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Australian drivers hit below belt



Images of road deaths have not curbed speeding, says the RTA
A new Australian ad campaign is seeking to reduce road deaths by questioning the manhood of speeding drivers.
The series of TV ads shows women shaking their pinkie finger - a gesture used to symbolise a small penis - as speeding male motorists race past.

The $A1.9m (£805,400, US$1.6m) campaign aims to make speeding socially unacceptable among young drivers.

The "Speeding. No-one Thinks Big of You" campaign will run on TV, in cinemas, at bus shelters and online.

The shock tactics of previous adverts that showed disturbing images of death and injury in road crashes have not worked, says the New South Wales state government authority behind the ads, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).

Exposure to "computer games, modern media ... and horror films" had desensitised many young males to the violent images of those campaigns, RTA spokesman John Whelan told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

The new ads include one young driver revving his engine and rushing through traffic lights in front of two young women and another racing past a female pedestrian.

After both incidents the women wave their pinkies in slow motion with knowing glances.

"We will do what we feel we have to, to get the message through," Mr Whelan said.

Speeding is a factor in about 40% of road deaths in NSW each year, according to RTA figures.

The ad campaign coincides with the introduction of new restrictions on learner drivers, including a ban on all mobile phone use, limits on the number of young passengers allowed and tougher speeding penalties.

Ah, Australia. That's where King Cnut emigrated to.

They will soon discover that this campaign won't work either.

Id suggest that its the men with bigger todgers that are the ones driving faster, not the limp dicked individuals that think "20's plenty".
Grow a pair of balls and give it some right foot i say to Mr Whelan, ya small willied pussyboy.

(a smallish group)

Hardly surprising from a country that has recently imposed a 80 limit on the 1,500 mile road from Alice Springs to Darwin...

well it was derestricted and we can hardly have that highlighting the stupidity being pushed in other states, can we?

How do they police that?
Is that 80 mph or 80 kph?

A COMPANY boss was pulled over by police and warned that his van could be seized and crushed after he made a cheeky gesture towards officers.

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The notice warns that he was “causing alarm, distress or annoyance” at the wheel and that if he repeats the gesture in the next 12 months, his vehicle could be seized.