It’s become a yearly ‘thing’ for Aussie companies to play such pranks with the public each April Fool’s Day. Over thirty years ago, entrepreneur Dick Smith put one over on mass media: he’d had a large frame erected on a barge, and on the night of March 31st had it covered in white sail cloth down to the waterline. Early the next day he did a press release about him solving Sydney’s chronic water shortage, by towing icebergs from Australian Antartic waters and claiming the fresh meltwater. This was concurrent with his huge barge being towed into the middle of Sydney Harbour, replete with him waving from the top of the ‘iceberg’. The media were sucked in, made right fools of themselves. Smith made himself the public’s favourite with such harmless pranks.
I walked into ONE IKEA in Tulsa. After a few minutes I decided to leave,, and they Absolutely would Not let me out the way I came in. I had to walk up and down aisles to go through their little maze. Yeah, not me,,won’t go in another one. And I already have both of those tools. Hell, no wonder they screwed up, I’m a mechanic and I can’t tell them apart.
Notice the date at the very bottom.
Gotcha!
Left-hand vs right-hand Crescent wrenches..
Then you have the metric vs SAE Cresent wrenches. Don’t get me started on the left handed Whitworth ones.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
And the Aussie web address (dot com dot au), Phil. That is why I posted the comment above. Never trust any ad by an Australian company, or as evidenced, an Aust section of a mega-corp on April 1st, they just love to play silly buggers. That’s fine, especially if they hook the media. You played a big enough joke yourself, letting your pal Cederq loose on the roads with his one-man convoy.
Several years ago, I thought it would be a joke of a “metric” crescent wrench. Couple days later a car ran off the road by my driveway. Low and behold, a Metric crescent wrench (made in china) was part of the stuff behind.
It’s become a yearly ‘thing’ for Aussie companies to play such pranks with the public each April Fool’s Day. Over thirty years ago, entrepreneur Dick Smith put one over on mass media: he’d had a large frame erected on a barge, and on the night of March 31st had it covered in white sail cloth down to the waterline. Early the next day he did a press release about him solving Sydney’s chronic water shortage, by towing icebergs from Australian Antartic waters and claiming the fresh meltwater. This was concurrent with his huge barge being towed into the middle of Sydney Harbour, replete with him waving from the top of the ‘iceberg’. The media were sucked in, made right fools of themselves. Smith made himself the public’s favourite with such harmless pranks.
I walked into ONE IKEA in Tulsa. After a few minutes I decided to leave,, and they Absolutely would Not let me out the way I came in. I had to walk up and down aisles to go through their little maze. Yeah, not me,,won’t go in another one. And I already have both of those tools. Hell, no wonder they screwed up, I’m a mechanic and I can’t tell them apart.
Notice the date at the very bottom.
Gotcha!
Left-hand vs right-hand Crescent wrenches..
Then you have the metric vs SAE Cresent wrenches. Don’t get me started on the left handed Whitworth ones.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
And the Aussie web address (dot com dot au), Phil. That is why I posted the comment above. Never trust any ad by an Australian company, or as evidenced, an Aust section of a mega-corp on April 1st, they just love to play silly buggers. That’s fine, especially if they hook the media. You played a big enough joke yourself, letting your pal Cederq loose on the roads with his one-man convoy.
Several years ago, I thought it would be a joke of a “metric” crescent wrench. Couple days later a car ran off the road by my driveway. Low and behold, a Metric crescent wrench (made in china) was part of the stuff behind.