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I cannot believe this degraded into a slug fest.
She made a very simple statement and gave a fair warning to travelers, if you rent one of these vans you may indeed not have a place to stay do to the low IQ "satire" on the van.
Regardless of how wrong you may think that is to your individual "freedoms" it is reality.
So take the friendly warning and be happy someone spelled it out for you.

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I just think that ppl generally take offense by being told what to do based on other people's moral compass.
The images are vulgar, I wouldn't want to drive around in something like that and I think someone who does would have trouble moving freely around public camp sites, but as there is no law being broken, it's a free world and people have the right to express their views either directly or via slogans painted by others.
We may not agree with it, but we cannot begin a unilateral censorship based on the opinions of an indevidual.
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I cannot believe this degraded into a slug fest... So take the friendly warning and be happy someone spelled it out for you.
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Problem is that by posting [the photos] we give even more publicity to a grub that doesn't deserve it.
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Scootergal: Your original post with the warning that renters of these vans might not be allowed in some campsites was a good idea, but with a mixed message by asking for a boycott in the title of the post.
However I can certainly see why you and other women should be offended by some of these paint jobs, and I think we've now all seen enough photos, so I'm closing the thread.
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I've always gone by the idea that 'I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.'.
That's not to say I find the sense of 'humour' that these guys are showing to be funny or laudable in any way, but if that's what they want to spray on their vans more power to them. If people don't like it and want to express that, more power to them as well. Certainly not something that the law should be getting involved in though. There is a line, but that line is the active incitement of a clear and present threat to life and limb. This is not that.
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If people don't like it and want to express that, more power to them as well. Certainly not something that the law should be getting involved in though.
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I certainly don't want that parked out the front of my house but if I took a spray can to it, the law would indeed get involved.
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Followed one of these wicked vans in the Chilean (or was it the Argentine?) Lake District a month or so ago.
On a straight I overtook it. Just thought it was a sh!te paint job, nothing more. Didn't realise it was a van rental company. I'm now a great deal wiser.
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Thing is there is no need to alienate more than 50% of your clients in one fell swoop plus a large proportion of the rest who at least make an effort to do the right thing. Some of the stuff is genuinely amusing and there is no need to head for the bottom.
In Chile we saw this one
which most would not object to.
and this one  which I guess might be considered daring in South America, although of course considering the names of many of the No-tell Motels all over, hardly too dramatic.
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