Wisconsin golf course apologizes for 9/11 sale ad
Tumbledown Trails backed off its offer of nine holes of golf for $9.11 to commemorate the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Last week, The Onion posted a satirical article about Subway offering two foot-long subs for $9.11 on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. (Subway wasn’t pleased.)
The point of the article, of course, was how tone-deaf and insensitive it would be for a company to offer a deal like that to commemorate 9/11. So when an ad offering nine holes of golf for $9.11 this Wednesday at Verona, Wis., golf course Tumbledown Trails appeared in Monday’s edition of the Wisconsin State Journal, people couldn’t believe it.
This 9/11-themed golf course ad is a real thing that ran in today’s Wisconsin State Journal. pic.twitter.com/rn6VIYH4mF
— Josh Orton (@joshorton) September 10, 2013
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