Twitter Billboards + The South = Retards

The giant highway billboard for WPMI-TV in Alabama, showed the station’s anchors, Greg Peterson and Kym Thurman, next to their top weatherman Derek Beasley— alongside the realtime headlines and the words “Right now on Twitter”.

Unfortunately for the station, at one point the top headline on Twitter read “Three accused of gang rape in Monroeville”, and the misleading juxtaposition was captured on camera by a passing driver when traveling through Mobile, Alabama.

The photograph soon made its way on to a South Carolina blog, the Palmetto Scoop, and then to social media mega-site Mashable.  Now every internet nerd knows about the NBC anchors advertising themselves as rapists.  Well done.

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