Controversial Billboard Ad For Sunglasses Taken Down

Controversial Billboard Ad For Sunglasses Taken Down

An “unintentionally” provocative billboard ad recently got the boot after residents complained that it was sending the wrong message.

A billboard in San Diego that read, “Happy to sit on your face” has been removed after stirring debate over advertising content.

Despite its sexually suggestive overtones, the billboard itself referred to a brand of sunglasses produced by Carlsbad, Calif.-based Spy Optic.

“Upon receiving feedback from a few local citizens about SPY’s new Hwy 101 billboard—that has been widely enjoyed and celebrated by the community—the advertising space’s management company has decided to remove it permanently,” according to a statement from Spy Optic, the sunglasses manufacturing company that produced the billboard. “Despite the billboard’s positive reception, an underwhelming minority made enough noise that the management company decided this afternoon to remove it first thing Thursday morning.”

Before being taken down, the billboard was generating some controversy, and bemused support, from local residents.

“I thought that I read it wrong,” Moonlight Hair Design owner Sarita Mihaly, whose shop sits directly below the billboard, told 10News. “I thought that it was a joke.”

Hilarious.

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