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Quote:Officials are axing advertisements that playfully urge subway riders to pretend they're on vacation -- showing cartoon figures fly fishing on the tracks and lounging across subway seats.<
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The ads, part of a Bahamas Ministry of Tourism campaign, "advocate behavior that is clearly unsafe" and will be replaced, said Jodi Senese, a spokeswoman for CBS Outdoor, the company that distributes advertising in New York's underground.<
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Under the heading "Instant Escape No. 2: How to Fly Fish with a Scarf and a Cell Phone," one ad seems to instruct riders to fish for trash on the tracks by putting something sticky on a cell phone and attaching it to a scarf.<
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Another sign in the series, "How to Turn a Subway Seat into a Hammock," shows a figure draped over several seats.<
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Track fishing and seat hogging are both forbidden by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's official rules.<
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Essentially they're saying that people are far too stupid to seperate fantasy from reality. <
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What's worse, you just know it's semi-accurate, that some dumb fucker really would stick their cell phone on the end of a scarf and get zapped by the rail, or get sucked into the path of an oncoming car.<
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And instead of us all rejoicing, cele
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