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This Bus Shelter Will Give You Free Cake

The pinnacle of bus-shelter advertising madness has officially been reached with this pastry-scented campaign in London.
JCDecaux et al.

Sick of funky bus shelters that reek of potatoes or sing at you? Then just lay down your Internets and shake your head slowly, resting assured that this new shelter is as unbearably wacky as you can imagine.

It dispenses free cakes. What's more, it smells like a cake, thanks to a button that sprays out clouds of "tempting aroma." Nineteen bus shelters in London have gotten the pastry treatment, and for this we can all thank outdoor-advertising specialist JCDecaux and a couple other marketing firms who should all be ashamed of themselves.