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Angry wife tells husband it’s over with a message on a freeway billboard

Billboards are used to advertise everything, from toothpaste to airplanes and also to get a message across, such as don’t litter the highway. But one wife in Sheffield, United Kingdom, decided to make it personal, and tell her cheating husband that it was all over.
October 9, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Billboards are used to advertise everything, from toothpaste to airplanes and also to get a message across, such as don’t litter the highway.

But one wife in Sheffield, United Kingdom, decided to make it personal, and tell her cheating husband that it was all over.

Morning commuter drivers on a freeway were astonished to read Lisa’s message in large letters to her husband Paul: “%$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Enjoy your drive to work! Visit the guardian web page false http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/23/enjoy-your-drive-to-work-sheffield-woman-takes-revenge-on-cheating-husband false false%>” because she won’t be home when he returned.

People took to Twitter after driving by the message. The advertising agency that reportedly sold Lisa the space told UK media that it cost her “hundreds of pounds”. Billboard company Anco Digital confirmed the sign was displayed for three hours between 6am and 9am, just the time that Bill likely would have been driving by.

It may have been funny – and even useful for Lisa – but there are some people who want all billboards to be banned, as a report in the British newspaper The Guardian %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal shows Visit the guardian web page false http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards false false%>.

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