‘Hunt the lout’ project encouraged loutish behaviour
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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GoogleA project in Apeldoorn to encourage youngsters to take mobile phone film of vandals in action and other anti social behaviour has been abandoned because it attracted ‘too many tasteless contributions’, the city council said on Thursday.
The project, entitled Hufter Hunt, (hunt the lout) was the brainchild of a local advertising agency and funded by the city council.
‘We were sent film of youngsters doing weird things just to look tough. [The website] had the opposite effect,’ a spokesman told the Telegraaf.
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