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New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-it-rains-it-gores dept.

Officials in Papakura, New Zealand have come up with a billboard that bleeds when it rains. They hope it will encourage drivers to slow down when the weather makes conditions dangerous. Since the billboards have been erected, there hasn't been a fatal accident in the area.

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  1. Supernaturally effective by Bovius · · Score: 4, Funny

    The power of advertising compels you! To drive safely!

  2. In the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...we ought to erect a similar billboard that shits when politicians do ANYTHING.

  3. How soon before... by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    someone sees Jesus in one of the billboards?

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  4. Zero of nothing by Shihar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since the billboards have been erected, there hasn't been a fatal accident in the area.

    Of course, being New Zealand, since the billboard was erected there have not been any cars there either.

  5. How Long? by sycodon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until someone crashes while gawking at the bleeding billboards?

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  6. If you want to get people to slow down in the rain by gurps_npc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put an electronic headline news billboard up. Then when it rains, put a fake headline like "Be on the look out for a nude 20 year old girl on Highway 3" I assure you, all the men will slow down and be on the look out for her.

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  7. Rain isn't causing those accidents by redshirt · · Score: 5, Funny

    After watching the video, the real cause of accidents is clear: they drive on the wrong side of the road!

  8. Re:I could be wrong here... by oldspewey · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I don't think it's really blood.

    In related news, the New Zealand Health Bureau has stepped up calls for donors in the midst of what is being called "the greatest blood shortage crisis our nation has ever known."

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  9. Correlation is not causation by Tyler+Durden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should we accept that the rain causes the billboard to bleed? Perhaps the bleeding of the billboard causes the rain...

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