Amazon have withdrawn a zombie Jimmy Savile costume from their website

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  1. LDR

    LDRed Well-Known Member

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    After complaints from child abuse charities.

    Right or wrong to withdraw it? After all, you see plenty of people dressing up as Nazi's or Osama Bin Laden.
     
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    I think it's pretty bad taste... I wouldn't sell something like that on my website either.
     
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    It is in bad taste, but aren't Nazi uniforms in bad taste too?
     
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    Probably right to withdraw it if it will attract bad publicity and a backlash. Lets face it - easy enough to buy individual items if someone really wants to dress up as Jimmy Saville. Didn't the same thing happen last year as well?
     
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    They are. :) Are they actually selling Nazi uniforms though? I'm a bit surprised if they are.

    Then again, I've seen Sheffield United shirts for sale on Amazon... :confused:
     
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    Asda and somewhere else (tesco maybe?) have had to withdraw Halloween costumes from their website which were of a mental patient, as the charity MIND made complaints.
     
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    I'm not sure what is worse.

    1. Someone thinking that Jimmy Saville rising from the dead is funny and designing the thing.
    2. Someone at Amazon thinking that that would actually sell so they approved it's manufacture / ordered it for sale
    3. Somebody actually buying it.
    4. The professionally offended thinking they have a god given right to tell us right from wrong.
    5. Amazon responding to the professionally offended by capitulating.

    Everything about this is wrong. Makes my piss boil.
     
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    Maybe you need this thread: http://bbs.barnsleyfc.org.uk/showthread.php?198032-What-makes-your-piss-boil :D
     
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    Did Amazon actually order and stock it, or were they just the shopfront for another company (as many of the things they sell are)? To be fair to them, they might not have actually known what it was until the complaints came in...
     
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