5 Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Extremely Wrong [Pics]

weburbanist.com — Guerilla marketing can be a very risky business. Some guerilla marketers who have crossed the line have caused everything from Olympic belly-flops to city-wide bomb scares and have been punished with anything from modest jail time to millions of dollars in fines. Here are five very colorful examples of guerilla marketing gone very very wrong. May 6, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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epuck May 7, 2008

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Each phone call the police made cost probably 100,000 dollars, Number of calls made ~ during the event,100, divided by the cost of the phone infrastructure in Boston. Don't forget to add in the cost of all the computers and cop cars that had to be made to contain the LED attack.

myonosken May 7, 2008

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"Is your hair sorry?"

rennie246 May 7, 2008

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"Some divers were apparently put off by the intervention and subsequently failed to complete their dives." Seriously? What kind of Olympic athelete would do that?The police man's response to the Zune posters was quite amusing though.