What some people will say to promote their product

[Setabs]

101 Dumbest Moments in Business

#26
"If there's a burglar in my home, maybe I send an e-mail or a text message to the police instead of making a call."

-- Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, on his VOIP service's lack of 911 access.

anyone know their pd's email or number that accepts text messages?  didn't think so.

[ChadTower]

Grand Prize Winner, Dumbest Moment of 2005
Bubble Trouble
"If you grew up in Danvers, and you remember it as the spooky place on the hill, it might not be the right place to live."

William McLaughlin, an executive with AvalonBay Communities, which is converting boarded-up Massachusetts mental institution Danvers State Hospital into a 497-unit complex of high-end apartments and condos. That sound you hear? Not the ghosts of mental patients, but loud hissing from the wildly inflated housing bubble.

I used to live RIGHT NEAR THERE.  That WAS a ---smurfing--- scary place.  We'd ride up there at night sometimes, me and my friends, all bold and 16 and drunk... and leave screaming and practically pissing ourselves.  If you went IN the buildings (they had been broken into a billion times), oh man, you could walk through rooms and see the cells, the rubber rooms, the hospital ward, the shock rooms... the CREMATORIUM. 

They filmed this horror movie in that place and the movie didn't do it HALF justice.  Set alone on a secluded hill that place was enough to make the boldest guy run like Scooby and Shaggy.  That place wasn't a nice mental house, that was one of the abandon all hope ye who enter here evil institutions.

The land around that area is so insanely expensive now that a few years ago they tore down an old WWI TUBERCLUOSIS QUARANTINE HOSPITAL to put up condos... the building had been a biohazard offlimits site for 50+ years.  When they dug up the lot they found hundreds of unmarked graves.  Who the hell wants to live there?

[ChadTower]

Heh, now that I think about it... that TB quarantine site was within a short walk of JoyMonkey's place... enjoy.   

[ChadTower]

Winner, Dumbest Moment, Outsourcing
Told you we shouldn't have rented that list from the Department of Homeland Security.

Blaming a mailing-list vendor for providing bad information, JPMorgan Chase apologizes for sending a form letter about its credit card services to an Arab American man in California addressed to "Palestinian Bomber."

Okay, that one made me laugh.

[RayB]

The two photo galleries on this site DO do justice to how creepy Danvers is:
http://www.opacity.us/site22.htm

[ChadTower]

Creepy photos but they can't reproduce the feel of being in there.  It's like diving in the Titanic.  The property has this BUZZ of negativity to it, you can practically taste it as you're walking through.  Like barely contained despair and anguish.  My friend once told me it was how he imagined it would feel being inside the containment unit the Ghostbusters used if it were real.  Even if you didn't know what the property was you'd totally freak out walking across it.

I know quite a few people who have been arrested for trespassing now that they have 24 hour patrolling security... but they didn't always have that. 

[ChadTower]

Reading through this site, I cannot believe those idiots.  They seem to think the property is some national treasure.  It's an evil place.  I've been there and have known people who were IN there while it was still in operation.  This is the real life stuff of horror movies, the things you see set in the 60s and think "crap that would never really happen IRL".

[ChadTower]

Man, the more I think about this, the worst I think it's going to get, that new project.  They are going to find all KINDS of surprises on that land.  They think there's only one small cemetary.  Pfft.  That place used to hold nearly 3000 mental patients, severely retarded people, criminally insane folks, extreme geriatrics... thousands in, not nearly thousands out.  There have to be unmarked graves EVERYWHERE on that property.

[More Cowbell]

Craig T. Nelson: You forgot to move the bodies didn't ya!!!

[ChadTower]

When they dug up the TB hospital site to build the foundation they found hundreds of unmarked graves that no one knew were there... some of them were mass graves.  This is going to be so much worse if it beomes public knowledge.