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I'm gonna go 'out on a limb' here and say that students probably stole them. | |
Dude, I'm a student, and the worst we've ever stolen is a traffic sign from the roadworks across the street (cliche, I know). In fact, Accomodation Services came to our flat and formally requested that we put the signs back properly, God knows what they'd think if we had body parts in the fridge... That said, as far as I'm aware, there aren't many crazy games developers in Leeds, so this is pretty unlikely. I suppose the organisers of RAG Week might think up something like this now though, I mean, our Union is already voting on whether or not to have ABBA as the university's official band... | |
How does the winner know he didn't have a real person's body part? | |
That is....interesting. I want to know what people thought when they saw one of those limbs somewhere. | |
Thank you Maly, for the wonderful image of the looks I would get if I stood on Westminster bridge holding a severed limb shouting "Kijuju!". I needed a laugh. | |
Best...contest...EVER | |
I bet zombies ate them. Or someone plans to pull a very ghastly April Fools´ Day prank. | |
Why can't anything fun happen in Bradford! | |
I'm also a student, and I know that realistic-looking body parts could be used to make some awesome costumes. | |
How the hell did they get permission to do something like this? | |
I couldn't stop laughing at this. Who thought that it was a good idea to do this in a major city? And they actually used real animal parts to make them look realistic. Surely they had to get some kind of permission for this. Whoever gave it should probably be fired. Still, it was pretty amusing. | |
How the hell did i miss this? | |
Agreed.
No, no...this was too good to fire anyone over.
Nobody loves Bradford, wherever it is. | |
The person who thought it up shouldn't be fired because it is so funny, but if a city official gave the ok on this he probably should be. | |
Realistic body parts + Major river running through city = A number of busy nights on high alert for the river police when people call in after seeing this stuff floating about. On a slightly related and amusing note, in my small town, with a small town newspaper, front page headline news was made a while back when police and members of the public were left distressed for a couple of hours at the river bank. Police 'divers' were called in to fish out what turned out to be a rubber glove caught on a stick, which apparently looked a lot like a dismembered hand, with the flowing water filling the glove to realistic proportions. (I say 'divers' because the river is really no more than 2 feet deep most of the time) | |
Wow If I was a mass murderer who decidedd I was gonna go on some killing spree then dismember the bodys I would be sooooooo relieved right now. | |
It's Oop North. | |
If I was in the contest I would've gotten a dog to take a bite out of a limb and then returned the body part to the contest guys complaining that it didn't taste good. | |
I guess that contest would have been expensive, I guess it would of cost an arm and a leg, PUN! But I guess CapCom got a-head of themselves! PUN! | |
Capcom... lots of crazy mofo in that company. Why they decided to use chicken liver to add more realism is beyond my grasp... of course if there's only one prize people are going to keep the game pieces as souvenir. What was the contest prize anyway? | |
"Sir, that's not one of our props." | |
Holy hell I thought those were real bodies and I had horrible flashbacks to Encyclopedia Dramatica's Offended page | |
Oh this is rich...Wish i was in London for this | |
*applauds* Nice pun :) I just keep thinking that Dexter's around somewhere having a moment. | |
This was brilliant! | |
someone is going to think they are real and freak out!!! | |
Hehe, I wonder who stole the pieces and what they're going to use them for. Also, nice pun :P | |
Just wait a few days, and we will all know where they went. Its called Ebay. | |
It could have been worse... Instead of less body parts being handed in, they organisers could have recieved more. | |
That was a horrible promotional idea anyway. Did they honestly think that their game is so popular that every person in London would know what it was and would not be shocked to see life like bodies laying around? | |
Wow... this just made my night, wish I could help find those parts. | |
really? you couldn't see how this could go horrifically arry? I give it 2 days max before scotland yard, or whatever London calls its acting police force nowdays, starts looking for a serial killer based on these props. And pitty goes to the poor sucker that finds them before a gamer does. | |
This is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. I don't know what happened to the other torso and couple of limbs but my Frankenstein project is coming along nicely now. | |
why can't companys do stuff like this more often | |
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Capcom Contest Loses Severed Limbs
Citizens of London are asked to be on the lookout for bloody, dismembered arms, legs and other body parts which Capcom scattered throughout the city as part of an insane contest and then promptly managed to lose, which could of course lead to all sorts of awkwardness if non-Resident Evil 5 fans find them first.
Capcom decided to mark tomorrow's release of Resident Evil 5 in the U.K. with a contest. And not just any contest! No, Capcom wanted this one to be memorable. So the company had a number of realistic-looking bloody body parts, including arms, legs, heads and torsos scattered around the city, which preregistered participants would search for, collect and take to the Westminster Bridge by 11 am.
"Alert us to your presence by standing on the bridge, holding the artificial body parts over your head and shouting 'Kijuju!'" Capcom said in the contest announcement. "We will be there, watching you, and will approach when you make yourselves known."
When I first heard about this contest I thought to myself, I don't see how this could possibly go wrong. Yet despite the one-in-a-million odds that anything untoward could result from spreading severed zombie appendages around a major population center, things did in fact go somewhat awry. A winner was crowned, 26-year-old IT consultant Steve Long, but once the contest had ended Capcom noticed that a number of body parts hadn't been found. Not entirely surprising, perhaps, but when company reps were unable to find them, things took a turn for the potentially problematic.
A head, two torsos and six limbs have gone missing in the streets of London, and Capcom is concerned that people might mistake them for the real thing. Yes, they're that good; animal parts were actually used to make them more realistic (and disgusting) and contest winner Long described them as "horrifically gory," adding, "They were definitely realistic enough to be confused with the real thing."
"The body parts are very realistic and we don't want people to be alarmed by them. They've all been taken from their original positions, but we now have no idea where they are," a Capcom rep said in a statement.
"If you have them, please either return them, or dispose of them in a responsible and careful manner," he continued. "In addition, chicken livers were used for added gore, and, uncooked, they can be dangerous."
So take note, Londoners: If you find any mutilated, rotting body parts lying half-hidden on the street, for God's sake be sure to cook it before you eat it.
Source: Gamezine.co.uk
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