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.
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cudos onna job well done..first to graham for bringing it to this fabulous forum..(well..and all of us faithful bloggers too..lol)..janice wing and mayor salci..tony for a great article and obviousley charlie burland for his good judgement in the removal of the offensive chair…i’m from hamilton but hit clifton hill every week with my 3 year old granddaughter..we saw it by total accicent and it was horrid..but i haven’t been since..now..this afternoon..we’ll head to the happy kid friendly hill..yes..once again the street of FUN…thanks to all.
p.s. happy birthday graham!
It’d be maybe nice if they moved it to one of the many haunted houses in their lobby.
It would at least be a much better fit there & could still generate a profit… while being a lot more relevant since that’s kinda what these scare-attractions are about.