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The evil new hummer commercials
by aaaa Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2006 at 8:48 PM

The danger presented to all bicyclists by the new evil hummer commercials

I normally would not attempt to post a story here, since for the most part I doubt that it would ever be accepted, me be a conservative, but at the same time I am a car free biker, and this affects both me and some of the people that read this site.

The other day I saw some new commercials for hummers, and one made my blood boil with anger. The first one was no big deal, all it did was claim one is not a man if one does not own a hummer. The one that pissed me off was one where it implied that you would own the road and every one would have to get out of your way if you owned a hummer.

For a better discription I grabbed this from http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2437&get=last
"In it, these two moms are on the playground, and the one mom doesn't want her kid playing with the other mom's kid for some reason. (I was only half watching...) Suddenly, "loser mom" grabs the kid off the playground, rushes down to the local Hummer dealership, signs the papers for a brand new Hummer (No, this mom doesn't need hubby's permission, she just signs on the dotted line and goes...), and heads back to the playground. The slogan comes up: "Get Your Girl Out." "

I feel that this could be a danger to people on bikes as people that have overly big gas guzzinlilng SUVs will believe it is ok to run people in smaller cars and bikes off the road, I have already seen (experienced) this happening.