{"id":2048,"date":"2007-06-26T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:55:10","slug":"sexual-innuendo-anti-speed-racing-ads-safer-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/06\/26\/sexual-innuendo-anti-speed-racing-ads-safer-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Innuendo + Anti-Speed Racing Ads = Safer Pedestrians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rta.nsw.gov.au\/images\/homepageimages\/pinkie260x252.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6240288.stm\">an interesting approach to reducing speed racing<\/a> &#8212; and making streets safer for pedestrians &#8212; from the land downunda. It involves female characters observing speed-racing men, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rta.nsw.gov.au\/roadsafety\/advertisingcampaigns\/speeding_pinkie.html?hhid=pinkie\">and then insinuating that they have inferior subzipper equipment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, turning to questions of manhood is &#8220;big guns&#8221; for Australia&#8217;s anti-speeding admen. The dramatic, graphic, violent ads they had previously been running to stop speeding deaths just weren&#8217;t working on the vastly Grand-Theft-Auto-friendly contingent of young dudes out there. So who knows? If sex sells, perhaps the threat of no sex sells even better.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you more interested in automotive insults of the &#8220;sticks and stones&#8221; variety, Toronto\/Berlin based artist Anitra Hamilton is having a public art experience tomorrow (Wednesday) night that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercerunion.org\/news.asp?\">invites blindfolded members of the public to bash a gussied-up auto with sledgehammers<\/a>. Bring your anti-car angst to MOCCA&#8217;s courtyard at 8pm to participate in the work, appropriately entitled <em>Beater<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rta.nsw.gov.au\/\">RTA<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across an interesting approach to reducing speed racing &#8212; and making streets safer for pedestrians &#8212; from the land downunda. It involves female characters observing speed-racing men, and then insinuating that they have inferior subzipper equipment. 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