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| Jayx1 |
So the mexican government decided on a clever way to promote tourism in Mexico on Canadian city streets.
As a result they are getting flack from the police to "turn it down" because i guess cultural music in a city full of car horns and traffic noise is a no no??!!??
Also getting heat from "feminists" who spit on them because there are women in bikinis?
Whats wrong with our country when someone cant even put up a fun display midwinter without getting all kinds of bull?
LIGHTEN UP!!!
(again, this complaint is about complainers...)
| quote: | Tempest in a sandlot
A Mexican 'portable beach' is stopping traffic in Montreal
But it's also driving local police mad
MIRO CERNETIG
QUEBEC BUREAU CHIEF
Montreal—When it dreamed up the notion of filling a massive glass box with white sand, palm trees and swimsuit models to create a "portable beach" to drive around northern cities, the Mexican government never thought it would need to claim blanket immunity.
But that's what happened in Montreal, says Bob Marier, a Hollywood TV producer hired to truck one of the "portable beaches" around this sun-starved city to promote winter getaways.
"I like to joke my truck now has diplomatic immunity," said Marier, who is driving the vehicle for the Mexico Tourism Board. "The first day, I had a cease-and-desist order from the police. Then this guy came down from the Mexican consulate and waved his diplomatic credentials at the police.
"I'm not sure what he said, but he made the problem go away for me pretty fast," he said. "So it didn't really become a diplomatic incident you'd hear about."
But the police still keep showing up and telling him where to park the beach, er, the truck.
At the moment, two of Montreal's finest ambled up to his white truck, which tends to stick out since it looks like a giant aquarium on wheels — one that happens to be filled with three plastic palm trees, 6,000 kilograms of white sand and three bronzed women wearing bikinis in sub-zero weather.
"You have to turn down the music," one officer ordered Marier, suggesting the salsa beat emanating from the truck was disturbing the peace.
"Maybe you could find another place," added his partner, whose gaze kept roaming toward one of the models waving at him from behind her heated, glass enclosure.
"I can't do that," Marier responded in a friendly but firm manner, dropping coins into two parking meters to ensure he could claim the two spots his truck takes up on rue Ste.-Catherine, Montreal's rough equivalent of Yonge St.
"I had to get up at 6 a.m. to get this spot," he explained. "I can't just give it up now. I won't find another."
Navigating his stretch of beach through Montreal has been decidedly more problematic than doing so in Toronto, Chicago and New York, the three other northern cites that now have the Mexican Tourism Board "portable beaches" driving through their downtowns.
In those cities, the "promo-buses" advertising Mexico's "eternal summer" have been given permits.
Still, complications turn up.
"I've gotten some parking tickets in Toronto, for $40 and $60, when I'm on the road at rush hour," says Jeff Pfeifer, who is driving one of the Mexican beaches around downtown Toronto.
"But they haven't tried to tow me yet. Maybe Toronto's a little more relaxed than Montreal," he mused.
"I think the police really just come by to have an excuse to look at the models. Most people just smile when they see the beach."
Many people, in fact, initially seem to think they are seeing some attempt at performance art, not an advertising gimmick, when they see the glassed-in beach.
And some don't like it, said Marier. One woman was angered by the display, he said, calling the use of women to sell sex and sun offensive.
"She spat on the truck," he said.
Most passersby, however, seem bemused.
"Are they pretending to be animals in a zoo?" asked René Ziegler, who stopped for a few minutes to watch the display before realizing it was what is called "contact advertising."
"It's strange. They sort of seem like fish in a goldfish bowl."
Actually, lizards in a terrarium is more apt.
The sand the models sit on isn't from Mexico, which Marier said would have too many germs, but instead what people buy in pet stores for iguanas.
Like lizards in a northern climate, the models, who are from the Montreal area, also basked under heat lamps to keep warm.
"The sand gets cold," complained Craig Struble, the sole male model with rights to the artificial beach, shivering before he climbed inside and plopped his bronzed body under the plastic palms.
"It's bizarre. But it's a real traffic stopper."
He's right about that.
Yesterday, a group of firefighters repeatedly drove by in their red truck, eventually stopping to turn on the sirens and flash the lights as they waved.
"Oh, look, firemen," said one of the models.
"Let's wave.". |
We need some sort of war or natural disaster because canadians have their priorities all wrong if they find the time to complain about something this harmless.
Thumbs up to the mexicans for having something we long forgot. Civic imagination. |
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| Pettiscool |
| lets not forget how hot those girls were in that truck :eyes: |
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| Jayx1 |
Yup.... I looooove montreal women
yummy :D |
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| malek |
why not post that in the montreal thread.
I saw it this weekend, it worsen the traffic problem on st-catherines because those TWO hot chicks dance really well with their bikinis ;)
2 cars can bearly make it thru every light.
oh and the music is ing annoying ( i hate salsa in general ). |
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| Cal |
| hahaha so should we get an aquarium on a truck, fill it with with white styrofoam and stick a couple of girls on skis in there? Becuase thats all Canada has to offer in terms of vacation in my opinion. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
why not post that in the montreal thread.
I saw it this weekend, it worsen the traffic problem on st-catherines because those TWO hot chicks dance really well with their bikinis ;)
2 cars can bearly make it thru every light.
oh and the music is ing annoying ( i hate salsa in general ). |
because montreal is part of canada and its happening in toronto too.
As for your complaints. I guess you are one of them eh? I guess cities should be bland, boring and quiet so that we can save a few minutes of your commuting time every morning?
Whatever. Move to Victoria or Red Deer or somewhere if thats what u want. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cal
hahaha so should we get an aquarium on a truck, fill it with with white styrofoam and stick a couple of girls on skis in there? Becuase thats all Canada has to offer in terms of vacation in my opinion. |
I dont think it would piss the mexicans off. in fact i bet they would start dancing on the streets. Unless of course it was Celine Dion Music...
BLAH...
I CAN FLLLYYYYYYYY :whip: |
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| Matt |
| well, Quebec isn't really part of Canada, so who cares?!:haha: |
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| nycionx |
ya i completely agree with jaxy1. its a big bull! :whip:
wut r u going to do:rolleyes: |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by nycionx
ya i completely agree with jaxy1. its a big bull! :whip:
wut r u going to do:rolleyes: |
I know what id do... id tell them to shut the hell up (well ok not the cops) LOL
For the woman id whip it out and wave it around and yell "look we are equal opportunity exploiters so dont worry about it" |
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| St_Andrew |
| what suprices me most is that it was people in montreal who compained, and not in toronto... i always thought they were much more tollerant up there =) |
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