Couple sure love will overcome
“Trunk monkey” can’t enter U.S., fiance may not be allowed in Canada after border arrest An Amherst woman who got caught trying to sneak across the U.S. border in the trunk of her American fiance’s sports car says the couple, who met online, will find a way to spend their lives together despite any legal [...]
The perils facing British contractors on the world’s most dangerous road
Those that have chosen to make their living amid the mayhem and random murder of post-invasion Iraq call it the BIAP-dash. It is the journey to Baghdad international airport, along the most dangerous highway in the world. Three British Shia pilgrims travelled it this week and paid with their lives when their minibus was ambushed. [...]
Brooklyn, New York, Auto Dealership Pulls Chimpanzee Commercial
Plaza Auto Mall pulled its “Trunk Monkey” commercial, featuring a live chimpanzee, after hearing from PETA and local residents about the cruelty inherent in training young great apes to perform for ads. The dealership stated, “Once we first heard of the possibility of the cruelty happening, we immediately discontinued all advertising.” Source: PETA
Plaza Auto Mall Changes Tune After Learning Great Apes Are Beaten Into Performing
For Immediate Release: August 18, 2005 Contact: Amy Rhodes 757-622-7382 Brooklyn, N.Y. — After Plaza Auto Mall’s controversial “Trunk Monkey” commercial featuring a chimpanzee who is portrayed as rescuing a beleaguered driver caused public outcry and a response from PETA, the car dealership pulled the ad off the air. PETA will be awarding the dealership [...]
Trunkmonkey.com Featured in Maxim
It seems that Sam Oberman of Sainte Marie, MI nominated Trunkmonkey.com as champ chimp when Maxim asked its readers to send in the most chimptastic sites on the Web. Yes, we at Trunkmonkey.com know that chimps aren’t monkeys, but we’re still flattered by the nomination! Thanks to those at Maxim for another five minutes of [...]
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (TISM)
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me By: TISM Everyone else has had more sex than me. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Does anyone else get that feeling? Teenagers naked, Couple in threes Grandparents swing from the ceiling. Everyone else has had more [...]
Trunk Monkey #1 – Road Rage – Suburban Auto Group
Client: Suburban Auto Group Agency: R/West – Portland Creative Director: Rob Stout Agency Creative: Hart Rusen, Marc Sobier, Chris Polak Agency Producer: Tracie Davis Production Company: Hidden City Director: Derek Barnes Editorial Company: Mission Control Editor: George Mitchell Sound Design: Digital One – Portland Sound Designer: Eric Stolberg
Trunk Monkey ads help Bresee create identity
LIVERPOOL – What can get you out of a speeding ticket, unlock your car from the inside, and deter potential car thieves? A Trunk Monkey, of course. Bresee Chevrolet is building brand identity thanks to a new television advertising campaign that highlights a monkey popping out of a car’s trunk, inevitably helping out the car’s [...]
Teen crashes car into house, brags on Internet
Import and domestic drivers call truce, join forces to flame asshat. Just in case you haven’t heard about Panache yet, feel free to check out the photos he posted after crashing into a house. Long story short, he claimed that his throttle cable stuck which caused him to crash into a house. Eye witnesses and [...]
Tell R/West to Pull “Trunk Monkey” Ads
PETA issued the following alert regarding their protest against the Trunk Monkey ad campaign: This advertising agency in Portland, Oregon, created a commercial called “Trunk Monkey” that portrays a tire iron wielding chimpanzee, stored in a car’s trunk, who can be summoned whenever the operator of the vehicle is harassed by another driver. The commercial [...]
