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<text id=89TT0416>
<title>
Feb. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Advertising Characters
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 63
Business Notes
ADVERTISING CHARACTERS
Annoyed with The Noid
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<p> In commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees
wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who
delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice
cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but
one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week
Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in
Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two
employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in
cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel
about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison.
</p>
<p> All Noid got was the pizza he ordered. After a five-hour
siege, the two employees slipped away and Noid gave himself up.
According to police, Noid has "psychological problems" and
believes that he has an "ongoing dispute with Tom Monaghan,"
the head of the Detroit-based Domino's chain.
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</body></article>
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