Billboard Questioning Anglers’ Manhood to Be Erected

PETA U.K.’s billboard asking anglers if they are “overcompensating” for something hit a little too close to home for some fishers. Fortunately, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the agency that reviews all ad complaints in the U.K., has a better sense of humor than do the angry anglers—it gave the billboard the all-clear.

Says ASA spokesperson Rob Griggs, “Our decision was that we acknowledged the intended humour, and we felt that it was unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence.”

PETA U.K. plans to erect this billboard in fishing hot spots across the U.K.

Guys who get off on impaling animals’ mouths with hooks and leaving them to slowly suffocate are definitely short on at least one thing: compassion.

Written by Christine Becknell