MR. MADONNA SHOOTS SELF IN FOOT

Showing the sort of sympathetic understanding of other people's feelings you'd expect from the family of one of the world's bigger cults, some bright spark slapped up a massive poster for Guy Ritchie's new movie Revolver on the spot of a fatal shooting last year.

Of course, it's not Ritchie's fault it happened - the high-profile member of the Kabbalah organisation merely made another dimwitted movie elevating gun-waving morons into some sort of latter day heroes; he didn't actually put the posters for the film up.

Oddly, Redbus, who distribute the film, also say it's not their fault:

The distribution company behind the film, Redbus, said it is sorry if it has caused any distress but added it is impossible to check individual poster sites.

Really? They're shoving up so many posters they can't check where they're putting them? Really? But if you can't guarantee your gun-romaticising poster isn't going to be going somewhere inappropriate, then should you be putting any up anywhere? Let's say, for example, we walked into a room with 1,000 cardboard boxes, one of which had the managing director of Redbus in it. And we had a gun. Would it be acceptable to fire a gun into one of the boxes, apoligising if we did cause any death and misery, so long as we explained that it was impossible to check if the box we were shooting into had the MD in it first?



Mind you, we think the Metropolitan Police might be worrying a little overmuch:

Sgt Greg Wakefield, of the Met Police, said the poster was sending out the wrong message to youths.

"If they saw this they would think that it was cool to carry a gun and shoot people," he said.

Generally, anything associated with Ritchie tends to lose any possible sheen of cool it may once have had.

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