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The Wienermobile in Hawaii on July 5. Photo: hawaii/Flickr

One of our favorite bloggers, Jorge Garcia of "Lost," recently wrote a dispatch from the island about the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile washing up in Hawaii. Unfortunately, the orange-and-yellow hot-dog vehicle has upset some in the nation's 50th State.

An environmental group called the Outdoor Circle says the Wienermobile's visit violated a state ban on vehicular advertising, according to reports.

Bob Loy, the group's spokesman, told the Honolulu Advertiser that Outdoor Circle received about a dozen complaints from residents of Oahu about the 27-foot-long vehicle's visit.

"The Wienermobile is cute. It's got an attractive quality to it. I think anyone would agree with that, and that is part of the insidious nature of advertising," Loy told the paper. "It appears to be one thing, when in fact it's another."

Oscar Mayer isn't having it.