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- From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
- Subject: Re: Anti drink/drive campaign
- Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:03:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec28.235821.23820@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
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- TITLE: Anti drink/drive campaign
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- [drink drive campaign details deleted for Bandwidth reasons]
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- > 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."
-
- In England we had one that *really* screwed with me. It's very
- simple. A young woman in lying on the road. One eye is dilated the
- other is totally opposite -- It's a clever visual clue to say she's
- is dying and her brain is mushed. The para medics are pushing
- respirators in her and the view rotoscopes out slowly to show hands
- administering ECT to get the heart going. Even at this the pupils are
- still one big one little. She's a vegetable and still they try to
- help her... And all the time this whining shit's voice off to the
- right is saying "Is she gonna be all right?" and "I didn't mean
- it..." It made me want to grab the driver by the lapels and call him
- a dick brained rat from the planet dork.
-
- I woke up to catch the midday news today to hear that three people
- had died in drink driving accidents last night, and a whole village
- woke up to a power blackout because some kids (The driver was aged 14
- the others were 18 and 20) had stolen a car and crashed it into a
- power line... .
-
- ... and still I think of those eyes. One dilated, the other
- contracted.
-
- Tanais sighs and is glad he neither has children to worry about
- (either stealing cars or having to protect them from people that do)
- nor does he drive.
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- | When I grow up, I want to give up being |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
- | a Journalist and learn how to write... | |
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- | Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992. |
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