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LONDON (Reuters) - He fits in a car's glove box, appears at a flick of a switch and when a woman has finished using him, she can just pull the plug and he deflates.

He's the "Buddy on Demand", a blow-up man launched on Tuesday with the aim of making solo female motorists feel less nervous about driving at night.

According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the dark.

"We're not saying that an inflatable man is the only answer but we do hope it will give women extra confidence and make journeys in the dark less fearful," said Jacky Brown, the spokeswoman for Sheilas' Wheels.



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I can think of a few men I'd like to pull the plug on ....:rolleyes: :wah:

annabelle wrote: LONDON (Reuters) - He fits in a car's glove box, appears at a flick of a switch and when a woman has finished using him, she can just pull the plug and he deflates.

He's the "Buddy on Demand", a blow-up man launched on Tuesday with the aim of making solo female motorists feel less nervous about driving at night.

According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the dark.

"We're not saying that an inflatable man is the only answer but we do hope it will give women extra confidence and make journeys in the dark less fearful," said Jacky Brown, the spokeswoman for Sheilas' Wheels.



http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArt ... ived=False

I can think of a few men I'd like to pull the plug on ....:rolleyes: :wah:


Hey, if it works, then thats got to be good:):)

woppy71 wrote: Hey, if it works, then thats got to be good:):)


Absolutely, quite agree. I just have a quirky sense of humour,

A bunch of people clubbed together to get a farewell gift for one of our lab technicians. She was a pretty rough and tough kind of woman, who'd once been a drovers' cook. I liked her a lot. Anyway, the gift was presented to her formally by our esteemed Director, and much to everyone's astonishment turned out to be a life sized inflatable black gentleman, very well endowed and bits of him vibrated and flashed red lights. It brought the house down. I wonder if she multiskilled him into a driving companion????