Teenagers (well, boys anyway) willingly risk death to gain status and avoid rejection. Scaring them will only increase the rate of the unwanted behavior. Scaring the girls might work, I don't know.
2009-08-26 00:26:04
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graphic short film from england about the dangers of texting and driving
i posted this in the headlines, but thought it could deserve it's own thread.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/08/24/grusome-short-film-targets-teens-who-text-and-drive/
it's possibly the most graphic/gruesome traffic film i've ever seen. there seems to be a trend in europe for really graphic films, and this one really takes the cake. anyway, it seems to be sweeping the internet.
wonder how effective it will be. according to the infrastructurist, 'YouTube has deemed this film so graphic that you need to be at least 18 in order to watch it… this in a country where millions of 16 and 17 year-old drive and text each year and untold numbers of them pay for it with their lives.'
2009-08-25 22:40:41
This sort of film is really nothing new. As late as 1975, films like these were still being shown in Driver Ed classes.
Did they work? Well, they certainly got us informed. Some of us actually used the information. Others just wrapped themselves around trees, poles and other cars as if they'd never seen it. I doubt much has changed in 35ish years.
2009-08-26 00:34:19
they sure didn't have the special effects that they have now. that's what's so gruesome it makes you feel like you are in the heat of it
2009-08-26 01:16:59
What they had then was actual footage of the dead and the after-the-fact wreck scenes. Even in (sometimes) black-and-white, gruesome enough.
I watched the UK video. Yeah. Wow. Chilling.
2009-08-26 01:30:52
I think the sound effects really got me....b/c I think I actually heard someone's neck snap in it, and that's what was the freakiest.
2009-08-26 02:03:39
i'm gonna have nightmares about zombie baby
2009-08-26 02:32:22
i guess they're showing these in high schools
2009-08-26 13:53:02