I think we are being duped…

The other day I recieved an email from a web surfer unknown to me, and I was quite surprised and appalled when I read it and looked at the attachment… It’s proof the Bathurst City Council is trying to sell Bathurst on eBay…

Take a look. Just take a gawk at this. Click on the magnifying glass and just take a god-darn peep at this. It’s a screen shot of the Bathurstafterdark website taken a few days ago. Have a look down the bottom right hand side of the pic.

It’s proof I tell ya. proof we are all getting our little town sold out from under our noses. Our sweet little town may soon be owned by some monster conglomerate who will be able to do as they please with the town. Hell, they’ll probably knock it all down and slap up a full blown city.

And to think the Bathurst City Council has tried to keep it a secret from us all.

They must have known that Bathurstafterdark would soon be on the scent trail, and will do everything in its power to stop this unjust action.

Let’s take it to the streets.

We can’t let our little town be sold on eBay can we???

Actually, the ad for the selling of bathurst is a Google Adsense ad; a Pay-Per-Click advertising program… and their has been some funny results that have arisen…

The way it works is like this… People who own websites can sign up with the adsense program, put some code into the webpages of their website, and it will display ads from companies and people who have signed up to this targeted advertising campaign. For instance: if I had a website about Cold Chisels… the customisable code I pasted into my webpages from Google would display a number of ads related to my website.

There is an old wives tale (from way back in early 2003) about the time a newspaper ran a story about a murderer who chopped up his victims and put them into leather suit cases. Because Google’s Adsense program is targeted, and this particular paper was signed up and displaying these ads, what was displayed on this same page about the murderer who used the suit cases, was an ad selling the newest version of leather suitcases from some swish la-di-dah company…

Thank you google for the good stuff…