Heartland

Now this is what I call a public information film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOBcg5x ... re=related


Drive like an idiot, die like an idiot, or worse, live with the consequences.

True. I guess it´s helpfull to know what the consequences of one´s activities look like before they occur.
As an article in a pilot´s magazine once said: A little fear is a life insurance.
And one´s well advised to be afraid of fearless drivers.

Very impressive. And made by a school too.

stufarq wrote:Very impressive. And made by a school too.

I take back everything I've ever said about falling education standards.

I saw a young woman's brains all over the road this morning.

James Blast wrote:I saw a young woman's brains all over the road this morning.

And I read the first version of your story. Firstly just let the shock of it all absorb you and the emotions of what you saw take their toll. It's something so disturbing that you saw, that your subconscious will probably give you terrible nightmares of the images you saw and the emotional feeling of dread and sickness you felt. Have a drink and a smoke, don't get drunk it won't help anyway. Talking about it does help as oppose to keeping quiet.

Something similar, due to the truck, happened to a friend of mine a very long time ago. He also died leaving a wife and two young daughters.

The sight of death in your face, no-one, anywhere, will ever be able to capture it on film, what you see or feel in real life.

Strength James. If you need to talk I'm a PM away.

I deleted my first post Debs because it was clumsy and confused. I'm still clumsy and confused, I mean FFS her head was about 4" thick, face gone and bits all over the road. The red was what caught my eye and then the realisation it wasn't another unlucky pigeon or a bag with butcher meat spilling out.

Yes James, you saw the horror of a human being that only bits 'n pieces were left over of. You saw what you later found out was a young woman who's brain you saw over the road. The blood caught your eye and like I said you saw death, a horrific one at that matter that will haunt you because you saw it, like all the others that actually saw it happening. I'm feeling for you because you saw it.

I saw it, oh I did Debs

I can imagine pretty shocking must be an understatement James

When I was at about 14 years old, a friend of mine at the brass band thought she could still catch a train waiting in the train station and ran to it.

She forgot that those red flashing lights COULD mean there is an immediate danger of a train coming from the other side.

Seeing eight separate bags lying next to the railroad and a whole fire brigade team cleaning the red off a locomotive and the tracks with a high-pressure hose is a sight I will NEVER forget.

It dulls, after a while, but I can put that image right before my eyes in a second, now 20 years later... Not that I'd want to do that, mind you.

Deepest heartfelt sympathies, James. You'll get over it, believe me. You have to.

IZ.

Hmm... and I always thought girls are good in doing things simultaneously...

Edit:

Sorry...I just read the other posts here, my comment was just related to that TV clip of course. Strange that it's probably easier to forget the impressions of the beutiful kind or faces of people who passed away but not awful things like that

Your edit is noted and approved

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote: a sight I will NEVER forget.

It dulls, after a while, but I can put that image right before my eyes in a second, now 20 years later... Not that I'd want to do that, mind you.

Deepest heartfelt sympathies, James. You'll get over it, believe me. You have to.

IZ.

The mind is a very powerful thing and real life images of the worst kind, that the mind remembers are so powerful but in ying~yang to that, those of a good kind are also stored there but most times the most horrid are the ones we can never forget.

Believing in you have to must be one of the strongest emotions of the mind.

Jesus, James that is... words fail me. I can only imagine how you must feel.

Debs is right, you need to let it out not bottle it up.

oh, lord. go talk to someone soon, james.

Absolutely. And I know it might sound heartless and stuff, but you gotta get on with your own life man.

I found out she tripped and fell under the wheels, she was in her 20s and leaves two kids behind.

chilling

Very sad and shocking. Sorry to hear that and hope the pictures gonna fade soon.

I've also seen comrades of mine kissing the lantern after being kicked by a car,
and worse things like children under the bus and such stuff.
And all these flattened kittens ... running under the car in front of mine ...
Plenty such stuff, one can only live with the impressions and hope they don't go too deep to the core.
For me the acoustic experience is far worse than the view of such occurrences ...

Sorry to hear that, James.
Can't really add to the sentiments already expressed, except to say, chin up.

it gets worse
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/disp ... _named.php

A real tragedy, indeed.
Pictures like these can be persistent indeed.
There was a similar thing somewhat over ten years ago a few hundred yards from where I live, a 40 ton truck hit a kid that ran across the street before getting it under its wheels.
Not much was left of the kid.
There was a former friend of mine sitting in a van in a traffic jam when he heard an engine of a speeding motorbike, then scratching noises, a loud bang somewhere. Next a helmet with a head in it came rolling by.
There was that chap who was at the site of the crash where my father died. He witnessed the moment they pulled him out of the acre. A man of 5' 9" reduced to ~ 4'. I got to know him accidentally some 6 years later. He turned very pale when the talk came to that crash.
And I remember how I found my mother.

That's why I think that video is a very precious thing in all its cruelty and directness.
Reminders of how brittle we are.
Heed your doc's and good sense's advices.

ouch... horrible stories all around I guess... y'all take good care of yerselves, will ya

Not exactly the same thing, but just found out on Thursday that a friend of mine back home killed himself.
He was 17.

Puh ... ...