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WTF!?

Nice modifications though. *giggle*

Date: 2006-01-28 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valliegirl.livejournal.com
duude. *LOL*

Date: 2006-01-28 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trillium-flower.livejournal.com
Criminal mischief 2, $500-1000 fine, 100 hours community service.

Date: 2006-01-28 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aprilstarchild.livejournal.com
yowza.

Well, I wasn't planning on defacing billboards anytime soon. Not that I haven't been tempted in the past...

Date: 2006-01-28 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sagcat.livejournal.com
McDonald's tried putting up a billboard at the corner of 20th & Morrison, and people sprayed skulls & crossbones all over it. They'd get a new billboard up and it would get slammed with "toxin!" and the like. The billboards stopped before the neighborhood did.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
That's awesome.

I figure if billboards are protected as free speech, then modifying billboards should be, too.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trillium-flower.livejournal.com
Actually billboards would be protected as private property. Graffiti is vandalism. Don't like the message, get your own billboard.

Date: 2006-01-29 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
Or, alternately, support means of public discourse which allow for dissent across income levels.

Date: 2006-01-29 09:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
And, actually, billboards are protected as free speech as well; a number of interested parties have successfully fought city anti-billboard laws on free-speech grounds.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trillium-flower.livejournal.com
The right to purchase a billboard and display a message is protected as free speech. Most notably used in san francisco during a hotly contested race for mayor to get around zoning laws. Not as a justification for defacing private property.

Date: 2006-01-29 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
Most anti-billboard laws are in place to limit eyesores, improve traffic safety, and keep developments in scale with their surroundings. If a community has been prevented from eliminating such eyesores due lobbying efforts by well-funded commercial interests and the mistaken notion that corporations and commercial entities are "persons" with free-speech rights, as is the case in Portland, than I see no reason to object to a neighborhood members modifying a particularly offensive billboard in an attempt to make the community undesirable for a capitalist invasion.

Of course, I've always been a fan of allowing more information into public discussions, even if that requires acceptance of unconventional means (like grafitti) to give otherwise-underrepresented elements a voice.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
And it's fine for corporations to splay their ugliness all over our cities simply because they have the money.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trillium-flower.livejournal.com
Yup. Welcome to America.

FENNEC!!!!!!!

Date: 2006-01-28 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vashtiabukhalil.livejournal.com
What does the tiny font say?

While this is funny, what's even funnier is that it's making me consider going vegan!!!!

Date: 2006-01-28 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underthethrow.livejournal.com
that is a FUCKING terrible advertisement. It actually pisses me off

i dispise all fast food chains and chains in general so it's no wonder
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Date: 2006-01-28 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matt-nothing.livejournal.com
Fuck that - vandalism is sexy.

Especially that kind.

Date: 2006-01-28 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenhowell.livejournal.com
I'm prone to look on the bright side of this advertisement. Which is that the word "vegan" is prominent enough now that a major fast food chain would use it in their ad. It's been popping up more and more as the years go by. Whereas, when I was growing up, I thought that a "vegan" sounded like a "vulcan" from "Star Trek".

Veganism is becoming a force to be reckoned with and that is a terribly good thing.

Date: 2006-01-29 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aprilstarchild.livejournal.com
That's what I thought, too. I mean, I still have to explain to coworkers what "vegan" means, and Portland has a lot of them! But enough people know now for it to be in an ad, apparently.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
I love the thought of younger kids seeing the ad and asking their parents what a vegan is.

Date: 2006-01-29 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funkatron.livejournal.com
I thought it was kind of a funny ad, although I can understand if someone found veganism to be a moral imperative, they would find it pretty unfunny. The defacement, which is far less clever, makes me not want to be vegan. Little danger of that, though.

I see a lot of similarities between the behavior of many of those who feel eating animal products is murder and radical pro-lifers. I suspect both groups would bristle at the comparison.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
I imagine vegans would generally find the comparison old hat and uninspired.

Date: 2006-01-29 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jameslentz.livejournal.com
I like the modification someone on [livejournal.com profile] veganpeople suggested: spraypainting out "Just when you decided to". It'd be great if you could do it with white spray paint.

Date: 2006-01-30 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aprilstarchild.livejournal.com
That would kick ass.
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