Gross, but Genius
Sep. 21st, 2006 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytHere's an article guaranteed to make you go "WTF"?
Wanna cut in line? Eat a live cockroach.
It does seem gross and bizzare, but if Six Flags has ironed out the potential legal issues (and they seem to have done), it's a brilliant marketing strategy. They'll get a lot of extra business from folks who think they can stomach a roach and get themselves free line-jumping passes...but my bet is that a lot of those hopefuls won't manage it.
They might have more trouble than they anticipate with cleaning up after the failures or spectators who have a weak stomach. You know, chewed-up bits of roach, vomit...
Wanna cut in line? Eat a live cockroach.
It does seem gross and bizzare, but if Six Flags has ironed out the potential legal issues (and they seem to have done), it's a brilliant marketing strategy. They'll get a lot of extra business from folks who think they can stomach a roach and get themselves free line-jumping passes...but my bet is that a lot of those hopefuls won't manage it.
They might have more trouble than they anticipate with cleaning up after the failures or spectators who have a weak stomach. You know, chewed-up bits of roach, vomit...
