Splinter Cell Stunt Goes Stupidly Wrong

[8bitlove2a03]

Well hullo New Reason For Me To Lose Faith In Humanity. How are you today?

 

[PhiMed]

What would've happened if this had gone "right"? What other outcome could they have expected from this?

 

[Jared]

...They didnt see this as a bad idea...? Well, its certainly no surprise it ended like it did.

You go like that in public and people are gonna get irate...

 

[ark123]

<The whole thing was just a stunt to promote Ubisoft's new Splinter Cell: Conviction.

SHOCKING

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

What the fuck is wrong with people?

 

[RathWolf]

No on involved at any level realised: "wait a minute, this is a TERRIBLE idea"? No one?

Well, you know, one guy suggested it, and the rest went along....like sheep. HA HA, New Zealand.

 

[BrunDeign]

What's that saying?

There is no such thing as bad publicity?

 

[geldonyetich]

Jebus, the people running Ubisoft apparently have way more money than sense.

 

[esperandote]

At least the weren't advertising rapelay

 

[Soxafloppin]

This isnt even a joke!

They could have been creative with it.

 

[Quaxar]

Wow, that was a pointless and stupid idea... kudos to whoever actually thought of that wonderful stunt!

 

[Inuprince]

Wow... I don't know what happened to Ubisoft lately but in a few months we will be getting news of being arrested for making their stuntmen do Leaps of Faith from skyscrapers ... into trashcans full of diapers ...

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

That little act of stupid is now given the *facepalm*. I mean seriously if you didn't want people thinking you were serious then use a gun with an orange tip on the end.

Good point. Could you imagine if this had been done in a gun-happy place in the US?

This man would because human swiss cheese.

I remember a Darwin Award about a man who tried to rob a gun store (with a police car sitting right out side). He a single shot into the ceiling, demanded money, and got shot down by every person in the place.

Seems very similar no?

 

[cikame]

I saw the picture first and thought someone had written "Infiltrate The Mansion" on someones house.

 

[Baldr]

STOP BLAMING UBISOFT YOU IDIOTS.

Ubisoft had nothing to do with it, other than it was splinter cell. The company who should be blamed is Monaco Corp, which is in charge of branding Ubisoft's products in New Zealand.

If it happen in the U.S. there is no doubt someone in the crowd would have horrible hurt/killed the actor.

 

[Asehujiko]

Tl;dr version: ubisoft are retards. Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Anyone else think it would have been hilarious for him to be shot? Just for his idiocy?

Not killed, but at least injured for a fair few months.

 

[Tharwen]

We all know that would have been better off as a Can't Touch This dance routine with the words 'Splinter Cell: Conviction' somehow fitted into it.

 

[mexicola]

"Oh, I know! Let's send a guy with a gon to a bar!"
"I can't see anything possibly go wrong with it, ok let's do it."

 

[CheckD3]

Hopefully they made the game with better ideas than this, because if this is a representation of the game, then it's gotta be bad...