Spark Energy Sorry for Inauguration Distraction
They're sorry, folks. Spark Energy says it's sincerely sorry for causing such a literal roar at this morning's inauguration ceremony.
Inauguration guests and officials got a loud surprise from above during the swearing-in Tuesday, as a low-flying single engine plane bearing the banner of Spark Energy circled the Capitol grounds just as Gov. Rick Perry was speaking. Anxious inauguration staffers were visibly annoyed, and guests were distracted by the loud buzz of the plane, which drowned out several minutes of the governor's remarks. The banner, which read "Spark Energy God Bless Texas," certainly caught attention, but ...
Comments (2)
JJ Baskin
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"
Truth Hurts
A feature of sociopathology is extreme narcissism -- in energy companies as well as persons. But if a lone individual, without the benefit of a corporate logo, had buzzed around the governor's inauguration, obscured the speech and disrupted proceedings, that person would have been arrested.
The lesson? If you want to screw around with the governor and get away with it, you gotta be an energy company.