Vic is the Nanny State!!!!!!!

[Oneofthegreats]

Even if I am laid up at the moment with severe back problems,


Christ I get a laugh out of crap like this everytime!!!!!!!!

Don't be a D i c k h e a d !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bahahahahahaa.

yeah right. as if this will deter people

Nice to see all the traffic revenue going to a good cause!!! Pssft. yeah right. What a waist.

I know. I've got an idea!!!

How about putting some of it back into fixing up our roads!

"woooow. stand back! That makes sense"


Sit back & enjoy the stupidity that is


"The Nanny State"


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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ging er's! hahaha. can't even pronounce it right!

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[Jarred]

stupid bunch of ads!

nanny state indeed. can't do buggery these days, with having to look 4 times for a speed camera!

driver eductation is what's needed, not a whole bunch of stupid ads.

[velly_16v_cab]

i really thought these was good AD's

it is the sort of thing we will all laugh about, but think of the message that is in the joke...its a good way of getting it across IMO

[GoLfMan]

another great use of tax payers money!

[Peter Jones]

I don't watch TV :) Guess the message is lost on me.

[gareth_oau]

dont be a ****head - get a better advertising agency

[velly_16v_cab]

I don't watch TV :) Guess the message is lost on me.

it wasnt on TV, it was an internet campain on youtube, facebook etc (trying to hit the target areas)

[gtimk5]

Poor authorities are coping another bashing?
Geez, no matter what they do they will cop flack... Guess they have tried everything over the decades but still the road tols rise, for which by some strange reason are to blame...

[Spyda]

LOL was the gingers video above made by Cartman? Reminds me of southpark so bad.

That dont be a ****head is full of fail.

[Jarred]

...
....Guess they have tried everything over the decades but still the road tols rise,....

I'm sorry Andrew, but this is incorrect, for Victoria atleast.

The road toll in 2004 was around 340, and for 2008, closer to 300. Back in 1970 the roadtoll was nearly 1000. Source: (amongst others) Victorian Road Toll Figures (Monash Magazine article) (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue15-2005/opinion/toll-graph.html)

I'm not picking on you Andrew, but this is a stark misunderstanding! Many things have contributed to the lower road toll, inc, safer cars, lower speed limits, mandetory seatbelts etc etc, but also consider the increase in population, and increase in cars using the roads.

[static1800]

Think about it, you guys are all talking about the ad and i bet next time you talk on your phone or whatever you will think about it. It's like the annoying shouty ads you always notice them.

[schoona]

Yeha they are trying to get the message across. Im sure with all the brain power they have and us young people don't they could come up with something far more flattering then calling you Victorians Dic k heads...

[gtimk5]

No offence taken Jarred, not at all. And yes, when cars had nil safety features worth mentioning, no RBT's and poor roads, no roadworthy inspectiions, yes, it was way higher.
All good mate!
Andrew

[velly_16v_cab]

Think about it, you guys are all talking about the ad and i bet next time you talk on your phone or whatever you will think about it. It's like the annoying shouty ads you always notice them.

nail on the head.... :)

[Rocket36]

Trying to discourage people from doing something that is illegal and more importantly VERY UNSAFE is a GOOD thing....

[GOLFBALLS]

Changing peoples rubbish attitudes and behaviour is an eternally difficult thing. They've gotta keep trying don't they!?

....But I've still seen no REAL attempt at better driver training and skill development by the govt.

Common sense is the underlying and most important common denominator here, how do you teach people common sense???

FIIK!

[AusScare]

Trying to discourage people from doing something that is illegal and more importantly VERY UNSAFE is a GOOD thing....

I agree here, picking people for defects and stuff, cars with effed suspension and stupidly loud exhausts.

Those ads were really terrible though, I wonder how long they'll last.

[Jarred]

......But I've still seen no REAL attempt at better driver training and skill development by the govt.
..

Here here! That's what's needed. P platers are babied around whilst on thier learners by the instructor or thier parents, then they get thier license, and wonders how faster they can go, without knowing the limits of thier car or themselves!

The nordic countries have it down pat. Learners there HAVE to pass a course which involves PROPER defensive driving and doing hand brake turns etc. mainly handling the car when it's out of control (a big factor is cause of the snow and ice on thier road, but the principle applies here still!)

[GoLfMan]

I've said it once, I've said it a million times.

Driver training is what the authorities need to reduce road tolls. How hard is that to see?!

[gareth_oau]

:banana:driver training will merely turn us all into addicted 300kph speed freaks, causing death and destruction.

speed cameras replace taxes

[gareth_oau]

my son's girlfriend recently passed her lisence. and the whole education and test process, not once did she use the ABS.

what sort of training is that?

One day she will slam on her brakes, and theres a 50/50 chance she will remove her foot from the pedal because of the funny feeling she got

[Buller_Scott]

unfortunately it'll probably be something like *quick release of the pedal* "oh no something's wrong with the brakes!".

call me cynical/ bitter or whatever, but the whole "dont be a ****head" thing having to be launched as a viral campaign on the net due to ''inappropriate language'' for prime time tv? its a compromise, but a pretty piss poor one.

the roads would be much safer, of course, if it were harder to get your license in the first place, and/or if there were mandatory driving tests for each license holder every 3-5 years or so. as unfeasible as that may seem, it might just help address the root cause instead of simply "well, let people off themselves through negligence and driver miseducation, and if we can make some money into the bargain [speeding tickets, all victorian cops care about-that and canaries on chapel st. on a saturday night] then all the better!''.

it's whack. and not likely to change much.

p.s. gareth, it's getting cooooolderrrrr. any predictions on this season?