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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!news
- From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
- Subject: Anti drink/drive campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.235821.23820@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au
- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:58:21 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- Danger Mouse sips a large mug of Prince of Wales tea.
-
- "I saw a very interesting new anti-drink-driving ad on TV yesterday."
-
- The X-window obliges by showing the ad. It opens on the scene of a car
- crash, shot on grainy film at night. Rescue workers are rushing back
- and forth, yelling orders at groups of shocked onlookers to get out of
- the way. Sirens blare and police vehicles and ambulances arrive. A man
- with blood trailing down his face sits by an ambulance, his arm being
- splinted by a medic. Tears stream from his eyes. Back at the car, a door
- is ripped off and an unconscious woman is dragged out, her head caked in
- blood. She is laid on a gurney and medics attach various tubes before
- putting her in the ambulance.
-
- Cut to a hospital emergency ward. A distraught nurse with a blood-soiled
- uniform and a 'oh no, not another one' look watches the ambulance arrive.
- The woman is wheeled out and down a corridor. Doctors rush to and fro,
- checking the IV, her pulse, using shears to cut her clothes off - her
- chest is streaked with blood too.
-
- The police drive in with the man with the bandaged arm. He climbs out of
- the car and staggers into the hospital. Another car drives up. A middle-
- aged woman, incoherent with tears, emerges and barges through the doors
- of the hospital. Nurses restrain her from running into the operating
- room. She sees the man, crouched on a chair, head hung between his legs,
- and runs at him, yelling. She lifts him to his feet and yells in rage
- before more nurses and doctors manage to drag her away.
-
- Cut to a dishevelled nurse, standing outside the emergency doors. She
- says, "I don't know why people do this. They wreck other lives, and their
- own too because they can't live with what they've done." She shakes her
- head. "If you drink and then drive, you're a bloody idiot."
-
- Black screen containing the words, echoed by a male voice-over:
- "If you drink and then drive, you're a bloody idiot."
-
- The X-window fades. Danger Mouse can tell that some patrons have been
- deeply affected. "Yes, it's extremely graphic, and pulls no punches.
- But I think it's rather good. It catches attention, makes you think, and
- reaches into your subconscious. If violence is going to be shown on
- television, then it deserves to be done like this."
-
- - Danger Mouse.
-