I don't feel good. Just came back from seeing a gruesome car accident, and I'm shocked. I don't why I feel this way... Why can I take hundreds of violent movies and videos, but right when something happens in reality, I'm speechless? It worries me, so I guess that's why I'm writing.

Me and my friends were in a local RadioShack, trying to find a part to repair my friend's guitar amp. Another scary thing is that we drove over like idiots, taking no regard for our safety. Anyway, while looking around, my eyes turned to a guy crossing the highway street. It all happened so quick... a girl from my school slammed into him at around 40 mph. He slammed into the girl's windshield, completely decimating it. The guy flew about 10 feet away from the crash. He tried to get up, clutching his leg, obviously in shock. He got up for a second, then feel over, blood gushing all over his face.

The part that got me was everyone's reactions. That's what was really scary. It was insane seeing the cashier at the counter just drop what he was doing, and start screaming "Oh my God, that was a person! Oh my God!!". Another woman starting screaming, running out to the accident scene. Everyone around the store just dropped what they were doing, and started screaming. Seeing the cashier and other store assistants just run out the door was crazy. I don't know what to think. It was all bizzare and foreign to me. The victim passed out with a very mangled leg and arm, and probably a broken neck.

It's kinda scary how different something is from TV to reality. If I would've seen this on Real TV or Ebaums World, I would've probably laughed. I can't even smile about this whole thing. I guess will pass in time.

Anyone else experienced/seen any accidents that shook you up? I would like to hear other's views on this.

i once saw some dude die of a heart attack but i have never seen anything gruesome.

And that's why all this "Desensitization" talk is total crap. We can certainly tell the difference between real and fake....

I know what you mean, though...I've never seen anything in real life, but whenever I see video or photos of reals tuff, it still shakes me up. When this stuff happens....that's when you can truly see human nature.

Most grumose thing eh..... Seeing most of the skin being taken off someone leg by a van travelling at around 40mph..... surprisingly it was my leg and i was only 5 but hey!

I'm lucky. I've never witnessed anything directly with my own eyes. Only some ambulances speeding away from something followed by cameramen for the evening news setting up cameras with a visible air of detachment, filming flat wrecked cars in the road-side ditch. Saw this on Monday with two buses that had crashed, the front of one bus was nauseatingly collapsed and thoroughly shattered.

Also walking to my old school one morning, it was a rainy day and I saw a crowd gathered gathered around the jammed intersection in front of the school tending to someone lying on the street, and talking exasperatedly to eachother. I was almost late anyhow, I really wasn't that curious, and the thing seemed to be in good enough hands as it was. A class-mate told me later that a small schoolgirl had been hit by a car as she ran over the crossing, and he related in shock how after a sickeningly loud crash and thud he had seen her "fly several meters through the air like a thrown doll". Luckily, the girl survived. I'm not exactly keen on witnessing something like that.

I can't really imagine how anyone could take pleasure in seeing actual violence or accidents in news broadcasts or with their own eyes. I think that it's vital to de-romanticize death and violence in its real-life forms.

Once, a car rolled over my hand. Didn't feel a thing.

I once saw an old man collapse outside McDonalds of a stroke or something. That's about it, though.

Thats high prices for ya

Stafford - The guy you seen die of a heart attack, sounds like an odd question to ask, but how long did that take for him to die?

Hmm. I got a paper cut once.

I ran over my own leg once in a golf cart. Don't ask how. O.o

Well is the guy alright?

Dunno. He seemed to drift in and out of conciousness... might have suffered a concussion. Nothing too serious, hopefully. Probably be on the news; I'll check.

i got sick from watching this:( truck crash

Why does this seem to explain so much. :S

I'm probably the coldest of all of you. I live on a busy street, and its too busy, because its very central, everything needed is about a 5 min drive, max, and since I'm on the same block where there's a grid cross, its dangerous. I've been almost run over twice. So any how, in the 3 years I've been on this street theres been countless accidents, let me recall as many as I can, and for those misbelievers, I have the news paper cuts on one of them, just in case I hav't to post it:

1st accident: Well, the first one I remember there was a ford black truck, some red car and a yellow bug. It seemed as if the three hit front end. They were spread out all over the street, and some girl hit here head on the dashboard, and it was bleeding. She had a concussion as well.

2nd accident: This one my parents saw (and this is the one I have with the newspaper clipping). There was this little girl and her cousing, who lived with their grandma, just in front of my house. Well, any how, this girl was the grandmas favorite, and some 16 year old rich jerk, with a red ferrari ran around the corner at like 60mph hit the girl, and my dad said she flew about 20m and missed hitting her head on the side walk by inches. The jerk ran from the crime, but came back an hour later with some lawyers or something like that. The little girl was fortunate that a medic was walking by. This happened a few seconds after I got on the bus, and had left for school. Any how, she was in a coma for a while, but she got out of it, and was incapicitsted for months. That night, the whole neighborhood did a "huelga" (don't remember the translation) and they forced the governor to put in speed bumbs and those street lights.

3rd accident: Some guy with a morticylce was some how crash into a car head-on on the car's side, breaking the windshield, and he scraped his entire torso on the broken windshield. The ambulance came about 10 minutes later (I guess they want people to die down here) and he left a puddle of blood on the street.

4th accident: some guy with some old pick up race truck, decided to get drunk, and was going down our street at midnight. he accidently scraped a car, lost control, and ran the truck into my neighbors garage, taking out his brand new car, and still he ran, but they caught him.

5th accident: my other neighbor got drunk, and hit my friend's car which was parked in front of my house, went in reverse, and tried to run but ran into my front neighbor taking down a brand new wall (I can take a picture of the rebuilt one with a "scar" on it, and maybe of the wrecked car) and took out a beautiful garden.

Sheesh, these are just a few of the accident that happen here, and since the law of wearing a seat belt is fairly new, and nobody almost wears them, results are futile.

I've seen that so many times on Police Videos programs, not a big deal. There's only a few I remember that are worse than that, though

i dont get out much

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temp: it was on a beach, i think the dude had trouble swimming and got dragged to the shore, he was pretty old.

they laid him on the sunbed and he started to recover, he sat up at one point, then he kinda started twitching and flailing a bit, he fell back onto the sunbed and died.

i guess it took a few seconds, i was laid about a hundred metres away so i didnt see a whole lot.

shame the nearest hospital was a 40 minute drive, they had to get sheets from a nearby hotel to put over his body whilst the ambulance arrived, most sickening thing was the sheets couldn't cover him whole and his white feet were sticking out the bottom for about 20 or 30 minutes.

Very good point...

This type of thing doesn't do anything to me, I guess I've just got used to seeing blood and other stuff. The only thing that does get me is when it smells (i.e. decomposing body or when certain organs are pierced).

I've seen tons of accidents and the results of even more.

The most unsettling thing I've ever seen, for obvious reasons, was my own brother lying in the hospital with decomposing blood dribbling out of his nose after his fatal head on collison between himself on his bike and a car.

your brother died?

I once saw a guy drive away with a pump still in his gas tank from a gas station. It was hilarious. The dude working there chased after him screaming, the guy in the car not knowing what was going on. The guy in the car then finally got out, picked up the pump, and scratched his head.

Funniest thing ever.

Worst thing I saw was a little girl hit by a car, she lived, and wasnt injured surprisingly.

Other than that, seeing my dead brother hanging from a pole in our bathroom after he commited suicide. I was 8.

God, I don't need to be any more depressed than I am now. I'm sorry for your brother though.