Yes-men in Finland. Yes Men Crash BMW Gala, Demand they Stop Making Cars. The Yes Men: The Best Pranks of 2010. By Andy Bichlbaum and Joseph Huff-Hannon Strange winds are blowing across this wide, weird land of ours; all is not as it seems. It must be April Fool's Day. We start with Pepco, a D.C. area energy provider, who startled many area residents today with a door-to-door marketing campaign announcing it would stop delivering energy derived from mountaintop removal coal mining, and will shift instead towards wind & solar energy. Hmm, not so much.
Last week, also in Washington DC, AIPAC made a most uncharacteristic announcement. Well, maybe not. Travel with us now a bit further west, where Macy's and Smurfit-Stone -- two longtime Missoula businesses that had closed just before Christmas, laying off hundreds of workers -- widely and exuberantly announced an extremely generous "thank you Missoula" concert and giveaway.
But, well, not. Third Place: The Dow Live Earth Run for Water This one had to be in our list for its sheer ballsiness. Second Place: the Coalition for Chemical Safety Oops! The Yes Men - Ice Age Petition. FAKE NY TIMES hoax on CNN (The Yes Men) The Yes Men - Acceptable Risk launch.