Wear your seatbelt

[Carly_Roach]

Ok. Those who know me know that I detest glurge. Hate it with a passion.

So when I received the following from my mother, I rolled my eyes extraordinaire and finally clicked on the link to watch the video...

....and then had to shut the door to my office because I was tearing up.

We have seat-belt laws in Michigan, however the video is still very touching. Enjoy.

This is the new "wear your seat belt" ad the UK is doing started by some guy (not hired to do it), but because it is important to him, he came up with this idea, and now it's being hailed across the world as a 'beautiful' commercial.

And now the video has become so popular with the general public that people are forwarding it to friends/family on their own so quickly that it has spread all over the world in a very short time.


Click Here http://embracethis.co.uk/

 

[Robinrs]

omG that was just beautiful...

 

[JessicaR]

I have seen this many times. I think it gets the point across rather sweetly. This is the video that was shown to my sons senior class. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qhmdk4VNs

 

[Robinrs]

I have seen this many times. I think it gets the point across rather sweetly. This is the video that was shown to my sons senior class. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qhmdk4VNs

 

[LuvOrlando]

WOW, those were powerful.

 

[WDSearcher]

A bit OT but ... it's interesting to me how much of an impact music has. When I watched the video for the first time, I didn't have audio -- some glitch somewhere. It was interesting, but not particularly impactful. I watched it again once the audio was up. ENTIRELY different experience!

 

[JessicaR]

I know right!?! I sat through this seminar with him slightlly hysterical as a half a dozen parents got up to speak that lost their children because they werent wearing seatbelts.

 

[Carly_Roach]

A bit OT but ... it's interesting to me how much of an impact music has. When I watched the video for the first time, I didn't have audio -- some glitch somewhere. It was interesting, but not particularly impactful. I watched it again once the audio was up. ENTIRELY different experience!

Yeah, I think it was the music that did me in, too.

 

[Carly_Roach]

I have seen this many times. I think it gets the point across rather sweetly. This is the video that was shown to my sons senior class. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qhmdk4VNs

I prefer the first one. Not as gory.

 

[JessicaR]

I prefer the first one. Not as gory.

Of course you do. Thats pretty much the point.

 

[minkydog]

I am a huge proponent of seatbelts. All one has to do is spend a few overnights in an ER to see the carnage wrought on those who turn into human missiles during a wreck. And that goes double in a pediatric ER.

Having recently experienced a horrid rollover I will attest to the miracle of seatbelts. It happens so fast and the G-forces are so tremendous that there is no holding yourself back. You are at the mercy of the accident. If not for seatbelts my children, as well as DH & I, would surely have been thrown from the car. As it was, we all received minor injuries and walked away from the accident. Seat belts saved our lives.

 

[SAHDad]

My hs driving insutrctor told us that we didn't have to wear a seatbelt - we could catch ourselves with our hands.


And then he added that it would be no harder than trying to catch a 50 lb back of cement, dropped from the roof of the school (some 4 stories up).

He was a master of sarcasm and understatement.

 

[AlleyKat]

Wow...genius at its simplest!

 

[hereyago]

The first one was so touching.

The second did it's job of portraying accurately how someone who isn't wearing one can flop around and hurt everyone else.

In high school, we had re enactments for both drunk driving and not wearing seat belt. Mock accidents.

In Driver's Ed-class portion, we actually had lap belts attached to our desks. That was the beginning of me wearing them, my family never wore them, but after taking the course, we all did. A year later, I would be in my first major accident, which I spent 8 days in the hospital. I would hate to think if I didn't have it on.

Minkydog- DANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your accident pics!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Robinrs]

My hs driving insutrctor told us that we didn't have to wear a seatbelt - we could catch ourselves with our hands.


And then he added that it would be no harder than trying to catch a 50 lb back of cement, dropped from the roof of the school (some 4 stories up).

He was a master of sarcasm and understatement.

Awesome.

I had a rear end accident that hurt my shoulder BAD. I had surgery and then therapy on it. One of my therapists was able to tell me from my injury where I sat in the car, where my seatbelt was and how fast the other car was going!

I asked her how would I have been injured if I didn't have my seatbelt on. She just looked me straight in the eye and said "we wouldn't be having this conversation."



Wow.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Wow...genius at its simplest!

I think that's why this one touched me so deeply. When I got the email from Mom, my first thought was, "Oh great. It's going to be either a glurgy, sloppy-sweet story about life...what a precious thing... or another gory, violent 'message' video about wearing seatbelts. I don't need to see any more of those". But then I scrolled down to see who started this latest mess making the rounds of my family and found that it came from my cousin in AZ who detests glurge as much as I do. So I risked it and clicked the link.

The video I posted was done very beautifully; very tastefully; very artistically. Or, as AlleyKat says above, genious at its simplest.

The UK video isn't targetting a teen audience who's just learning how to drive and who seem to need the impact of blood, gore and death to understand the necessity of wearing seatbelts. The UK video is a beautiful message to a mature audience who can appreciate both the message AND the artistry of the video.

I didn't mean to start a thread about who has the most graphic video or make this into a contest. I just wanted to share something that I thought was beautiful.

 

[JessicaR]

I am a huge proponent of seatbelts. Seat belts saved our lives.

Thank God! So glad you are all OK.

 

[JessicaR]

I didn't mean to start a thread about who has the most graphic video or make this into a contest. I just wanted to share something that I thought was beautiful.

Sorry thats what you're thinking. My thought is whatever makes an impact and works to save lives is a positive. Don't turn it into a contest when it doesnt have to be.

 

[minkydog]

Awesome.

I had a rear end accident that hurt my shoulder BAD. I had surgery and then therapy on it. One of my therapists was able to tell me from my injury where I sat in the car, where my seatbelt was and how fast the other car was going!

I asked her how would I have been injured if I didn't have my seatbelt on. She just looked me straight in the eye and said "we wouldn't be having this conversation."



Wow.

I know just what you mean. I suffered pretty bad whiplash in our rollover and severe bruising to the right shoulder with minor separation. I couldn't even hold my purse in my right hand or open a car door! I just finished up 3 months of PT with great results.

My PT said it was nothing short of amazing that I wasn't more seriously injured. And she also confirmed, as your PT did, that I would not have survived the accident without the seatbelt.

 

[Trish Bessette]

The first one was shown in my daughters drivers ed class