News & Events What world wide event/tragedy has impacted you the most

[The Old Dark Navy's]

* 9/11 as it was almost inconceivable and having just been to NYC, the whole thing is just magnified for me.

* Boxing Day Tsunami, just the scale of it.

* Princess Diana. I just remember where I was and the air of sadness around the world.

* Anita Cobby murder. Sadistic bastards. That poor poor woman.

* Sian Kingi. 12 years old. This was the first conscious memory I have of a child murder. Husband and wife team. Valmae Beck lured her and Barrie Watts nabbed her, r*ped and murdered her. He was also done for murdering somebody else. This is the first murder that comes to mind when I think of my daughter walking anywhere alone.

* Daniel Pearl televised beheading.

* Black Saturday Bushfires.

* Port Arthur - Martin Bryant.

* Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Dunblane.

* Challenger Space Shuttle explodes. Watching it live was shocking. I remembered every name of that crew for many many years afterwards, and still remember most of the names even today. Knowing that students from the school Christa McAuliffe taught at, and all over the world for that matter, were watching this live, just makes it even more horrific.

 

[Leon]

* Anita Cobby murder. Sadistic bastards. That poor poor woman.

Oh dear, forgot that one.

Absolutely sickening, horrible, evil.

Any extra treatment those ****s are getting in prison by other inmates is just fine by me.

 

[thurmanmunson]

When the tsunami hit Indonesia, the first thing I though of was.....what ever happened to that black kid Urkel?

 

[woopedazz]

Video in the woods with a Nazi swastika hung up in the trees, then shooting another guy in the head? If that's the video I watched that video today. Jesus that was brutal.

That's the one. Really, really messed up.

 

[Phone]

The decision to make Pazza a mod on both the Essendon and Main Board hit me pretty hard. I almost died of both shock and laughter.


The Beslan school massacre was probably the worst for me, being in primary school at the time. I didn't understand the significance 9/11 at the time, but a bunch of people coming into my class and killing kids my age...

 

[smiddaz123]

Just out of curiosity what compelled you guys to watch 3 guys 1 hammer? Not judging at all, just intrigued. Curiosity?

 

[maxlad]

Just out of curiosity what compelled you guys to watch 3 guys 1 hammer? Not judging at all, just intrigued. Curiosity?

I'm actually curious to watch it, but Im not going to cos I won't beable to sleep for a month

 

[indieswan96]

Just out of curiosity what compelled you guys to watch 3 guys 1 hammer? Not judging at all, just intrigued. Curiosity?

You guys.

 

[smiddaz123]

Haha i know how badly i'd react to see real life torture in front of my eyes. I've never been even close to wanting to see it.

What's freaky is that it was one of a heap of torture videos they made wasn't it?

 

[BACCS]

The collapse of Ansett, because it directly affected my family.

 

[Plugger35]

Like most people it would be 911. I'd been up to the top of one of the WTC towers about a year or so earlier so it was pretty freaky seeing them destroyed like that. Kept thinking about how bad it would have been to have been up there when the planes hit, you would have been f***ed.

The London bombings in 2005 would be up there too, having lived in London and been to those same tube stations made it hit home a bit harder. The worst thing that happened when I travelled on the tube was a few delays here and there, which everyone whinged about, the bombings kind of put that all in perspective.

Port Arthur, Princess Di's death and the Boxing Day Tsunami are other events which had a big impact and tend to stick in your memory.

Haha i know how badly i'd react to see real life torture in front of my eyes. I've never been even close to wanting to see it.

I had to sit through the torture of watching the GF replay and seeing us lose to Collingwood. Nothing could be worse than that.

 

[Hawks1523]

That's the one. Really, really messed up.

Yeah, that was ****ed. Have seen one where they get half way through and stop slicing and just start hacking at it..

What made me watch 3 guys 1 hammer? A friend and I were talking about these kinds of videos at work and he told me about the video and where to find it, and curiosity got the best of me,and I HAD to see it.

 

[woopedazz]

Plugger, look up 3 guys one hammer or ever worse the blunt swiss army knife beheading. Your view on torture will change.

 

[BACCS]

I seriously don't get how people can watch videos of a real life murder, it is just sick. Things like that just shouldn't be freely available, it is a disgrace that they are, and you really have to question the people who watch it, no offence to the posters in here.

 

[TheStinger]

Not a world event but my father and brother being killed in a car accident involving a drunk driver in the other car had the biggest impact on me.

That's just ****ed. I hate drunk drivers with a passion. Should never be able to drive a car again if you get caught drink driving. Accident waiting to happen. So sorry for your loss mate.

In world terms, the Columbine school shootings changed american schools forever. Even schools that had metal detectors before that went completely overboard and a lot of schools went to some sort of security the likes of which we hopefully will never see here.

And the stupidity of it was that these kids felt like outcasts and no-one liked them and yet they had their own "Trenchcoat Mafia" which included at least 5 kids, all of whom were close friends. FFS I didn't have 5 guys I would call genuinely best friends in my entire school life.

They were attacking the kids they felt had shut them out, failing to realise that some of the kids they shot had less friends than they did.

Just mindless stupidity.

 

[Plugger35]

Plugger, look up 3 guys one hammer or ever worse the blunt swiss army knife beheading. Your view on torture will change.

I was only joking when I said watching the GF replay was worse, was pretty awful to watch though for a Saints supporter.

I'm aware of 3 guys one hammer but I've never been game enough to watch it, have heard the descriptions though. Any footage of real life murders is pretty tough viewing, let alone brutal murders or torture like the 3 guys one hammer one.

 

[23hammy23]

Port Arthur. Even though I don't remember it, it gives me chills just thinking how close i came to it.
I was born in Tassie and lived just outside of Devonport. One day my aunty came down from Melbourne and we planned to go to Port Arthur. My aunty took to long getting ready and we knew we wouldn't get there until late so we went to the zoo. That night my Dad heard about the massacre and i guess was really shocked as we were meant to be there when it happened.

 

[Igloo]

I watched a bit of 3 guys 1 hammer today. I could only make it 3 mins in. It was disgusting. You couldn't even make out the guys facial features anymore. Very disturbing

 

[Tigerland88]

9/11 has to be first, the rumours going round school (13 then) at the time and then the awful truth of it when we got home was pretty terrible. Maybe just as bad was the Omagh bomb, which scared the **** out of everybody in Northern Ireland at the time, one of the most callous and disgusting acts i can recall. To reinforce that, the story from my uni housemate who survived it was scary stuff indeed.

 

[Football God]

I watched reaction videos on youtube today of the 3 men 1 hammer vid, safe to say i wont be watching it but im worried curiosity will get the best of me.

Can I ask why the video is still on the internet and can easily be founded? its a snuff film ffs...

 

[WeetBixKid]

Station night club fire. Nothing compares to the Station night club fire video with the volume turned up. The screams haunted me for weeks.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I guess the obvious one is September 11, because it was recent, but Port Arthur was terrible. Richard Kelvin's murder in Adelaide also.

I know people related to him.

 

[c00lcat]

I know people related to him.

psssst.
somebody made a thread about you.

 

[Schulzenfest]

psssst.
somebody made a thread about you.

I'm confused by that thread.

 

[c00lcat]

I'm confused by that thread.

so am i