Make your own paranoid British terrorism poster!

James Holden's anti-terror billboard generator invites you to remix the infamous British police poster that asks you to inspect your neighbours' trash and report them if you don't like what you see: "This odious billboard appears in my town, encouraging me to rat on my neighbours because I don't understand what they throw away."

Anti-terror billboard (Thanks, Phillip!)

[#1 posted by Aloisius, April 9, 2009 11:39 AM]

Come on. We all know what this sign really means and the type of neighbor who is likely to call:

Good neighbors don't overfill their trash bin.

Report them.
We'll take care of it.

[#2 posted by steve, April 9, 2009 11:51 AM]

Fifteen-year-old spoiler:

"Tom Clancy novel" is a poor analogy, what with the commercial airplane attack on the Capitol at the end of "Debt of Honor."

[#3 posted by Chas44, April 9, 2009 11:52 AM]

Let's all print poster-sized copies of various citizen-produced versions of this billboard. Plaster them everywhere. Soon, the real ones will utterly lose their impact (if they ever had impact to begin with.)

[#4 posted by Boba Fett Diop, April 9, 2009 12:13 PM]

Here's one I prepared earlier:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11945730@N05/3427351710/

[#5 posted by xanderkale, April 9, 2009 12:31 PM]

Seagulls are the bane of my life round here and that's reflected in mine...

http://twitpic.com/326vb

[#6 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 12:50 PM]

Does anyone know what advertising/design agency got paid to make these posters?

Is anyone taking credit?

[#7 posted by fatuousplatitudes, April 9, 2009 12:57 PM]

Looks like the site's been Boinged, still inaccesible at 20:56 BST

[#8 posted by James Holden, April 9, 2009 1:24 PM]

Hey... yeah, 'tis me. It's nuked :-)

I'll fix it in a few minutes when I can get ssh'ed in!

[#9 posted by Bob, April 9, 2009 1:36 PM]

Boba, I like yours!

[#10 posted by mattjones, April 9, 2009 1:40 PM]

Here's my effort:
http://mattjon.es/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/billboard.jpg

[#11 posted by dross1260, April 9, 2009 1:51 PM]

http://pgrayb.googlepages.com/billboard_pwg.jpg/billboard_pwg-full;init:.jpg
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My attempt.

[#12 posted by James Holden, April 9, 2009 2:06 PM]

OK, It's back! Bye bye apache, hello nginx :-)

[#13 posted by Ryan Alexander, April 9, 2009 3:53 PM]

Here's mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/envoy/3426948259/

[#14 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 5:22 PM]

Doctor Who FTW!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13905780@N00/3427112941/

[#15 posted by minamisan, April 9, 2009 5:28 PM]

it's not working for me, so...

Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes won't be planting any bombs here because they were taken care of before they could even think of it.

Don't wait for the police.
Kill random civilians yourself.

[#16 posted by Xopher, April 9, 2009 6:37 PM]

Here's mine.

[#17 posted by St. Steele, April 9, 2009 8:16 PM]

and mine.

[#18 posted by cosedcasket, April 9, 2009 10:37 PM]

Oh, and mine

[#19 posted by busydoingnothing, April 9, 2009 10:55 PM]

I couldn't resist.

[#20 posted by LeavingHalfway, April 9, 2009 10:55 PM]

Xopher, St. Steele, +1.

[#21 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 12:05 AM]

Terror of a darker stripe.

I apologize in advance for making such a corny, somewhat nutty and altogether crude joke. But it's no worse than the real thing.

[#22 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 12:09 AM]

Love this. Mine is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29883063@N00/3427776005/

Hope they pull them soon.

[#23 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 1:49 AM]

http://i40.tinypic.com/htxtvo.jpg

^-^ this is supa great, you should graff sum a stencil of ema goldman on it

[#24 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 2:02 AM]

If I could be arsed to do it, there's gotta be a poster with the UK's 'top terror cop' walking around with his 'top secret/your eyes only/classified' operational briefing document in full view...then photographed by umpteen snappers...end of career.

[#25 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 5:14 AM]

Mine (copy and paste it):

Main Message:
These chemicals won't be
used in a bomb because
they've already been used
up. That's why the bottles
are in the bin.

Solgan:
Don't rely on others to think for you.
Use your brain.

[#26 posted by Rick., April 10, 2009 8:45 AM]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickcortes/3428562967/

:)

(Captcha words: was Salome. Nice)

[#27 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 9:12 AM]

My little contribution:

Main Message: "The approaching lady with the
baby is about to dump a
really ewww-toxic nappy in the
rubbish bin. For the love of
Pete, if that isn't a terrorist
threat, I don't know what is.".

Slogan: "69 years after the Battle of Britain
The Fuehrer has finally won."

[#28 posted by Andrew, April 11, 2009 6:02 AM]

Completely coincidentally I've just done something similar with the classic 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster that seems to have pervaded every aspect of teh interweb recently.

You can find the all-singing-all-dancing Keep Calm-o-matic at www.keep-calm-o-matic.co.uk

There's certainly a striking difference between the Government's phlegmatic attitude during World War 2 and the rather Dads Army style attitude this current shower have.