It’s okay to do blockies in Lonnie but don’t lean out of the window, says ad watchdog

An ad for National Pies featuring young women P-platers driving laps around Launceston has been banned by the Ad Standards Board because one of them hangs out of the car window.

The ad, which aired on Tasmanian television, drew a complaint from a member of the pubic who wrote: “Inappropriate and offensive advertising stating and displaying poor and unsafe driving “400 times around local city block”. A female in the rear of the car is shown performing dangerous activities in hanging her head outside of a moving car and also
she performs an offensive gesture outside the car.”

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