The following article appeared in a newspaper;
A Waco sign company has created a decal that goes on the tailgate of a pickup showing a blonde woman, her hair covering her face and her hands and feet tied up. When placed on the tailgate, it creates the optical illusion that there’s actually a woman who’s tied up and in the bed of the truck.
“I wasn’t expecting the reactions that we got, nor was it really anything we certainly condone or anything else,” the sign company’s owner told a Waco TV station. “But it was just something…we had to put out there to see who notices it.”
Supposedly it was done to demonstrate how realistic the company’s decals are. According to the Huffington Post, the TV station, KWTX, “asked viewers what they thought of the marketing stunt, and the responses the station received were pretty ‘one-sided’ against it. Some viewers said they even called police when they saw the decal, thinking a woman was truly in trouble.”
Nice job wasting police time.
Its website asks, “How far is too far; an experiment in marketing.” And the controversial marketing strategy has paid off. There has been a rise in decal orders.
An ad like this is not the kind of publicity our "hobby" needs. Hopefully the public doesn't get the idea that we all drive around with our victims in the back of our trucks.
LordNelson