CBC: Cheeky suitcase stickers no longer for sale in Canada

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Vancouver entrepreneurs pull product after warning from transport minister

A set of provocative suitcase stickers with images of a bound and gagged flight attendant, bags of cocaine, stacks of money and sex toys will no longer be sold in Canada after the transport minister implied they might be illegal.

The joke stickers come in four different designs, all based around the concept of a partially ripped-open suitcase revealing illicit cargo, and are made by the Vancouver-based company TheCheeky.com. They are intended to help travellers personalize their luggage so they can better identify it on the baggage carousel.

"Due to a statement issued by the Canadian government through the Ministry of Transportation for Canada, TheCheeky.com will no longer sell suitcase stickers in Canada," the entrepreneurs behind the stickers, Ryan McCormick and Colin Hart, said in a statement on their website Thursday.

On Wednesday, a spokesman for Transport Minister John Baird told CBC News, "Joking around like this could possibly be a serious violation of the Aeronautics Act."

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http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/07/29/con-stickers-no-sale.html

I remember when we Canadians were allowed to have a sense of humour.

[marmar]

1. Totally humorless

I guess the Emperor Harper doesn't like it.

[EmilyKent]

2. I guess you haven't seen the ones with

bound and gagged women inside.


http://www.canada.com/news/Transport+Canada+fails+humour+line+baggage+stickers/3338860/story.html

[AlabamaLibrul]

4. Wow, a posed photograph. That is, like, totally an endorsement of kidnapping women and stuffing them

into suitcases.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Ha! That's hilarious.

[EmilyKent]

5. I'm glad you think so.

I'm sure the dead women who have been found stuffed into suitcases wouldn't have shared your sense of humour.