[/floatr]Cairns.com: Wicked gets rude in Japanese
BUDGET rental company Wicked is under fresh attack over an offensive slogan written in Japanese and plastered over one of its vans. The slogan reads: "Lick my ...." and was interpreted for The Cairns Post by several Japanese people. Cairns.com.au reader Mark sent a photograph of the van to the website after his Japanese wife spotted it parked in their street in the Cairns suburb of Bayview while driving their eight-year-old daughter to school. "It's terrible. If you walked around in a T-shirt with that written on it in English, you would be arrested," he said. His said he and his wife had tried to stop their daughter, who can read Japanese, from seeing the van, which was parked in the street for several days before leaving overnight...Wicked was condemned last month by Premier Anna Bligh and other authories after a van was spotted carrying the slogan "Save a whale - harpoon a Jap"...more...
