Cleveland stays away from KFC offer to fix potholes (would fix free if could stamp pavement w/logo)

[The Straight Story]

Cleveland stays away from KFC offer to fix potholes

CLEVELAND — Cleveland's potholes don't need a little KFC, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The animal rights organization said it's requesting that this city and others forgo KFC's recent offer to fix potholes for free. The fast-food chain had asked only that it be allowed to stamp the pavement patches with a logo saying "Re-Freshed by KFC."

But accepting that deal, PETA said, means endorsing advertisements for "Kentucky Fried Cruelty." The group accused KFC of building a "mile-long record" of animal abuse while filling buckets with chicken.

So PETA put money on the menu to outflank the Colonel's campaign. The organization vowed to double KFC's proposed $3,000 fix-it fund for cities that walk away from the counter. In exchange, PETA would chalk patched holes with a devilish depiction of Colonel Sanders and the words "KFC Tortures Animals."

KFC denied PETA's accusations and said it is committed to the well-being and humane treatment of chickens. The company also labeled PETA a radical operation that "doesn't reflect the viewpoint of mainstream America."

http://www.cleveland.com/roadrant/index.ssf/2009/04/cleveland_stays_away_from_kfc.html

[MrPerson]

1. They're out of Original pothole patch. How about Extra Krispy?

[The Straight Story]

2. If they would plow my streets I would let them stamp KFC on my ass

The city rarely hits us up (though they have gotten better...)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Patching potholes with asphalt slogans?

Sounds like a very bad idea to me.

I mean, that just looks tacky.

I know Cleveland is hard up for money, but surely they can do better!

x(

[The Straight Story]

5. Yeah opens a big door - local church (patched by Jeebus!), kkk group, porn magazine :)

Don't get me started on the porn one, I can see the hole patch now... :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Oh god, now my mind went THERE too!

Dammit, SS!

You are too funny!

:rofl: :rofl:

[The Straight Story]

9. Wonder how many accidents would be caused by people trying to look at it

Maybe, for the lounge people, we could stamp them with olive garden logos or a huge boob with 'breastfeeding is best'....

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Here, I think the porn magazine AND the church teamed up:

[The Straight Story]

12. Are those beer cans in front of it?

If so, I am planning a visit, or at least sacrificing a few myself later :)

[Warren DeMontague]

13. This was a few years ago, on the Eisenhower Expy in Chicago.

Some joker painted "Go Cubs" right next to it... Sorry, Jack, but there are some miracles that even the Virgin Mary apparently can't accomplish.

[Mojorabbit]

15. I am all for corporations putting a little back into the

community gratis. I could care less if they put their buttprints on the asphalt. :D

[rcrush]

4. Hell just sell the whole street to KFC

They can paint the KFC logo up and down the street. Maybe put up some KFC flags.

[The Straight Story]

6. That would surely play into the old 'why did the chicken cross the road' question (nt)

[gratuitous]

8. Where would people rather spend their dollars?

On taxes or buying Kentucky Fried Chicken? What's the per capita outlay of Cleveland's money that goes to KFC, and what would it take, per capita, to repair roads? I'm going to guess that for the price of a couple of Extra Value Meals a year, Cleveland could afford to keep its roads in good repair all by itself.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Yes, well, PETA has already declared KFC to be morally equivalent to the Holocaust

So further grandiose sounding fart noises from their quarter are to be expected, on this.

I say, let the chicken people fix the streets.

[Berry Cool]

14. If the city of Cleveland allowed KFC to repair all its potholes in return for getting them stamped

they might as well just stamp "KFC" on the whole city. Especially in early spring.

[TheKentuckian]

16. Let them do something constructive for once

even if it is also sub-ghetto levels of low rent.

That said, fascism is effectively when the government is owned by the corporations and that feels slippery slopeish to me.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. I don't see how this is all that different from letting the Rotary Club clean a stretch of highway.

:shrug:

[Forkboy]

18. KFC...all that's missing is U.