A Disturbing Ad

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In the July 8th edition of Parade Magazine (usually distributed with the Sunday paper) there is an add for Glad Bags (page 7) which appears to show a baby and cradle thrown out in the trash. Take a look at at.

You can contact Glad at glad.com/contact.php
 
vern_humphrey said:
In the July 8th edition of Parade Magazine (usually distributed with the Sunday paper) there is an add for Glad Bags (page 7) which appears to show a baby and cradle thrown out in the trash. Take a look at at.

You can contact Glad at glad.com/contact.php
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I haven’t seen that, but the concept is very disturbing.

I have seen a lot of disturbing ads lately. Have you seen the one for a cell phone were a young lady is in Las Vagas with her boy friend and she is talking to her mother on the phone? The mother doesn’t seem too worried she is in Vegas with her boy friend but shows dire concern that her daughter may make the same “mistake” she did, that is get married, as she did to the girls father? so much anti-life, anti-child, anti marriage and anti-family.

:confused: 🤷 :confused:
 
Bennie_P said:
I haven’t seen that, but the concept is very disturbing.

I have seen a lot of disturbing ads lately. Have you seen the one for a cell phone were a young lady is in Las Vagas with her boy friend and she is talking to her mother on the phone? The mother doesn’t seem too worried she is in Vegas with her boy friend but shows dire concern that her daughter may make the same “mistake” she did, that is get married, as she did to the girls father? so much anti-life, anti-child, anti marriage and anti-family.

:confused: 🤷 :confused:
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There is a Government information site commercial on radio with the theme, “Your father is stupid. Don’t listen to him. Come to us for infomation.”
 
vern_humphrey said:
In the July 8th edition of Parade Magazine (usually distributed with the Sunday paper) there is an add for Glad Bags (page 7) which appears to show a baby and cradle thrown out in the trash. Take a look at at.

You can contact Glad at glad.com/contact.php
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I would like to see the ad first, but I have bookmarked this link and will be contacting them as soon as I can find a visual of the ad.
Maybe I can ask glad to e-mail me the ad first, then comment.👍
 
why would I contact glad or any other company until I have seen the offending ad for myself?

I am still fuming about ads for dishwashers, vacuum cleaners and other household products that sell sex instead of cleanliness and convenience.
 
vern_humphrey said:
In the July 8th edition of Parade Magazine (usually distributed with the Sunday paper) there is an add for Glad Bags (page 7) which appears to show a baby and cradle thrown out in the trash. Take a look at at.
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I didn’t see it, either. Sure it wasn’t just a realistic doll? (Not that a doll and cradle would have been the best choice of “garbage”, either).
 
CarolAnnSFO said:
I didn’t see it, either. Sure it wasn’t just a realistic doll? (Not that a doll and cradle would have been the best choice of “garbage”, either).
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Of course it wasn’t a real baby. It’s the shape of the cradle and baby inside the bag. It struck me as being a message that babies can be thrown out with the trash.
 
Just saw an ad for gum, a young boy chews it and turns into a girl- I was so shocked I did not even notice who’s gum it is.

Thought you guys would like to know.
 
Of course it wasn’t a real baby. It’s the shape of the cradle and baby inside the bag. It struck me as being a message that babies can be thrown out with the trash.

I have the ad in front of me (yes, I went and dug it out of the recycle bin to see for myself). In it I see:
a tall white wall with no windows, appears to be painted concrete block
a sign that says “warning: no dumping this site for the square shopping center tenants only violaters will be prosecuted NM (could be HH, hard to tell) C section 7-2.”
A dirt area along the edge of the building, with an area in front of the trashbagged shape–hard to tell if it is paved or hardpacked dirt
a door (not residential) and small enclosed light fixture just above and to the left of the door
gas meter
some weeds along the base of the wall
a shape encased in a white trashbag with red ties

This shape appears to have proportionately large handles that stick out to either side and feet (possibly with wheels) on the bottom, roughly rectangular other than the feet and handles. Top of the shape extends up past the handles (about a quarter of the total height of the rectangle). There is a line that can be slightly seen through the bag extending across the rectangle slightly above the line formed by the handles. The entire rectangle is a little more than half the height of the door and 2 to 2.5 times as wide. Most exterior doors are about 36 inches wide and 6.5 to 7 feet tall, so the shape is about 6 feet long and roughly 4.5 to 5 feet tall based on the comparison.

It bears absolutely no resemblance to the outline of any crib or cradle I have ever seen, aside from appearing to be much larger than any crib I have encountered. There is no other shape, humanoid or otherwise, visible in outline through the trashbag. I see no suggestion of anything other than a retail parking area with what appears to be a retail trash receptacle encased in a plastic bag.

I cannot find an image of it online, nor do I have access to a scanner, or I would let you see it for yourself. If you have already (as is likely) thrown out Sunday’s paper, or never got one in the first place, but want to check out this claim for yourself (as I strongly suggest), your local library likely has a copy of the local Sunday paper. Some bookstores will keep Sunday’s paper for sale throughout the week, and, at least in our area, there are often paperboxes that continue to sell Sunday’s paper through the week until they run out. Do yourself a favor and check it out for yourself before contacting the company.
 
You may, of course, be right – but the shape is identical to the crib my children had (and which we still have.)

When I saw it, what hit me was a baby thrown in the trash.
 
vern_humphrey said:
You may, of course, be right – but the shape is identical to the crib my children had (and which we still have.)

When I saw it, what hit me was a baby thrown in the trash.
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That covers the crib/cradle if one ignores the relative size and all other details of the photo, but which part of the photo appears to resemble a baby to you?
 
KarenNC said:
That covers the crib/cradle if one ignores the relative size and all other details of the photo, but which part of the photo appears to resemble a baby to you?
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In my copy, there is an object below the rim – a baby.
 
vern_humphrey said:
In my copy, there is an object below the rim – a baby.
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Then you have a vastly different copy of the ad than I do. Are you sure that it isn’t a shadow of something showing through from the back side of the page? I held mine up to the light to see if that was a possibility, but even then I see nothing even remotely resembling such. I think the format is pretty standard on these.
 
Just saw an ad for gum, a young boy chews it and turns into a girl- I was so shocked I did not even notice who’s gum it is.
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I saw that ad too - very, very strange! Not so much strange that the boy turns into the girl - but because he’s a boy when she (the commercial leading lady) kisses him and then turns into a girl during the kiss and wierder still it seems like there was comment in the commercial something like “then it gets interesting”…

I didn’t like that ad at all - I didn’t see the Glad ad

Terry
 
KarenNC said:
Of course it wasn’t a real baby. It’s the shape of the cradle and baby inside the bag. It struck me as being a message that babies can be thrown out with the trash.

I have the ad in front of me (yes, I went and dug it out of the recycle bin to see for myself). In it I see:
a tall white wall with no windows, appears to be painted concrete block
a sign that says “warning: no dumping this site for the square shopping center tenants only violaters will be prosecuted NM (could be HH, hard to tell) C section 7-2.”
A dirt area along the edge of the building, with an area in front of the trashbagged shape–hard to tell if it is paved or hardpacked dirt
a door (not residential) and small enclosed light fixture just above and to the left of the door
gas meter
some weeds along the base of the wall
a shape encased in a white trashbag with red ties

This shape appears to have proportionately large handles that stick out to either side and feet (possibly with wheels) on the bottom, roughly rectangular other than the feet and handles. Top of the shape extends up past the handles (about a quarter of the total height of the rectangle). There is a line that can be slightly seen through the bag extending across the rectangle slightly above the line formed by the handles. The entire rectangle is a little more than half the height of the door and 2 to 2.5 times as wide. Most exterior doors are about 36 inches wide and 6.5 to 7 feet tall, so the shape is about 6 feet long and roughly 4.5 to 5 feet tall based on the comparison.

It bears absolutely no resemblance to the outline of any crib or cradle I have ever seen, aside from appearing to be much larger than any crib I have encountered. There is no other shape, humanoid or otherwise, visible in outline through the trashbag. I see no suggestion of anything other than a retail parking area with what appears to be a retail trash receptacle encased in a plastic bag.

I cannot find an image of it online, nor do I have access to a scanner, or I would let you see it for yourself. If you have already (as is likely) thrown out Sunday’s paper, or never got one in the first place, but want to check out this claim for yourself (as I strongly suggest), your local library likely has a copy of the local Sunday paper. Some bookstores will keep Sunday’s paper for sale throughout the week, and, at least in our area, there are often paperboxes that continue to sell Sunday’s paper through the week until they run out. Do yourself a favor and check it out for yourself before contacting the company.
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I think you are looking at this ad:

glad.com/mediaroom/view_print.php?index=3

Which I think is different than the one the OP is talking about it.
 
Della said:
That’s definitely a dumpster not a cradle or crib. Maybe Vern is talking about a different ad? 🤷
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Maybe he needs to look on the otherside of the page and see if another image is bleeding through?
 
st_lucy said:
I think you are looking at this ad:

glad.com/mediaroom/view_print.php?index=3

Which I think is different than the one the OP is talking about it.
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Thank you, I was unable to locate an image. That is the ad that is printed on page 7 of the Parade magazine that I received in my newspaper on July 8, exactly as described in the OP. Vern will have to speak to whether this is the ad he saw.

Looking at the print ads for this campaign, I see a couch
glad.com/mediaroom/view_print.php?index=2 as the only other print ad listed.
 
For crying out loud. The bag is wrapped around a dumpster. It’s clearly meant to be a funny exaggeration of the strength of the product.
 
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