Mobile use posters

[upsidedown]

Just ordered some of these posters from the DfT website.

No idea what i'm going to do with them. Pity you can only order one of each as i'd have spent a Sunday afternoon putting them on every lamp post in the area.

Somebody (or some body) has put up "think cyclist" posters near me so was searching for them. Couldn't find them but the mobile ones look good.

 

[upsidedown]

Do you think that's direct enough though ?

 

[Jezston]

I ... err oh.

I probably should have posted that as a link with an NSFW tag shouldn't I.

Sorry!

 

[PBancroft]

U feel like part of this thread is missing

 

[mr_cellophane]

Isn't this one self-defeating ?

 

 

[Jezston]

Isn't this one self-defeating ?

I thought that, also I like how the 'see larger image' button takes you to an image ... of exactly the same size Perhaps if positioned someone where a driver would be stationary, like at the end of traffic lights it might make sense. Maybe.

Anyway...

For anyone who missed it the first time, and the ensuing controvesy, I have uploaded my masterpiece poster of offence here:

CAUTION NSFW CONTAINS BIG SWEARS!

 

[barongreenback]

I thought that, also I like how the 'see larger image' button takes you to an image ... of exactly the same size Perhaps if positioned someone where a driver would be stationary, like at the end of traffic lights it might make sense. Maybe.

Anyway...

For anyone who missed it the first time, and the ensuing controvesy, I have uploaded my masterpiece poster of offence here:

CAUTION NSFW CONTAINS BIG SWEARS!

Several billboard size laminated copies for me please!

 

[upsidedown]

Think i'll put them up at work, still think Jezston's is better though.

 

[Tinuts]

This whole approach to persuading motons not to engage in mobile phone conversations whilst driving is just laughable. I mean, they seem to consider that by encouraging said motons to just stop and consider the ramifications of their actions will magically be enough to dissuade these idiots from blighting our highways and byeways with a plethora of distracted fools who put us all at risk by their ill-considered phone usage. What actually happens is that they see an advert/poster like this and, if they take any notice if it at all, just think "Nah, ain't gonna happen to me, mate". Er, just like drunk-drivers. All you have to do is witness the number of people still doing this in the face of all the contrary information to be convinced.

Why not a poster which says:

If you kill someone whilst driving and using a mobile phone at the same time not only will your car be crushed, you will be sent to prison for life and your children will be sterilised so there will be no future generations of self obsessed morons like you on the planet".

I don't know, do you think I've gone far enough?

 

[Headgardener]

Why not a poster which says:

If you kill someone whilst driving and using a mobile phone at the same time not only will your car be crushed, you will be sent to prison for life and your children will be sterilised so there will be no future generations of self obsessed morons like you on the planet".

I don't know, do you think I've gone far enough?

Add a few swear words as some morons don't understand what anything says unless it is interspersed with profanities and put it on a fifteen x twenty foot billboard in prominent places then it might work.

 

[upsidedown]

So tinuts on the whole you think it's better to do nothing then ? Do you not think that putting posters up at work might at least trigger the conversation or plant the idea in somebody's head that it's not a good idea to use the phone while driving ? The drunk drivers analogy doesn't really work because that's now considered unacceptable to the vast majority of the driving population because of a combination of enforcement and publicity.

 

[thomas]

Just ordered some of these posters from the DfT website.

No idea what i'm going to do with them. Pity you can only order one of each as i'd have spent a Sunday afternoon putting them on every lamp post in the area.

Somebody (or some body) has put up "think cyclist" posters near me so was searching for them. Couldn't find them but the mobile ones look good.

It's probably because they used to let you order as many as you liked of those preparing for emergency books and it seemed like a fantastic idea as a 14 year old to order 20 in each language and deliver them to a mate's house.

 

[brokenbetty]

If you kill someone whilst driving and using a mobile phone at the same time not only will your car be crushed, you will be sent to prison for life and your children will be sterilised so there will be no future generations of self obsessed morons like you on the planet".

I'm anti capital punishment except for drivers who kill.

If a car you are in control of kills someone, you should be executed. Whether or not it's your fault. Until drivers face exactly the same risk they impose on others they will put their own convenience above others' lives.

 

[thomas]

I'm anti capital punishment except for drivers who kill.

If a car you are in control of kills someone, you should be executed. Whether or not it's your fault. Until drivers face exactly the same risk they impose on others they will put their own convenience above others' lives.

Because the death penalty has been proved to be a deterrent in soley motoring related crimes .

 

[Tinuts]

So tinuts on the whole you think it's better to do nothing then ? Do you not think that putting posters up at work might at least trigger the conversation or plant the idea in somebody's head that it's not a good idea to use the phone while driving ? The drunk drivers analogy doesn't really work because that's now considered unacceptable to the vast majority of the driving population because of a combination of enforcement and publicity.

Actually, I think it will make very little difference but would love to be proved wrong. As for drink-driving, the level of publicity and legal censure is far greater. Just picture in your mind some of the past adverts that have been released each Xmas to try and deter people from drinking. Some have been pretty graphic as to the potential consequences. Why on earth isn't a similar tactic used to deter mobile usage? And why aren't there the same sentences handed out as to drink-drivers? I feel that the level of pussyfooting which goes on around this issue is stunning - as is the lack of concerted enforcement.