This commercial needs more gore. That will drive the point home. If the child's bottom half had been vaporized, like most mine victims, then it would have been more poignant.

Or better yet, they should have used a bouncin' betty.

Most people will never know the horrors of war, and half wont be able think about the horrors of war.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Benny-Hill-Makes-Any-Thing-Funny-Dark

Making dark videos even darker.

I dunno why, but I couldn't stop laughing.

rgroom1, where do you get your landmines? I've been paying upwards of $4 per mine, but i'm looking for a new guy.
if you wouldn't mind sharing, shoot me up at lmao@80centlandmines.org

>> ^CaptainPlanet:
rgroom1, where do you get your landmines? I've been paying upwards of $4 per mine, but i'm looking for a new guy.
if you wouldn't mind sharing, shoot me up at lmao@80centlandmines.org


I've got a hook-up south of the border. I've sent you the number.
fyi: I was quoting the youtube description, but the first source i found said $3 per mine, so you're still getting ripped.

dark* anyone?

I'm not sure which figure is more bogus. The 80 cents or the $1,000.

>> ^Sniper007:
I'm not sure which figure is more bogus. The 80 cents or the $1,000.


Neither figure is significantly exaggerated.

"Perhaps 110 million mines lurk in 64 nations around the world, and each year they kill or maim about 30,000 people, usually civilians. The heaviest concentrations of mines are in poor countries like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Angola that have survived years or even decades of civil war. Five million new mines are laid each year, and only 100,000 are cleared. A new mine costs $3; uprooting one costs between $200 and $1,000."

But the numbers might have changed since this 1996 Time Magazine article. I don't know if the "butterfly" landmines that this man talks about are newer or cheaper then the $3.00 price that the 1996 article cites.

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Adding video to channels (Love) - requested by Eklek.

The whole thing just seems so over dramatized. How is there an untripped mine on a football field? I don't mind PSA's of this nature, but I don't like my heart strings being forced in a particular direction from some crappy over dramitasation about an event that would never happen. People get hit with mines in 3rd world countries, I get it, I don't need to see some soccer moms screaming over their child's legs getting blow off on the same tract of land that gets moved ever week. It is the advertising equivalent of a cry track. Don't tell me how to feel, just tell me what the problem is and I will decide that.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
The whole thing just seems so over dramatized. How is there an untripped mine on a football field? I don't mind PSA's of this nature, but I don't like my heart strings being forced in a particular direction from some crappy over dramitasation about an event that would never happen. People get hit with mines in 3rd world countries, I get it, I don't need to see some soccer moms screaming over their child's legs getting blow off on the same tract of land that gets moved ever week. It is the advertising equivalent of a cry track. Don't tell me how to feel, just tell me what the problem is and I will decide that.


That's the whole point - the average person can't imagine what it's like to lose a kid to a landmine at random and that's what happens in the 3rd world - it's usually playing kids that randomly just blow up. That wasn't dramatized at all.

IF ANYTHING they took it easy. Try reading about what Boucing Betty landmines do. All the girls on the field would have been killed and most of the parents.
http://www.comebackalive.com/df/landmine/workings.htm

They might as well have said that "landmines can costs as little as $0.01 to purchase." If they were trying to come up with some reasonable reliable numbers, $0.80 was about 300% off the mark according to most reports posted here. Also, they video description says that it costs "about $1,000 to TRAIN SOMEONE to remove them." It doesn't say that it costs $1,000 to remove ONE.

And why does it cost $1,000? Who is that money going to? The UN? Since when did they become the ones who are responsible to remove land mines from the face of the earth?

Also, if I owned some property that could at all have any probability of containing land mines, I would freaking teach myself how to remove them. Then the only cost would be in time and effort to scour the land (dependent upon how much land I owned).

Oh, and the landmine isn't the criminal. It's the MAN who PLANTED the landmine, and ONLY insofar as he planted it in such a way as to harm someone who did not deserve it.