{"id":3125,"date":"2012-11-19T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:01:10","slug":"dumb-ways-to-die-metro-trains-melbourne-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/dumb-ways-to-die-metro-trains-melbourne-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb ways to die &#8211; Metro Trains Melbourne PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This PSA from Metro Trains Melbourne playfully explains that there are many dumb ways to die &#8211; setting fire to your hair, taking your \u00a0helmet off in outer space, or mucking about on train tracks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3126\" title=\"Dumb Ways to Die\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dumb-ways-to-die.jpg\" alt=\"Dumb Ways to Die\" width=\"638\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dumb-ways-to-die.jpg 638w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dumb-ways-to-die-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dumb-ways-to-die-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just look at these poor saps. Each one has died a gruesome (and entirely avoidable) death, and there they are, dancing about. Cautionary tales get the Mr. Men treatment. \u00a0There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/takalak.narod.ru\/gorey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gashylcrumb Tinies<\/a> &#8211; esque morbid humour at work here but the drawing style by animator <a href=\"http:\/\/julianfrost.co.nz\/things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Frost<\/a>\u00a0for agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McCannANZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McCann Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0is as cute and playful as the song by Tangerine Kitty accompanying the video. Very catchy, fun, and it gets the point across. I wonder if a simple &#8220;WARNING $500 FINE FOR CROSSING TRACKS&#8221; sign wouldn&#8217;t be more effective, but then I wouldn&#8217;t get to enjoy this fun video of things I should know enough not to do&#8230; though I have been known to make wiring repairs around the house and the place hasn&#8217;t burned down yet.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJNR2EpS0jw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This PSA from Metro Trains Melbourne playfully explains that there are many dumb ways to die &#8211; setting fire to your hair, taking your \u00a0helmet off in outer space, or mucking about on train tracks. Just look at these poor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[242],"tags":[140,662,658,659,661,656,657,660],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-2","tag-animation","tag-australian-ads","tag-dumb-ways-to-die","tag-julian-frost","tag-melbourne-mccann","tag-metro-trains-melbourne","tag-psa","tag-tangerine-kitty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-Op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}