Stupid Billboard Tricks

[dancinghomer]

Silly person!!! she bunjee's the kids to the roof rack so that they can get fresh air and sunshine!! (plus talk on the cell phone without them interrupting!)

I was wondering how someone was gonna get around my statement, but that never even crossed my mind. Nice job.

[Sarah Magdalene]

Well, that idea worked for me. When I was in Drivers Ed. in high school they showed "Red Asphalt" :bugeyes: . I never wanted to put my parents through that situation and I buckled up after that too. My father having been in Shore Patrol, reenforced that lesson by briefly stating what had happened while he was on duty. Not Pretty and I admire what you all do in the medical, military community.

I think Dis Mom's idea is a GREAT idea for an actual Halloween Horror Nights theme. Nothing is more fighting and petrifying than the graphicness of what goes on in a severe traffic accident be based on drunk driving, no seat belts, illegal drag racing, etc. Basically, stupid things that young adults do for "fun". It may really send a good strong message across to those young people who leave the parks sloshed cause of all the beer the consumed.

[Syndrome]

Heck, that sounds like one of those "Hell Houses" put on by fundamentalist Christian groups at Halloween. They show the graphic consequences of drinking/driving, abortion, and all sorts of sinful behavior. We went to one in Indiana once and it was just about as scary as anything at HHN. They had it in an abandoned store in a half-empty shopping mall. They had a really graphic crucifixtion scene, complete with a bloody and tortured Jesus on the cross. Then you walked over plexiglass with Hell below and devils running around down below with bloody pitchforks, jabbing condemned souls. Pretty spooky stuff that would probably scar the Metro Orlando Mommie spawn for life.

[albino_pygmy]

I think Dis Mom's idea is a GREAT idea for an actual Halloween Horror Nights theme. Nothing is more fighting and petrifying than the graphicness of what goes on in a severe traffic accident be based on drunk driving, no seat belts, illegal drag racing, etc. Basically, stupid things that young adults do for "fun". It may really send a good strong message across to those young people who leave the parks sloshed cause of all the beer the consumed.

That sounds like your typical "hell" house churches do during Halloween instead of haunted houses. I like the idea to scare them that way, but I feel that might actually cross the line. HHN is more about ficticious places and events, mostly based off the horror movies and ghost stories, and such. HHN's biggest seller is beer, and would be nice to see them get scared out of their minds when they realize that they could end up like the mangled mess through the windsheild of a car. The only thing that really scares me at HHN are the drunken guests themselves.

[DisneyMom]

That sounds like your typical "hell" house churches do during Halloween instead of haunted houses. I like the idea to scare them that way, but I feel that might actually cross the line. HHN is more about ficticious places and events, mostly based off the horror movies and ghost stories, and such. HHN's biggest seller is beer, and would be nice to see them get scared out of their minds when they realize that they could end up like the mangled mess through the windsheild of a car. The only thing that really scares me at HHN are the drunken guests themselves.

US, cross the line....Never!
Actually, our local school district does one of those "every 15 minutes" programs where the Grim Reaper comes and plucks random students from the High School out of their classes, then they go and stage a "Drunken Driving Accident Scene" in front of the school, complete with crashed vehicles, "dead" bodies, and fake blood....They also have the "Drunk Driver" arrested by the local police and actually have "grieving and hysterical" Parents and friends at the scene, all acted out in front of the student body.
I hope it helps, don't recall too many accidents lately.
I do think that the more sensitive students are able to be excused from the
program, tho!

[Ms. Matterhorn]

First, can someone from Orlando take a picture of the billboard and post it or at least a link to it so that we left-coasters can see what all the brouhaha is about?

And, second, when my kids were small and we were in the car, we used to make a big deal about something on the OTHER side of the road so they wouldn't see what we didn't want them to see. (Like a Disney billboard 'cause we weren't going there)! And when they didn't see the unicorn or purple dinosaur, oh, whoops, my bad...

[felinefan]

So the spokeslady of the mommy group turns out to be a PR specialist. Who'da thunk? Man, you know the economy is really in the toilet when companies have to resort to cutting their advertising budget to nothing. Need to advertise on the cheap? Have a PR person form an ad-hoc group that is composed of skilled, out-of-work actors and pose as outraged soccer moms. Make a call to the media, and you're set. Free publicity--what a concept! Bet the guy who came up with that idea is gonna get a nice fat raise and an even fatter bonus.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

So the spokeslady of the mommy group turns out to be a PR specialist. Who'da thunk? Man, you know the economy is really in the toilet when companies have to resort to cutting their advertising budget to nothing. Need to advertise on the cheap? Have a PR person form an ad-hoc group that is composed of skilled, out-of-work actors and pose as outraged soccer moms. Make a call to the media, and you're set. Free publicity--what a concept! Bet the guy who came up with that idea is gonna get a nice fat raise and an even fatter bonus.

Aha! :dropmouth It's a conspiracy!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

US, cross the line....Never!
Actually, our local school district does one of those "every 15 minutes" programs where the Grim Reaper comes and plucks random students from the High School out of their classes, then they go and stage a "Drunken Driving Accident Scene" in front of the school, complete with crashed vehicles, "dead" bodies, and fake blood....They also have the "Drunk Driver" arrested by the local police and actually have "grieving and hysterical" Parents and friends at the scene, all acted out in front of the student body.
I hope it helps, don't recall too many accidents lately.
I do think that the more sensitive students are able to be excused from the
program, tho!

Just don't do it backwards!! they did that out here in California, except that the local High school did it slightly backwards and Took several kids out before they got to class, then went around telling everyone that they had died in an accident!

One of the distraught friends of a "victim" called several friends, who then called a family member of the victim, (who was NOT in on the presentation)

yeahhhhhh, a bit of trouble there!

[DisneyMom]

Just don't do it backwards!! they did that out here in California, except that the local High school did it slightly backwards and Took several kids out before they got to class, then went around telling everyone that they had died in an accident!

One of the distraught friends of a "victim" called several friends, who then called a family member of the victim, (who was NOT in on the presentation)

yeahhhhhh, a bit of trouble there!

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