The Australian New Finger

Driver blames 'little pinky' ad for road rage

Simon Jardak was fined $A400 by a magistrate yesterday after an accusatory finger on the Anzac Bridge enraged him so much he threw a plastic bottle out of his car window, hitting the gesturing woman's car.

Jardak blamed his malicious damage charge on the RTA's anti-speeding campaign, in which hoons are mocked with wagging little fingers, suggesting they have tiny penises.

He told Richard Glover's Drive program on ABC 702 that the RTA's relentless promotion of the "little pinky" gesture had made it more offensive to males than the traditional "middle finger".

"The 'finger', it's so common now, that we're over it, but this finger is a whole new thing and it's been promoted so much everybody knows it and you just get offended," he said.

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