Train adverts

[Hitcher]

Welcome to the land where people no longer have to take responsibility for their own actions. Caution: May contain biting sarcasm.

[kro]

Aint that the truth mate....... OSH ushered in a new age of hand holding, and it's really gone downhill since then.

[merv]

Yeah well you see I'm a railway guy really and we talked about it already here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=54006 and now the ads have hit TV. We got them (the ads) from South Australia so you will notice it is Skippys getting flattened not Kiwis but the message is the same - give way to the train and stay off the tracks - otherwise it can hurt.

[merv]

I liked the comment on the other thread about gene pool - and here lies the problem - kill them there is an outcry - let them breed and there is an outcry about how their offspring behave, but hey its Te Reo week too let's not forget that.

[kro]

People want to write their own rules merv, they want to be able to drive over the tracks if the bells are ringing, because they are in a rush, and need to get to the supermarket, and can't wait 2 mins while the train passes.
Again and again we molly coddle that acute minority of people bent on a dinner date with death.

Within 20 mins of this advert airing, my wife has said "omg, what a waste of money, my brother rang me to say the same thing, and 2 aquaintaces in Napier messaged me on MSN and said " fuck our country caters to retarded behaviour so well".

[jafar]

People want to write their own rules merv, they want to be able to drive over the tracks if the bells are ringing, because they are in a rush, and need to get to the supermarket, and can't wait 2 mins while the train passes.
Again and again we molly coddle that acute minority of people bent on a dinner date with death.

Within 20 mins of this advert airing, my wife has said "omg, what a waste of money, my brother rang me to say the same thing, and 2 aquaintaces in Napier messaged me on MSN and said " fuck our country caters to retarded behaviour so well".

Oh you didn't know this? welcome to aunty helens pacific paradise

[Romeo]

Within 20 mins of this advert airing, my wife has said "omg, what a waste of money, my brother rang me to say the same thing, and 2 aquaintaces in Napier messaged me on MSN and said " fuck our country caters to retarded behaviour so well".

It gets worse doesn't it? IIRC this is a multi-pronged media campain comprising of TV, radio, billboard and newspaper - not cheap in other words.

Oh, and how many people get killed by trains, Vs. motorcyclists who get killed by cages. There should be a multi-pronged campaign for that as well, and don't forget choking on sausages either!

[scumdog]

I don't give a fat rats arse if some moron gets cleaned by a train 'cos they never saw it..

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Yes, all catered to the lowest common denominator here in NZ. My 13yo daughter came home the other day with one of her school books and the sheer simplicity of it shocked me. Really basic stuff, and what I learned when I was 8 years old. She's doing really well at school, and going by what I saw so is everyone else.
What have we got here eh?? The dumbing down of society, Labour ensuring future votes by creating a massive majority of non-achievers and welfare 'clients'.
It's bloody sickening...

[merv]

Scummy would you book someone you spotted running the red rail crossing lights though? Problem we have is the complete disregard for the warnings particularly by truckers who seem to treat it as some competitve game against the fellow freight business.

Law is simple. When a train is withing 800 metres of a crossing the road as such ceases to exist and the train has right of way and because of its weight and size usually wins, except when a truck hits side on as happened to kill Louise Cairns and the 11 that died near Kerang in Victoria Aus recently.

[tri boy]

Although most of NZs population have probably grown up with rail crossings as we know them, I still think this is a good safety campaign. There may be a small percentage of citizens who could use the education, and if it saves one child/adults life, then I will give it the .
Trains are big and noisy, but humans can be desensitized and uneducated.

[scumdog]

Scummy would you book someone you spotted running the red rail crossing lights though? Problem we have is the complete disregard for the warnings particularly by truckers who seem to treat it as some competitve game against the fellow freight business.

Book 'em? - hell yeah - and treat them to my thoughts on that sort of carry on.

(Did so with the only one I caught.)

[janno]

Book 'em or tie 'em to the tracks in readyness for the next train? Would be mightly tempting . . .

[merv]

I mentioned earlier the focus on speed an alcohol, well NZ finally got some advertising budget to deal with a minority event. Deaths at level crossings are usually in the range of about 0 - 10 per annum compared to a road toll of 400 or more so it has been seen as a bit of a non-event by burearacy but because of the graphic and catastrophic nature of these crashes the public get all emotive about them and expect magic solutions. The number killed this way is similar to the number of trespassers and probable suiciders killed per annum. So what do you think of the state of mental health in our country too?

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Although most of NZs population have probably grown up with rail crossings as we know them, I still think this is a good safety campaign. There may be a small percentage of citizens who could use the education, and if it saves one child/adults life, then I will give it the .
Trains are big and noisy, but humans can be desensitized and uneducated.

Eh? Are you kidding??
How about a safety campaign for kids that climb trees, or 'make sure you lift your feet over the kerb when you cross the road, you could stumble and hurt yourself'.
Trains were invented in bloody 1801, we've had over 200 years to get used to them
SHEESH!!!!!