Chuck E. Cheese Busted (and The Good News for You)
A long, long time ago, I was on the lower east side of Manhattan when I saw…
…a big, fat rat, walking backwards…
…dragging a foot-long slice of New York style pizza across the sidewalk.
He pulled the thing with his teeth a good 50 feet before he and the slice disappeared into his hidey hole behind some garbage cans.
That’s not something you can un-remember.
Maybe that’s why I hate Chuck E. Cheese.
I know. I know. His employers claim Chuck is a mouse. But I’ve always smelled a rat.
Anyhow, all those memories flooded back to me when I read the news today (Oh boy!) about Chuck E. Cheese being arrested.
It happened in Tallahassee. A customer reported her credit card stolen after she’d hosted a party at the “rat’s” pizza palace.
She noticed some unauthorized charges on the card, and police traced the charges to a guy who worked at the pizza palace.
When police arrived to arrest him, they found him wearing the rat costume.
So they cuffed Chuck E. Cheese and paraded him out of the pizza palace as dozens of little boys and girls — wearing party hats with a drawing of that very same “rat” — looked on in horror.
That’s not something they’ll un-remember.
Here comes a business lesson…
Crime doesn’t pay, but stories about it do.
Here you are near the bottom of this email, about to read my call-to-action.
Why? Because I’ve entertained you with a quirky, entertaining story.
Entertaining stories are everywhere.
And when you weave them into your marketing content, you make it stickier than melted mozzarella and more irresistible than the finest pepperoni.
I woke up this morning with no idea what I’d write about.
Then I read the news.
My news feed (focused on the weird and quirky stuff) is just one place I go to find stories.
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