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Forklift neepery.
There's a ad campaign aimed at getting people to quit smoking. It shows people doing things that they used do while smoking, but without a cigarette they are comically inept. By the end of the commercial, they are starting to get back in the groove. A good message, and i applaud anything that helps people quit smoking.
But... this commercial features a forklift operator working at what appears to be a garden supply place. He can't control the lift, pushes a pallet of pots off a rack instead of lifting them, etc. At the end, he gingerly puts a pallet with a single ceramic sheep onto a truck bed successfully while the voice-over talks about being able to this without cigarettes means being able to do anything without them.
The problem is this voice over happens as the driver is driving the forklift away from the camera. With the forks raised to chest level. This is a disaster waiting to happen. You always drive a lift with the forks as low a possible. You can kill people with those forks at 5mph.
Just one of those little things. But it should be a lesson to me and all my fiction-writing friends: if you're writing about something that's in real life, or could be related to a real life activity, do your research.
But... this commercial features a forklift operator working at what appears to be a garden supply place. He can't control the lift, pushes a pallet of pots off a rack instead of lifting them, etc. At the end, he gingerly puts a pallet with a single ceramic sheep onto a truck bed successfully while the voice-over talks about being able to this without cigarettes means being able to do anything without them.
The problem is this voice over happens as the driver is driving the forklift away from the camera. With the forks raised to chest level. This is a disaster waiting to happen. You always drive a lift with the forks as low a possible. You can kill people with those forks at 5mph.
Just one of those little things. But it should be a lesson to me and all my fiction-writing friends: if you're writing about something that's in real life, or could be related to a real life activity, do your research.
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Linked, in case you are the last person on the net to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hz1GpFpXA
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That part of the commercial would have bugged me too.