Beware Of The Falling Muffins

Boone/Oakley's striking giant-muffin billboard for Bloom supermarkets is the ad that keeps on giving.



A few weeks ago, the Charlotte, N.C., agency, working with Adams Outdoor, put the billboard up in nearby Mooresville, with all six muffins in place. It then bought a crappy old Kia for $300 and parked it under the ad, complete with a for-sale sign ("$1,000 or best offer") and a phone number. Some 10 days later, at 3 in the morning, people from the agency came by, smashed the Kia (not an easy task, it turned out, as the car proved to be somewhat resistant to wrecking balls dropped from cranes) and bolted one of the six muffins to the car's roof, as though it had fallen from above.