Suspicious? I should coco...
Just seen this on the BBC website.
London's Haymarket is completely closed this morning after police carried out a controlled explosion in the early hours of this morning after reports of a "suspicious vehicle."
I've just checked and, funnily enough, the closure means that nobody at Edelman can get into work today.
Anything for a long weekend, eh..?
Did anyone notice that Robert Phillips' email to all staff came about 10 seconds after the fuzz discovered the device. J'accuse!
ReplyDeleteDunno about blaming Edelman - its more likely to be work of new Labour spinmeisters. Perfect beginning to Gordon's new job - start as you mean to go on...
ReplyDeletesurely it's the anti-chav league? taking out Tiger Tiger and Burbery HQ in one go?
ReplyDeleteCohn & Wolfe "working from home" too?
ReplyDeleteWould you be laughing if it had gone off? Boundaries....
ReplyDelete"surely it's the anti-chav league? taking out Tiger Tiger and Burbery HQ in one go?"
ReplyDeleteHaha!
There seem to be an awful lot of references to Edelman on here. Maybe you should spread the bile around more TWL?
ReplyDeleteFiggis - Edelman's the only PR company I know of with offices on Haymarket! I couldn't find another reference...
ReplyDeleteAnon - "Would you be laughing if it had gone off? Boundaries.... "
No, we wouldn't...but it didn't, so we did. And what's with the cricket thing?
"Would you be laughing if it had gone off? Boundaries...."
ReplyDeleteUhm no, I doubt any one would be, unless they were sick in the head. Making fun out of bad situation is part of the British psyche.
TWL - I just meant in general, not this case which is of course spot on.
ReplyDelete"Would you be laughing if it had gone off? Boundaries.... "
ReplyDeleteAs TWL said, no. But it didn't so get over it. You're clearly a PR who has never used a dwarf in a promotional stunt...
Why oh why didn't he park it in Croydon or Liverpool?!
ReplyDeleteIt's ridiculous, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteUsed to be that a fella could quite happily drive around central London a little bit drunk with a couple of refills for his SodaStream in the boot. Now he gets pinged as a suicide bomber.
It's political correctness gone mad.
> As TWL said, no. But it didn't so get over it. You're clearly a PR who has never used a dwarf in a promotional stunt...<
ReplyDeleteAre there any?
>>"Are there any?"<<
ReplyDeletedwarves - there's plenty. You never seen Time Bandits..??
Personally, I have many times driven like an idiot with a couple of propane bottles and/or a couple of jerry cans of super-unleaded in the back of the motor - doesn't make me a terrorist.
How on earth anyone can take this seriously is beyond me. I thought terrorists were supposed to keep a low profile? This dickhead sways down haymarket like a pissed MP, parks like a delivery driver and then legs it without turning his lights off.
You couldn't make it up. Oh hang on, I think they did.....
Having just read BBC online's lead story on the Haymarket thingy I wanted to flag it as a terrible piece of journalism (because it makes a change from flagging bad PR...)
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252276.stm
It reports on an avoided incident and calm, appropriate emergency proceedures. It then quotes two BBC correspondants (since when is it acceptable to quote your own colleague as an expert on your story) being incredibly sensationalist. My favourite snippets are:
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said ... that the driver of the car was now Britain's "most wanted".
The BBC's Daniela Relph, at the scene, said the heart of London was completely closed off.
The plot thickens. Park Lane to Hyde Park Corner has been cordoned off because of suspicious vehicle.
ReplyDeleteKnowing the locals it's probably just a Nissan Sunny and they're worried a commoner may be loose.
Note that I'm not the hummourless boundaries chap/ess.
ReplyDeleteBut it got me thinking about one of the responses. I haven't used a dwarf but have used a trio of transvestites, someone with multiple sclerosis, a haemophilliac and Fred Housego.
Are you Michael Barrymore?
ReplyDeleteisn't anyone at least a little excited? not by the prospect of loads dying - but by the prospect of a copper running around london trying to defuse the bombs. It's like Van Damme's comeback film Sudden Death or Die Hard 3: Die Hard with vengence. I hope the copper has a dirty white vest and a comedy sidekick. Yippee Ky Yay Mother f...
ReplyDeleteRipe for a tastless PR stunt for the new Die hard film
Oi! Stop nicking your jokes from the Popbitch board!
ReplyDelete>>"I haven't used a dwarf but have used a trio of transvestites, someone with multiple sclerosis, a haemophilliac and Fred Housego"<<
ReplyDeletePlease tell me you didn't use them all in the same promo..??
Without saying too much I didn't nick anything from the board.
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering if any of Edelman or C&W's clients noticed that their agencies weren't in the office?
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There was a dwarf doing balloon animals at some Xbox game launch where all the drinks had a green theme about 4 years ago now. That was great.
ReplyDeleteDoes having a client nicknamed 'the poison dwarf' count?
ReplyDeletemore posts on dwarves please
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