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May 28, 2009 by buffaloeagle

Have you seen the new BSA commercial on TV? It flashes the Scout Law, starting and ending with TRUSTWORTHY before focusing on a man is climbing a mountain, setting his next anchor. As he struggles to pull a climbing device from his bag, a Scout quickly rappels down to the man with his wallet and tells him he had dropped it at the base of the climb. The man watches, puzzled, as the scouts gives the wallet back and then the boy takes off out of sight as the narrator talks about character.

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on May 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm dualscoutmom

I hope they make a series of them. That would be really cool!
on May 29, 2009 at 2:10 am Seb

They did make a series, don’t seem to have released an ad for every point on the Scout Law though, or they just aren’t on youtube. Here are the ones I know about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gC0Wu0UK1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKqWeze7xB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdSWVnz_W0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25U_CqVChM

Also interesting:
on May 29, 2009 at 6:14 am dualscoutmom

They’ve also done Thrifty and Reverent. Helpful is my favorite.
on May 31, 2009 at 1:02 am Al

Not very new… the commercial is almost 10 years old.
on May 31, 2009 at 1:07 pm dualscoutmom

Really? 10 years huh? Wow. Well, it’s new to us. And hopefully many others. Maybe they’re doing the green thing and recycling them. Personally, I think it is marketing genius if they are.
on May 31, 2009 at 8:05 pm Steve B

I had these videos in my Scouting video library and put them on Youtube nearly 3 years ago. I wish the BSA would have used them more back when they were new. I think I saw one commercial used once on television. It seems that people do enjoy watching them on Youtube.

Steve B
http://melrosetroop68.org/blog.html