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Do You Hate When Drivers Have Their High Beams On Behind You? Why Not Scare the Shit Out of Them?
I’ve got light sensitivity, which is why I’ll often wear sunglasses in places where others don’t. Some people poke fun at me but I’d rather ignore their gibes in favor of not getting a migraine or, at the very least, a pounding headache. This ailment is often at its worst at night, when other drivers have their lights on and will often forget that their high beams are blasting forward like the heat of a thousand suns.
In China, Taobao is selling decals that you can attach to your back windshield that are barely noticeable during the day but will illuminate at night when high beams are in use. What makes these decals so special is that they are of ghastly images and ghosts, similar to what we’d see in movies like Ringu and Ju-on. Basically, you’re driving down the road and someone comes up behind you with their high beams on and they’re suddenly face-to-face (car-to-car?) with a ghost. Honestly, I can’t say I’m against this idea. Having high beams in your rearview mirror is painful!
However, according to SMCP, the police aren’t too keen on these decals as they seem to be causing a few accidents. They’re issuing fines of up to 100 yuan if drivers have one of these decals and they warn that the consequences will be far more painful if an accident happens and the decal is found to be the reason.
You can see what these decals look like below. And cheers to Mashable for the find!
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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