AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH WHAT IS THAT WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON A BILLBOARD I’LL BRUSH MY TEETH I PROMISE.
A local billboard ad did more than just capture the attention of people in Norcross, it has scared several children.
The billboard, which shows an advertisement for Georgia Prosthodontics, is located right next to a daycare called Legacy Academy at Berkeley Lake. [...]
“They’re afraid to go outside on the playground because it overlooks their playground and these are little toddlers, and it’s just not OK,” [Daycare Director Ami] Bombardieri said. [CBS Atlanta]
Okay, two things:
1) Shoutout to Legacy Academy director Ami Bombardieri for (a) being on the goddamn ball about this, to the point she’s giving an interview to a TV station while she’s on the phone with someone else (a lawyer? Her congressman? The President?!), and (b) having a really tremendous last name.
2) Why on Earth would you put that billboard near a daycare? I am a fully grown adult male and I swear to God I’m going to have nightmares for weeks about that person’s horrifying, mangled mouth. Those kids must be traumatized. I imagine they’ve all brushed their teeth so much in the last few days that they’ve eroded them down to shiny little touthnubs. Ones that will require extensive dental work to repair. THE PLOT THICKENS.
Luckily, this story has as happy an ending as one can have when the middle part of it involves scaring children with a giant picture of diseased gums. The billboard is coming down.
Thursday afternoon, an attorney for Dr. Carlos Castro, the owner of Georgia Prosthodontics, gave the following statement to CBS Atlanta News:
“Recently, Dr. Carlos Castro, owner of Sonria Dental Care/Georgia Prosthodontics, received notification that the children attending Legacy Academy Berkeley Lake may be frightened by their billboard that is located on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard [Norcross, Gwinnett County]. Dr. Castro, who is extremely concerned about the health, safety and welfare of children, is working diligently with CBS Outdoor to ensure that the billboard is immediately removed. Dr. Castro sincerely regrets any type of inconvenience that this may have caused the parents of the children that attend Legacy and offers his sincere apology to the children that attend Legacy, Legacy Academy and the surrounding community. Hopefully, with the assistance of CBS Outdoor, the billboard will be immediately removed.”
You done good, Ami Bombardieri. You done good.
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This is hilarious. I work less than 2 miles from this billboard, and I laugh my ass off everytime I drive by it.
This is so goofy. The dentistry was trying to get advertising so they’re next to an interstate. They didn’t have anything to do with putting it next to a daycare. Move it to another location down the road so the little pansies can complain about whatever next ad comes along.
Did you just call toddlers pansies?
He should have called them a BUNCH OF PUSSIES! Back in my day, all the teachers(and most of the students) had teeth like that!
I would imagine the pansy name was being directed at the adults who got all up in arms about it. But if it was directed at the children, bravo! That’s some quality hate right there.
I’m not that hateful towards toddlers. I’m hateful towards the lack of common sense by the adults.
They’re going to replace the billboard with an ad for the local optometrist Dr. TJ Eckleburg.
Great, now the kids are all going to complain about the loss of spiritual innocence and the hollowness of the American Dream.
@zack and @Robot.
Bravo. The was awesome
How amazing would it be if this billboard was an ad from Orin Scrivello D.D.S.?
Or Isaac Yankum?
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: we went from corgis doing adorable things to meth-mouth on this site on Fridays?!?!? BRING BACK CORGI FRIDAY!!!!!!!
seconded!
Where would be a good place for this billboard, exactly? Okay, so you don’t want it to loom over a preschool playground, but how about kids who are in cars on that interstate? They don’t matter? How about the adults who don’t want to look at nasty, fucked up teeth?
This is like the jerkoffs who picket abortion clinics w/ pictures of human viscera in buckets. No one wants to see that, and you’re not winning people over to your side.
I’ve seen kids in Georgia. If it’ll scare them from not drinking 32 oz’s of soda and eat 3 chocolate bars before lunch, this isn’t the worst thing in the world.
I’d go as far as calling him a poor man’s hero.
I live on bombardier ave. suck it
Are those birds humping?
I hadn’t noticed that before you said it but yes, those birds are totally doing it.