Ad watchdog rules against Wicked Campers for 15th time this year
Wicked Campers have had a fifteenth complaint to the Ad Standards Board upheld against it this year, with the board ruling the image of the character “Kenny Powers” was presented in an aggressive manner.
The complained about slogan read ‘You’re F#ckin’ Out! I’m F#ckin’ In!’ on the right hand side of van, with a pro drugs slogan at the back.
In its ruling, the board noted that the replacement of the letter u in the slogan with a # was “not enough to disguise what the word is meant to read”.
The board also discussed the drawing of the character ‘Kenny Powers’, who is a fictional character in the TV series Eastbound and Down, and is know for an inflated ego and short temper. It was the board’s view the character would not be familiar to most members of the community and his presence on the side of the vehicle is aggressive.
The board ruled that the use of the word ‘fuckin’ in connection with an image of Powers was presented in an aggressive manner and amounted to language “which is strong and obscene and inappropriate in the circumstances”. The complaint was upheld.
Wicked did not make a submission to the ASB hearing.
Previous ASB rulings against Wicked Campers this year have included the slogans: “In every princess there is a little slut who wants to try it just once”, “Chuck Norris needs a monkey wrench and a blowtorch to masturbate”, “If you love God, burn a church” “Get out ya tits and we’ll call it quits”, “Fat girls are harder to kidnap“, “Does your asshole ever get jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth?”, “Shut the f#ck up Donny“, “God I’m Fucking Awesome”, “I was in fuckin’ Nirvana dude. Dave Grohl“, “Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it”, “…Save a lollipop…suck a dick!”, “Yes We Can!” which ran on the side of a car along with an image of Adolf Hitler, “a blow job a day beats an apple” and “camouflage condoms: she’ll never see you cumming”.
Which is more useless and a greater waste of money, Ad Standards Board or the Press Council?
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HAHA those slogans are gold!! totally inappropriate which is why its so good
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The show was called Eastbound and Down
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Really Eddy? This is dick head dude territory where by it is OK to be distracted by kidnapped women giving blow jobs, whilst backpacker driver consumes drugs and alcohol whilst driving one of these shit boxes round Australia. HAHA indeed. Sorry fail to see the gold nor does my kid when he has seen one of these vans.
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Clean up vile Wicked campervan slogans
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