I'm not going to repeat the particulars of this story, because, while it's kinda funny on the surface, it's really pretty f-ing sick. But suffice it to say the "couple" consists of two individuals who are technically "men" aged 33 and 17. They're in the news because they climbed a tree in Central Park whilst nekkid, if you will. I don't think Pepsi chose this nutjob as their spokes-"person" but nonetheless there's probably someone at Pepsi reading the New York Daily News questioning whether or not Coca-Cola compensated the tree-freak for its choice of beverage in order to tarnish the Pepsi name and uttering a lot of words that shouldn't be said in front of one's mother.
"At one point, the older of the couple broke off a branch and threatened to throw it at cops, before demanding a vanilla diet Pepsi.
When police handed up a regular old diet Pepsi, the 32-year-old hurled the can to the ground, screamed, "Vanilla!" and declared, "What I say goes!"
The couple also shouted complaints about the portrayal of transgender people in the media, and called for an apology on national TV."
Note to media: from now on only portray transgender people accurately, i.e., as nude treeclimbing lunatics with teenage companions. And apologize for not doing so in the past.
I could launch into a diatribe about why NYPD should be given more freedom to shoot deranged climbers out of trees in the city's public parks, but I'll let the matter rest.
