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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Billboard by Fictitious 'Funeral Home' Encourages Texting and Driving

A billboard encouraging texting while driving by a fictitious funeral home was unveiled two weeks ago in Toronto, Ontario in Canada as part of an ad campaign to get people to stop texting and driving.

According to Ad Week, the billboard is actually sponsored by the Montreal agency John St and Cieslok Media as an effort to discourage texting and driving.

"People see and hear the words 'Don't text and drive' almost every day, but the number of people doing it keeps going up and up," Ad Week quoted Mylene Savoie, managing director of John St. Montreal, as saying. "So we wanted to think of a different way of saying it that would make people think about the real consequences. Which is where 'Text and drive' came from."

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stupid biotch on the bypass this afternoon needs to figure this one out before she kills someone. Swerving, erratic speed, all while staying in the fast lane as everyone was having to pass on the right.

Anonymous said...

Ignorance is incurable until death occurs. Then, you're cured!