2012 Summer Olympics: Vandals Deface BP Ads for London Games

The Summer Olympics will house the usual complement of world-class athletes and, it seems, fans willing to make their voices heard through vandalism. 

BuzzFeed reports vandals have defaced advertisements for the Summer Games provided by BP, a British multinational oil and gas company. 

The report issues a six-panel billboard along Cromwell Road was defaced on Thursday, and apparently done during the light of day. 

Not only are the vandals passionate, they are quite brash as well. 

Here are some amazing photos via BuzzFeed. 

You can see the use of black paint to signify oil and the last picture has the URL f-ingthefuture.org.uk. That takes you to a home page that has a great many photos of the defacement. 

Here is a snippet from a press release found on the site: 

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With the Olympics now only three weeks away, protests against Olympic sponsor BP are escalating. Today dozens of BP logos across London were sabotaged, including the UK’s most prestigious billboard site at Cromwell Road...protesting against one of the world’s most environmentally destructive companies being a major sponsor of the London Olympics...

BP has continuously been slammed for its systematic disregard for the environment, human rights and worker safety, including its failure to clean up after the Gulf of Mexico disaster of 2010[3]...

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They have a great deal more complaints listed in the press release linked above. 

We have to agree with Evan Sporer over at SportsGrid, who surmised not many are up in arms over the vandalism as it happened during the light of day on a busy street. 

I am not sure how many will lose sleep over a BP ad getting defaced, though I am not here to defend vandalism because it's still a crime. 

I say the vandals should be demanded to clean up their mess, but they have a few years to do so. 

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