Dumb PR Stunt: Ticking Promo Clocks Cause Bomb Scare

Apologies to our readers—we thought that we had identified the day’s dumbest PR stunt in the NJ state Senate president’s public appeal to make “replacement” football refs illegal.

In fact, an even dumber stunt went down in Los Angeles this morning. It inspired more than frustration and Internet mockery—it actually led to a bomb scare and the two-and-a-half hour evacuation of a radio station in downtown LA. What started it? A beeping package delivered to the lobby of LA’s KNX 1070 at the beginning of the work day.

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