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China's safety video makes "Dumb Ways to Die" look like child's play
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China's safety video makes "Dumb Ways to Die" look like child's play

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 11, 2024
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Remember 2012's "Dumb Ways to Die?" It's an animated video created by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, to promote railway safety. With a catchy song and whimsical scenes of cute cartoon characters setting fire to their hair, poking a stick at a grizzly bear, eating expired medicine, and using private parts as piranha bait, the vid…

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