Scary PSA

Good Lord! Is this an outtake from a horror film, or a public-service announcement?

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Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Comments

We actually had a whole series of these ads. They are certainly, um, direct. I prefer that over the PC pussyfooting that you see in some campaigns.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 05/20/09 at 10:29 AM

This is no different than the graphic vehicle crash videos they USED to show in driver's ed.

Posted by Matt in Florida on 05/20/09 at 01:06 PM

Um. Ew. Tell me they didn't run that in the daytime or prime time when kids were watching.

Posted by Nethie on 05/20/09 at 09:25 PM

Actually, these ads did play during prime time. I remember seeing them during commercial breaks in sitcoms. Somehow Friends isn't as funny after you've just seen a woman scald her face off.

(I think Jim has his bad days, but in general he's okay.)

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 05/21/09 at 10:11 AM

Mini Viking--Alex was indeed deleting the spammers, but gave up some time ago.

Posted by Paul on 06/24/09 at 12:25 PM

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