{"id":643,"date":"2007-03-29T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/29\/has-anyone-seen-ryan-rhodes\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:12:03","slug":"has-anyone-seen-ryan-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Has Anyone Seen Ryan Rhodes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because\u00a0 I’m thinking he’s in big trouble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Scottish company has been slammed for inviting customers to “send a poo” to an Englishman on St George’s Day.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh-based firm PostaPoo.com is selling plastic “realistic poo” to send to “your favourite (or least favourite) Englishman” to mark April 23.<\/p>\n

Customers are given the choice between human or dog-style excrement, wrapped in tissue paper along with a personal message set beside the English flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some people can’t take a joke:<\/p>\n

But members of the English Democrats Party, which is campaigning for an English Parliament, questioned the stunt’s legality.<\/p>\n

Robin Tilbrook, the party’s national chairman, said: “The company’s website says they will not send this so-called ‘practical joke’ if the message is deemed threatening, racist, homophobic, or displays religious bigotry.<\/p>\n

“It appears to me to be threatening, possibly racist and without question bigoted. It’s certainly offensive and possibly an offence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Racist?\u00a0 Hoo-boy.
\nAnyway, let’s check.<\/p>\n

Yep.\u00a0 Still there<\/a>.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because\u00a0 I’m thinking he’s in big trouble: A Scottish company has been slammed for inviting customers to “send a poo” to an Englishman on St George’s Day. Edinburgh-based firm PostaPoo.com is selling plastic “realistic poo” to send to “your favourite (or least favourite) Englishman” to mark April 23. Customers are given the choice between human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}