Playboy Channel - Azusa, California official defaces a billboard he found offensive - Brief Article

Reason, July, 2000

* Azusa, California, has a reputation as a conservative town. Activists there forced the local cable company to block the Playboy channel, for instance. But City Manager Rick Cole may have gone just a little too far in his quest to keep out what he thinks is indecent material. The Los Angeles, Avengers, an arena football team, took out an ad on a billboard promising "Six Beautiful Women Will Show You Their Panties" if you attend their games.

It was a joking reference to the team's cheerleaders, but Cole found nothing funny about the sign. So he took one of the town's cherry-picker trucks and splashed paint on the sign. His fellow city council members applauded his actions, rule of law and the First Amendment apparently not being conservative values. But local prosecutors are investigating whether he should be charged with vandalism.