Road Safety is no joke – Road Deaths kill and maim thousands on the roads of South Africa! More that 14,057 people lost their lives on the Roads of South Africa in 2008! In efforts to enhance awareness of Road Safety we have approached well-known celebrities and they have shared their views on road safety on the Celebrity Wall!
We would like to share the views of “Gary the Tooth Fairy”:
“Hello to you, all you amazing, friendly, colourful people of South Africa…and politicians. I’m Bevan Cullinan, stand-up comedian, TV Commercial Director and more recently, MNET’s ‘Gary. The Tooth Fairy’. I’ve made my living over the last 14 years through comedy. I love my job and I love making people laugh. We need to laugh, at ourselves and our ridiculously funny existence amongst all the technology and machines that we have created to make our lives easier.
One thing we can’t laugh at is drunk driving. Because it’s not funny (unless you are a judge). We are bombarded with advertisements every day about the dangers of drinking and driving, but as the world turns, very few of these messages are able to register with us when we’ve had a few. Mainly because of an annoying override switch that alcohol introduces as part of normal rational thought. Life is a very tenuous thing and can end in a flash.
If you drink and drive regularly, you will die. It’s a fact. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that eventually your time will come. It’s a numbers game! And it won’t be a spectacular moment with special effects and a sound track to match like in the movies. It will be the exact opposite, it will be unimpressive, with no sound track and there will be no director and stunt co-ordinator shouting ‘cut, lets reload for another one’. There won’t be another one. That will be it. You will end up as a wet spot that some poor guy has to clean up!
Don’t be regressive, keep yourself alive by opting for the seemingly inconvenient option of a cab! It may be inconvenient and an anti-climax to your evening, but at least it will allow you to be able to give another evening a go! Don’t let this be another random post on a website from a clown. Change your vibe now! Be Cool. Bevan ”
[Gary the Tooth Fairy]
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