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Old 05-13-2008, 03:59 PM
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"oh i want a hippopotamus for christmas"

The baby hippo died after that old media campaign spun down, in case anyone would like to know. Telus's commercial was kinda morbid I think actually lol. When I saw the ad for a "stingray touch tank" at the c-train station I knew there were some nasties going on and eventually something would happen. First off they file off the stingers of the rays. I'm sure some people'd question whether that's humane. And then you've got hundreds of hands in the water; if all those introduced chemicals aren't a recipe for disaster I don't know what is.

I'm singling it out as a marketing gimick to get people going to the zoo. Unfortunately it was at the cost of the animals. I dislike PETA but I think the zoo crossed a line in order to collect more entrance fees
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