Hanging Image Dooms Halloween Billboards in Pittsburgh

Haunted Hayloft kills ads

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When Halloween advertiser the Haunted Hayloft put up a creepy billboard on Pittsburgh's north side this month, it probably figured no one would say boo. But residents in the mostly black neighborhood took exception to the silhouetted image of a person hanging from a noose, and scared the Hayloft enough to take action. Some 70 signs in the area tout the Hayloft's seasonal re-enactment of a double hanging that took place in Pennsylvania's Somerset County about 120 years ago.

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