Animal cruelty or not I think it’s a clever idea. The caption at the end of the clip says: “No fly was harmed. The banner was attached with wax and came off by itself after a few hours.”
I don’t know how they can be sure, though. I doubt they examined the flies after the stunt.
I couldn’t use this product in good conscience. I’d squish a fly in my home, sure, but tethering it and letting it flail around with weight attached for afew hours for my benefit doesn’t seem right to me.
/shrug
I dunno.
I’d arrange those bug zapper lights, minus the zapper, at different corners of the convention hall and let loose a few hundred of these guys. I’d then turn the lights on an off in sequence to get them flying around in cool patterns.
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11 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Animal cruelty or not I think it’s a clever idea. The caption at the end of the clip says: “No fly was harmed. The banner was attached with wax and came off by itself after a few hours.”
I don’t know how they can be sure, though. I doubt they examined the flies after the stunt.
WHERE IS PETA??!?!?!!??!?!!?
I couldn’t use this product in good conscience. I’d squish a fly in my home, sure, but tethering it and letting it flail around with weight attached for afew hours for my benefit doesn’t seem right to me.
/shrug
I dunno.
The text at the end says: “The banner was affixed with wax and came off by itself after a couple of hours.”
Eichborn is a publisher and its slogan is “the publisher with the fly”.
Anyway I wouldn’t have problems with killing those little devils.
I’d arrange those bug zapper lights, minus the zapper, at different corners of the convention hall and let loose a few hundred of these guys. I’d then turn the lights on an off in sequence to get them flying around in cool patterns.
Yeah…umm…I’mmm gonna have to say I honestly hope the flies ban together soon, swarm around Eichborn, and maul his face off.
And if someone could post that on YouTube, that would be great.
Mmmm-k? Thaaaanks.
das macht Spaß!
I’m with Piri and Max. I never thought I could feel sympathy for a fly.
Even if the banners fall off after a couple of hours, that’s like, I don’t know, a decade in fly years.
I read “fly banner” (fleigenbanner) and thought “wow, my German is getting rusty.” Apparently, I’m still good to go.
My only thought was, “germ spreading advert.”
Would have been more of a challenge if they’d used wasps.