Dispensary Corner 12 Jun 14
June 12, 2014
PSA of a different kind.
Not the Pharmaceutical Society
of Australia but a Public Service
Announcement - Volkswagen has
released a pretty clever and pretty
spooky PSA about texting and
driving.
In the short clip, movie goers
in Hong Kong settle down for the
film, first watching what looks like
a car advertisement play onscreen
for a while.
Volkswagen sends a “location
based text” in the cinema and
people swoop to check their
phones - only to look up at the
moment the car swerves off the
road and crashes.
It’s an effective way to remind
people to keep their, as the PSA is
called, Eyes on the Road.
It’s worth noting however, as
Yahoo News points out, that
it’s unclear whether these are
unsuspecting movie goers as the
PSA claims or whether they are in
on the whole thing.
View the PSA HERE.
BEARD you didn’t think it.
If you’re a pharmacist working in
a hospital who’s thinking of what
they can do for charity, here’s
one for you - the Reverend Ken
Gehling shaved off his beard of 32
years after hospital staff at Mercy
Medical Centre - North Iowa
surpassed their goal of collecting
more than 750 pounds of food
for a food bank, Associated Press
reported.
Gehling quipped the shave,
which took off his moustache as
well, was like the electric chair but
said he was just happy the team
had collected so much food, the
AP reported.
THE size of an elephant.
Poor old Tess - the pregnant
Asian elephant in Houston has
been put on a weight loss and
exercise regimen to help her
lose 228kg in time for delivery of
her calf in about a year, Reuters
reported.
About 6% overweight, if she got
larger, she might have trouble
giving birth, the publication said.
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