Find Your Happy Place -- crime?
Baltimore's new marketing campaign: Find Your Happy Place!
We mocked the old slogan, "The City that Reads," turning it into the "The City that bleeds" -- complete with cops wearing it on T-shirts. I'm not sure that the "Get In On It" campaign produced any riffs on crime.
How about it readers. Give me some ideas on where happy place and crime!
One reader has already posted this to the story comment section:
Yeah, I found my happy place--150 miles away. After eighteen years of crime, parking b.s., high property taxes, and assorted other oddities such as Sheila Dixon, I moved last fall. Don't get me wrong, there were great things, too, like the '96 and '97 Orioles, the restaurants, Center Stage, the BSO, the Book Fair and Flower Mart, but I just couldn't take it any more
Categories: City Hall, Confronting crime, Top brass
Comments
Find Your Trigger-Happy Place?
Posted by: D. B. | May 11, 2010 3:52 PM
The real crime is that the city paid for that idiotic slogan which is bursting with potential for hilarious misinterpretation.
Posted by: Jackie Watts | May 11, 2010 3:57 PM
I think D.B. has it first and has it right. Yet. I still love the city and always will.
Posted by: ruth | May 11, 2010 4:20 PM
Baltimore: Leave this Crappy Place
Posted by: GenericScreenname | May 11, 2010 5:23 PM
"Find your Stabby Place!"
Posted by: Ridgely's Riot | May 11, 2010 5:54 PM
It's Justin and Peter's happy place because crime keeps them employed.
Posted by: O | May 11, 2010 6:21 PM
Done in one. "Trigger" happy. It's a natural.
Posted by: Richard Long | May 12, 2010 6:35 AM
How pathetic is it that the city's marketing campaign is nothing more than a rehashed anger-management subplot of "Happy Gilmore"?
How much money did the city spend to come up with this turd in a punchbowl? (Now there's a slogan: Baltimore... The Turd in Maryland's Punchbowl)
Posted by: Gunpowder Chronicle | May 12, 2010 11:39 PM