Metro Ad Sales Staff to Tourists: You're All Gonna Die.

Now, far be it from me to tie the hands of the good men and women responsible for selling the advertising space on Metro station walls. Their work provides much-needed revenue. But I'm thinking that perhaps taking the money from film studio Fox Atomic to start plastering the poster at left all over station walls last week wasn't such a hot idea. First of all, I'd hazard a guess that it's terrifying for our city's little ones to see. I mean, I piddle a bit every time I walk by it. And here's the other thing: maybe putting it in the stations like Woodley Park/Zoo, and Gallery Place/Chinatown, where you've got some of the heavier concentrations of, um, TOURISTS coming through, isn't such a hot idea.

Unless they're also thinking of converting it into a helpful new tourism campaign. Examples: