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Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-Sidewalk Advertising
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:19:57 GMT
Wow -- this sounds like an April Fool's joke, but I think it's for real. :-) Via The Washington Post. [snip] The District [of Coulmbia] said yesterday that it fined Verizon Communications Inc. $1,050 for stenciling orange-red chalk ads on sidewalks across the city to promote its Yellow Pages. Verizon, the nation's second-largest phone company, thought it had found a nifty way to get consumers' attention when it began spraying about 135 chalk advertisements around the city on Sunday. "Looking for Something? Find it in the . . . Verizon Yellow Pages," read the roughly 2-by-3-foot ads that turned up on heavily trafficked sidewalks, including in Northwest near the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metro stop and on K Street downtown. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101792.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-Sidewalk Advertising Dude VanWinkle (Apr 01)
- Re: Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-Sidewalk Advertising Drsolly (Apr 01)
- RE: Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-SidewalkAdvertising William Lefkovics (Apr 01)
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- Re: Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-Sidewalk Advertising Technocrat (Apr 02)
- Re: Verizon Fined by District for Chalk-on-Sidewalk Advertising Dude VanWinkle (Apr 01)