Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters

Yesterday's remix challenge -- to mock the ridiculous new "anti-terrorism" posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors -- was a smashing success. I've collected the 25 or so that came in to date below (sorry if I missed one or two -- I did it all by hand!) -- click through to see them all and prepare to laugh and weep and laugh and weep.

[#1 posted by 13strong, March 26, 2009 7:07 AM]

This was my mash-up in response to the attack on the home of criminal banker Fred Goodwin:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/3385733606_e0c7d70fdc_o.jpg

[#2 posted by 13strong, March 26, 2009 7:08 AM]

Oh, and these are great. Well done peoples.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 7:17 AM]

Excellent!

Now how do we get these on the side of every bus in town?

[#4 posted by cholten99, March 26, 2009 7:23 AM]

Now, if only someone were to sell packs of A5 stickers made up of these...

A good old flysheeting campaign never hurt...

[#5 posted by 13strong, March 26, 2009 7:29 AM]

I'd like to flypost copies of the original posters behind CCTV cameras.

Then they could prosecute people for looking at their posters! Hurrah!

[#6 posted by Micah, March 26, 2009 7:31 AM]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point out the non-white people (!!!) in the background of the "a bomb won't go off" one. Fortunately, I was not disappointed.

[#7 posted by Jingles, March 26, 2009 7:32 AM]

That minesweeper poster is genius

[#8 posted by Auto Parts for Brains, March 26, 2009 7:36 AM]

Some of these are really well thought out. Everything must truly be done in moderation. Anything in excess is evil. If the government do not exhibit care in all their actions to prevent terrorism, they might end up being the entity they are protecting people from.

This is just a guess, but in the eye of some of the people of the country we invaded and set war on- like, Iraq, we are the terrorists.

[#9 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 7:43 AM]

Just to let you know, these posters aren't only in London. I spotted the CCTV one near my University Library in Sheffield (North England), because Yorkshire is obviously No.1 on the list of terrorist targets

[#10 posted by nanuq, March 26, 2009 7:45 AM]

All the more reason to fight the UK anti-terror campaign before it gets proclaimed a "success" and copied in other countries, And it will.

[#11 posted by Bugs, March 26, 2009 7:50 AM]

Some of those are awesome. What's going on with the "Mind Games" one though? Is there actually something changed in the picture, or is it just a "terror posters" = "mind games" joke that I've completely sucked the humour out of with this question?

[#12 posted by tonyb, March 26, 2009 8:04 AM]

I just made http://crap.tonybox.net/cctv.jpg :)

[#13 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 8:36 AM]

Terrorism is the commission of acts intended to inspire fear, in order to control or intimidate a population or government.
Can we call the hotline to report the police for putting up these posters?

[#14 posted by codereduk, March 26, 2009 8:39 AM]

Fantastic job, every single one!

Keep 'em coming!

[#15 posted by catastrophegirl, March 26, 2009 9:13 AM]

@#4 CHOLTEN99 - moo.com makes some great sticker packs for a reasonable price if you just upload your own images. i'd do it if i lived on that side of the pond.
but maybe i can make something appropriate to the US..... hrm....

[#16 posted by BenjieGillam, March 26, 2009 9:25 AM]

Brilliant, every one of them.

[#17 posted by Axx, March 26, 2009 9:40 AM]

What's up with the Mind Games poster? Is something hidden in the image, or am I just being a dunce and not getting the joke?

[#18 posted by Brett Burton, March 26, 2009 9:49 AM]

Someone needs to do these for NYC. I would love to see this type of thing swapped out for the "See something, say something" ads on the subway.

[#19 posted by MrsBug, March 26, 2009 10:18 AM]

Frikkin' genius!

[#20 posted by cory, March 26, 2009 10:32 AM]

I don't see anything suspicious in Mind Games either. Pretty sure that's the point. ;-)

[#21 posted by ColmR, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM]

Here's another..

http://picasaweb.google.com/cfryan01/BoingBoing#5317556767975897650

[#22 posted by vetnoir, March 26, 2009 11:13 AM]

Absolutely Brilliant. Particularly the BB one.

[#23 posted by Philipp Lenssen, March 26, 2009 11:15 AM]

HUMOR IS CRIMETHINK

[#24 posted by quiettrickster, March 26, 2009 12:44 PM]

Just heard the radio advert version - it's not just Londoners they want to be paranoid, you know.

Strathclyde Police, on the other hand, want us to report hate crime. Hm, I wonder...

[#25 posted by BlackPanda, March 26, 2009 1:00 PM]

This isn't just a London thing, I'm afraid.

The posters were spotted at Poole railway station in Dorset, this morning.

[#26 posted by oneplusi, March 26, 2009 1:09 PM]

Yet another police poster spotted in a street in Cambridge:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneplusi/3388175790/

[#27 posted by Mindpowered, March 26, 2009 2:25 PM]

Please. Someone start to poster these over the met posters.

Any of them! All of them!

I'd do it too, if I lived there I'd be doing it too.

And sending them to irreputable media outlets.

[#28 posted by tonyb, March 26, 2009 2:53 PM]

@#19 Brett Burton
I just made one for New York's posters :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyb2007/3387780687/

(The idea is that there is nothing there, see http://www.mta.info/mta/news/newsroom/images/high-res/seesomething_hi.jpg)

[#29 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 3:02 PM]

@27
I spotted that one yesterday in Peterborough too. Unfortunately, I might get arrested because I stopped to laugh at it.

[#30 posted by SilverBack, March 26, 2009 3:04 PM]

These were amazing! Someone needs to print a couple and hang them about. Being paranoid won't solve anything...being knowledgeable helps. :)

[#31 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 3:32 PM]

Another one here:

http://antagonise.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-you-suspect-it-report-it.html

[#32 posted by Daemon, March 26, 2009 4:24 PM]

Somebody needs to be making REAL posters along the same lines, and having them put up in all the same places the government ones are.

I'm surprised that I haven't seen any referances to nazis or any other real-life facist regimes that recommended spying on your neighbors.

[#33 posted by Takuan, March 26, 2009 4:40 PM]

beginning of the end for another city

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Olympics2010/2009/03/26/legal-requirement-street-cameras-2010/

[#34 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 4:59 PM]

If you ever needed any proof that this campaign is about fearing and marginalizing dark-skinned people, you need to look closely at the CCTV photo.

Everyone in the foreground is light-skinned, and dark-skinned people lurk behind them.

It's hard not to conclude that the campaign isn't plainly appealing to racists.

[#35 posted by TheCrawNotTheCraw, March 26, 2009 5:02 PM]

@10,

"because Yorkshire is obviously No.1 on the list of terrorist targets"

Because of the Pudding, right?

[#36 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 5:13 PM]

Shtoopid G.Orwell was wrong by about 25 years!

[#37 posted by adonai, March 26, 2009 5:28 PM]

The Mind Games posters (usually it's Mind F**k) don't actually have anything in them to make you shit bricks - it's a minor trolling technique.

[#38 posted by marthagrace, March 26, 2009 5:58 PM]

Speaking of NYC's subway campaigns - I saw a tourist staring uncomprehendingly at a Metrocard vending machine one day. She was muttering "What the..." to herself, so I peeked over her shoulder. Scrolling across the screen, in lieu of any useful directions about ticket purchasing: If you see something, say something.

[#39 posted by apoxia, March 26, 2009 8:02 PM]

My favourite one is the one using probability to point out the extremely low likelihood of being killed in a terrorist attack. That one alone bascially sums the whole thing up.

[#40 posted by cory, March 26, 2009 10:29 PM]

@adonai 38: it's particularly appropriate here. The whole goddamn original ad campaign is a major, government-organized trolling technique.

[#41 posted by newe1344, March 27, 2009 3:33 AM]

@ #2

thank you, I genuinely laughed out loud!

[#42 posted by hbl, March 27, 2009 4:01 AM]

I know I'm late to the party, but here's my offering.

[#43 posted by XtraXtra, March 27, 2009 4:27 AM]

and yet another one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36779121@N05/3388998905/

[#44 posted by hbl, March 27, 2009 5:07 AM]

Er, try again: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbl/3388966957/sizes/l/

[#45 posted by edtoo, March 27, 2009 6:15 AM]

enemies of freedom the lot of you

[#46 posted by I See Modern Britain, March 27, 2009 7:02 AM]

Is there room for more?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27128437@N07/3390008754/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27128437@N07/3389197167/

[#47 posted by andygates, March 27, 2009 7:11 AM]

Oh lordy, there's one of these pernicious things in Exeter.

"A bomb won't go off *here* because Devon bombers are incompetent yokels."

[#48 posted by Anonymous, March 27, 2009 7:51 AM]

Instead of mocking government efforts to prevent terrorism, why not try "remixing" the ad into a more effective campaign??

[#49 posted by nathanjm, March 27, 2009 9:06 AM]

Here's mine,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masseyrocks/3389441427/sizes/l/

[#50 posted by James Holden, March 27, 2009 10:20 AM]

Make your own here:

http://jamesholden.net/billboard/

[#51 posted by nraustinii, March 27, 2009 12:40 PM]

The juxtaposition of baby and garbage can was just too good to pass up: http://tr.im/hTzW

[#52 posted by arkizzle / Moderator, March 27, 2009 12:50 PM]

"Instead of mocking government efforts to prevent terrorism, why not try "remixing" the ad into a more effective campaign??"

You seem to think there is an achievable compatibility.. But what better than to mock the security theatre the these posters imply?

What information about terrorism do you have, worth putting in poster form, that will aid the populace of the UK right now?

[#53 posted by TroofSeeker, March 27, 2009 3:02 PM]

Okey, kids, here's mine (not sure if this will work):

http://pixpipeline.com/st/09b2bb888484.jpg[/img][/url]

[#54 posted by Anonymous, March 27, 2009 5:19 PM]

We´re probably all gonna be arrested for taking the piss and laughing about these. ;)

Regards,
Barbarella B.

[#55 posted by greenormal, March 27, 2009 7:41 PM]

oh well we'll probably be added to the 'some thousands' the ever acutely well informed MI5 report said were supporting terrorism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7718240.stm

thanks to james h for making it such a synch and to several previous ones for making me almost piss myself laughing (eg @32)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x7bhnRA7nIA/Sc2McZgOdjI/AAAAAAAABUE/yQEjckzpGD0/s1600-h/billboard.jpg

[#56 posted by Trilby, March 29, 2009 2:08 AM]

@OnePlus #27

Actually, that poster is part of an ad campaign for the new "Police Pledge". The point of it is that any complaints or feedback the public have will be listened to and acted upon to improve the police force. It's using the familiar phrase to attract attention.

Not really something to get angry about, like the comments on Flickr.

[#57 posted by Anonymous, March 29, 2009 9:11 PM]

We're way ahead of the Brits in Australia. Our National Security Hotline for the Terminally Paranoid was launched in 2002 and is still going strong with radio, TV, press and bus shelter ads advising us to report our neighbours for anything suspicious or acting ostentatiously normal

http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/www/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/D1197555B9B04E9FCA256FAB00168903?OpenDocument

http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/WWW/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(CFD7369FCAE9B8F32F341DBE097801FF)~l000PRESS+AD+Mojo+-+Press+FINAL+-+31+July+2007.PDF/$file/l000PRESS+AD+Mojo+-+Press+FINAL+-+31+July+2007.PDF

[#58 posted by jarv75, March 31, 2009 1:26 PM]

Arggh, missed this. Did mine a few days ago...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/jarv75/public/stuff/btp_poster_1.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/jarv75/public/stuff/btp_poster_2.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/jarv75/public/stuff/btp_poster_3.jpg

[#59 posted by carlmorris, March 31, 2009 6:54 PM]

I just saw one near my house in Cardiff. I've seen it all now. This is Wales! Greetings!

[#60 posted by mrdavidcolin, April 2, 2009 12:30 PM]

......having glanced at a cctv camera today I think i'd better turn myself in..................better still why isnt there mass phone in to report me....?

[#61 posted by OP_TIMUS, April 2, 2009 5:06 PM]

Here's one from Nottingham:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3591/3404507622_6f07f4f1bf_b.jpg

[#62 posted by richphill, April 3, 2009 4:37 AM]

Hi just checked out the Aussie sheet and was amazed to learn that Phase 3 would follow on from Phase 2 just shows how educated some gov. persons in this world can be!!

[#63 posted by richphill, April 3, 2009 4:42 AM]

Hi again in the post from Nottingham the other advert should provoke more fear and will possibly cause more deaths in thelong run.

[#64 posted by yopino, April 3, 2009 10:01 AM]

@13strong: genious! can I print that on one of my T shirts and wear it at the G20?

[#65 posted by Anonymous, April 4, 2009 4:16 AM]

These are great!

Here's my contribution

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34903158@N02/3410840815/

[#66 posted by Anonymous, April 4, 2009 5:06 AM]

Great stuff!

My own contribution

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3410840815_9ee6f81a1d_o.jpg

[#67 posted by Anonymous, April 4, 2009 1:14 PM]

they've even got these stupid posters up here in sunderland. they're huge!

[#68 posted by Anonymous, April 5, 2009 3:41 AM]

Absolute genius, especially "Minesweeper", "He's dead now" and "...arrested for photographing CCTV camera"

These posters have also reached York. "A bomb won't go off here..." is displayed at this location:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/db5avb

The billboard is the long grey shape in the middle, in case you were wondering. Now, call me complacent but I would suggest that a bomb won't go off there because there's *sod all to blow up*!

Anyone else seen these in completely inappropriate locations?

[#69 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 3:06 AM]

My mother told me that during WWII the Nazi encourages children to spy on and renounce their parents who spoke against National Socialism and the war (but maybe that was propaganda too?!) Doh, now I'm confused.

[#70 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 4:19 AM]

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/-FPM8tXgzLqrHan-DbwaBw?feat=directlink

is my effort

[#71 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 7:14 AM]

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1556tko&s=5

[#72 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 3:14 PM]

Absolutely bloody brilliant...Well done everyone!
Faraz

[#73 posted by Anonymous, April 7, 2009 2:16 AM]

Fantastic!! Well done guys!

[#74 posted by Anonymous, April 8, 2009 1:39 AM]

Don't read too many paranoid posters!!
you could die laughing.

[#75 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 9:00 AM]

All brilliant. I wish I could be this creative!

[#76 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 11:19 AM]

Need same approach on the 'what you say will be taken in evidence' police posters we are seeing in Bristol. Someone?

[#77 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 12:12 PM]

Can the people in the picture complain if they dont want their images used in this way?
I presume they are real people.

[#78 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 12:17 PM]

these are great! if only it was just a fraction of our society that saw terrorrism as the controlling government PR stunt that it is rather than the other way round.

[#79 posted by Anonymous, April 9, 2009 2:44 PM]

Funny & pointed - brilliant. Reminder: Hitler was democratically elected. Big Brother Brown worries me.

[#80 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 1:23 PM]

For how to post them around the city, use a projector.

no need to pay for media, just a good wall, in high traffic location, will work.

[#81 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 8:12 PM]

deluded...perceptive...optimistic, yet full of submissive fear...your notions carry nothing without the rationality and submissive self belief to mobilise a mindset which so begs for a figurehead who simultaneously embraces all thy notions yet in doing so with the vigour to enact, thereby destroys

[#82 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 11:45 PM]

this one is nice:
http://tinyurl.com/cmmgzb

[#83 posted by Anonymous, April 14, 2009 1:12 AM]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37409123@N06/3440394259/

The average citizen in the UK is caught on CCTV cameras 300 times a day.

CCTV evidence in court is found to be inadmissible in at least 70% of cases.

Home Office research showed that crime rose by nearly 46% after CCTV cameras were installed.

Only 3% of crimes were solved by CCTV

[#84 posted by Anonymous, April 14, 2009 3:29 AM]

Dutch variation:

Netherlands against terrorism

and the parody

Netherlands against bad weather

[#85 posted by Anonymous, April 14, 2009 11:14 PM]

Too Tasteless?

http://f.imagehost.org/0587/g20-met.jpg

[#86 posted by Anonymous, April 16, 2009 1:55 PM]

Hilarious ! What a tonic. I didn't realise they were so widespread until now. I've been silently seething thru the bus window at the (CCTV) one that's been up in Luton for the last three weeks...

[#87 posted by Anonymous, April 20, 2009 4:13 PM]

Here's my attempt

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/metposter/?main=These+chemicals+won%27t+be+used+to+make+a+bomb+because+this+isn%27t+Fight+Club+and+your+neighbour+isn%27t+Brad+Pitt.&extra=Be+afraid+of+everything.%0D%0AThey+want+you+to+be+scared.&credit=Confidential+Anti-Neighbour+Hotline%0D%0Awww.kryogenix.org%2Fcode%2Fmetposter&mimg=bin.png

[#88 posted by Anonymous, April 21, 2009 8:09 AM]

and another...
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/metposter/?main=These+chemicals+won%27t+be+used+to+make+a+bomb+because+this+isn%27t+Fight+Club+and+your+neighbour+isn%27t+Brad+Pitt.&extra=Be+afraid+of+everything.%0D%0AThey+want+you+to+be+scared.&credit=Confidential+Anti-Neighbour+Hotline%0D%0Awww.kryogenix.org%2Fcode%2Fmetposter&mimg=bin.png

Chris

[#89 posted by Anonymous, April 22, 2009 1:32 PM]

#10: There are some in Leicester too. Because Terrorists like targeting small countryside cities.

[#90 posted by Anonymous, May 5, 2009 5:15 AM]

Can anyone tell me where's there's an outdoor version of these posters in London. So far I've only seen them on the tube. I'm working on an assignment for college and I'd love to photograph one of these ridiculous posters.

Anyway... Here's my contribution... http://www.sheridanflynn.com/blog.html

Cheers,

S.

[#91 posted by Anonymous, July 15, 2009 1:55 AM]

a new message should be place prominantly in torbay by the bent torbay council and its chums at devon and cornwall police as follows:

you are being watched, yes we will make up as many fake statements as we can about you, and its got bugger all to do with anti-social behavour!

welcome to the new KGB its the british democracy system, we know your a terrorist.