Does anyone else remember?

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Those awful fire safety and road safety adverts when I was growing up in the early 2000s? I used to have awful nightmares from them and am fairly sure they must have gotten complaints from others as well, because they haven’t been on the TV for years! Yes they told a tough love message but they were just too much.🙁

@Moier I've met David Prowse too. He lived along the road from my primary school in Southmead, Bristol. He was a regular visitor to the school during the Green Cross Code man years and was on good terms with the headmistress.

Am I imagining one about quicksand? I've always had a fear of suddenly finding myself in quicksand (not very likely 😂), and I'm sure it's something to do with one of those public information adverts.

I can't find a quicksand one. There is one about drowning in grain silos though.

Probably mixing it up with the fear of when atrayu the horse died in the quicksand in Never Ending Story ( lol )
So many scary 80’s memories , if it wasn’t the public information films it was the actual kids films 🤣

I think there is quicksand in the children’s film Return to Oz. That is a scary film!

I remember this so clearly. It really stresses me out when we're at the in laws, as they keep the keys away from the doors and windows due to their fear of burglary.

The rear seatbelts one was memorable, I wish they'd show it in the country I live in now 😡

There was a drink driving one from the 90s (I think) with the Mungo Jerry 'In The Summertime' song, I still can't listen to that song without remembering that campaign so it was obviously very effective!

They still show that one but at least now its after the watershed

NI ones are viscious , esp the ones of real parents talking about their children's last car journey

I am working my way through the 6 and half hour PSA video I posted about, and so many here have been shown
Lots I have not seen too.

We were showed one about a kid playing on railway ones and he got his feet chopped off by a train. Absolutely terrified me. Had nightmares about it..

Yes, when the song went "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find" it showed the bloody aftermath of a car accident.

I am sure there was one about burnt sausages on a BBQ still being raw inside 😂 I can't eat BBQ sausages still today!

I had a real fear of house fires as a child. Something to do with these adverts and also doing the fire safety badge at brownies. I used to pray every night there wouldn't be a fire. It would have been madly unlikely considering my parents didn't smoke, not did they use candles, or have a chip pan!

There were sausages on the barbecue! The music was 'When will I see you again?' and the caption was along the lines of sooner than you think if you don't cook them properly.

Here are the sausages!

Traumatised 😂
We need more of these terrifying adverts.

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think "trespassers on the line" is sometimes a euphemism for someone threatening to jump off a bridge 😓

the traintrack one?
I remember the one where a kid retrieved his dad's camera that bullies had thrown into an electric box place (he had to climb over a high wall or fence to get in) he was electrocuted to death and his friend who was peeping through a hole in the fence was blinded in one eye because of it.

I think they were good- I was terrified and couldn't sleep for years (scared child anyway) but it made me realise that My mom and dad would rather me be alive. We were a working class family so borrowing something expensive like a camera... I might have jumped over to get it myself rather than be in trouble. I distinctly remember sitting quietly when all the other children were saying they wouldn't jump over because I'd have got a smacked arse.

also that Coldplay video where she dies in a carcrash because she took off her seatbelt to take her jacket off. you need to learn these lessons I think! all for it!

I had a massive fear of house fires for years after watching an episode of 999 Lifesavers!

Does anyone remember the game app Dumb Ways to Die? I think it originally started as a TV ad from the Aussie trains board. Really good bit of marketing!

Eta it was Australia, not NZ. Here are the lyrics:

Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that's out of date
Use your private parts as Piranha bait

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die

Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach your self how to fly
Eat a two-week-old unrefrigerated pie

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die

Invite a psycho killer inside
Scratch a drug dealer's brand-new ride
Take your helmet off in outer space
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die

Keep a rattle snake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue
I wonder, what's this red button do?

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die

Dress up like a moose during hunting season
Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason
Stand on the edge of a train station platform
Drive around the boom gates at a level crossing
Run across the tracks between the platforms
They may not rhyme, but they're quite possibly

The dumbest ways to die
The dumbest ways to die
Dumbest ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb
So many dumb ways to die

I still won't handle sparklers because of one such advert.
I also would rather walk across a bridge than walk across the Trainline at the pedestrian and road crossing because of adverts about how dangerous the railway is.

My dad worked for an electric company and used to give the school the latest horror film to show children just before the holidays on the dangers of electricity

It definitely felt like everything was out to kill or maim you in the 80s/90s. No wonder so many of us Millennials have anxiety 😂

"That's Life" (which was an odd mix of consumer horror stories and viewers sending in photos of suggestively-shaped carrots, shown on Sunday nights in the 70s/80s) did a feature on carbon monoxide poisoning from open-flue boilers which scared the life out of me. Imagine my horror when, that summer, we stayed in a holiday cottage that had exactly the same model of boiler in it that had been featured in the story. I drove my parents mad by wanting all the doors and windows left open!

Julie knew her killer and the sparklers on are the two that really stuck with me, the former always comes to mind whenever I get in the backseat of a car to this day. So they did a good job with me!
Also 999, to this day I still have ‘the fear’ if I’m near a level crossing or a javelin!
And also not the same but I do have a healthy fear of paintballing from Byker Grove!

Tame compared with the 70s and 80s

Yeah that was awful i had to switch it off when it came on.

Is that an American one?