Saturday, August 25, 2012

Don't Talk to Strangers


This man is the face of W.B. Mason, an office supplies store.  W.B. Mason is a sponsor of the New York Yankees and it's hard to watch a game without seeing one of their commercials.

Lately the W.B. Mason dude, with his cardboard cut-out moustache, has taken to lurking around kids.  Yeah, here's this scary dude in a huge box truck chatting it up with kids who are having trouble doing things like contacting the tooth fairy.  Why the Mason dude even yanks out one of his own teeth to get in touch with the tooth fairy!

Who is smoking crack and writing these ads?

Are the kids supposed to believe that just because this guy drives for W.B. Mason he's not a stranger?  Why are they talking to him?  And unless he wants to be arrested he needs to stop speaking to them.

This whole ad campaign should make you feel queasy, but the timing may be perfect to talk to your kids about pedophiles when one of these ads appears.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I actually beg to differ. This guy is awesome, and it obviously appears you don't know him like I do. He just so happens to be my theatre instructor here in NC. Just because someone starts talking to kids, doesn't mean he is a pedophile. Ill tell you whose a real pedophile and that's barney the purple dinosaur. While I agree we shouldn't talk to strangers, we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.