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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Back in 2005 I tried to legitimately put up this billboard. When The Sun found out they contacted the billboard owner & got it cancelled. And then they made sure no one would ever see my sick propaganda by printing it full colour and half a page of a national newspaper

I eventually put it up a few months later.

Sun newspaper clipping. Headline: The Scottish Sun Saves Santa. ART STUDENT'S 'GRINCH BLITZ GETS THE CHOP' With a picture of what the billboard would look like, a fake santa and some kids next to the text: "Santa Gives More to Rich Kids Than Poor Kids" and a picture of me as a hairy art student down the bottom corner Sun newspaper clipping. Headline: The Scottish Sun Saves Santa. ART STUDENT'S 'GRINCH BLITZ GETS THE CHOP' With a picture of what the billboard would look like, a fake santa and some kids next to the text: "Santa Gives More to Rich Kids Than Poor Kids" and a picture of me as a hairy art student down the bottom corner
Billboard in a Glasgow street: SANTA GIVES MORE TO RICH KIDS THAN POOR KIDS. In the foreground a parent and child cycle past on a tandem cycle