'Hey! Isn't that Dad up on that billboard?'

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - People who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program that one civil rights group calls bad public policy.

The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco started putting up billboards on Wednesday showing men arrested for soliciting sex. Other signs invite prostitutes to quit by calling a help line.

More at:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=3&u=/nm/20050603/od_nm/sex_oakland_dc

Originally posted by Phlabibit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - People who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program that one civil rights group calls bad public policy.

The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco started putting up billboards on Wednesday showing men arrested for soliciting sex. Other s ...[text shortened]... ore at:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=3&u=/nm/20050603/od_nm/sex_oakland_dc

Why can't they just leave these poor people alone?

How interesting. I spent some time in California last month with the family. This picture struck me as rather curious at the time:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/jeffcotter/familyholiday.jpg

Originally posted by dyl
How interesting. I spent some time in California last month with the family. This picture struck me as rather curious at the time:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/jeffcotter/familyholiday.jpg

Originally posted by dyl
How interesting. I spent some time in California last month with the family. This picture struck me as rather curious at the time:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/jeffcotter/familyholiday.jpg

Originally posted by Shanshu311
I don't get it.

Originally posted by Nyxie
So you don't get it twice?

What is up with you and this doppleganger effect shansu? I notice it happens to you a lot.

Originally posted by Shanshu311
I'm not sure...I don't ever click the post button twice....perhaps it is something else?

I wish I could delete those stupid double-posts. It makes me look like an idiot.

(insert "but you don't need help to look like an idiot Shanshu" comment here)

Originally posted by Shanshu311
I'm not sure...I don't ever click the post button twice....perhaps it is something else?

I wish I could delete those stupid double-posts. It makes me look like an idiot.

(You're doing quite a fine job looking like an idiot without this effect anyway)

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Sorry, didn't hear you. Could you repeat that?

Originally posted by Shanshu311
No. Sorry, I only insult myself once per day...otherwise I get a complex and lose all of my self-esteem.

Originally posted by darvlay
Do you at least get the freakin' joke yet?!?!

Originally posted by Shanshu311
The "I couldn't hear you" joke? I assume that was because of my double-post. But then I noticed that it wasn't quoting the double-post, it was quoting my other post.

So then I assumed that the "I can't hear you" comment was about that new post.


Now I'm confused.

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
He means the picture thing.... which started all this chaos.