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Emma Boyes on January 16, 2008 An ad for activity bold Stranglehold has been banned in the UK afterwards complaints were advised by the Bartering Standards Authority
The advertisement shows a activity amid four men, and two complaints were received; one eyewitness believed it glamorised violence, whilst the added was anxious that it was accepting apparent afore the "watershed" hour of 9 p.m
Clearcast, the UK aggregation amenable for prescreening television ads, had accounted that the Stranglehold ad was adequate to be advertisement afterwards 7:30 p.m. It argued that the abandon apparent was stylised, unrealistic, and had a fantasy quality. It added that although bullets were consistently aerial through the air, no one was hit, and there was no claret or claret shown