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`Although he admits it’s “morally questionable”, he began taking the posters' This is ostensibly a fun read, but for the duration I couldn't get past the thoug

`Although he admits it’s “morally questionable”, he began taking the posters' This is ostensibly a fun read, but for the duration I couldn't get past the thought that someone hand drew and coloured a poster for beloved missing dog -- not a print out or photocopy -- and someone just took it because they wanted to collect them. It gives the whole piece a really discomforting overtone.

Waterluvian 3y ago
Yeah it’s hard to look past that. Ugly behaviour. I can’t find it now but I’ve seen this guy on TikTok who takes photos of posters like this, usually people offering services like house cleaning, and he professionally redesigns them then prints some off and posts them. Interesting how the same moment can fork in two starkly different directions.
- ColinWright 3y ago
  > Yeah it’s hard to look past that. Ugly behaviour. From the article: "... but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood"
  - Waterluvian 3y ago
    That doesn’t mean anything. If you have two drunken lawn gnomes can I take one?
mahithefish 3y ago
Same, I kept reading to see if they would answer this…
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have_faith 3y ago
Did the article say he took originals? I thought it said he only took one if another was still nearby, implying multiple copies.
- drewcoo 3y ago
  > but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood Not a quote from Bolles but from the article.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  This was in the 70s. There were, for most people, only originals. The article clarifies this even: "He was touched by the “folk art” of missing posters – the hand-drawn dogs and the poetic pleas meticulously crafted in a time before computers and printers were household goods." And this article, which is extensively advertising for this guys products and bands, is helping make him money for this behavior.
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resoluteteeth 3y ago
> someone hand drew and coloured a poster for beloved missing dog -- not a print out or photocopy -- and someone just took it because they wanted to collect them I do think this is problematic, but I imagine that the owners would usually not retrieve/keep the posters anyway, so I'm not sure the issue is necessarily with the fact that an original is being taken like there might be with some other artistic creation (I'm not sure the owner would object to not getting the original back; the posters will probably just be discarded anyway). My concern is more that if someone put a lot of effort into making these posters for the purpose of attracting people's attention in order to get their pet back, it seems problematic to take it without knowing for sure that the pet has already been found even if there are multiple posters in a neighborhood.
- cfeduke 3y ago
  It's not problematic, its just plain wrong. Also, the phone number is right there on the flier so its not like the fliers owner can't be contacted after seeing a flier to see if the animal has been found and if the flier can be removed. Doing the right thing sometimes takes a bit of work.
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Waterluvian 3y ago

Yeah it’s hard to look past that. Ugly behaviour. I can’t find it now but I’ve seen this guy on TikTok who takes photos of posters like this, usually people offering services like house cleaning, and he professionally redesigns them then prints some off and posts them. Interesting how the same moment can fork in two starkly different directions.

ColinWright 3y ago
> Yeah it’s hard to look past that. Ugly behaviour. From the article: "... but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood"
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  That doesn’t mean anything. If you have two drunken lawn gnomes can I take one?

mahithefish 3y ago

Same, I kept reading to see if they would answer this…

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have_faith 3y ago

Did the article say he took originals? I thought it said he only took one if another was still nearby, implying multiple copies.

drewcoo 3y ago
> but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood Not a quote from Bolles but from the article.
somenameforme 3y ago
This was in the 70s. There were, for most people, only originals. The article clarifies this even: "He was touched by the “folk art” of missing posters – the hand-drawn dogs and the poetic pleas meticulously crafted in a time before computers and printers were household goods." And this article, which is extensively advertising for this guys products and bands, is helping make him money for this behavior.

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resoluteteeth 3y ago

> someone hand drew and coloured a poster for beloved missing dog -- not a print out or photocopy -- and someone just took it because they wanted to collect them I do think this is problematic, but I imagine that the owners would usually not retrieve/keep the posters anyway, so I'm not sure the issue is necessarily with the fact that an original is being taken like there might be with some other artistic creation (I'm not sure the owner would object to not getting the original back; the posters will probably just be discarded anyway). My concern is more that if someone put a lot of effort into making these posters for the purpose of attracting people's attention in order to get their pet back, it seems problematic to take it without knowing for sure that the pet has already been found even if there are multiple posters in a neighborhood.

cfeduke 3y ago
It's not problematic, its just plain wrong. Also, the phone number is right there on the flier so its not like the fliers owner can't be contacted after seeing a flier to see if the animal has been found and if the flier can be removed. Doing the right thing sometimes takes a bit of work.
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