The Today Show Discusses Whether Graphic "Texting While Driving Ad" Goes Too Far - Video 8/25/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 25, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of a Today Show report discussing whether a British "Texting While Driving" Ad that shows he graphic results that can happen goes too far.

The report shows the ad, and then discusses the impact it can have on people, particularly young people, to convince them not to text while driving. . . . . . (Watch Video)

[Old Sarge]

Any grade-school kid will tell you you got it wrong: it’s “Driving While Texting”, honestly...

[SandWMan]

I fully expect this video to be just as effective at curbing this behavior as all the other videos that have been produced on drinking and driving.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I fully expect this video to be just as effective at curbing this behavior as all the other videos that have been produced on drinking and driving.

I bet some teenager is watching it on his iPhone while behind the wheel of his Scion xB at this very moment.

[Tony in Hawaii]

They’ll never beat the original, “Signal 30” from 1959.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0260369/

[JimRed]

Hopefully it gets their attention!

[Larry Lucido]

It can’t be as bad as the graphic “Sexting while Driving” ad that Laz did.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

You saw it too...

[Seruzawa]

Why all the catfooting around? No need for videos. Make texting while driving an arrestable offense same as a DWI. Testers are more dangerous than drunks.

[hoe_cake]

I didn’t think the video was graphic.

[dan1123]

There’s some healthy debate about talking on a cell phone while driving, but at least your eyes are on the road. Texting while driving is just insane.

[big black dog]

The real twisted ones are in Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWiUGE

[theFIRMbss]

>I didn’t think the video was graphic

It was like a scene
from "Final Destination"
then it got boring.

(The dead baby cut
was graphic and gruesome though.
They could have skipped that.)

[hoe_cake]

was the baby dead? I didn’t think so. I didn’t think anyone was dead. I’ve watched it a few times over.

[theFIRMbss]

>was the baby dead? I didn’t think so. I didn’t think anyone was dead

Umm, the kid's parents
wouldn't "wake up" (dead!). Baby
didn't blink (dead too!).

[hoe_cake]

I just watched it again, and understood this time.

I still say it’s fairly subtle.

[envisio]

Just say “Barack Obama said ‘its not cool’”

That should make MSM and all the MTV, VH1, BET programs run nonstop ads damning it to hell.

[envisio]

How about when a person is texting, make it lawful for any passersby to stop them, take their phone and smash it, and then commence beating the texter about the face and neck.

[theFIRMbss]

> take their phone and smash it

Take a phone away from a teenage girl? Have you seen a mother cat defend a kitten? Jack-booted thugs would think twice touching a girl's phone.

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

Come on guys, that was a produced video.