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This seems like a massive marketing stunt to me, but apparently not. Police in Germany have launched a hunt for a real-life cookie monster, who stole a giant golden biscuit and is holding it for ransom. The prized possession was stolen straight from the Bahlsen biscuit company, best know for the yummy Leibniz butter biscuits.
The golden biscuit formed part of a sign, which has hung above Bahlsen’s headquarters in Hanover since 1913. A ransom note was sent to a local newspaper, including a photo of the Cookie Monster taking a chunk out of the biscuit. The ransom demand seems quite reasonable to me:
“I have the biscuit! You want it and therefore you want on one day in February, to give biscuits to all the children in Bult hospital. But those with milk chocolate, not those with dark chocolate and not those without chocolate. And a golden biscuit for the child cancer ward.”
Bahlsen responded to the monster via the medium of Facebook, saying it would donate 52,000 packets of biscuits to the charities, if the golden slab was returned unharmed. Let’s hope the monster trades the gold one for a real cookie and all ends well. If it is a marketing stunt, it’s a pretty damn good one. [Haz, Independent]
Image credit: Haz
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Ich will nun keks zum essen, aber leider bin satt
Freut mich, diesen Artikel per GizUK zu lesen.
Es ist immer moglich noch Kekse essen!
Ja gerne, sonst wenn man satt ist, Chris.
Leider ist der Brief schlecht uebersetzt. Trotzdem lustig.
thats letter is a waste of time and stupid. NCIS agents will gather all newspaper used in it and determine the latest date and find one of the magazine is only sold in 3 places in the city, and they go through the cctv and discover it was sold to an employee of the company amoung other which confirm the evidence of no sign of force entry. hence the top suspected is arrested and he refuse to confess, however a piece of dead skin is caught on the glue which DNA test confirm to be his, he make a run and was gun down. case closs
or he could just print it out in Comic Sans fonts and leave no evidence
Comic sans is never acceptable, not even in ransom notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs
I’m grateful that since moving to Germany, Giz has provided me with plenty of material to illustrate to my colleagues just how mental they are.
Before being made aware that the photo was actually of the culprit, my immediate thought was “thats an adorable cookie monster costume, it has googly eyes and I want one”.
Im wondering if maybe taking that picture is the only reason he stole it in the first place?