The never to be forgotten Apaches.Those Public Service Announcements were great though, in that they did the job. As of now, I’ve never been electrocuted by a kite on a pylon, burned in chip pan fire, drowned in open water or suffocated in a grain store.
They showed one of my kids one when he was in primary school in the 00’s and he absolutely shat himself but on the plus side, he never played in or a near an electricity station
I’ve never been into medical dramas, but I remember either casualty or holby city and a man was playing pool in a pub and a bus of football fans were coming home from a game and the bus crashed into the pub and he was impaled on the pool cueI also was traumatised by one episode of Casualty in particular, I must have been 9 or 10 at the time - a guy working on a building site got covered in hot tar then when they got him to hospital, started to peel said solidified tar from his body
No idea why that one sticks in my head as they were all bloody traumatic
Urgh, I remember one where a tanker driver crashed and got covered in toxic burny chemicals. Traumatising.I also was traumatised by one episode of Casualty in particular, I must have been 9 or 10 at the time - a guy working on a building site got covered in hot tar then when they got him to hospital, started to peel said solidified tar from his body
No idea why that one sticks in my head as they were all bloody traumatic
Yes they went in with a broken fingernail and left with Lupus.Wasn’t it always the case in Casualty, that the major incident victim walked out that same day, but the minor victim ended up dying or with a life changing diagnosis. Holby also had an amazing social services department that would sort everything out within a few minutes.
Anyway! Back to the goss…
Oh brutalYou should check out the Northern Ireland road safety ads from the 90’s-early 2000’s for some more shocking stuff. Not for the faint hearted but I’m sworn off drunk driving and speeding for life.
I remember going to the cinema to see Event Horizon and didn’t sleep for weeks afterI have seen Event Horizon and all I can remember about it is the young bloke who lets himself out of the airlock into space. Maybe it was so scary that I've blocked the rest of it out of my mind?
999 was based on real life incidents which were recreated with actors. The real people would sometimes be interviewed and voiceover the reenactments and go over what happened as the reconstructions played outThat 999 show, wasn't it based on real life shit that happened or was it just presented in that way? Some of those stories traumatised me so to now find out it was fiction would be a nice relief!
I think you might be the closest we're getting to a celebrity right now!When I was about seven I was in one of the electricity pylon school films. I remember being traumatised by her body falling off the pylon even though she was standing next to me & I knew it was a doll
I’ve never been near one since!
Oh brutalI spoke to road safety folk at a conference a while back and they did say they had to go extreme for NI because folk were so desensitised to incidents
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