A man gets out of bed, his bare foot crashing through the wooden floor. Next we see him fully dressed and wearing shoes as he walks outside, leaving holes along the sidewalk with each step.
He then puts his foot up on a nearby fire hydrant so that he can tie his shoelace. But the weight of his foot shears the hydrant off its foundation, triggering a fountain of water to spurt skyward.
Our guy’s stroll continues past a group of kids playing soccer. An errant ball heads his way, with the youngsters asking him for some help in retrieving it. The man kicks the ball, sending it like a rocket into the stratosphere.
Finally we see our power footed guy get into the driver’s seat of a car. Predictably when he steps on the gas pedal, the vehicle accelerates to a high rate of speed. A voiceover intervenes, “Got a lead foot? Well you better lighten up because cops are cracking down on drivers who speed.”
Sure enough a policeman has pulls the automobile over and issues him a ticket.
The voiceover continues, “Obey the sign or pay the fine,” which is the new stop speeding slogan of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Rupert Wainwright of Saville Productions, Beverly Hills, directed the spot for agency Tombras Group in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Tombras team included creative director/copywriter Nick Vagott and creative director/art director Brian Porter.
Rupert Maconick exec produced for Saville with Cory Berg serving as producer. Jeffrey Kimball was the DP.
Editor was Scott Philbrook of Fluid, New York.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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