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July 9, 2007
The pastor of a Times Square Church has asked the state court to bar a bidet company from showing off it's cheeky advertising. At the center of the issue is a billboard, which would run on both sides of the building housing the church, featuring several nude bottoms with a smiley on them. The head of the 8,000-member church complains that the bidet company's plan to put up a giant billboard will interfere with the consecration of the church goers.
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December 12, 2006
A Malaysian man was stranded on top of a twenty three foot billboard for almost seven hours after a botched attempt to steal its spotlight. His accomplice had left the scene with both the light and the ladder. The man did not willingly come down and swung at would-be rescuers with a steel rod during negotiations with police.
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October 14, 2006
A New Jersey Church's advertisement campaign is attracting people by promising that God wants you to perform 'pure sex'. Discovery Church has a billboard advertisement to promote a Web site, www. mysexlifestinks. com .
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September 25, 2006
On Saturday, Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski called a news briefing in a Warsaw park to urge the citizens of the country to feed ducks with the approach of winter. The PM was expected to make an announcement on the future of the ruling coalition government, instead he presented a yellow duck as the campaign mascot of his Law and Justice(PiS) party ahead of November's local elections.
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August 4, 2006
A group in Los Angeles wants to buy billboard space on Sunset Boulevard so they can put up a sign of Mel Gibson's face with the international sign for "no" over it in red, according to MSNBC's The Scoop. But the group's leader, publicist Andy Behrman, says billboard companies keep turning them down. Behrman told The Scoop, "We wanted to make a statement that anti-Semitism is not okay in Hollywood - or anywhere else. They tell us it will be fine, and then when they learn we want to protest Mel Gibson, there's suddenly some problem. "
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