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This poor chained crocodile was paraded around the 18th hole at the Evian Masters, to promote a French sports clothes brand of which I refuse to mention the name.

How can anybody think that this makes good advertising?

Source (in French)

Wed 06-Aug-08 | Posted in: Oops
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