Chocolate chip scent banned from bus shelters!

by Nicole Weston, Posted Dec 6th 2006 @ 4:01PM

Even though it sounded like a promising idea, activists for the "scent sensitive" have gotten the chocolate chip scent banned from bus shelters after only one day! These complainers - oops, I mean activists - claimed that the smells could potentially trigger an asthma attack, although there were no cases of such things occurring. CBS Outdoor, the company that put up the scented strips for the California Milk Processor Board's campaign, said that the strips used no chemicals and that there was no way that they could have directly triggered any allergic reactions, although they are complying with the city's request to take them down.

Honestly, if you can't handle the scent of chocolate chip cookies, how on earth can you handle taking a bus in a big city? Do these activists actually walk around San Francisco? It's not the cleanest-smelling city in the world. Besides, in just about any city the scent of chocolate chip cookies would be an improvement over exhaust, sewer and trash fumes. Perhaps they found the scent to be too appealing and were actually worried that cookie cravings would cause people to hyperventilate in excitement. Or maybe they were worried that their own cravings would make them blow their diets the next time they walked by a bakery.

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Tags: activists, allergies, bus, busses, chocolate chips, ChocolateChips, complain, cookies, idiots, milk, oddities, odors, san francisco, scent, sf, smells, west coast, whiners, yummy

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12-10-2006 @9:17PM Karen said... to #17 I appreciate your problem with the sun but get real! The sun and a large company placing an advertisment in a public transportation place- you think they are the same? Yes, You must adjust for your unique situation but the sun is "Nature".No one person or organization placed the sun in the skies to torture you. But artifical scents placed in a public place for one person/organization's profit is a different ball game. What of the person who must take the public transportation and fiscally has no other options (need food and shelter, contribute to society)? Okay they can walk/bike 20 miles in the snow to work rather than take the public transportation where the "scent" causes them headaches, itching, watery scrathcy eyes, asthma attacks, etc. day after day after day. Makes sense to me ---NOT. They don't know how many people were bothered by the scent because in one day not everyone had a chance to complain or they may have been like me, a person who would have taken a wait and see attitude to ascertain if it continued to bother me. But thank heaven that "activists" are not to shy or busy to take a situation to hand that only benefits one and not the many. Sorry for your sun problem but only one person made the "Sun" and he isn't anyone on the California Milk Processors Board.
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