Danish tourism video pulled from YouTube

VisitDenmark's three-minute video, which depicts a young woman attempting to find the tourist who fathered her child, was pulled by VisitDenmark after numerous complaints, the BBC reported Wednesday.

"We met one night a year and a half ago when you were on vacation here in Denmark," the woman in the video says of her son's father. "We met ... and then decided to have a drink and, yeah, it's really embarrassing but it's more or less what I remember. I don't remember where you're from or even your name."

Lene Espersen, Denmark's economy minister, said the video "was not a very well-thought-out picture of the country."

Newspaper Ekstra Bladet described the YouTube ad as "grotesque" and a "waste of taxpayers money."

Dorte Kiilerich, manager of VisitDenmark, apologized for any offense caused by the video and said the ad was meant as "a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions."

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