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... with his brain matter smashed out over the street.
A transit worker was walking accross the street today when a school bus full of grade school students hit him just outside my work (about 40 feet from our front door). The police shutdown half the intersection for most of the day, taking pictures and whatnot. Poor kids... they were in the bus for the longest time (almost 2 hours) in full view of the body. But just like me, in my cynical humor, the first thing that came to mind when I saw him was the voice from UT2k4 after you run down someone while driving: "Vehicular Manslaughter!" -- that had me laughing most of the day. no sig, how's that for being a rebel! Last edited by Wickers : 2005-02-02 at 23:43. |
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Isn't a little scary that the first thing you think when you see a dead body is of a video game? I'm disturbed. (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with YOU, but it makes me think that there's some validity to all the prudes bemoaning the violence in video games these days)
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How in god's name did that end up being your 666th post???
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That is your 666th post.
You are expressing how you laughed at a dead body (in a sense) and are a little crazy. Uh..... satan anyone? |
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"What could it be? Could it be...SATAN?!!" |
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[Mal] You know, you ain't quite right. [/Mal Rynolds]
EDIT: Just to clairify, the above is not an insult. |
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no sig, how's that for being a rebel! |
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Odd, but I haven't heard a peep about the accident on the local news. Not even the gore-whores at CityTV reported it. Usually for CityTV, Children+Death=Tonight's Top Story!!!!!
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It's Mardi Gras week. Weird vibes are in the air, even if you're not in NOLA (where I once witnessed a scene similar to yours, except it was a cab driver whose brains got blown out by a passenger).
Plenty of good music to enjoy, though.... http://www.tipitinas.com/content/webcast/ |
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silly vladimir
i share your cynical humor... i mean, the body's dead, and this guy no longer exists i don't see why people get so hung up with death... there's no reason – except for a health reason – that you shouldn't pick up his severed head and do the Hamlet/Yorrick routine – you could learn a lot from that. better and funnier when the body is decayed, though. |
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How often do you hear on the news about people ending their own life with help from our lovely TTC? But how often does it happen? It happens often enough that the TTC has a cube van and clean-up crew just for taking care of the 'leftovers'. And no, the man that died today did not kill himself with the help of oncoming traffic... or at least I don't think it was self inflicted. But he did work for the TTC. . . In the past three months two people have been hit by streetcars near my work. One of which lost a limb (or so I hear) caught under the wheel, the other was killed. Both times not a single peep was heard from our local news. I'm not saying that it won't make the news (maybe the paper) but I would not be surprized if it did. EDIT: Oh ya, so my point. . . . TTC + Death = 'a wall of silence' Mostly because the TTC would like to keep death and their transit system out of the same news headline. It leads to 'copycat' deaths. no sig, how's that for being a rebel! Last edited by Wickers : 2005-02-03 at 01:22. |
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ohara actually has the lowest reputation of any non-banned member of the site. That includes applenut and Messiahtosh, AND he's only been a member for a few weeks. Quite an accomplishment!
By the way, ohara, just because I haven't banned you doesn't mean I like you. Don't get too comfortable - so far you haven't done anything worthy of a ban, but people here dislike you, and we'll be watching you more closely. |
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yeah well your topic wasn't the best either... you didn't include either pictures of the accident or steamy photos of yourself...
just goin on what you give me, champ and give me a break, i'm having one of my manic days - been up since 8 am 2 days ago |
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On a side note, a friend of mine had very bad luck with jumpers a few years back, she saw three suicides in one week at three different stations. She avoided the subway for a while after that. |
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I saw the "preliminary results" a pretty horific accident on the interstate tonight. Happened probably about 15 seconds ahead of me. Car must've gotten hit on the back third where upon at such speeds, it fish-tailed, slammed into the divider wall, went back out into traffic, back into wall again and flipped... lots of people running around trying to help. One pulled a baby seat out of the overturned car which was completely dark inside and out. Didn't want to be a dumbass gaper even though the cars were still smoldering so I didn't get a good look at the second car.
...into the light of a dark black night. |
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no sig, how's that for being a rebel! |
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hath not a jew eyes, herr führer Luca?
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And seeing three different jumpers can be very disterbing... I've seen a bridge jump, but did not see him land (did not care take a look). no sig, how's that for being a rebel! |
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I have to say I enjoy violent video games and sometimes I take pleasure in mutilating corpses in video games, but I don't have a very strong stomach outside of the virtual realm. Violence in movies, as well as real life violence, will make me kind of sick. I think it's a combination of the greater sense of realism (face it, even the most realistic video games are nothing compared to real life) along with a lack of control (with a game you can always just turn it off, a movie you have to make a conscious effort to walk away from it) that bothers me. |
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I puked at work.
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That's too bad for the kids, and obviously the guy. It reminds me though of Napolean Dynamite when that farmer shoots the cow right as the bus pulls up with all the school kids.
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ohara, If you don't mind messing with dead bodies, I have the perfect job for you. You could be a litter bearer in Iraq. That would save a couple of my Marines from having to go through the trouble of trying to get their heads screwed back on straight when they are done. In the case of some of the insurgents, you would even get to mess with them after they have decayed a bit...
Perfect post for a 666 Vickes :P It is better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six. |
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The de-sanctification of the human body is almost complete in the West, attributable to various sources which include the aforementioned videogames as well as the myriad of television programs based on forensic evidence. Seeing a body cut open like a biology class frog, the contents of a pancreas squeezed into a beaker, is everyday fare on network television.
Technically smart programming, strategically dumb societal influence. These shows and these games can indeed rob some people of their reverence for life. I enjoy watching the sleuthing of CSI or Crossing Jordan as much as the next fan, but I do worry about how the shows might trivialize the magic of our bodies for some people. On the other side of the coin these shows remind us how miraculous life is and how complex our bodies really are. It's a good bet that Wickes' comedic take on the man's death was partially a defensive reaction to defray the shock of the scene. At least I hope it was. |
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Who knows what the circumstances of the accident were (asshole drivers or just bad luck?) or what kind of people they are/were, but when you know an infant is involved in such a thing it just makes it all the worse. Not that I buy into the "Baby on board - drive more safetly around me than everyone else" thing (uh, be non-aggressive and in control of your vehicle all the time?) but still.... ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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But then in the name of sanctity we pump it full of toxic preservative chemicals, dress it up as in life, put it in an ornate sealed box to keep out any life processes to return the body to the environment, then bury it in large areas of land that are thereafter considered unusable for any other purpose, and place a marker on top to say who is entombed in the earth, but never again part of it. The sense of sanctity isn't about the deceased, it's about the living and their response to their own loss and mortality. Frickin' toss me on a bonfire and flush the ashes down the toilet when I'm gone, or take me to that temple in India where they place the body out to be picked clean by vultures. Personally, I find the Western ethos regarding the sanctity of a body to be grotesque and just... wrong. But that's just me, and I try and respect others' loss and reactions. Wickes, hell of a story, I can't believe they left the kids *in the bus*? Where they could see it? Oy. I sense some therapy bills being sent to the school district in the future. |
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You can't kid a kidder. (back on topic) VVickes, I wouldn't feel bad at all about finding humor in something tragic. I'd say it was a pretty honest reaction. People often laugh (instead of crying, etc.) when faced with something sad or tragic. I think it's even been proven that laughter and crying are closely related emotions. Anyway...yikes. "What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." - Steve Jobs Last edited by sunrain : 2005-02-03 at 12:11. Reason: properly spelling VVickes |
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I remember the first (and only) time I saw remnants from a dead human body. My friend worked at a towing company years back and one day they towed in a car that a cancer patient had committed suicide in. The investigaters and emergency crew missed a few, uh, "pieces" that were lying on the floor behind the passenger seat. All the insides of the windows had brain matter and blood on them, it was a vile mess.
It's very humbling to witness such a thing, and actually I think that everyone should experience it in some form or another. Seeing what your insides look like makes you realize that you're basically a physical thing that can break any which way and suddenly you're gone. Something to think about while you're doing your taxes. No awkward goodbyes. No 'still friends' bullshit. Just a couple of bruised titties and a failed relationship. I rule. |
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