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Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:50 PM

HIGHTOWER: Selling a city’s soul for chicken feed

By JIM HIGHTOWER, Hightower Lowdown

Fire hydrants deserve more respect. These utilitarian and ubiquitous icons of America’s urban landscape rarely are noticed by anyone but dogs — and they give hydrants no respect whatsoever. Worse, though, a brand-name corporation now intends to lift its leg on them.

KFC, the fast-food chicken chain, already has gotten permission from Indianapolis to whiz on its hydrants. As part of an advertising blitz, KFC has plastered the city’s water taps with a smiling photo of corporate founder Colonel Sanders, along with a slogan promoting the chain’s new “fiery” chicken wings.

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