Cascade Crew

Richster · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: Gets The Point Across!

This is commercial is from the UK and the issue must be just as hetic there as here...at least they are bringing reality to the front...about time!
Shocked

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Texting-Whilst-Driving-UK_703414.htm

popballz · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

ummm.....
....nice sound effects at the beginning.

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

The moral of the story? Drive a big american car.

That way the people around you will die horribly whilst you cruise over them in relative comfort. Very Happy

flea · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject:

I thought the moral to the story was right hand drive cars are dangerous.

Richster · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

And to think...it used to be a DUI...In a BIG American Car...On the Left side even...What's Next!

fiveoformula · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject:

Dang who knows whats next but my girlfriend needs to watch this video. She'll slouter somebody in her old pickup one day...

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

american iron FTW!

Laughing

(but seriously, texting while driving is bad)

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:52 am Post subject:

wow that was pretty graphic for a commercial. it did get the point across pretty good though. it's too bad mainsteam america thinks we're all too feeble minded to handle the truth. otherwise we might have realistic P.S.A.'s like this one.

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:

you know,..... what they need to make is a psa warning poeple about deranged lunaticks walking up to cars and shooting people in the face for not turning right on red... Laughing

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maybe then it wouldn't take so long getting off the freeway Laughing

cameron7710 · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:45 am Post subject:

If it's posted '' NO TURN ON RED'' I'm cool with that. It's when it's not posted that erks me..... almost as bad as the people turning onto a no stop merge lane and stop to see if it's clear. I wanna scream at them. Of course no ones coming the lane starts where they are and it's a dedicated lane. Freakin move already Evil or Very Mad

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:56 am Post subject:

flea · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:38 am Post subject:

I never do it in my truck

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject:

flea · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

i doubt its something you could be ticketed for, most traffic laws are written in a way that limits what you can do as opposed to requiring what you must do. speed limits for example say you can not exceed a specified speed, but there is no law that says you must drive 65 just because you are allowed to. just because you are allowed to make a free right doesn't mean you must make the turn, and as long as that is true you can not get a ticket for waiting for the green. You can; however, get honked at and be called all kinds of names.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject:

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject:

flea · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject:

that is true. some states have a minimum speed on interstates of 45. However if you have lights and pilot cars and all other safety stuff in place then you won't get a ticket.
There is no such thing as a pilot car to exceed the speed limit. Impeding the flow of traffic is a purely subjective ticket to write to begin with. As far as i know there is no definition of what impeding means, holding someone up is not impeding. Around here on the two lane roads where i live holding up 5 or more cars is impeding, but I've never seen anyone get pulled over for it. I have been in a line 15 cars long and passed a state patrol going the opposite direction and the motor home at the front didn't get pulled over. My wife got a ticket for running a yellow light though so i guess the moral is that in good ole' rural Pacific county there is no such thing as too slow, but don't even think about trying to beat the yellow.
I would like to get a ticket for failing to make the free right turn though, because thats the kind of guy I am. I would like to fight that ticket just to hear the cop explain how I should have done something that I am not required to do, and how I was holding up traffic at a red light. even if I lost in court that would be worth the price of admission.

cameron7710 · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject:

the thing that really pisses me off when driving is the people that never get up to speed on the on ramps i hate when the person in front of me is doing 40 mph so i have to merge i onto the freeway in front of cars that are going 65-70 when doing 40