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Even billboard companies have a grudging respect for the group. “They do great work,” said Sean Robertson, Creative Director of Infinity Media in Berkeley, which maintains billboards. “It’s telling us that not only do we believe the medium works, so do vandals. They know it reaches thousands of people.””Any reasonable, logical person knows this is vandalism, and all adults know vandalism is bad.” said Jackie Peterson, spokesman for Mountain View’s Cellmania, one of BLF’s billboard victims. “I don’t know what their mission is. I can’t imagine they’re effective.” (more effective than Cellmania, which was an Internet startup that lasted about as a mayfly’s lifespan.”- Jack)

Vanessa Hua

San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, December 6, 2000