In the 1970s, there was a board game that was endorsed by BP where players manage an offshore drilling operation. The object of the game was to avoid hazard cards that causes gamers to deal with clean-up costs and rig explosions. The discontinued game was created by Scottish gaming company Printabox. Given the oil spill tragedy that happened in the Gulf, this board game has officially become eerily ironic. I stopped going to BP gas stations to buy anything from them as my own personal protest. [Gizmodo]

BP and Twitter sent in a request to the @BPGlobalPR account to put in a disclaimer saying that they are not associated with the oil company. The BPGlobalPR Twitter account is a parody account that makes fun of how the oil company is handling the major spill.

Comedy squad The Upright Citizens Brigade filmed a viral video called BP Spills Coffee. This video hit over 800,000 views within 2 days. The faux executives at BP try to handle a coffee spill.

The BP America Twitter account was temporarily hacked and the message above was sent out.  BP spokesman Mark Salt sent out an explanation about the above tweet.  It appeared on the account for about 30 minutes before it was deleted.  “The comment was posted by someone not involved in the response who gained access to our twitter. We have removed the inaccurate posting and made changes to the account to stop this from happening again,” said Salt.  BP is also trying to figure out how to handle a parody Twitter account that is tweeting out funny messages about the oil company.  [BusinessInsider]

On April 20, 2010 an offshore drilling rig belonging to British global enery company BP plc (known as British Petroleum) exploded and sank two days later. This took the lives of 11 people and caused a massive oil spill. The rig was owned by Transocean Ltd., on behalf of BP. BP has been toiling away to correct their mistake.