One of the best ways to sell your product is via a demonstration, and nothing sells itself better than a vacuum cleaner. As a long-time sufferer of insomnia, I’ve seen a whole lot of infomercials. One of my favorites is for a vacuum cleaner, in which an overly-excited salesmen sells vacuums by dumping big piles of junk on a carpet and then using his super vacuum to suck the spilled wine, dirt, or whatever up, up, and away from the white shag carpet. No doubt this is how two vacuum salesmen in upstate New York destroyed a $1300 foam mattress.
Police say two men destroyed a very expensive latex foam mattress made by Sealy at a home in Richfield Springs, a suburb of Syracuse, New York. Right until the end, the two men were working tirelessly to undo the damage they had done to the mattress, but apparently their vacuum cleaner (or their sales pitch) wasn’t up to the task. The two were arrested for reckless endangerment of property; the owner is seeking simple restitution. No word on if the owner bought a new vacuum, but I kind of doubt it.
Tags: Syracuse, Richfield Springs, New York, vacuum salesmen destroy mattress, Sealy, vacuum salesmen destroy 00 mattress, sales pitch failures, unusual sales pitches, bad salesmen, unusual crimes, dumb criminals, reckless endangerment of property
