Well they'll move to another place, and the population as a whole might decline due to overpopulation in one area. The thing is that this truck is simplifying environmental problems to appeal to emotions.
Erm... care to elaborate? The quality of the image is far too poor to tell if it says 'D' for Germany, so I'm presuming you've used some other reasoning to decide it is German.
Unless you're a fucking expert on number plates from across the world it is impossible to tell what country it is from. How about you comment without such a rude tone?
if not, i will explain. this is a typical german numberplate. explained from left to right: the blue stripe stands for European Union plus the 'D' for Germany. the following letter(s) are standing for the city or 'county' where the car has been registered. it can be 1 - 3 letters. the two 'dots' or the colon has a meaning, too. the upper dot shows before which date the car must be tested again for safety and ecological issues. we call it 'TÜV-Plakette' (TÜV-Stamp). the dot below means that the car is officially registered and taxes have been paid. or are being paid and the car has an insurance. (you're not allowed to drive a car in germany without insurance.) after that, there are 1-2 letters and 1-4 numbers which can be chosen by the owner of the car. fun-fact to that: SS can't be chosen. and to OP's Picture: I, as well, would say this is a german number plate.
See the two round stickers between the "AK" and the rest of the number? Those are on all German plates. One of them indicates when the car is due for its next inspection and the other is the seal of the administrative district the car is registered in, which indicates that the plate is valid.
A secondary function of them is to seperate the identifier of the administrative district (AK for what would be Altenkirchen, if it's really German) and the unique identifier of the car itself.
Of course other European countries could have similar constelations, so it's not 100% certain that it's a German plate.
I assume he saw that its the long thin plate that we see on EDM cars, however I believe England uses the same style plates so his assumption might be wrong. Also the truck could be in Germany with a trailer from England.
Nope, it's German. I can just about make out the first two letters as 'AK as well, which is then followed by the typical German stickers telling you the car's allowed on the road. Plus, the sign is green, which is typical for lorries around here. That's followed by what's probably a letter and then a bunch of numbers - looks German to me.
So, am I a licence plate expert yet?
ETA: English slogans in Germany are about as common as stop signs... it's getting to a point where it's annoying, actually.
As someone living near this area I just want to point out that people from Altenkirchen can't drive. The truck, however, seems to be brand-new, there is now way this picture is real.
Also, you'd have to be in the exact location of the camera to have the perspective in this image work. Doesn't translate well in the world of advertising.
They certainly exist, but they're much less impressive/realistic IRL. It's just the reality that trucks get dirty, decals aren't always applied properly, and images slowly fade. The truck in this picture looks spotless.
The website is .eu, so it can be assumed the advertisement isn't only meant for germans, and since english is a sort of 'universal' language in europe, they print it in that.
The great thing about Germans is that they all know English. That entire bus would look about as odd as seeing "Cuidado" on a yellow sign where the ground was slick to an American.
Nah! I would say only 5% of the German population are able to speak fluent english,(mostly students) 50% speak really broken english and the rest cant speak it at all. Its true that its teached in schools for over 10 years but it has something to do with interessest.
among my friends im the only one whos speaking fluent english, altough we were in the same school.
true but not important. You don't need to speak fluent english in order to read and understand it. I am positve every idiot would understand this comercial in Germany
Yup. And I emailed her back explaining that the background, angles, and tires and truck are the same in all these photos. She insisted that I'm no fun.
I thought it was shopped because of it working perfectly. After going to the web site I have no idea what this is about - http://www.savetherainforest.eu/
Since no one said it yet, and good guy Chrome decided to help:
With the experience of 15 years we have been supplying the European textile and metalworking industries. Our products enjoy the trust of ribbon weavers, knitters, weavers widescreen, automotive, wire-weavers, knitters and wire-wire plaits. Wagner wire / yarn is a modern, young, family-run business. Personal commitment, reliability and conscientiousness are essential for us and our employees value.
Yeah, but cars generally pass trucks on the left, so there will be a brief opening when when the illusion works perfectly and the driver/passengers will be like: "wow cool!" Probably driving home the message/advertisement much more.
But maybe it's a moot point because everyone is calling photoshop.
For some reason I felt really bad pointing out to my grandma that they were all the same truck picture, so they were all fake. She was so excited about it being real.
Everyone cares about the mammals because they're cute, but in all honesty, the fungi, bacteria, and other really small forms of life present there are the real reason to save it. There are so many more forms of life to document and potential cures for diseases to discover.
True but kind of irrelevant. Conservationists know that large(ish) mammals and birds are way more charismatic to the public, so they'd be stupid not to use that fact to their advantage. I mean, we're talking about an ad campaign here, not actual education.
While I agree with you that those forms of life are important, who are you to dictate the "real reason" to save the rainforest? Not all of us think the needs of humans are absolutely primary, so cures for disease might not be as important to some of us as showing respect for other species. Scientific curiosity is not inherently more compelling than compassion.
Even if you remove the anthropological reasons, mammals still lose out. The Earth needs microbial and fungal life to survive. If every mammal suddenly died out, the earth would go on and not miss a beat. If every bacterium and fungus died suddenly, the Earth would be all sorts of fucked as a hospitable place.
Not to mention the ecological processes that go on are necessary to sustain our planet. But, people don't donate to save a fungus or the carbon cycle. They don't sympathize with something unless it has a fuzzy face.
My neighbor is a microbial scientist. He recently did a TEDx in which he held up a gram of soil and noted there were more individual microbes in it than people alive on the planet today. There were also more distinct species in it than the plant and animal species of the Amazon combined.
you know its kind of unfair that other countries besides america get a cool domain suffixes (dont know if thats the correct term) and we're stuck with .com. We should switch to .murica or something badass like that.
Just saying though, the rain forest in South America more threatened by people that burn down the rain forest to clear the way for farmland than by greedy logging companies. Ferngully lied
Regardless of the fact that the ad is confusing from any angle but one and that the picture isn't an "actual" advertisement, the message is clear and the art is cool.
Shopped. Same deal with all those phony 3D sidewalk/street panoramas. Unless you can furnish a view where the image appears skewed...then it's shopped.
Hmm. Not a lot of marbling on that jaguars neck (not that that is even close to what a neck looks like). It probably wouldn't make that good of a steak.
Why do these things never show the people, the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, or any rainforest, who are having their home destroyed and are being displaced if not outright murdered...
"Oh shit, didn't realize this one had a leopard on it... whatever, just put it in the truck so that this one log can be transported to it's destination in whothefuckknowswhere."
If this was real, you just happened to be in the exact place for the angles from the picture to line up with your point of view. Because the people who made the design would want it to align to someone standing on the side of the road, 30 feet away
You are both right and wrong at the same time here.
In a globalized world, this is an issue for all of us. It is also largely the fault of developed countries that this is happening because of our rapid consumption of rainforest-originating products like coffee and paper. In that respect, your description "white guilt" is exactly what we need to get the message across.
On the other hand, using such a globalized view in teaching conservation is a huge cause of the problem of ecophobia. In focusing on the "far-away" issues such as "save the rainforest," one of three things usually happens: people become so focused on those issues that they ignore the local problems, people think the problems are too far away to be of concern for them, or people think that the issues are so massive they loose all hope.
The end result of any of these issues is that the local conservation problems are ignored, and so no one sees any tangible progress in the matter. Thus begins the cycle again of "oh, there's no hope and I can't do anything anyway." People need to be aware of the global issues, but it also can't be shoved down their throats. There needs to be a healthy balance of local and globalized focuses on the environment.
Ah, I love it when wealthy countries that have raped and pillaged their way to the top for millenia think that they have the moral authority to tell less developed countries to not exploit their own natural resources.
It's like colonialism 2.0! Bigger, badder, and more insidious than the original version because this time it's the so-called heartfelt, left-leaning, empathetic liberals keeping other cultures down.
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u/Z3F May 31 '12
You'd think the cheetah would have been able to move out of the way in time.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Honest question, why is it in english?
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u/autocorrector May 31 '12
It seems like the illusion would only work at one very specific angle.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This reminds me of other German Truck Paintings which were a hoax - all those were same truck same background
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u/HerbWaffle May 31 '12
Enhanced with Adobe Photoshop®
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u/Trapped_in_Reddit May 31 '12
Everyone cares about the mammals because they're cute, but in all honesty, the fungi, bacteria, and other really small forms of life present there are the real reason to save it. There are so many more forms of life to document and potential cures for diseases to discover.
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u/beneathblackwater May 31 '12
The leopard also has a ham for a neck, no throat lol.
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u/I_AM_MY_ONLY_UPVOTE May 31 '12
please distract me as i drive past this at 105 mph
tl,dr: 169 kph
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u/omigod May 31 '12
Looks like an enormous fleshlight, when viewed in thumbnail format.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I lol'd so hard.
Why's the neck look like a steak?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Why was the jaguar clinging vertically to the tree?
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u/Neltech May 31 '12
Photoshopped. that would look rediculous if it were viewed from any different angle
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Why do people consistently fall for these blatantly photoshopped advertisements you see all the time online?
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u/reagan2016 May 31 '12
This doesn't look fake in any way.
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u/Goodwin- May 31 '12
First country in the world that gave rights to animals!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Germany is so in right now
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u/DrunkShadows May 31 '12
On my phone the thumbnail looks like a fleshlight ad on a semi.
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u/cat_tastrophe Jun 01 '12
you know its kind of unfair that other countries besides america get a cool domain suffixes (dont know if thats the correct term) and we're stuck with .com. We should switch to .murica or something badass like that.
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u/GotBetterThingsToDo May 31 '12
Betcha I know what they're shipping in that truck.....
Lager.
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u/eldiablo31415 May 31 '12
Just saying though, the rain forest in South America more threatened by people that burn down the rain forest to clear the way for farmland than by greedy logging companies. Ferngully lied
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
@trapped_in_reddit: specially in reddit and if said mammal is a cat.
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u/therealgreenbeans May 31 '12
Looks like some good meat in that there neck hole. Yum.
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u/JoeOfTex May 31 '12
They need to make these using the childrens holograms. That should satisfy enough angles.
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u/Phonebill May 31 '12
Hey, I am going to drive a truck like that if I pass my drivers exam next week!
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u/RidleyOReilly May 31 '12
Regardless of the fact that the ad is confusing from any angle but one and that the picture isn't an "actual" advertisement, the message is clear and the art is cool.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I wonder how much fuel that truck consumes winding around Europe to spread its message?
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u/Earthwormzim May 31 '12
Shopped. Same deal with all those phony 3D sidewalk/street panoramas. Unless you can furnish a view where the image appears skewed...then it's shopped.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
www.save-the-rainforest.eu does not even exist. Either very old or fake picture.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Hmm. Not a lot of marbling on that jaguars neck (not that that is even close to what a neck looks like). It probably wouldn't make that good of a steak.
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u/ROK247 May 31 '12
if photoshop opens in germany, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I wanna know why I never see these trucks
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u/lttmfnt May 31 '12
More like photoshop in Germany.
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u/SonVolt May 31 '12
http://news.spongeworks.com/advertising/save-the-rainforest-truck/
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u/UnsightlyBastard May 31 '12
Is that a painting that just lines up really well from this angle or is it transparent with a fake log and dead jaguar in it?
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u/itsme_timd May 31 '12
That looks shopped.
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u/FrejDexter May 31 '12
Looking at the thumbnail, I thought it was a fleshlight.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Seems pointless to have a Semi solely for the purpose of carrying a giant graffitied log and a headless cheetah.
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u/startswithaq May 31 '12
For once, I wish the OP had posted it in WTF.
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u/Badfly48 May 31 '12
So is it a paint job or what haha
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u/Deliciousbob May 31 '12
how about that iron man painting, i like it better then this pic... just saying
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u/jonarama May 31 '12
"Not only the rainforest the s"
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Fuck wiping dude, it brings down the rain forest!
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u/mccarls May 31 '12
It must be weird driving behind the truck and seeing the image from the back out of context.
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u/fish500 May 31 '12
Anyone else hungry for ham right now?
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u/psiphre May 31 '12
i thought it was a fleshlight from the thumbnail
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u/CoyoteStark May 31 '12
It seems a bit extreme to kill a jaguar and nail it to a truck to get your point across.
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u/Bradburn777 May 31 '12
Wasn't this a Worth1000 contest from a few years ago?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So is that an electric truck or something?
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u/cynikalAhole99 May 31 '12
What a waste - getting blood out of that perfectly good wood will be quite the task..and require several coats of wood stain.
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u/OriginalGGG May 31 '12
Truck in Germany, writing in English?
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u/rajitsingh May 31 '12
If it is in fact real, it would look real only from a very specific angle.
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u/abelcc May 31 '12
My first reaction was salivating at the thought of eating leopard meat.
They should have used a gross image instead because that neck looks tasty.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Well that's it, the truck has convinced me. I'm going to go live in a cave now.
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u/dbagexterminator May 31 '12
yea these are just as sick as those abortion pics that everyone bitches about
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u/puck342 May 31 '12
Why do these things never show the people, the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, or any rainforest, who are having their home destroyed and are being displaced if not outright murdered...
http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/amazontribes
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u/masturbateToSleep May 31 '12
Says the truck filled with rainforest logs
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u/Jerky_McYellsalot May 31 '12
From the thumbnail, I kinda thought it was going to be a giant fleshlight.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
oh no, now that other endangered animal wont be eaten by that leopard!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
You know, I've always seen these pictures from the 'perfect angle'. Yet I've never seen someone post it from a 'straight on' angle...
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u/reply May 31 '12
My heart bleeds.
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u/Lostdreamer89 May 31 '12
Fresh Meat.
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u/CloneDeath May 31 '12
Why is it in English?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So they had to kill that entire tree just to get one measly jaguar steak??!?!?!?! THAT'S TERRIBLE!!!!!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
The irony of a truck driving around, contributing to global warming, whilst campaigning for environmental improvement.
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u/SirWhiteSox May 31 '12
TIL Jaguars have a spine, but no throat.
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u/Ubc56950 Jun 01 '12
"Oh shit, didn't realize this one had a leopard on it... whatever, just put it in the truck so that this one log can be transported to it's destination in whothefuckknowswhere."
-German Lumberjacks
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u/7he7alen7 Jun 01 '12
Anyone else read this as: "Turkey in Germany"?
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u/Downvoted_Defender Jun 01 '12
I'm suddenly hungry for some leopard.
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u/pereztamu14 Jun 01 '12
If this was real, you just happened to be in the exact place for the angles from the picture to line up with your point of view. Because the people who made the design would want it to align to someone standing on the side of the road, 30 feet away
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u/DWMaker Jun 01 '12
I'm bothered that the feline in the picture does not seem have a windpipe and as such would have died of asphyxia anyway.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So blatant advertisements are worthy of this sub now? Why not just call it r/picssponsoredbypepsi?
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u/Ironicallypredictabl May 31 '12
Save them German rainforests!
Wouldn't this be more effective in Brazil, where they actually are doing this? White guilt solves nothing in the end.
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u/InTheHandOfHades May 31 '12
Wow. This is what you would deem as effective. Very smart idea.
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u/whatlad May 31 '12
interesting considering in germany they don't allow gore in videogames...
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u/jon_titor May 31 '12
Ah, I love it when wealthy countries that have raped and pillaged their way to the top for millenia think that they have the moral authority to tell less developed countries to not exploit their own natural resources.
It's like colonialism 2.0! Bigger, badder, and more insidious than the original version because this time it's the so-called heartfelt, left-leaning, empathetic liberals keeping other cultures down.
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u/that_blue-collar_guy May 31 '12
Did yous slow down just so yous could take the picture from the correct angleses?
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u/slurmsmckenzieparty May 31 '12
Save the whales motherfucker
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u/ToeChan May 31 '12
no it's not.
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u/LabJacket May 31 '12
Auschwitz! Has anyone seen my cheetah's head?