I just saw a Coca-Cola TV ad that showed a group of kids sitting on the overhead part of a railroad bridge and enjoying a thrill as the train passed just below them.
Anyone else have a problem with this?
Any kid dumb enough to copy something like that… well, you see where I’m going with this.
Damn for a second there I hoped they had made the one Bill Hicks said they’d make.
Drink Coke :eek:
Yes. I’m against anything that involves children having fun or showing independence. Sheesh!
Off to IMHO.
It was a walkway bridge for people. Were they actually sitting on the edge, or standing on the walkway? I don’t remember. Anyway, I think it’s a great way to cleanse the gene pool by making commercials that people will copy. Darwin Awards forever!
I think the electric company should have a commercial where a guy electrocutes himself in a bathtub to show that their power will always be uninterrupted. If you copy that you’re an idiot.
As i remember, it was a bunch of kids standing on an bridge that the train runs over. I in fact, remember one kid holding onto the rail as she was hopping up and down with a coke in her other hand.
Stupid Stupid commercial overall tho.
I think it’s a stupid ad, but I don’t think they’re doing anything dangerous. They look to just be on a bridge, pedestrian or otherwise, while a train is going under them.
I recall thinking when I saw it, “yep, that’s how stupid we’ve become, now they have to make sure that the people in ads aren’t doing anything dangerous lest some idiot kill themselves copying it.”
Actually, it’s not being widely publicized but Coke is being forced to run a series of ads portraying young people engaged in dangerous and potentially lethal activities. This resulted from a recently settled lawsuit (Thanos v. Coca-Cola Co) based on their long running “Coke Adds Life” ad campaign and their subsequent failure to present alternative viewpoints. As a result of this settlement, the Coca-Cola Corporation has agreed, without admitted any guilt, to run a new campaign based on the theme “Death Can Be Fun Too”. Within a few months, college test markets will start receiving ads based on the company’s new slogan, “I’m dying for a Coke.”
I got chewed up pretty badly when I tried to re-enact that Mountain Dew commercial-- the one with the cheetah. It seemed so easy in the ad- and so real! :rolleyes:
Boy, God forbid we should lose the ability to discern between reality (that stuff outside the apartment/house) and make-believe (stuff on TV).
Anyone who really does that, and dies as a result, deserves it. Sorry.
It seems to me that there was a thread a month or so ago by a poster whose friend died by jumping off of a railroad bridge to avoid being hit by a train.
I read that too Johnny L.A.
I think that it was one of those train bridges like in the movie “Stand by Me”. I’m almost positive the one in the Coke ad is a pedestrian overpass.
I took a 7-Up vending machine and placed it in the middle lane of southbound Interstate 5.
Sheesh! The Highway Patrol has no appreciation whatsoever for artistic flair. Neither did the Department of Transportation or all those auto insurance companies or the driver of that jacknifed semi. The guy climbed out with a crowbar in hand, screaming his friggin’ lungs out, and I just couldn’t figure out for the life of me what commercial he was reenacting.
Tylenol?
Anyhow, my skull is still broken and it’s LONG past the point at which we should’ve returned to the show. Heyyy, what gives?
That was Jester’s cousin. 
Sigh.
I still don’t understand. What’s a train bridge? you mean- were they standing on one of those tunnels that the train goes through? Because I don’t see why that’s dangerous. Ohh. Wait. You guys mean a bridge, and the train goes right by them?
I don’t think that’s such a horrible commercial. What about those people who go skydiving with sprite cans in hand? They never show us the people who die horribly due to accident. Commercials are supposed to show people doing so called cool things, so we’ll go out and buy the products to become cool ourselves. The element of danger is often considered- Yup- cool. So that’s probably where this came from. The people who make the commercial arent obligated to us- IMO.
Really now, they’re commercials. When they start advertising Soylent Green, give me a call, k? 