Holds Hands, Heat Up

As a marketing stunt, Duracell created a bus shelter up in chilly Montreal that would heat up, but only if the people in the shelter were holding hands.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I would find it a bit annoying if I had to remove my gloves in the freezing weather to get the heater to work... and then stand there, arms spread apart. Plus, what if you really didn't want to be touching whomever had stumbled into the shelter with you? And what if you were there alone?

More info at HuffPost.

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Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 18, 2014
Category: Publicity Stunts

Comments

Be fair, though, you're not losing anything. You're merely not gaining something you would otherwise not have had in the first place. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to stand in any of the other, completely unheated shelters, or in the healthy Montreal open air.

Posted by Richard Bos on 03/18/14 at 11:33 AM

Awwwww Alex, you're just not a romantic!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/18/14 at 12:15 PM

How long would I have to stand in there to roast a chicken?

Posted by KDP on 03/18/14 at 05:13 PM

If you heat the bus shelter it will just intensify the pee smell.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/18/14 at 07:37 PM

Actually Patty, with enough bladder pressure you could pee accross the shelter, complete the circuit by yourself and not have to hold hands with anybody!

Posted by crc on 03/18/14 at 10:01 PM

The people on the bus all
Smell like PEE!
Smell like PEE!
Smell like PEE!
The people on the bus all
Smell like PEE!
Because somebody PEED! :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 03/18/14 at 10:09 PM

Ty! :lol: :lol: That's great!!

Great idea crc!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/18/14 at 10:27 PM

Now that song has been stuck in my head and I feel the need to include a verse for BD! http://youtu.be/eI9iY3X12pw?t=32s

Posted by Tyrusguy on 03/19/14 at 08:37 AM

Drove a bus. If somebody peed I'd have to clean it up. Puke was the worst. That's still funny, though.

Posted by Mr Evilwrench on 03/19/14 at 12:30 PM

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