From the Niagara Falls Review:
The so-called Shake and Bake electric chair display on Clifton Hill has taken its last breath. It’s fried!
Owner Charlie Burland of the Niagara Clifton Group shut it down at noon Sunday, a day after it was featured in the Niagara Falls Review.
Here’s how it worked: For $2, passersby could watch a very lifelike mannequin dying in an electric chair, complete with smoke and screams of pain.
Thanks, Mr. Burland – I know it was making money, but if the calls and e-mails I received are any indication, many people didn’t like it. Especially having it on public display where it could be viewed by young children, situated right next to an ice cream store.
In fact, by shutting it down so quickly you have probably saved yourself a lot of headaches. Not to mention more bad publicity, not only for the other businesses you operate but also the rest of Clifton Hill.
It could easily have turned into a genuine public relations nightmare.