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Andrew Whistan’s clutter-cutting tool of choice? The hacksaw.

Whistan has had his knickers in a bunch over a billboard that’s been blocking his apartment windows for a year. So last week, cheered on by the rabble in his London neighborhood, he sawed a huge chunk out of the ad and let the light stream in.

“How far is advertising going to encroach on our lives?” the 34-year-old director of music videos (like that’s not advertising?) shouted down to onlookers after finishing his home-improvement project, the Daily Telegraph reported.



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