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A Greek television ad is being withdrawn after managing to insult both the country's truckers and its gay community.

The e-ticket ad, which aired recently, shows a hitchhiker boarding a semi-trailer for Turin.

As soon as the door shuts, the driver flicks a switch, a neon-lit pink divan with bears and pillows appears in the cabin, and he blows the passenger a suggestive kiss.

''Do you want to travel cheaply, and end up paying for it dearly?'' the ad concludes.
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''You have ridiculed Greek truckers brutally and without provocation,'' the hauliers' association said in a complaint filed against the e-ticket company, AirFastTickets.

Greece's main gay association complained that the ad typecasts gay men. ''Gay men are presented as devious and sex-obsessed people trying to seduce unsuspecting youths,'' the OLKE association said. ''Once again, the easy road of homophobia and stereotypes is chosen to advertise products.''

The travel group has produced a new version of the ad, in which the driver keeps a skull and electric candles in the back of the cabin and wants to take a detour through the Carpathian mountains.

But the truck drivers were not amused. ''The new ad presents us as necrophiliacs. We will file a complaint about this one too,'' trucker president Apostolos Kenanidis said.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/truckies-and-gays-uneasy-alliance-of-outrage-over-tv-ad-20130407-2hequ.html
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