:00 PM on 03.14.2009
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Massive cooperation's advertising and million dollar marketing plans toppled by the girlish complaints of a young boy.
How very sad.
I bet if I had gotten eaten they would have been SO SORRY.
No seriously, he's three, with the right style, you could make Barney scary to him.
Replace Killzone 2 poster with Killzone 2 Poster of ISA Space ships descending upon Helgast whilst being attacked by lighting?
Idiot children
The Government is always watching....
You should write a book on good parenting!
No...you should write THE book on good parenting!
Don't you listen to the Podcastle?
Jim molests his stepson. (He says he does, then says he doesn't - it's the perfect cover!!)
JK Jim
Solution: Compulsory blinding at birth.
100% agree... Except it's Daddy that's the real XBOT!
I know some people from the area they're talking about. Try walking down Queen street with your three year old on a Friday or Saturday night. If the homeless don't scare him, the club kids will. try instilling some guts in your kid and tell them "it's not real" or "it's just a video game, you won't see it at school" or the best thing "you're going to school whether you like it or not".
How about the kid quits being a crybaby, and act like a little boy! you know.. Snips and snails, and puppy-dog tails'?
Being the nerd that I am I find myself quoting a movie I saw when I was young. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will not fear."
Great post, dude. Great post.
True story.
http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/66/MPW-33402
http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/76/MPW-38290
http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/79/MPW-39605