Subway is feeling the heat after reports surfaced over a horrifically worded sign posted up outside a location in Ricon, Georgia.
The distasteful sign mocked the Titan submersible disaster that claimed five lives, and had customers, and social media user’s all ranged up across the board, with the puns a-flyin’ (or sinking), and fighting over not getting the “joke” or the insensitivity of the matter at hand.
The sign read: “Our subs don’t implode“.
There’s also a contingent of people that are local to the particular Subway in question, fully behind the sign, and it’s “raucous” message. They backed it with the stance that it’s “only” a joke, and the billionaire owner of Oceangate, Stockton Rush had it coming because he flouted professional opinion that the sub wasn’t safe to operate at depths such as the Titanic’s resting place.
It’s been reported that Rush ignored warnings given by a colleague of impending disaster due to the inferiority of carbon fiber which the Titan submersible was constructed with instead of the traditional materials.
Some of the comments didn’t see how Subway’s marketing choice was appropriate given the circumstances…
That’s a horrible & hurtful thing to sayThey need to shut that particular Subway restaurant down permanently. I’m so tired of people making fun of their deaths. This was a horrible way to go.
That sign is in poor taste, but then again so is subway sandwiches.
They may not implode, but they don’t taste great, either. I’ll take Jersey Mike’s.
But they do taste like carbon fiber and aren’t endorsed by NASA.
How is this funny? People’s family died. See it’s funny to people until somebody makes jokes about there mom or dad or son or daughter when they die. All of a sudden it’s not funny
Once Subway started getting heat from the ordeal, they were contacted, and forced to remove the sign.
“We have been in contact with the franchise about this matter and made it clear that this kind of comment has no place in our business,” a statement from Subway to Fox News Digital said. “The sign has since been removed.”
The controversy surrounding the Titan submersible tragedy has mounted ever since word first broke out of the submersible’s disappearance, and in the aftermath, people have come out of the woodwork to say they were supposed to be on the sub, including Mr Beast who claimed to have been invited on the doomed trip but turned down the invitation.
Was this a “clever” marketing ploy by Subway or an insensitive, joke used to benefit the location in a low-brow manner? What so you think?
