Bad product advertising

[bezoar]

Not the greatest way to advertise a product. Real photo here borrowed from[url] allposters.com[/url] in the national geographic index. Is it really worth 70 dollars for a b size poster?

 

[scott k]

Is this the picture?
Lehigh..

 

[Stumpkiller]

I don't understand?

What are they advertising?

Deceased warrior of the Rib People (feller must have two dozen!) found with Colt revolver.

 

[musketman]

I don't understand?

What are they advertising?

Seems to me like they are saying that their product (the gun) will out-last the owner...

"Bet it's still loaded!"

 

[musketman]

Not the greatest way to advertise a product.

The more I look at it, the more is looks "posed", as in the gun was placed there for the sake of the picture...

"IF" the skull has weads growing through it from the passage of time, then so should the gun, right?

Yet there is none growing through the trigger guard or grip frame... :hmm:

 

[SquirrelsaurusR]

I'd like to give my opinion on this,
but I have no idea what this thread is about... ::

 

[bezoar]

Colt touted his pistols as the ultimate weapons, never gonna fail you, always gonna drop the other guy. But heres a skeleton huddled on his colt 1860/1861 revolver.
Bad advertising as it apparently wasnt enough to keep the guy alive.. bad ammo, bad mechanism, bad accuracy....

 

The caption reads:

The sun-bleached bones of a gunslinger lie next to his revolver in a ghost town in northwest Wyoming

The Colt's finish looks too good to me.

just :m2c:

 

Burry him and send me the gun!

Woody

 

I agree with wood hick, but send me the gun. :relax:

 

[Bob J]

Maybe the poor soul just ran out of ammo?

 

where is the spine ???
and how come the hand is not over the gun that by the way isnt cocked .
also for those of you here who have never seen someone dead for even a few weeks and left out to nature , the body should be drawn backwards ,this fakes head should be in a diffrent place .

staged IMO

 

[mewing6003]

what are all those little bones in front of him? all you can eat ribs?

I think the whole picture is a bit shaky myself.

 

[jim gray]

It's kind of hard to believe that the scavengers would have left an unburied body intact long enough for it to decompose. The bones in front of the skull appear to be carpals and metacarpals, Johnny Reb.

 

[musketman]

Matthew Brady was notorious for "posing" dead bodies during the Civil War for dramatic effect, could be the same thing happened here, if it is indeed real...

 

[mewing6003]

"The bones in front of the skull appear to be carpals and metacarpals, Johnny Reb"

Had to look up those words on Google. If those are his hand bones, he had some tremendous size hands! of course they most probably were disturbed when he got dug up or ate up.