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Archae

(46,338 posts) Wed Apr 9, 2014, 04:46 PM Apr 2014

Just saw an ad that scared the potzreibie out of me!

Girls riding in a car, a girl driving gets a text message, runs a stop sign and is T-boned by a truck, flipping the car over and over.

Scares me all the more since I am a car crash survivor, was hit head-on in 1980.

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Just saw an ad that scared the potzreibie out of me! (Original Post) Archae Apr 2014 OP

I've seen the ad. I think it's really effective. lob1 Apr 2014 #1

Oprah did something years ago about this randys1 Apr 2014 #2

Dammit! I just stepped in a potzreibie while walking back to the office petronius Apr 2014 #3

This is it jmowreader Apr 2014 #4

Life can change in an instant. lpbk2713 Apr 2014 #5

Yes, I have seen many ads like that here in Georgia. RebelOne Apr 2014 #6

I'd wondered why the "shock/scare" public service announcements fell by the wayside Blue_Tires Apr 2014 #7

lob1

(3,820 posts)

1. I've seen the ad. I think it's really effective.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 04:49 PM

Apr 2014

randys1

(16,286 posts)

2. Oprah did something years ago about this

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 04:49 PM

Apr 2014

and I remember thinking "how could anyone be that dumb as to do that while driving"

yet

yes, I have done it...
and I must never do it again...

NEVER

petronius

(26,602 posts)

3. Dammit! I just stepped in a potzreibie while walking back to the office

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 05:07 PM

Apr 2014

Absent any other confessions, I blame you...

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)

4. This is it

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 06:25 PM

Apr 2014

lpbk2713

(42,761 posts)

5. Life can change in an instant.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 06:30 PM

Apr 2014

That's scary as hell.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

6. Yes, I have seen many ads like that here in Georgia.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 06:53 PM

Apr 2014

We now have a law against texting and driving.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

7. I'd wondered why the "shock/scare" public service announcements fell by the wayside

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 06:59 PM

Apr 2014

Way back when my driver's ed teacher said they stopped making them because statistics showed they didn't make much difference...

But countries like Australia have been damn near elevating them to art forms with great effect...

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