[supafamous]

I thought the ad was total bullshit and Richmond RCMP isn't the first police department to produce videos like this where the law abiding person is considered equally at fault for something that's entirely the fault of the driver. This ad was a victim blaming ad - the earphones and the hoodie were the equivalent of telling a rape victim they were asking for it because they wore sexy clothes.

Should pedestrians pay attention to their surroundings because drivers are sometimes idiots? Of course but they won't produce an ad showing a pedestrian paying attention and yielding to idiot drivers. The only way the ad here works is to victim blame.

The ad that should have been produced is the inattentive driver killing a pedestrian and doing hard time not the ad that blamed the pedestrian for the driver's behaviour.