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dreamer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:37 pm

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

valerielundberg · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:09 pm

dreamer wrote:

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

LOL!! YES!!! The Ortho commercial!

I *hated* that one...

plushie · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:26 pm

dreamer wrote:

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

sorry, I thought that was kinda funny

Amethyst · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:35 pm

As Rune said, the company that makes the ad is just trying to give you an incentive to click on it and have your computer invaded by spyware. I entirely doubt that you actually get a free iPod.

Of course, this is even MORE reason to get rid of the ad...

Keith · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:40 pm

plushie wrote:

dreamer wrote:

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

sorry, I thought that was kinda funny

What kind of idiot shoots at their TV to kill a bug!?!?

meowth1982 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:43 pm

Tonu wrote:

plushie wrote:

dreamer wrote:

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

sorry, I thought that was kinda funny

What kind of idiot shoots at their TV to kill a bug!?!?

You obviously never saw the commercial...I was watching TV late at night, all of the lights off, and omg it creeped me out. It actually threw a newspaper at the TV to get it off...and I'm sure people even more freaked out by bugs did worse...

Ice · **Posts:** 148 **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:12 pm

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There's a TV ad for an exterminating company that has a roach running across the screen - I can't stand to watch that one either.

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There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I'm pretty sure you guys are talking about the same commercial, yes? Oh, I remember that one... it was pretty unsettling. I smacked at the screen a couple times before realizing it was an ad. Yikes!

This is getting riddiculous. I love Neo, but all these trash ads with viruses (viri?) or WIN A FREE ____ are really starting to get on my nerves. I just saw the roach ad before coming here, and it didn't freak me out too much. I've got this thing with ants, though, and if I saw a swarm of ants that realistic on my computer screen, I'd freak. So I know where you're coming from.

Gemhustler · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:45 pm

That ad HAS to go.. it is one of the nastiest things I have ever seen on neo. First time I saw it I thought it was just a still image till it started moving about.. yes it freaked me out and it seems like that ad and the toon ad don't want to let up on me. Just about every other page is one of those two ads.

Roaches and Silverfish have got to be the nastiest lil things in the world, even tho I realise I'm like 100 times bigger than the things they still freak me out and send me running in the opposite direction. *shudders*

Keith · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:48 pm

meowth1982 wrote:

Tonu wrote:

plushie wrote:

dreamer wrote:

mercurius wrote:

There used to be a commercial on the tv, i forget what it was for. . Raid or something. It had a very realistic cockroach running across the screen during the ad like it was on your tv. When I first saw it, I went crazy because I could never kill it! Anyway, apparently the commercial freaked a bunch of people out and they had to pull it off the air.

I remember that, it was for an extermination company. I remember they got sued or something because this guy shot at his bigscreen TV and ended up setting his house on fire.

sorry, I thought that was kinda funny

What kind of idiot shoots at their TV to kill a bug!?!?

You obviously never saw the commercial...I was watching TV late at night, all of the lights off, and omg it creeped me out. It actually threw a newspaper at the TV to get it off...and I'm sure people even more freaked out by bugs did worse...

No, I've seen the commercial... I ran to get my mom when it happened and we spent forever looking for it to later find out it was just a commercial. I'm just wondering why someone would sacrifice their big screen TV to kill a cochroach...

Zero! · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:49 pm

I remember that commercial. It never creeped me out because I could obviously tell it was fake. :roll:

meowth1982 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:49 pm

Tonu wrote:

meowth1982 wrote:

Tonu wrote:

What kind of idiot shoots at their TV to kill a bug!?!?

You obviously never saw the commercial...I was watching TV late at night, all of the lights off, and omg it creeped me out. It actually threw a newspaper at the TV to get it off...and I'm sure people even more freaked out by bugs did worse...

No, I've seen the commercial... I ran to get my mom when it happened and we spent forever looking for it to later find out it was just a commercial. I'm just wondering why someone would sacrifice their big screen TV to kill a cochroach...

Crazy people?

Iwantmyacctback · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:52 am

I'm hoping the ad was pulled. Since my last post I've only gotten it once. I'm a girlie girl. I HATE creepy crawlys. Watch now that i've mentioned that I haven't gotten it lately, it'll pop up all the time now.

vanilla · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:58 am

That just gives me the heebie jeebies *shudders*

br00ster · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:34 am

I got the Active X thing from "The Neopian Commentery" (neopetsinfo.com)
Luckily, all I got was a warning telling me it was trying to install.
*Huggles Mozilla Fire fox 1.0*

plushie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:50 am

br00ster wrote:

I got the Active X thing from "The Neopian Commentery" (neopetsinfo.com)
Luckily, all I got was a warning telling me it was trying to install.
*Huggles Mozilla Fire fox 1.0*

I have that guard too, I dunno what program does though *stares at 17 different programs and softwares for adware, spyware, viruses, and all that crap*

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