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'Thief' billboard attracts complaint
By Bruce Clement
NZ Herald reports:
The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint about a billboard which allegedly shows a thief stealing electrical transformers from an Auckland advertising company. The article goes on to explain that the photo was taken by a witness to the theft who watched him dismantle and steal 15 transformers worth $5,000 and continues But a disgruntled member of the public has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority, apparently over the fact that the billboard breaches the suspect's privacy by calling him a thief before it has been proven in court. Madness! The person was seen removing the transformers, he was either legally entitled to remove them, or he wasn't. If he was legally entitled, he can sue for libel, if he wasn't then he is a thief, convicted or not, and the owners of the transformers have every right to display his picture in an attempt to recover their property. To me, it seems another example of the growing attitude in our society to turn our faces away from nastiness until it escalates to the point where we can no longer ignore it. I'd really like to see the name of the person who lodged the complaint about this ad revealed. They're either somehow connected to the thief, or are one of those see-no-evil busybodies, in either case I'd like to see them publicly humiliated too. Until we as a society can face up to the abuse and ratcheting levels of crime it will just continue to get worse.
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Bruce Clement is a keen social commentator. You are free to copy this article under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ license as long as you publish it unchanged and link either to Bruce's blog at http://kiore.blogspot.com/ or to his hub site at http://www.clement.co.nz/
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