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Howzabout a little fear-mongering?
2:52PM ON
02/11/2008
BY
Daily Dose
I was seduced by the new booming-announcer-dude-voiced commercials on Channel 10, telling me how happy I should be with their reporters for passing along information THAT. COULD. SAVE. MY. LIFE.
The crisis at hand? The mall might fall apart — with you, or even me, in it. Channel 10, in an act of their typical benevolence, has spent two months devising an escape plan. Their key finding? Don’t do this:
Bassett did what many shoppers did when the alarm went off that day. He rushed to his car in the mall’s garage to get out of the mall and that was a big mistake.
“It took us 40 minutes to get out in the parking garage,” he said.
But our own crack staff of engineers and architects has done an even more rigorous analysis. Our findings: If you do get stuck in the mall garage as such, you should exit your vehicle, and walk out.
Now, we know the prospect of being on foot on the mean streets of Capital Center is legitimately scary to many a suburbanite mall-goer, but we’re strong believers in the broken windows approach. Francis Street is much safer, now that they’ve cleaned up the Masonic Temple — especially the graffito that said “NERD” in puffy blue letters.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:49PM
Jef Says:
I’m pretty sure someone at Channel 10 gets a dollar every time I yell at my TV. That’s the only way to explain this inane story. “Would you know what to do if there were an emergency in Providence Place?” Uhm, leave? Big red exit sign? Cry?
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February 12th, 2008 at 10:47AM
matthew lawrence Says:
when i worked at the mall and the fire alarms went off, most people just ignored them, and when we made people leave the store they’d get all huffy about it like it was our fault.
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:08AM
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