Controversial hire-van company Wicked Campers has again raised the ire of Port Douglas residents after one of their vans was spotted in Macrossan Street emblazoned with profanity. 

The van, which reads “Here’s to a f***ing Good Year” and features a picture of Scooby Doo humping a car tyre, also bears an innuendo-laden message on its back hatch.

Lychees Tree Beach Resort manager Grant Skinner snapped photos of the van and said the artwork was in ‘very bad taste’.

“What bothered me was the profanity - you’ve got kids running around the street, I just didn’t think it was appropriate, it didn’t sit right with me,” he said.

Mr Skinner didn’t believe that free speech was enough of a defence in this case.

“I just think it’s offensive and it’s not OK to have it splashed on the side of a van like that driving around town,” he said.

Wicked has previously landed itself in hot water over the artwork on its vans. 

In June last year the company’s director John Webb apologised after an online petition criticising the company’s use of explicit messages on its vans attracted nearly 120,000 signatures.

"As is often quoted: 'A sense of humour is a sense of proportion'," Mr Webb said..

"And in this instance, we admit that we have taken things out of proportion and out of the realms of what is considered to be 'socially acceptable.

"It is impossible for us to conceive that a throw-away message written on a van could have such far-reaching implications for the community at large."

What do you think?

Are the messages on Wicked Campers just a bit of fun or are they unacceptable to the community?

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