UK Public Service Announcement: Teenage Texting and Driving

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that was a brutal video with a good message
 
Damn.

That's pretty effective.

Take care,
Jeff
 
That was brutal. Very effective though.
 
It's weird...in the US, when you see PSA's about driving safely, they tend to be "don't do this or you will get in trouble with the police" centered, rather than "don't do this or you could really hurt yourself or someone else" centered. I think it's sort of a sad reflection of our society, where fear of getting arrested or ticketed is prevalent over the fear of injury to ones self, or to others.
 
lamp37 said:
It's weird...in the US, when you see PSA's about driving safely, they tend to be "don't do this or you will get in trouble with the police" centered, rather than "don't do this or you could really hurt yourself or someone else" centered. I think it's sort of a sad reflection of our society, where fear of getting arrested or ticketed is prevalent over the fear of injury to ones self, or to others.
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true. And it seems like, in terms of the media anyway, we are loathe to put anything with gore on the airwaves. I was watching the BBC or some news from overseas and saw they showed mangled bodies in the streets when a bomb had gone off. We just never really do that. It seems like all we ever see here is the smoke from the bomb, the twisted metal of the humvee, that sort of thing. If there may be someone dead in the scene, they're almost always covered with a sheet.

Why is that?
 
Seville said:
Why is that?
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Because we are a society that is on one hand very tough, strong and manly; and while we can drop 15,000lb "Mother Of All Bombs" and we must have our Hummers and AK-47's, we remain quite sensitive at heart, and cannot bear to watch offensive things such as bodies of real people who died from our Motherly bombs...or nipples.

It's a uniqely American phenomenon.
 
wow.

I am on the helicopter tonight and that hit me hard.

This needs to be shown to every teenager in our country NOW.
 
really hit home for me as I've been a passenger in a fatal car accident.. the worst part is not the accident or directly after the accident. The worst part is when paramedics/firefighters/police get there and you finally realize that your friend is gone and there's nothing else you can think about. This video really showed that well. I think the critiques on US attitudes towards death/serious injury are correct and videos like this should replace current PSAs.

Nearly every drunk driving video I've ever seen in the US has been focused on the legal inconveniences involved in getting a DUI and not on the bodily harm that one can inflict on oneself and others, which is infinitely more devastating.
 
Damn... I just saw the PSA video and I have to say that it could be very effective (at least more effective than the weak attempts that are shown in the US). Still, regardless of how serious the message or how graphic the PSA, I doubt that most teenagers will think twice after seeing it. This is unfotunate. Take the example of those graphic PSA in the US telling us the dangers of smoking by showing us a guy with a stoma in his throat thru which he speaks using a mechanical device and the lady with a dozen amputations. I doubt many teenagers saw those commercials and said, "wow, I don't want that to happen to me and so I'll quit smoking or not start at all". They probably saw the commercial and were disgusted by it enough to turn the channel and that's it.

Still, I believe that graphic real life examples in a sort of "flooding" or "scared straight" effort to prevent people from making the wrong choices is probably the best way to go about things. Even though I think that most kids don't change their actions based on these things, even if one person is saved from the stupid actions of someone else as a result of these PSAs, then it's all worth it.
 
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FWIW, I haven't TWD (texted while driving) since seeing that video. The "mommy, daddy, wake up" thing still gets me.

Take care,
Jeff
 
oy, the sounds of the necks crunching (cracking?)....
 
coldweatherblue said:
really hit home for me as I've been a passenger in a fatal car accident.. the worst part is not the accident or directly after the accident. The worst part is when paramedics/firefighters/police get there and you finally realize that your friend is gone and there's nothing else you can think about. This video really showed that well. I think the critiques on US attitudes towards death/serious injury are correct and videos like this should replace current PSAs.

Nearly every drunk driving video I've ever seen in the US has been focused on the legal inconveniences involved in getting a DUI and not on the bodily harm that one can inflict on oneself and others, which is infinitely more devastating.
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yea...there is just one commercial that I see, which shows a guy in a jail cell talking about how he killed two kids in a drunk driving accident, and how he wished it had been him (I don't know if it was an actor or not). Still, it showed him in jail, which shifts some of the weight back on the fear of legal consequences.
 
Burgess said:
Thanks! Very advisory video, took addendum through the accomplished thing. I may go through it afresh it was so good!
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Thanks! Very spam post, took no sense through the point not accomplished. I may not visit your link it was so bad!

Good PSA, though. We should have more like them here.
 
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