Lambton Quay lighting letter
Mike over at shoppingfix has posted about an extraordinary letter his Lambton Quay business received from a film company, asking every buisness on Lambton Quay to leave their lights on overnight for two nights while they film an ad, to give Wellington a “big city feel”.
Not only is this incredibly wasteful of power (Mike has estimated that it could cost up to $14,000 extra in power bills), but the audacity of the film company is astounding. Of course, these businesses will be delighted to absorb these extra power costs without question, I mean, it’s an ad, that’s like, on TV, filmed in Wellington! We should count ourselves lucky to be so honoured.
What bullshit.
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August 31st, 2006 at 9:51 pm
This beggars belief!
And since my last power bill, I’m policing the teenagers and the nearly-teenager to turn off lights, tv, heaters, pc, printer, etc when they leave rooms like there’s no tomorrow; so how does asking local businesses to “leave the lights on all weekend” square with the general moral panic that’s been sweeping godzone since the lights went off in Auckland during the big storm? (not to mention the snowed in Otago-and-Southlanders….)
Is there no end to the perfidy of Australians?
And then they put ads on the telly asking “where the hell are ya?”
The answer, of course, is that in Wellington we’re sitting in front of the heater, watching tv with the lights off to save power….. while the hillside next door slips!
*cue shameless plug* for Jitterati, by Grant Buist, sorry haven’t got a link for it, but grab a copy of Capital Times, this week’s cartoon is priceless! This one’s an in-joke for Welli folk, apologies to the rest of the country….
September 1st, 2006 at 12:19 am
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September 1st, 2006 at 8:34 am
It looks like they’ve canned the plan to nick our power. They’ve gone for the gas instead.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3782871a10,00.html
M
September 4th, 2006 at 10:53 am
This wouldn’t be Saatchi for Toyota?…. if so it ALSO involves stopping the bus runs, a car (Toyota of course) and helicopters swooping between buildings.. hopefully not involving any crashes. I understand the city council has already approved the planned commercial. Sometime in mid September at night on a weekend.
respectfully
BJ