I saw a billboard that said…
HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE CLEANING
BIOHAZARD SOLUTIONS
1-800-XXX-HELP (censored out the prefix to prevent prank calls)
I knew that there were companies who handled stuff like this, but I was surprised to see them advertising! I imagine this phone number will be included in a lot of suicide notes, and I bet more than a few dimwitted murderers call this number to hide the evidence.
I want to call just so I can meet Harvey Keitel.
My step-grandfater killed himself, he went to extra steps to make sure cleanup was easy. The cops told us they had even seen people drape the room with plastic drop cloth before they shot themselves in the head. Seems they care for people enough to make it an easy cleanup but not easy enough to not pull the trigger.
I tell ya folks thus here wurld is a gettin’ curiouser and curiouser…
Wow, that didn’t make sense, remove the last easy.
I saw a billboard over the weekend (though I dis-remember at the moment exactly where) that read as follows:
Vasectomy Gift Certificates
For the man who has everything…
(phone number)
I thought it had to be a joke, but apparently it wasn’t. It’s amazing the things you see people advertising nowadays.
There’s a billboard like that in Chicago, along I-294 I think; I’ve seen it when I’ve come back into town from visiting in Wisconsin. The company’s name is something on the order of Aftermath.
It might have been a couple guys from that company who were on a network news interview that I saw, about this apparently growing field of work. One of them had been a cop previously (or still is and this is his moonlighting job), and frequently saw people who had some sort of death in their house and were left to figure out how to clean it up.
I can see how this is a needed service, but it just seems… odd, somehow, to see ads for it. I don’t begrudge them wanting to get out the word though, and I’m sure people appreciate the work they do.
Are there really so many women who don’t know the father of their baby that it warrants billboard advertising?
Does he actually believe this?
—These Trees Were Cut Down Illegally—
I still don’t know what trees they were talking about. I didn’t see any stumps, so…
The ones to make the sign?
The ones that used to be where the sign was?
I recall the Discovery Channel had a show where they followed a team of these “clean-up” people around…
I also knew a woman who worked for one of these companies - ewwwwww - some of the stories…
Yup. I’ve seen it, too.
Wow. Is this a high crime area? Or just alotta depressed people?
We had that billboard for a while, but it was replaced later with one that said something like ‘Is the kid really yours?’ or something like that, can’t remember the exact phrasing but it was aimed at fathers. It was the same company, how can you forget that phone number?
As Batz’s post is alluding to, I think those billboards aren’t so much targeting women who have no idea who their baby’s father is, but rather women (or men) who need to establish/disprove paternity for things like child support payments, custody battles, etc. But still, a little weird to see.
A few months ago there were billboards popping up that showed a boy and a girl (maybe 9 or 10 years old), that the billboards simply said, “Ugly kids”. Just that, for weeks. Very disconcerting. But anyway, later they showed a man and a woman, with the words, “… become dee jays!”, and gave the radio station’s frequency. Got my attention, I’ll give them that.
There’s an odd (and kinda funny) billboard on my route to work. It’s a picture of two little girls and it says, “Girl Scouts of America” and underneath that, “Resistance is Futile” That’s…a little scary.
Bosda has a funny billboard story. :nods:
There’s a billboard just outside Niagara Falls on I-190 for a building and roofing company with the tagline “Screw the rest! Nail down a deal with the best!”
I wonder how many people have done a doubletake on that one.
Oh my god… I just had to clean Mtn. Dew off of my monitor!
HAHAHAH!!!
One of the local radio stations here in atlanta had billboards all over the metro area. All of the sudden someone started vandelizing all of the billboards got vandalized. Like someone would spray paint “sucks” below their names.
It turned out to be a big publicity stunt.
Badtz, are you in DFW?
I saw those very billboards and I was a bit stunned by the, erm, ‘boldness’ of them.
I turned to Mr Baboon and said “They need to advertise for this?”
and In other circumstances, I could be more understanding: if it was an ad in the style of a funeral home in a phone book or something. You know, something dignified.
This billboards are in YELLOW! and ORANGE! and RED! and black. They also have a drawing (similar to the 'man crossing ones) of a stick figure laying in a pool of blood. The font is BIG! and is in a ‘electrocuted’ looking font.
Its WAY over the top. At the very least, your reaction to these billbords is “wow”.
My favourite billboard was in Sydney this time last year.
It was an advertisement for cold water laundry detergent – “NEW RADIANT COLD”. The accompanying picture was of a freshly-cleaned singlet, complete with erect nipples.