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Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia
bol_kernal writes "An award-winning advertisement on Australian TV for the new Hyundai 4WD has been pulled from being broadcast after stations received 80 complaints from concerned parents. The ad consists of a small child, age around 2 years, cruising down the road, window down, arm out the window, in his new Hyundai 4WD. He sees a girl of the same age standing on the side of the road, pulls over picks her up, and they go to the beach together. All in all it's cute, funny, and very well done. The ad aired late in the evening (8:30 pm or later), but it was pulled due to concern from parents about the copycat risk. What I want to know is, where has the responsibility of parents gone? Is the world becoming so serious — or so frightened — that fantasy is no longer allowed?"
Geezus, we even had folks complaining about a *robot* who had a *nightmare* about suicide.
It wasn't sweet, or cute, it was disturbing, and wrong on so many levels... (apparently small, unnaturaly placed children disturb me)
You can learn a lot about a person if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentathol
Hypothesizing about fantasy amounts to fantasizing! I move to have this story removed from /. Sign below.
I always wondered where all the Bush voters came from.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Darn it! I got beat!
Mine's way cooler though: http://youtube.com/watch?v=o1LybpnekIo
Fine, it's actually exactly the same. You'd think I'd have something better to do, but no.
Don't give those crazy 2-year-olds any ideas!
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I think we're all missing the point here, folks! It's not the kids driving and picking up kids, but how they're driving.
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Two-year olds driving, yeah, that's cool, but what if they start acting out what they see on TV and driving on the left side of the road? Trying to steer the car from the passenger side? What kind of example is the media setting for our kids?
Won't someone think of the CHILDREN!
Crazy foreigners, corrupting our American youth...
Yes, I realize non-U.S. citizens read
We had the ad screening here for quite a while in NZ. It's a two year old driving a car, for pete's sake. How can they be worried about copycat crimes? Two year old's still think throwing poo is fun... which it is... but that's beside the point.
First I thought the U.S. was becoming the ultimate pussy nanny-state (oh no, we can't see boobs!).
Now Australia did take their peoples guns away, now they're pulling a commercial we would probably allow in the U.S. Let the race to see who can be the biggest pussy begin! Hey! No running! Somebody might get hurt!
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but what about all those hundreds or thousands of other kids that might be seeing it? I, as an innocent bystander can be driving around minding my own business and get rear ended by a damn 2 year old going to the beach with his girlfriend, all because that ad was on the air.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
To be honest, if you've got kids that age who know how to get into your 4WD, start it up, have the strength to pull the handbrake off, and can drive stick... they should really be in a circus.
Being an Australian is terribly embarrassing. Our accents are horrendous, but they can be very useful. I once stripped the paint off an old truck with just my voice! HAHAHAHA!
Anyway we've done all we can to imitate yanks, so now we must sit back and pray they finally notice us. Then our days of shame will be at an end.
"Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down! Crikey, stone the flameeeeng crows, mate!"
Uh, you know this is /. right? Consider the probability of the posters here having:
1) Being old enough to have had children.
2) Being unselfish enough to have had children.
3) Having had sex.
I mean, read the posts already generated about reasoning with a 2 year old.
So, is this like a DoS attack or what? Put this in terms we can understand!
Toyota voluntarily restricted the airing of the commercial until after 8:30pm in both countries.
Wow! That's very generous of them! Especially since the ad is for Hyundai's product. I wonder why no other company has thought of this before? "In other news, McDonalds has voluntarily restricted the airing of the latest Burger King commercial, citing concerns that people may actually go and eat there."
;) Sorry, just being an ass.
You'd be surprised how easy it is for people to give up TV once they find something better to do.
Yeah. That is a tricky one.
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If there is a 2-year-old out there smart enough to start up a car and drive it to the beach, I say let them go. They've earned it.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
There is always risk. If you or your child can't deal with the risks of the real world, you might as well prepare to face it early. Otherwise you shouldn't even be driving a car.
;)...
This advertisement doesn't really increase the risks significantly at all, since all kids want to pretend to be like mommy/daddy.
Basically, your child is going to copy you and other people. If you do things right, your child will be copying you primarily, doing things right.
I remember pretending to drive a car when I was very very young. And at one point in time I also had a toy steering wheel which I was allowed to use in the car. At no time was I allowed to touch the _real_steering_wheel_, the gear shift, parking brakes or anyone busy driving a car.
Lastly, the chances of dying in life are 100%. So if you are risk averse maybe you should sign up for one of those eternal life assurance deals
Ever stop and thank your parents for putting up with you?
To be fair, the kid is driving like a maniac.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Being a parent doesn't mean you have to be a total asshole, like the strawman you just constructed.
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-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.