Video: Brooklyn Bridge Jumper Lands in Vat of Viral Marketing

Does last night's big Massachusetts victory for the tea-bagging right have you contemplating jumping off a bridge? Be careful how you time it, because you might end up landing in a delicious vat of chocolate and peanut butter (instead of dead). It happened to the guy in this video, who appears to be jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge just for the hell of it, and certainly not for some kind of stupid advertising stunt. Corporate America really missed a great opportunity here, because this would have been such a clever way to subtly promote all sorts of products, and then get the Internets to spread brand awareness for free!

This video was sent to us with a link to this website, and though our brains are telling us this was surely done using some kind of Cloverfield-level CGI, our stomachs are telling us to believe... and to go buy some prole candy right now. As such, we have no choice but to spread this virus. M&M's forever!

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By John Del Signore in News on January 20, 2010 10:08 AM

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Darrell

They really messed up the HDR on that brooklyn bridge.

chuzzlewit

i didn't watch it!

ckl

I hold all of you "What does this have to do with New York?" assholes responsible for this post.

thefacts

Annoying is too kind. Why were we not warned we were going to be watching a really stupid ad? Was Gothamist paid for this?

On a more relevant note pertaining to NYC and not Italy, there will be a benefit for Tuli Kupferberg this Friday at St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn.

Tuli is a native NYer and a co-founder of the proto-punk band, The Fugs, who was immortalized by Alan Ginsburg in Howl for "jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and no one noticed". (Actually it was the Manhattan Bridge.)

He suffered two strokes this year at 86 and is now blind.

This is what Gothamist should be promoting, not some annoying Italian TV commercial!!

Comic Book Guy

"Why were we not warned we were going to be watching a really stupid ad?" Yes, how could we have possibly known, especially with SUCH a deceptive title: "Brooklyn Bridge Jumper Lands in Vat of Viral Marketing"

thefacts

Because it was not a "jumper", it was a cartoon character! Hello!

With the userID you have, perhaps you get reality and the comix mixed up at times.