The Sun asks women to share cleavage selfies, gets trolled hard

Be careful what you wish for.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- If you put out a request on social media, it's always possible that you'll get more than you bargained for.

British newspaper The Sun sent out the following tweet Wednesday morning to promote their "Bust in Britain" competition.


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Basically they wanted people to send in their cleavage selfies for the chance of winning £1,000 ($1,440) and a photoshoot.

The responses might not have been quite what they were expecting, though.












Things got increasingly obscure.



We don't know about you, but we're pretty sure that orangutan's got it in the bag.

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