Fatal car crash today, pics & video circulating

jayo26

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Very relieved that I’m only connected to decent, empathetic people on Whatsapp. I know none of them would share anything like that.

Yeah same here I'm in WhatsApp group that really good clean fun you would never see anything like this in it they a great bunch of people.

Wibbs

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I was pretty out of it from the pain I was experiencing but I still remember feeling annoyance at the slack-jawed yokels who were standing there watching me being loaded into the ambulance. What were they hoping to see?

The majority of people ODB tend to freeze in traumatic situations or when they see traumatic situations and all too often as a way of coping they just stand around gawping. It's a mental distraction deflection thing. I'd suspect phones are ideal as that and if they start taking pics or a video it's akin to a wall of sorts between them and the trauma. It makes it less real. I've found in such situations in public it's the elderly of all people who tend to approach to help.

Ally Dick

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Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Who are these heartless idiots sending on these types of videos?

Some people love getting the 'scoop' and can't help themselves

GBX

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Not something I would be at all interested in viewing, but for those who have - would you be able to make out or recognise the person from what's being circulated?

Not that it makes it any better, but I certainly hope not.

No. Its an image of a crashed car. The underside, so one would do well to figure out who it might be.

bri007

I was away with work today out of the country and got it sent to me I couldn’t believe someone would send that on, I just blocked them.

Really sad for the family having people sending the picture on, sad to be honest!

Respect is all gone these days, social media and phones..........

bnt wrote: »

If someone in your social circle sends you pictures or video of the aftermath of the fatal car crash on the N2 near Finglas today, you're advised to delete them, since they are Bad. Really Bad. Darkest corners of Reddit -level Bad. I haven't seen them myself, but someone in my office was sent them, and was horrified, and some of the comments on that article tell of similar experiences.

tl:dr; People Suck. :mad:

nullzero

I detest any gore I receive.
Had this picture put in front of me in work and now I can't unsee it.
Humans are strange, why would you want to take a picture of that?
Someone's life has just ended suddenly and tragically, have some basic respect.

0ph0rce0

Looked at the video. Not a scratch on the truck. New message going around from emergency services. Missed the turn, hit the barrier and then what happened ensued

LollipopJimmy

Wibbs wrote: »

I've found in such situations in public it's the elderly of all people who tend to approach to help.

So you approach to help?

blacklilly

I've just heard some of my colleagues talk about this. I'm horrified that anyone would think it appropriate to take this picture never mind circulate it.

If a friend of mine sent me the picture I would honestly question their frame of mind. I hope those of you who have been sent it have questioned the sender and made them aware just how fu*ked up it is to do this.

We all complain about receiving inappropriate messages but are we actually pulling our friends up on it?

RIP to the victim and their family, I sincerely hope they do not see these pictures/videos

dhaughton99

nullzero wrote: »

I detest any gore I receive.
Had this picture put in front of me in work and now I can't unsee it.
Humans are strange, why would you want to take a picture of that?
Someone's life has just ended suddenly and tragically, have some basic respect.

If it was someone at work who showed you, go straight to HR. You shouldn’t have to put up with that crap.

MarkHenderson

For me I wouldn't watch it and anyone who sent it to me on WhatsApp would be blocked no questions. People like that should be left to drag their own knuckles.

Zadkiel

Just heard the guy who took the video has been detained by the Gardai.
I really hope that's true.

Appalling thing to do in such tragic circumstances.

Grayson

I hadn't even heard of these until I saw this thread. I can't imagine any of my friends sending stuff like this.

el Fenomeno

Grayson wrote: »

I hadn't even heard of these until I saw this thread. I can't imagine any of my friends sending stuff like this.

Same here. The worst I get is videos of Conor McGregor leaving crack dens in Dolphins Barn.

HighLine

I have a few friends who are in the emergency services so unfortunately they share gruesome sh*t on because they are immune to it. But this today, and I've had it sent to 2 group chats, has really sickened me. No thoughts for the victim, their family, or to someone who might know the victim and see this photo and video.
To the person who decided it would be a good idea to whip out his/her phone and film that scene... you are a sick fu*k and you really should be ashamed of yourself.

Homer

Zadkiel wrote: »

Just heard the guy who took the video has been detained by the Gardai.
I really hope that's true.

For what exactly? It is perfectly legal to take a photo in a public place as long as they weren't driving and didn't interfere with the emergency services doing their work. Its completely immoral but there is a big difference between immoral and illegal. Doubt it happened TBH

freshpopcorn

These things often happen and I don't know why people share them online. Sometimes I feel they are looking for glory/a few minutes in the spotlight. Maybe a there name in the newspaper.

shamrock55

HighLine wrote: »

I have a few friends who are in the emergency services so unfortunately they share gruesome sh*t on because they are immune to it. But this today, and I've had it sent to 2 group chats, has really sickened me. No thoughts for the victim, their family, or to someone who might know the victim and see this photo and video.
To the person who decided it would be a good idea to whip out his/her phone and film that scene... you are a sick fu*k and you really should be ashamed of yourself.

I'm in the emergency services myself and this is all the more reason not to send stuff like this on, can't believe people in es would send this kind of thing

TheValeyard

Why was my post deleted?

Tipsy McSwagger

dhaughton99 wrote: »

If it was someone at work who showed you, go straight to HR. You shouldn’t have to put up with that crap.

Just tell them to cop the fcuk on, no need to go ratting to HR.

freshpopcorn

shamrock55 wrote: »

I'm in the emergency services myself and this is all the more reason not to send stuff like this on, can't believe people in es would send this kind of thing

I joined Snapchat a few years ago for some reason. I was ended up following this guy in the emergency services and he could send you anything.

Hurrache

Highline wrote:

To the person who decided it would be a good idea to whip out his/her phone and film that scene... you are a sick fu*k and you really should be ashamed of yourself.

The people sharing it around are not much better.

How Soon Is Now

freshpopcorn wrote: »

These things often happen and I don't know why people share them online. Sometimes I feel they are looking for glory/a few minutes in the spotlight. Maybe a there name in the newspaper.

Theres ALOT of places online that share all kinds of pictures and videos you dont even need to go into the dark sides of the web to find them a quick google search will find a lot of it.


Ive seen all kinds over the years online and in person theres always someone who will keep a record of what they see!

Dr Strange

shamrock55 wrote: »

I'm in the emergency services myself and this is all the more reason not to send stuff like this on, can't believe people in es would send this kind of thing

Agree, there is no place for people like that in any ES or other organisations dealing with traumatic events.

Mrcaramelchoc

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I got it in a Whatsapp group I'm in for a ****ing charity cycle I'm doing of all things.

Video and pictures. I really think we have gone past peak living and we should just let the human race wipe itself out

just a tad dramatic wouldnt you say?

LollipopJimmy

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

just a tad dramatic wouldnt you say?

No

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Wibbs wrote: »

The majority of people ODB tend to freeze in traumatic situations or when they see traumatic situations and all too often as a way of coping they just stand around gawping. It's a mental distraction deflection thing. I'd suspect phones are ideal as that and if they start taking pics or a video it's akin to a wall of sorts between them and the trauma. It makes it less real. I've found in such situations in public it's the elderly of all people who tend to approach to help.

In my situation, I collapsed. It wasn’t really a situation where onlookers would go into shock or freeze. There were a few very helpful people who stayed with me, called an ambulance etc. The people gawping were not in shock, they were just being nosy fückers. Actually, I’ve been at the coalface of a few accidents (I’ve seen a few people getting hit by cars, one at fairly high speed) and my experience is that a lot of the people directly involved have their heads screwed on and take action. I have no first aid training so the most I ever did was place the emergency call and then get out of there and out of the way of people who know what they are doing. But I never experienced shock from those incidents. I don’t believe from my own experiences that it’s trauma rooting most onlookers to the spot. The numbers who see the actual incident are usually quite low, far lower than the crowds that form.

Even on a busy street like Parnell Street, likely no more than a handful of passers-by saw the direct hit of the cyclist. The ones who did might have frozen. The bank of gawpers that formed? They were in their hoop traumatised. Word travelled up Parnell Square. Most of these people likely headed down the street for a look.

Grayson

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Same here. The worst I get is videos of Conor McGregor leaving crack dens in Dolphins Barn.

Or occasionally one that starts off as something funny but then cuts to a black guy with a 10 inch cock. I have one friend who loves sending me those.

wiggle16

Three people in my office (we all sit at the same desk) were sent the picture within a half an hour of each other, by different people. Met another two people out in the smoking area who had also just got it. I've seen it. I was certain it was photoshopped at first.

I didn't get the picture and am glad I don't know anyone gormless enough to forward that along. What kind of moron thinks it's okay or funny or cool to forward that??

El_Duderino 09

So much surprise that people would want to see this type of thing. But when you see people rubber neck at a car crash, it shouldn't surprise us that people want to see this type of thing. I imagine if lost people saw what a car crash scene actually looks like, they would never want to see it again.

retro:electro

Wibbs wrote: »

The majority of people ODB tend to freeze in traumatic situations or when they see traumatic situations and all too often as a way of coping they just stand around gawping. It's a mental distraction deflection thing. I'd suspect phones are ideal as that and if they start taking pics or a video it's akin to a wall of sorts between them and the trauma. It makes it less real. I've found in such situations in public it's the elderly of all people who tend to approach to help.

I think you’re being too kind tbh. Some people are just nosey fcukers!

shamrock55

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I joined Snapchat a few years ago for some reason. I was ended up following this guy in the emergency services and he could send you anything.

He shouldn't be working in es, none of the crew I'm involved with would ever dream of doing such a thing, we've no bloody time to be taking pics anyway

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

retro:electro wrote: »

I think you’re being too kind tbh. Some people are just nosey fcukers!

+1

Auguste Comte

shamrock55 wrote: »

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I joined Snapchat a few years ago for some reason. I was ended up following this guy in the emergency services and he could send you anything.

He shouldn't be working in es, none of the crew I'm involved with would ever dream of doing such a thing, we've no bloody time to be taking pics anyway

It happens though. The WhatsApp video of the woman having a breakdown springs to mind.

HandsomeBob

dhaughton99 wrote: »

If it was someone at work who showed you, go straight to HR. You shouldn’t have to put up with that crap.

Lad in work sent it to me and my first reaction was **** sake you thick why did you send me that.

Going to HR though.....the phrase pick your battles comes to mind. It's the way of the world now that you're going to unwittingly come across material like this because as I said earlier - there will always be one thick around sending stuff like this. If you can't accept that then you're better off withdrawing from the groups that they are circulated on as opposed to throwing a wobbler every time you come across something like that.

Stonewall Jackson

There just doesn't seem to be a line of decency or respect anymore. I often go on Liveleak to watch crazy stuff from around the world but that gore sh1t is just very sad.
Sad that peoples deaths and the aftermath is entertainment for some.
Aren't we supposed to improve as a society, so we leave a better world for our children to live in. Society seems to be heading the other way where no one gives a fuk about anything or anybody.
The future wha'... give me the past any day.

ChikiChiki

What kind of sick animals share this stuff. And likely before family has even been informed. To anyone who shared, you are sick ****s!

Riesen_Meal

Stonewall Jackson wrote: »

There just doesn't seem to be a line of decency or respect anymore. I often go on Liveleak to watch crazy stuff from around the world but that gore sh1t is just very sad.
Sad that peoples deaths and the aftermath is entertainment for some.
Aren't we supposed to improve as a society, so we leave a better world for our children to live in. Society seems to be heading the other way where no one gives a fuk about anything or anybody.
The future wha'... give me the past any day.

It's already up on liveleak, like who the feck thinks taking that video is alright...

I was in work and one of the girls showed me as I'm not on WhatsApp, didn't think it was real at first if I'm honest, at the end of the day that's someone's family member, and that's the part that gets me...

Purple Mountain

Sick, disgusting and warped people who do this.
I would like to think if I was dead or dying on the side of the road that the only thing a passer by would do, if help was already there, is bless themselves and say a silent prayer.

Paul_Mc1988

Male unknown age, driver of other car was diabetic & blood sugars dropped causing him to cross lane & spin/crash both cars into barrier, patient that was decaped had no seatbelt on, truck driver who filmed video above has been arrested by Gardaí

The above is appearantly what happened.

Auguste Comte

Paul_Mc1988 wrote: »

Male unknown age, driver of other car was diabetic & blood sugars dropped causing him to cross lane & spin/crash both cars into barrier, patient that was decaped had no seatbelt on, truck driver who filmed video above has been arrested by Gardaí

The above is appearantly what happened.

Have you anything to back up your claim above? , if not it's only one step away from sharing the video. It's essentially blaming someone.

HighLine

HighLine wrote: »

I have a few friends who are in the emergency services so unfortunately they share gruesome sh*t on because they are immune to it.

That's no excuse, there is no way anyone working in E.S should share anything like that.
I would report them for sure.

eviltwin

Haven't seen it and don't want to. Friend of mine has, it was sent by a work mate and headed as something entirely innocent and she's very distressed. I don't understand people, to seek that out is sick, to send it to someone you know will be sensitive to those images for a laugh is pretty depraved.

RIP to the victim. I'm thinking of the family, as if losing a loved one isn't bad enough without the ghouls making entertainment out of it

Paul_Mc1988

Auguste Comte wrote:

Have you anything to back up your claim above? , if not it's only one step away from sharing the video. It's essentially blaming someone.

Im not blaming anyone. Simply putting up what was passed on to me from what i would consider a reliable source.

ChikiChiki

Incidents like this further reaffirm my belief that we have turned into a narcissistic society largely on account of social media. People fishing for affirmation, approval at the expense of a deceased person and their family.

Truly, truly disgusting. Bottom of the barrel.

Wibbs

retro:electro wrote: »

I think you’re being too kind tbh. Some people are just nosey fcukers!

Oh sure RE and I'm not so much making excuses for them and you do get the nosey parkers alright. You're right though trauma was too strong a word, more like a disconnect. You even see it in really dangerous situations like riots, or bomb scares, or gunfire going off. Among the fight or flight responses, you can see people just gawping, riveted to the spot and not in any obvious distress, even taking out phones. A weird modern version of "playing possum". Those who move towards the danger and aren't trained for it are the tiny minority. Which makes perfect survivability sense.

The gore stuff being shared strongly tends to be a male thing, particularly young men. It's partly a bravado thing, do you dare to look at this, partly a thank christ it wasn't me thing, partly to get the disgusted response form others, partly a lower level of empathy for others suffering, partly a morbid curiosity about such things and a large dollop of it couldn't happen to me. The latter being a biggie with young men, a demographic that thinks they're immortal more than any other*. Even before puberty boys tend to be much more into gore and the like.

I'd be willing to bet a fair chunk of change that the vast majority of those sharing the photo and almost certainly the one who took it and first uploaded it to be men and men under say 25.





*Generally speaking, lest any 23 year old blokes start giving me static about how they're not like that.

Duff

Got sent it earlier under the guise of something completely different. It's going to stay with me for a long time. Horrible stuff and the poor family members. What sort of mutant records this sort of thing in the first place. Worlds gone to shiíte.

ginandtonicsky

What kind of people do you need to know and whatsapp groups do you need to be in to get this kind of sick content forwarded to you? Even the most immature fcuker in any one of my whatsapp contacts wouldn't forward something like this.

Major judgement on the lot of you, keep better company!

joe40

I think if I got a gruesome whatapp like that I would delete the sender from my contacts or leave the group.
We are becoming desensitized to these horrble real life videos. Almost treated like movies removed from real life.
Even some of the videos that are supposed to be "funny fails" look like serious injuries at times

Wibbs

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Incidents like this further reaffirm my belief that we have turned into a narcissistic society largely on account of social media. People fishing for affirmation, approval at the expense of a deceased person and their family.

We always were like that to some degree CC. Rubberneckers and those who wanted to see gore have an extremely long history in humanity. Some of the most popular of all "shows" for men woman and kids down the centuries were public torture and executions, the bloodier the better. Sellers of fast food and souvenirs made brisk business at the guillotine and scaffold and pyre. Way back when we started to live in ever larger populations likely played a big part, as we personally knew fewer people, so there was that disconnect. Social media has certainly increased that, but it didn't come from nothing.