It was just another marketing mailer!

Updated On: 22 December, 2009 09:38 AM IST | | Manju Shettar

Techie's parents get a parcel with boxes inside boxes, and finally a funny bottle, triggering a family scare that gets to the police too. Finally, it is found to be just a marketing gimmick

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Techie's parents get a parcel with boxes inside boxes, and finally a funny bottle, triggering a family scare that gets to the police too. Finally, it is found to be just a marketing gimmick

The elderly parents of a techie were yesterday presented by a courier boy with a riddle wrapped in a mysterious, 'silvery' foil inside an enigma of a bottle, and all this covered in layers of cardboard packaging that had no name of the senderu00a0-- panic buttons were pushed, the son was called at his workplace and remained tense till he reached home. What if the thing inside were a bomb? A strong acid sent by some maniac?

What's in there? The parcel delivered by a courier boy with a 'suspicious' object in a bottle

Finally, more than seven hours and two jittery constables later, the son ended the suspense by smashing the bottle on the floor, as directed by the policemen.

Vasant Gooli's parents, it turned out, had received a marketing mailer at their JP Nagar residence from a tours and travels company.

"It's very sad that the company has a marketing technique that leaves customers mystified and scared," said Vasant. "The trauma my parents suffered, I woudn't want anybody to go through." Vasant added that he has decided to file a complaint with the police today.