Dumb Ways To Die

Dumb Ways To Die Video

Metro, the company that provides Melbourne with its trains, recently made this ad campaign 'Dumb Ways To Die'. The full video is above, but there's also posters at most major train stations, using part of the song and ending with a message about train safety.

For example, there's this one at St. Albans train station. 

Get your toast out with a fork

Do your own electrical work

Keep a rattlesnake as a pet

Skate the platform edge on a bet

And this is one of the many at Melbourne Central station.

Take your helmet off in outer space

Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place

Use your private parts as piranha bait

Run across train tracks 'cause you're late 

The main message of the campaign is that, while there are many dumb ways to die, perhaps the dumbest ways to die involve being unsafe around trains. Standing on the edge of train station platforms, driving around boom gates at level crossings, and running across train tracks. 

So, why am I putting this up on my blog?

For the first, that video made me chuckle, but the main reason is that I agree with Metro. Your chances of surviving if you're hit by a train are very, very slim, and most of these deaths are the results of 'stupids' rather than true 'accidents'.

So, please, be safe around trains.

~ Australian Kiwi