While in San Francisco this week,
CountyKid presented me with a stack of flyers which read, "FREE CACTUS! Use this coupon at any participating Phone Loser retail outlet or visit
www.phonelosers.org to claim your cactus." The flyers looked strikingly similar to the flyers that
Cal distributed in the
2003 Halloween parade in Alton, Illinois. (You can watch a video of that event
here.)
After walking around San Francisco for a few hours, we decided to put the stack of flyers to good use by handing them out to all of the tourists at the pier. In probably just 30 minutes, Countykid and I managed to hand out all of the coupons. I even attempted to barter a Free Cactus coupon with a drink vendor in exchange for a Coke, but he refused. Some people just don't recognize a good deal when they see it.
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snapped dozens of pictures as CountyKid and I confused countless tourists with the bogus offer of a free cactus. We can only hope that at least some of the tourists asked their hotel concierge where they could find a Phone Losers outlet store in San Francisco. You can find
more pictures here of our
San Francisco trip which included a gender illusionist bar, explosives being thrown onto cars and people, fireworks and the return of LogicBox.
