What's the most horrific thing you've seen?What is going on?
Lightguy was walking home when he saw a fox eating a cat. As he watched, it threw up on the cat and then continued eating, having doused it in its own marinade.
Only this morning, Rachelswipe saw a tramp hock up a bright green loogy, only for a pigeon to hop over on its withered stumps and peck it up joyfully.
Are these the end times? What horrible stuff have you seen recently?
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chthonic, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 10:36)
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Old Lady v. Tube TrainThrough the magic of family friends, I managed to actually wangle some interesting work experience after my GCSEs: working in the Press Office for the HSE.
Part of it involved going to press conferences and court cases to take minutes etc. The court case I really remember was about Family of Little Old Lady versus the London Underground.
Little old Lady was in the very last carriage of a tube train, and her station didn't have terribly good safety measures: the video screens that show the driver when everyone has safely got on/off the tube didn't show the very end of the platform. So she got off the tube, didn't mind the gap, and fell halfway between the train and the platform. Except the driver couldn't see this, so merribly drove on. She was pulled underneath the train, losing bits and pieces, until someone noticed the trail of blood and bits. 3 stations later. The photos were one of the most horrible things ever.
Her family were awarded something like £5million in the end. But nothing can compensate for the horror of seeing your mother/grandmother's body parts strewn along the underground like that. I was 16 when I went to that court case, and the most gruesome thing I'd seen before that was the face-melting bit in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 13:52, Reply)
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