{"id":234,"date":"2007-06-10T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/06\/10\/insidious-or-beguiling-really-clever-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2007-06-10T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T22:55:00","slug":"insidious-or-beguiling-really-clever-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/06\/10\/insidious-or-beguiling-really-clever-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"insidious or beguiling? really clever law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/390-cancelled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310478442788050\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/391-cancelled.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>let&#8217;s say that you don&#8217;t happen to share my affection for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdav.com\/hd_posters\/posters1984.html\">the fine art of concert flyers<\/a>. how would you stop &#8220;rogue promoters&#8221; from papering the halls, walls, and buses of your fair city with gig posters? in glasgow, the city council cleverly started slapping CANCELLED stickers over the offending posters. the result?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; some rogue promoters &#8230; have been inundated with complaints from music fans.<br \/>People who have bought tickets to some of this summer&#8217;<\/em><em>s big gigs have complained, thinking that an event, rather than the advert, had been cancelled.<br \/>The source said: &#8220;If people start phoning concert promoters complaining that they thought the gig had been cancelled, then the promoters have no-one but themselves to blame for having the posters put up in the first place.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i give them 10 out 10 for style, 10 out of 10 for creativity, and maybe 3 out of 9 zillion for enforcement priorities. but <em>dang <\/em>that&#8217;s clever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s say that you don&#8217;t happen to share my affection for the fine art of concert flyers. how would you stop &#8220;rogue promoters&#8221; from papering the halls, walls, and buses of your fair city with gig posters? in glasgow, the city council cleverly started slapping CANCELLED stickers over the offending posters. the result? &#8230; some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}