mardi 18 octobre 2011

Haunted Hayloft Billboard Showing Man Being Hanged in Pittsburgh's North Side Sparks Outrage by Black Residents

Haunted house billboard ad showing man hanging sparks outrage among black residents on Pittsburgh's North Side, owner Elizabeth Syonavec says they will remove billboards.

Haunted Hayloft is under fire for a Halloween billboard that shows a man being hanged and that has upset some black residents on Pittsburgh's North Side where it is erected. The owner of the company, Elizabeth Syonavec said she didn't mean to hurt any feelings and will take the billboards down. She also said there was a story behind the billboards -- two white men were hung back in 1893 side by side in a Somerset jail for the murder of a farmer. Read more: http://www.wpxi.com/news/29487924/detail.html

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