City Cancelling Illegal Posters

[dgridley]

GLASGOW'S clean-up squads are tackling illegal bill posters with a little creative vandalism of their own.

Council staff have started painting out illegal adverts which make the city look run down, to ensure the companies who produce the ads are just wasting their money.

And the city's litter wardens are cancelling illegal ad sites by pasting up stickers over unlicensed ads.

A council source said: "We can be a complete pain in the neck to the people doing this because the money and time they spend is completely wasted.

And there's no point getting in a designer to produce a fancy poster when it will soon be a mess that doesn't tell anyone anything."

It can take 45 minutes to remove just one poster and often scraps of paper are left behind.

more: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1452917.0.what_a_fly_move.php

Good move IMO.. I've seen areas of cities where posters like this are a real eyesore!

:hi: :hehe:

 

[kev]

this will do more harm than good i think

i read this story earlier in the paper where the council put "Cancelled" stickers over "Rock Ness" musical festival posters and the company running it received thousands of calls from furious tourists thinking it was cancelled!

i think there are more practical solutions to this but it may discourage this from continuing in the future

 

[dgridley]

I think this is exactly what they had in mind.. kinda guerilla tactics but it may work in cutting down illegal posters.

i read this story earlier in the paper where the council put "Cancelled" stickers over "Rock Ness" musical festival posters and the company running it received thousands of calls from furious tourists thinking it was cancelled!