UK Pick-up truck with 'vile' artwork of a kidnapped woman tied up on the back is investigated by police as a potential hate crime

Norwich pick-up truck with artwork of a kidnapped woman tied up in back is investigated by police​

By Jacob Thorburn For Mailonline 13:42 EDT 04 Jun 2021 , updated 05:54 EDT 05 Jun 2021
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A police investigation has been launched after a pick-up truck was spotted with a 'vile' image of a kidnapped woman on its tail gate.

Motorists did a double take and were horrified to see the artwork portraying an apparently abducted blonde woman lying down while tied up in the rear of the vehicle.

The vehicle was reported to police after being spotted at traffic lights on the junction of the A47 and A146 roads at Trowse, near Norwich, Norfolk.

Norfolk Police say the incident is being investigated as a potential hate .

A spokesperson for the force said: 'A woman reported seeing a blue pick-up truck with vinyl printed on the back of the truck showing a woman being tied up, blindfolded, bound as if being kidnapped. Enquiries are ongoing.'

The 'vile' vinyl of a woman appearing to be kidnapped was spotted on the junction of the A47 and A146 roads at Trowse, near Norwich
The picture of the truck created outrage when it was shared by graphic designer Sophia Forte on the Facebook group 'Reclaim These Streets Norwich'.

She said on a message with the picture: 'This was spotted in Norwich. Not okay to normalise violence against women, then people wonder why we have so many issues with it.'

Miss Forte added: 'I'm a graphic designer and from a designer's perspective my job is to educate and inspire and it is sickening visually to think that someone has designed this and in my opinion, it is normalising violence, abuse, threat and control over women.

'It makes me sad that someone that is a designer has abused their power to create something like this. We need to calm people and stand up, not alarm.'

Norfolk Police say they are investigating a potential hate crime, as pictures of the truck emerged online and prompted a huge backlash
Other Facebook users left messages condemning the image as 'horrifying' and 'vile'.

One said: 'I have never before seen anything like this on a vehicle. Am shocked.

'It is beyond disgraceful. I really hope someone reported the driver and that there is something that can be done about it.'

Another added: 'What the f*** is wrong with people? How can that ever be funny?'

Community campaigner Jasmine Reeves described the pick up truck as 'disturbing'.

She said: 'This is not okay. I do not want to see it and attempt to explain it to my five and ten-year-old boys. It's no wonder that women do not feel safe in this world.'

Personal trainer James Hellewell of Leeds, West Yorkshire, faced fury in 2014 when he had a similar sticker of a tied up woman on the back of his truck.

He insisted he had only put it on as a joke and he removed it after being warned by police that he could be charged with a public order offence if he continued to display it.

A sign company which put a similar vinyl wrap on the back of an employee's truck in Waco, Texas, in 2013 removed it after a backlash.

The company ended up apologising and making a donation of $2,500 to the Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children in Waco.

'Vile' van artwork is investigated as potential hate crime

The blue pick-up truck with artwork depicting a kidnapped woman on the back was spotted in Trowse, near Norwich and is now being investigated by the police as a potential 'hate crime'.

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[Chilson]

Actually pretty funny. I can see it being a problem for people who actually report it as a crime though. Which for a moving vehicle, it could easily have just been seen out of the corner of someone's eye and reported as a crime.

Its not a fucking hate crime though. Then again, I think there is no such thing as hate crime. Its probably not even a crime by even the loosest definition of common decency laws.

 

[Cyclonus]

It's truck nuts that should be illegal, not this.

 

[SiccDicc]

There's nothing funny about this. I wouldn't call it a hate crime or even a crime, but just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.

Maybe you guys laugh because seeing that doesn't make you think, holy shit, that could be me. As a woman, it's actually pretty terrifying. Because we are the weaker sex. We're just fortunate that the majority of men are decent human beings. But the idea of running into a guy who likes the thought of tying us up and spiriting us away to someplace he can do anything to us that he wants to do is nightmare fuel. That's why, unlike my husband, I lock the car doors immediately when I get in the car and never, ever forget to lock the door the moment I walk into the house. My husband isn't afraid of the what ifs. I've been trained to protect myself against them for as long as I can remember. And I've had enough run ins with creepy dudes that I take no chances.

I'm assuming this guy doesn't have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/mother that he cares for. At least I hope not.

Stop being a faggot and remember where you are.

 

[Sithis]

It may not be tasteful but damn it all if the reactions it's producing aren't juicy and hilarious.

I think my favorite decal I've seen yet was one in a walmart parking lot, it had a family of those little "life is good" stick figures but papa stick was pointing a shotgun right at mama stick.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Bongs drive pickups?

Not really, no. That's what makes this even weirder, I really wouldn't expect to see an American pick-up truck in Norwich

 

[Pentex]

It's tasteless, but the prime humor is in the breathless pearl-clutching reaction to it.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Jesus wept.

I cannot fucking wait to leave this PC-drowning, Paki-loving, no freedom shithole. Just two more months...

 

[Ruin]

When I joined this site in 2014 everyone would laugh at lolcows committing suicide and making fan art of them. Now people are virtue signaling about truck stencils.

All of you are fucking faggots who should kill yourselves.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

That's fucked up, but fucking hilarious

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Jesus wept.

I cannot fucking wait to leave this PC-drowning, Paki-loving, no freedom shithole. Just two more months...

Ironically, if there was a real woman tied up and rolling around in a pickup truck driven by a paki, everyone would fall over themselves minding their own business.

Yet another example of a nation cucking its own self out of existence.

When I joined this site in 2014 everyone would laugh at lolcows committing suicide and making fan art of them. Now people are virtue signaling about truck stencils.

All of you are fucking faggots who should kill yourselves.

Also love seeing farmers hat themselves over the dumbest shit.

 

[Male Idiot]

Its not real. Its just an image.

It may not be the most tasteful of jokes, but it is just a joke. Guess edgy jokes are only funny if whites or christians are the butt of it.

 

[los pepes]

There's nothing funny about this. I wouldn't call it a hate crime or even a crime, but just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.

Maybe you guys laugh because seeing that doesn't make you think, holy shit, that could be me. As a woman, it's actually pretty terrifying. Because we are the weaker sex. We're just fortunate that the majority of men are decent human beings. But the idea of running into a guy who likes the thought of tying us up and spiriting us away to someplace he can do anything to us that he wants to do is nightmare fuel. That's why, unlike my husband, I lock the car doors immediately when I get in the car and never, ever forget to lock the door the moment I walk into the house. My husband isn't afraid of the what ifs. I've been trained to protect myself against them for as long as I can remember. And I've had enough run ins with creepy dudes that I take no chances.

I'm assuming this guy doesn't have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/mother that he cares for. At least I hope not.

If you live out your life in so much fear that a random loser's dumbass truck artwork sends you into a state of terror, buy a damn pistol and move on with it. If you live in a country where you can't do that, well you can thank your fellow panic induced women for voting in parties that strip you of the ability to defend yourself in the name, of course, of safety.

 

[Some JERK]

Seems that October is the best time to kill someone

That depends on what you want to do. You could empty a fully automatic rifle in the middle of the street on 4th of July or New Year's Eve and I doubt anyone would call the cops.

 

[Overly Serious]

Susan Sontag once remarked: "Real art has the capacity to make us nervous."

I've no doubt she would support this.

 

[CaesarCzech]

There's nothing funny about this. I wouldn't call it a hate crime or even a crime, but just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.

Maybe you guys laugh because seeing that doesn't make you think, holy shit, that could be me. As a woman, it's actually pretty terrifying. Because we are the weaker sex. We're just fortunate that the majority of men are decent human beings. But the idea of running into a guy who likes the thought of tying us up and spiriting us away to someplace he can do anything to us that he wants to do is nightmare fuel. That's why, unlike my husband, I lock the car doors immediately when I get in the car and never, ever forget to lock the door the moment I walk into the house. My husband isn't afraid of the what ifs. I've been trained to protect myself against them for as long as I can remember. And I've had enough run ins with creepy dudes that I take no chances.

I'm assuming this guy doesn't have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/mother that he cares for. At least I hope not.

Not to be Nazi but how can you be such weak pathetic form of life ? Seriously why are you even here ? just to make us suffer throught your complexes ? you dont belong here.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I don't think it's funny, but I also don't think it's a hate crime. However, I can see how people would be concerned enough to call the cops considering how real the art would look from far away. In this case, I'm glad that people actually called the cops because if god forbid it was real they would've saved someone's life. Hell, if I saw something like this on the road, I would do the exact same thing just to be safe.

The guy's a sick fuck, but what he did wasn't a hate crime. He should be mocked, and ostracized relentlessly, but not thrown in jail.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

There's nothing funny about this.

Woman doesn't understand comedy, news at 11.

I wouldn't call it a hate crime or even a crime,

Because it's not.

but just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do it.

But you can. That's just it. You CAN still do it, even if it hurts other people's feelings or gives their inner child booboos.

Maybe you guys laugh because seeing that doesn't make you think, holy shit, that could be me.

If someone is going to kidnap me, they've got a lot of problems and pretty fucking low self-esteem. They'd probably be better off kidnapping a cardboard box from Jack in the Box. They'd be more likely to get a ransom.

As a woman, it's actually pretty terrifying.

Guy puts retarded sticker on his tailgate, women most affected.

Because we are the weaker sex.

Strong independent woman don't need no man!
MEN, HELP!

We're just fortunate that the majority of men are decent human beings.

LOL.
No.

But the idea of running into a guy who likes the thought of tying us up and spiriting us away to someplace he can do anything to us that he wants to do is nightmare fuel.

You've got some pretty sad nightmares if this dumbass sticker is nightmare fuel for you.

This guy is probably so harmless he'd get called an incel manlet basement dweeling NEET.

Even so, the fact you've been so soaked in fear and drummed up panic that you'd assume he actually wants to do that is hilarious.

I saw a guy with a sticker on the side of his car of a bald eagle carrying a gun, I'm not afraid the guy literally wants to turn into a bald eagle and shoot me with his gun.

That's why, unlike my husband, I lock the car doors immediately when I get in the car

Depending on where you live, that's either prudence or prudence.

and never, ever forget to lock the door the moment I walk into the house.

Well, no shit. That's just smart. Shit, I do that.

My husband isn't afraid of the what ifs.

Trying to explain how men quit giving a shit about 'what-ifs' because we get desensitized to it would probably be a waste of time.

Probably like me typing all this.

I've been trained to protect myself against them for as long as I can remember.

So have guys. We just protect ourselves in different ways.

It is prudent to know self-defense. It always has been, and it's only been in the last few decades that the idea of being able to defend yourself is seen as 'gross' by many people.

And I've had enough run ins with creepy dudes that I take no chances.

Woman mentions thing that 99% of women go through, film at 11.

I'm assuming this guy doesn't have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/mother that he cares for. At least I hope not.

How do you know his wife didn't pose for that? How do you know his sister didn't pose for that? How do you know whether or not they think it's hilarious? Maybe they've got a dark sense of humor like he does?

The way you, in your mind, twist this guy into some kind of slobbering woman hating psychopath speaks of the narcissism and insecurity of women. He thinks something is funny that disturbs you, must mean he's a monster.

I thought the Punisher getting his ass kicked by the big Russian was fucking hilarious. That doesn't mean I want to see Thomas Jane himself beaten up by Russians all the time.

You 'hope' he doesn't have loved ones that he cares for.

You REALLY don't see the stupidity of your argument?

Someone can make and display disturbing artwork and still love and care for others deeply. I would be more disturbed if the guy was some isolated loner with nobody he cares for, because that's bigger warning signs than some shit he stuck on his truck to shock people.

My God, you're fucking weak.

The only good thing is how many people called the cops when they only got a glimpse of it.

Now if only the cops would work so hard to put down grooming gangs and if people would be as worried over teenage girls getting sex trafficked and made into kababs.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Its not real. Its just an image.

It may not be the most tasteful of jokes, but it is just a joke. Guess edgy jokes are only funny if whites or christians are the butt of it.

White people are the butt of it, just not in the way they think.

Also, it’s a white woman tied up, so you’re right, they should love it.

 

[GenericYuserName1997]

So is the truck owned by a muslim or not?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

theres a wrap to piss off every demographic