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For UK readers, I was watching a Sky TV channel this afternoon (can't remember which one) and caught most of a strange road safety ad which seemed to have some quite Fortean influences....
SPOILER ALERT
A boy of about 14/15 is walking along the pavement until he sees his girlfriend walking with another boy in the opposite direction. He rushes across the road to ask her what she's doing, without looking, only to be - you guessed it - hit by a car travelling at quite a speed. With you expecting a Tarrant on TV moment, the camera switches to his viewpoint flying through the (unbreaking) windscreen. The boy emerges unscathed and standing on the road as the car speeds off. Then the boy looks towards the opposite side of the road, where the other girl and boy are standing looking very sadly at a pile of wreaths on the pavement. The boy says something along the lines of "that's strange, that's the second time it's happened this week, and it hurt a lot more the first time...." Then a statistic concerning the amount of 14 - 16 year olds killed on the road appears on the screen.
Sorry if this ad is old or it's already been discussed elsewhere on the boards, but it seemed like the most powerful of those ads I've seen, especially with its Fortean connections. Shades of Bluebell Hill?
SPOILER ALERT
A boy of about 14/15 is walking along the pavement until he sees his girlfriend walking with another boy in the opposite direction. He rushes across the road to ask her what she's doing, without looking, only to be - you guessed it - hit by a car travelling at quite a speed. With you expecting a Tarrant on TV moment, the camera switches to his viewpoint flying through the (unbreaking) windscreen. The boy emerges unscathed and standing on the road as the car speeds off. Then the boy looks towards the opposite side of the road, where the other girl and boy are standing looking very sadly at a pile of wreaths on the pavement. The boy says something along the lines of "that's strange, that's the second time it's happened this week, and it hurt a lot more the first time...." Then a statistic concerning the amount of 14 - 16 year olds killed on the road appears on the screen.
Sorry if this ad is old or it's already been discussed elsewhere on the boards, but it seemed like the most powerful of those ads I've seen, especially with its Fortean connections. Shades of Bluebell Hill?