Billboard Antics

Billboard Antics

March 31, 2006
Topics billboard

Volkswagen to Remove Offensive Billboards

March 18, 2006
Some Volkswagen billboards have come down after complaints that a word used in an ad was offensive to Hispanics. The ad for the new GTI 2006 had a photo of the sports car accompanied by the words "Turbo-Cojones. "Cojones, which means testicles in Spanish, has become a casually used term for boldness or guts in English, but hasn't lost its more vulgar connotations in its native language. There were complaints about a billboard in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. There were no complaints about billboards in New York and Los Angeles, but the company says it decided to pull the ads in all three cities.

Man Wants to Cash In On His Organs

November 25, 2005
Topics weird, billboard, blind, eye, body and man
A Croatian man wants to put his organs on the market to pay back loans. In a weird twist, 40-year-old Nenad Vrbanic wants to cash in on his kidney and cornea to pay off debts and back loans totaling near 35,000 euros, according to local reports.

Student Rents His Chest Space To Fellow Classmates

November 8, 2005
Jacob Authier, 20, is a human billboard for the student body of Chapman college. The film student rents out his chest and back for student political campaign slogans and birthday wishes at $1 per message.

Massive Chick-fil-A Cow Stolen From Virginia Billboard

October 8, 2005
"EAT MOR CHIKIN" is a slogan tens of millions of Americans have come to know at local Chick-fil-A's across the nation. The successful advertising campaign has spawned off stuffed cow toys, calendars, mugs, and T-shirts that feature cows sending messages to possible customers to ignore beef and eat more chicken. Now somebody in Virginia has stolen the chicken mascot from a large 50-foot high billboard along Interstate 464 in Chesapeake.
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