Thanks to the wild success of 3D and various 3D movies, other industries are trying to keep up by finding a gimmick of their own. For some theaters, it’s rumble seating to give the illusion of movement. For greeting card companies, it’s cards that taste good. For one utility company, it’s the stinkiest bill you’ve ever smelled. Included in every Puget Sound Energy bill is a scratch-and-sniff panel that smells like rotten eggs.
Now, the Bellevue, Washington, energy cooperative isn’t doing this for fun, or to gross people out. They’re doing this to save lives. The rotten egg smell is also the smell put into the gas lines to turn otherwise unscented natural gas into a usefully-pungent force. The scratch-and-sniff card is in there because the company want to remind 750,000 customers what a gas leak smells like.
After all, better safe than blown to smithereens.
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