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G GROG Grand Member (1 year) Tujunga Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 7488	G GROG Posted posted on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 9:03 AM On 2006-09-21 01:31, Scottish Clowndoctors wrote: This has caused a lot of distress in our office and we will be removing the photograph from our website just as soon as we can contact our technical advisors. This is a real image of one of our Clowndoctors visiting a real sick child in hospital and this whole business is likely to cause a great deal of upset for ourselves, the hospital, the child and his family. We are a charity that aims to promote the quality of life for children in hospital and hospice care and we depend on our fundraising efforts to keep the work going. We will now be forced to inform the hospital who in turn will have to notify the family of the child in the photograph. This will mean that it will become very difficult for us to use such publicity in the future - something that will have an impact on our public profile and our income. This had a bigger impact than just some TCers being duped out some mugs and necklaces.GROG definitely feels that some sort of legal authority should be contacted. GROG really sorry for the distress and labor this will cause for Hearts&Minds organization and the impact it may have on their publicity and money raising.This went from pretty sucky to completely sucks.

On 2006-09-21 01:31, Scottish Clowndoctors wrote:

This has caused a lot of distress in our office and we will be removing the photograph from our website just as soon as we can contact our technical advisors.

This is a real image of one of our Clowndoctors visiting a real sick child in hospital and this whole business is likely to cause a great deal of upset for ourselves, the hospital, the child and his family. We are a charity that aims to promote the quality of life for children in hospital and hospice care and we depend on our fundraising efforts to keep the work going. We will now be forced to inform the hospital who in turn will have to notify the family of the child in the photograph. This will mean that it will become very difficult for us to use such publicity in the future - something that will have an impact on our public profile and our income.

This had a bigger impact than just some TCers being duped out some mugs and necklaces.GROG definitely feels that some sort of legal authority should be contacted.

GROG really sorry for the distress and labor this will cause for Hearts&Minds organization and the impact it may have on their publicity and money raising.This went from pretty sucky to completely sucks.

Post #255963 by GROG on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 9:03 AM