Originally posted by: rlh
Originally posted by: captmorgandrinker
Originally posted by: rlh
Along those lines, I had watched some show that re-enacted where a toddler had been accidentally run over by a bulldozer. They flipped him over to show his face pushed in.
Even though I was old enough to know that was a re-enactment, I couldn't get that image out of my head for the longest time.
WTF is wrong with media-makers. Fake/unrealistic stuff like monsters and such never bothered me. The stuff that still gets in my head is anything that's plausible/realistic. The more possible it is, even if the FX are horrible, doesn't matter. It sticks with me. That's the stuff I still can't get over.
Tangent time-- I always loved, LOVED rollercoasters. From when I was tall enough to get onto them, on into my 20s. Then, my wife and I made friends with a guy who told us that when he was younger, his sister and father were part of a high-profile lawsuit. They were at a Six Flags (or other similar park) and they were in a train that had just pulled into the station. The breaks were manual for stopping the cars. Someone had an issue in their train, so the operator stepped up to help them. In the mean time, another train came into the depot and he wasn't at the controller station to stop it. To their luck, that train went under theres and decapitated multiple people. Regardless, all survivors and family members of those who lost their lives received a part of the settlement.
Ever since then I just can't ride a rollercoaster. I know it's just as unlikely I'd ever be a part of such an incident and safety for coasters is far higher than it was in the early-90s. Regardless, that story was enough to make it "real enough" that those things can be dangerous.
I am like that when I see some pressing machines, huge grinders...there's always some crap pops in my head like what if my hand stuck there, or kids, friends and what I would have done during that second. I always take a moment to clear my head
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