Girls fined for defacing lap dancing club poster

[JessinAvalon]

I love this story and thought it deserved its own thread!

news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9357000/9357750.stm

Shocked that this can be advertised in bus stops or any where - thinking that it normalises it for kids and how must women feel waiting at a stop with such an ad.

I've just read that and was going to start a thread.

I'd be bloody proud of DD if she'd done this.

Me too

hurrah for those teens!

Instead of sitting at home vajazzling they are out defacing posters. Go them!

If they were my teens they'd get a pocket money rise

I would gladly pay their fine for them.

If that was my daughter I would pay the fine for her and be bloody impressed with her

good for them

Good for them! If I see any around here I'll deface it too.

That John bloke is a tosser.

Criminal damage is always to be applauded.

Hmm. And yet, they broke the law, while Spearmint Rhino didn't...

Good for them.

I'm sad to say that it never actually occurred to me to deface the advert for a 'gentleman's club' that is near our house.

I am, of course, now considering criminal damage not going to do anything about it.

The article says their mother felt the same as we thought we would - proud!

Yes, because the law should always be put above what is moral and right

They're getting their punishment, you don't need to worry...you can get off your high-horses.

'John said they will be arranging for more posters to be displayed in the city advertising the company.'

I'm sure the feminist groups in Leicester and Leicester Uni will resist the temptation to repeat this regrettable occurrence. Oh yes.

Has vajazzling become a byword for pandering to the patriarchy since I last wandered through here?

Seems appropriate. Having said that, am now wondering if a tattoo of some angry eyes wouldn't be a good addition to my nether regions.

Good for the girls, love the way young people are turning out these days

I can't say that I wouldn't be tempted to commit criminal damage on something like this if I thought I could get away with it.

A van was parked on a road near my house with a huge advert for a garage featuring a highly relevant photo to the product of a girl in leather hotpants and crop top posing provocatively.

It was parked under a tree. Which gave me an idea. It was winter and I always like to keep the birds fed in winter, poor things. So I would occasionally stop off and leave some bird food on top of the van for the birds.this had the added advantage of helping to decorate the offensive advert (of course, women don't buy car parts ever).

The van is gone now. And I'm very pleased. I had phoned the company to complain, and did point out that it was parked near a school but the moron who ran the company seemed quite proud of his sexist ad.

I would be proud of these girls too if they were my daughter. Good for them!

Can we set up a fighting fund for such offences?

This is exactly what women should be doing. It is a perfectly legitimate tactic, how fucking dare the patriarchy rub our oppression in our faces like this. If there were a fund to cover the expenses of activists - including court fines - then that would send a very clear message to judges that public opinion sees this as legitimate action.

Or would it just lead to higher fines as judges seek to ensure that we don't get too uppity?

interesting q re fighting fund HB.

I wonder how much people are usually fined for defacing posters.

If some teenage boy draws a cock and balls on the poster in a bus shelter does he get fined £80? We never hear about that in the press. Because it happens all the time so it's not worth reporting or because it doesn't happen?
I would be very interested to know if these girls are being dealt with more or less harshly than your average vandal.

it is fab that this is being reported btw - I wonder if they are kicking themselves for getting caught or chuffed to bits that their protest has effectively been seen by many more people.

I'd like to think the latter.

Girls - if you are googling themselves then there are a lot of women all over the country/world who are right behind you and buying magic markers and spraypaint. :)

Cock and balls? No, I don't think there's a fine for emblazoning the Patriarchy Coat of Arms.

starting to answer my own question by the power of Google
so the £80 figure is because it's a fixed penalty notice for vandalism.

So you've just got to not get caught...except if you get caught, you draw more attention to the cause. So a fighting fund would be more like a publicity fund. We'd be paying £80 per bill board advert, which is probably much, much less than if we actually paid for a proper billboard ad and it gets in all the papers and spread virally over the internet too! Just for £80! It's a bargain!

The only thing that would stop me is the possibility of a criminal conviction.

It is surprising how little powers councils (claim to) have when it comes to advertising lap dancing clubs.