[at-l] Irresponsible wilderness activities in Ads

[Charles Copeland" <charles@uswnet.com (Charles Copeland)]

Has anyone noticed the number of ads on television that show:

a) bears being cute
b) bears dragging things
c) people doing stupid things in the wilderness

I just watched an ad for Toyota that showed a hiker being followed by a
wolf - and then being surrounded by them.  Up the trail comes a Toyota truck
that rolls its window down and tosses out a bag of doggie treats.  The ad
ends with the hiker feeding the wolves.  Stupid stupid stupid.  In one ad
the trail is messed up by a truck and a hiker feeds wild animals.  Great job
ad people!

There's another ad where a bear drags a tent away and another one where a
guy gets squirted with honey and on and on and on...


Charles