Whats With Tv Shows Celebrating Injury?

[Ed Normile]

I do not watch a lot of TV, usually I set in front of my computer and either go to places like this, or mess with programs or play games. Everytime I see a TV there is an ad with somebody wrecking their bike, or skate board or car. These look like serious injuries are occuring to the people involved, what is the point of these shows? Are they aimed at the morbidly curious, or are they supposed to be funny? I never understood someone who could laugh at injury or would want to look at injured people, with the exception of someone who was trying to help that person.

At my sisters during Christmas there was an ad for a show called something like 1000 ways to die or What a way to die. It was on a few hours later and showed a man who was laying under his truck fiixing it and a semi truck ran over him cutting him in half at the waist, this was captured on video by a young couple, the male was filming the girl by the car and the trucker was watching them when he run over the man. When he heard screaming and the guy with the camera ran over with the camera filming to investigate. They blurred out his torso at the wound, but you could clearly make out the missing limbs and the pool of blood was spreading from the area, and this poor man was awake and his face had this horrible look of disbeleif on it. I was too stuffed to turn it off immediately and when I did get off the couch it left me shaken.

We said some prayers for this mans soul, it stated he died three hours after the accident. This was the most horrible thing I have ever seen, I do not see the point of airing people who are injured.

I just seen an ad that showed a SUV flipping off a big hill, a kid smashing his face when his bike hit a railing, another kid landing face first on a sidewalk when his skateboard hit the curb, I had to turn off the TV once again.

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Edited January 8, 2011 by Ed Normile

[Luigi]

I stopped watching television a long time ago. It's only gotten worse in the interim.

[CatherineM]

We don't have a coliseum to kill people in for our amusement like the Romans did.

[Jesus_lol]

As someone who loves extreme sports, mtn biking, motocross, motorcycles, etc i love seeing these sort of things. i can relate to them and they are generally pretty awesome. i do not like seeing ones were people have died. but the other ones are similar to a well told story of a wipeout by a friend after a day up the mountain.

[Ice_nine]

Ed, I believe that the show you are talking about is fictitious. I think it's called "docufiction" on wiki. It would be really messed up if those were actually reenactments of true events given the flippant regard to the victims' lives and the morbid tongue-in-check humor, but it's just a little twisted humor. Not everyone's cup of tea I suppose but I just wanted you to know that the show's subjects or whatever you call it aren't real

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Ed Normile' timestamp='1294460922' post='2197733']
I do not watch a lot of TV, usually I set in front of my computer and either go to places like this, or mess with programs or play games. Everytime I see a TV there is an ad with somebody wrecking their bike, or skate board or car. These look like serious injuries are occuring to the people involved, what is the point of these shows? Are they aimed at the morbidly curious, or are they supposed to be funny? I never understood someone who could laugh at injury or would want to look at injured people, with the exception of someone who was trying to help that person.

At my sisters during Christmas there was an ad for a show called something like 1000 ways to die or What a way to die.
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Ed, I think that kind of morbidity has been perennial.

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[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1294466219' post='2197754']
We don't have a coliseum to kill people in for our amusement like the Romans did.
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We have 'Australia's funniest home video's' instead!

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='Ice_nine' timestamp='1294475030' post='2197778']
Ed, I believe that the show you are talking about is fictitious. I think it's called "docufiction" on wiki. It would be really messed up if those were actually reenactments of true events given the flippant regard to the victims' lives and the morbid tongue-in-check humor, but it's just a little twisted humor. Not everyone's cup of tea I suppose but I just wanted you to know that the show's subjects or whatever you call it aren't real
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I looked up "1000 ways to die " late last night, its a show with recreations of true events for some kind of sick humor. It said they re-enact real odd deaths to " celebrate darwinism " one would need to own a kind of a morbid fascination with tragedy and death to enjoy this. The show I was watching was real video of a guy cut in half, they interviewed the doctors who said the bottom half of his body was misdirected by a confusion of the ambulance drivers and wound up in another calif hospital but they did not think they could have saved his life anyway due to the trauma he received, they were surprised he lived as long as he did. I called my sister and she said she had seen the ads for the show, but can not recall the name and thought it was something like " The worst way to die ", but I can not find anything about it, they were in a rented apartment for the holidays with cable TV.


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