the 2012 trivial drivel thread

[Jezreel]

My home town doesn't make it into the news a lot, since it's mostly know as a place where people go to die (it's a very flat town, not many hills so the O.A.P's flock there in droves)

But it made it into the national news today, well national tabloid but still.... These postcards are part of what you expect to find at the seaside, my Dad used to sell regular and naughty postcards in his shop back in the day.

Police were called to a gift shop on a seaside pier after a complaint that the postcards on sale were 'obscene' and 'damaging the image of the town'.
Shop owner Ian Donald was stunned when an officer turned up at his store in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and accused him of selling pornography next to buckets and spades.
The cheeky postcards, featuring women on the beach displaying their bottoms or breasts, had outraged Ashley Steinschauer, an assistant minister at the local church, but the complaint has left some bemused.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...raphy.html

On a side note, when my mum was still here and the ran the old fashioned sweet shop in a nearby town, she got reported to the local police for selling Insult Rock. It's basically sticks of rock (candy) that instead of a present from wherever etc it had fat bastard and dickhead on it instead. The local paper came and took her picture and wrote an article in the paper.