Ad Likens Disinfectant to Subway Terrorists

The Colombian ad company ADE is saying that Desinfex household cleaner will do to germs what bombs do to suicidal terrorists. It's that effective! According to Advertolog, this ad was released this month, meaning it was most likely designed before the Moscow bombings, but printed after. Commenters on Ads of the World seem to be on the fence as to whether the ad is even good. "Jeff" said, "I think any use of suicide bombers is rather distasteful," while AdAddicted raved, "contemporary thought ;-) Beautiful art!!" Either way, NYPD subway security might want to be on the lookout; that guy in the suit on the left looks like he's about to go postal on somebody. [Via Animal New York]

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By Jaya Saxena in Miscellaneous on April 7, 2010 1:01 PM

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Think2wice

They could have just anthropomorphized the bottle of Desinfex and made it go after villainous germs like a superhero.

Gothamist_Cynic

Here's an idea, why don't they clean the subways in exchange for posting these stupid ads?

Rocknrope

Not only distasteful, but doesn't make sense. Why would a germ strap on a disinfectant suicide bomb? If you're going to use that analogy, make it a bomb in a bag.

Or to go the extra mile in distaste, make it a humvee full of germ "soldiers" rolling over an "IED" disinfectant.

Guest

Although that was exactly what I had first thought, I began to think about it another way: Why do humans strap on bombs that kill everyone around them including themselves?