SOUTH BEND, Ind.—A northern Indiana restaurant that erected billboards referring to the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre in which more than 900 people died has removed the signs following complaints that the signs were offensive. The billboards included the statement, "We're like a cult with better Kool-Aid," over a glass containing a mixed drink, as well as the phrase "To die for!" In November 1978, more than 900 members of Jim Jones' People's Temple drank cyanide-laced, grape-flavored punch in a mass murder and suicide in the group's compound in Guyana...."We have a responsibility to (advertise) with care, and that's why we're pulling this ad. We made a mistake and don't want to have a negative image in the community."
You don't owe an apology for jack shit. I hate, hate politically correct assholes in America. Calm down people, life would be so much better without these tightwads with nothing better to do but crusade around trying to decide what is and isn't appropriate for the rest of us to see. These guys made a joke, an edgy joke, but a joke. Just let it be what it was meant to be. They obviously aren't condoning mass-suicide. Use some common sense. No need to apologize every time someone is put-off by an advertisement, opinion, or statement, it was funny as all hell and any non-jackass would get a quick chuckle out of it, and maybe a good buzz if they stopped in for a margarita.
If not, bite your tongue and drive on. This is still America, right? They're aware they could just choose to ignore it and not eat at Hacienda, right? If the advertisement did bad enough and didn't produce results it would have disappeared anyway. But no, Susie-Loudmouth-Housewife had to get all righteous and spoil everyone's fun. I hate Susie-Loudmouth.
