a stove should only be a place to cook dinner
The Most Tasteless Ad Campaign EVER Award goes to our well-meaning-but-tragically-misguided friends over at preventchildabuse.org, who were able to convince their benefactors to assault Portland with billboards such as the one you see here. I've seen two in this series—the other one features a shadowy, half-open closet and says something to the effect of, A CLOSET SHOULD ONLY BE A PLACE TO HANG CLOTHES. I don't know if there are any others...A CURLING IRON SHOULD ONLY BE FOR CURLING HAIR?...A FIST SHOULD ONLY BE FOR MAKING THE BLACK-POWER SALUTE? What were they thinking?
OK...a board meeting somewhere featuring soccer moms with too much time and funding..."Why don't we show a red-hot stove top and remind all those child abusers that it's WRONG to burn kids' hands on the glowing coils?"..."Hmmm, Madge—that's a GREAT idea!!!"
A child abuser is driving home and sees the billboard. He decides not to burn his kids' hands on a stove top, at least not tonight.
Whoever gave the green light to this one should have their hands burnt on a stove top.
