Pinky ad ’causes’ Road Rage
October 31, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
The New South Wales Road and Traffic Authority’s (RTA) ‘if you drive a performance car than you have a small penis ‘ advertising campaign has finally driven a motorist mad.
Back in August, a female driver made the “small penis” hand gesture to Simon Jardak who was so enraged that he throw a bottle at the woman’s car!
Don’t remember the ad? Here it is again.
Interestingly, residing Magistrate Bill Bryden told Mr Simon the hand gesture was not appropriate, but obviously it was not an excuse to throw a bottle out of his window.
“I’m not saying in any way that (the hand gesture) was justified, (but) too often we see people who are reckless with their actions” Mr Bryden said.
During our testing of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage in Sydney, we encountered countless motorists seemingly giving us the pinky because we were in a car that embodied power, beauty and soul (and perhaps a lot of noise). Although for every wannabe-Greenpeace driver in a Prius, many others gave us the nod of approval.
Unfortunately, the RTA believes the campaign has been so successful that it is bound to stick around for a while yet.
Print it: 
Don’t really care if people do this. They’d change their mind if they saw it for real. Of course, the ole middle finger will suffice.
Jealousy’s a curse.
Someone did it to me (in my 95 Astina) on a highway. I was doing 90, they overtook me doing 100 and then they did it to me. Wait what? A P plater doing his speed limit? What a revhead.
# Bavarian Missile Says:
November 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Wouldn\’t this sort of advertising cause road rage?
Hey KC how was Cairns?????
I never went to cairns?
KC, I think she thought you were Naughtyius Maximus, because his name used to be ‘KFC’ and your name’s ‘KC’.
True…..I did.!
LOL! I had a sudden Laugh when I saw “True…..I did.!”
BM… to quote Derryn Hinch “Shame shame shame” as KC is someone else. Cairns to sum in one word : MEGA-BLOODY-HOT-AND-BAD-AS-NO-BEACHES-TO-SWIM-AT.
Have to upgrade ketch and fix hull, about $24G
Missile…as your a girl I cannot say you were firing blanks. LOL cracked up when I seen it! HA
OH………so you didn’t go diving? Did you wife have fun getting back to nature?? Lucky lady!
Whats it made out of? Did you give it a good clean,I guess you did to take a look! You have cracks in it?
Good to have you back,your side kick missed you too!
No diving as too busy sampling every speck of land with plonk in one hand over dinner and in other hand was heap of crap steering wheel being on trusty Toyota 2.4lt Campervan that rattled, squeaked and its gearbox was worse the a hotted up Mahindra Pikup on a hot day in Bombay where it would struggle with moving forward in 55C temperatures and in excess of 6000% humidity. The Toyota had 68000kms and we swapped it for a giant Ford Transit that you could fit 4 football fields in!
Ketch made of of steel and had to go through and analysis what to do so as less maintenance problems in future as only got it some months back. Fitting radar, wind generator, LCD / DVD combo TV, Fridge, air con, new cushions, new timber floor, and fixing hull. So when done is worth some $100K. Bloody huge inside – 46ft long and beam is just 13ft 6in.
….footnote> after swearing and cursing at Toyota van and having problems with wiper blade in rain (after some working the end of passenger side wiper arm would just curl up and off windscreen), gearbox was the last straw and the rattles that forced us to turn on stereo and listen to music (i.e. not JUSTIN FREAKIN TIMBERLAKE either); well can tell you I drove it back as sick of it. Toyota Reliability in this case was optional extra! LOL
Thanks. Side kick…which Ford Fan would that be?
Goes to show how good Toyota is …YES PAUL!
Cool…was worried it would be Paul.
Oh yeah I recon the hundreds of surveys conducted are wrong… Ford is #1 in reliability
Great name change dude
WHATS YOUR POINT ABOUT RELIABILITY? You keep saying it all the time. YOU NEVER SAY WHAT YOUR POINT IS.
Make a spoof of my name and i’ll do it to you!
That name was too long. I’m right now?
YES, I’M ****ING READY FOR YOU PAUL :( NO COMMENT BACK. YOU MOCKED MY NAME SO I’LL MOCK YOURS!
Your name change lacks any originality Im afraid, mine was actually funny
^But mine is Better! :P
Good name there, Going Ford!! That a name that should help shut-up the idiot here :)
Yeah awesome name… very original, not a rip off
glad to be off nsw p1’s soon.
going to transfer to interstate p’s off a relos address.
nsw p’s are too restrictive, ads like this show rta is not interested in helping people (how can the pinky action help people?). Employ some better ad agency please rta.
Love it! It’s not about WHAT you drive, it’s about HOW you drive. Jerks who drive like jerks are, well, jerks.
Do the advertising agencies think that by demeaning men they can get their message across? No, instead what you get is huge billboards across highways saying “its ok to demean men and insinuate that they have small penises, and if they DO happen to have a small penis – then they are bad, or at worst losers”. I simply can’t believe that this kind of psychological attack made it through the sense-checking processes – assuming of course, that there was any sense-checking, because on evidence, one could argue that it was sorely lacking.
The campaign needs to be pulled before further damage occurs.