Saturday, August 13, 2005
Billboard demolition attacks on the motorway
We had an attack on the Northern Motorway billboard recently. All the party billboards had been wiped out and spray painted, although ours was repairable.
The strange thing was, all the vandalized signs had "Destiny NZ" spraypainted on with a big tick. Either there is a vandal out there with a strange sense of humour or a rogue gang of moronic fundamentalists.
Local National MP Katherine Rich had fangs and horns drawn on her photo, and Don Brash had been touched up to resemble a certain German dictator.
And from the Otago Daily Times today . . .
"Victor Billot of the Alliance was contacted yesterday, having spent many hours replacing the damaged billboard."
"We make a point of not having faces on our billboards now, because it just asks for trouble."