I leave for a few days, and when I come back my thread is still here… I’m impressed!
Well, after having my mom take a look (a former nurse) and several others, I figure it may be real. Scary as that is, the human body can put up with an amazing amount of trauma.
Thanks to all who helped out with the debate, and if anyone comes up with something rock solid either way, feel free to E-mail me or post it up… thanks!!
The eyes don’t look lucid to me…but that’s just my opinion. They look really blank, IMO.
Yeah. This is a lot more traumitizing (sp?) than finding porno. shudder
yup…my bad about that link that I put up on the board earliar, I guess that I just skipped over the MODERATERS instructions. Sorry again.
-Me-
Chapter 9, page 70. Too lazy and uncoordinated right now to type out the scene, but it’s when Clarice Starling interviews Mason Verger in his home.
MC– Makes sense. Thanks.
Zoggie - As far as who takes pictures of these people, it’s usually a doctor or nurse. I’m not sure what the purpose is, but I’d hazard the guess that it’s done for teaching purposes (i.e., extreme injuries or unusual causes of those injuries and the result). I was a victim of a facial trauma injury, though thank God it was on a much smaller scale. Long story short, I was in a band room accident that resulted in an extensive, gaping wound across my lip. I was in the ER, crying and squeezing my poor director’s hand under some pretty heavy sedatives, and then some nurse came in and take pictures of the whole mess. I was pissed. They did the same thing in the plastic surgeon’s office later, right after I received 14 stitches… and after I got my exterior stitches taken out a week later… and finally 6 weeks after that. It keeps a pretty good record of the healing process.
It’s definately fake. If the face was in that bad of a condition I dont believe that they would be taking the time to photograph it when every second counts to keep him alive.
If it is real (and I still think it just doesn’t look “right”), he’s already dead. Not in pain, not lucid, and it would explain the lack of bleeding and the fact that they took time to take the picture.
Whoa I love GORE!
But this?..YEESH
Word is here that this kid apparantly got a can of BarQ’s Root Beer from someone.
Now the can supposedly was put in a paint shaker at a hardware store and then left out in the sun.
So the kid gets the trick’R’treat and goes home with it.
After puttin back chocolate bars aplenty he felt a little thirsty and decided to open the can O’ pop.
boom
Umm…mistake
I think that is called the [Homer Simpson Warm Beer Can Syndrome]
Shit…If I was him/her [i cant tell]
I’d kill myself.
Sadly, for the individual concerned, this picture depicts an actual accident. No, I wasn’t there, but look at the other clues in the picture. This is clearly an emergency room setting. The room’s track curtain can be seen over his left shoulder (a mirror image I believe.) The person behind him is wearing rubber gloves. The person on the far left (blue lower garment) appears to be wearing some sort of disposable gown. Behind that person looks to be a piece of equipment, probably wheeled, with two wire baskets for emergency room supplies. There is what looks to be a blood pressure monitoring cuff on the individual’s right upper arm. The rolled-up, blood-soaked bandages under his pectoral region (serving an unknown purpose) would not likely be something included in a set-up shot. The depth perception apparent in the picture makes it clear the trauma extends well into the depth of the maxi-oral (sp) region and is not simply makeup (or a mask) applied to a normal face. The individual’s shaved head and small pierced ring (left cheek area) seem consistent with a “biker” (I do not intend that to sound pejoritive.) It appears to me the individual’s face met and was abraided by a rough surface (pavement) consistent with a biking accident. If he is still alive, my sympathy and prayers go out to him.
The only question I have is: Why would someone go to all this trouble to create this image? If this were clipped from a scene in a violent movie, I would understand but the photo appears to have no other motive other than to shock.
I also, “accidentally” viewed this image months ago and the image of this poor mans eyes and the the remnants of his teeth will stick with me forever.
My vote: Real
In television programmes from Marcus Welby to Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, doctors are presented to us as morally elevated beings, as people often singularly capable of making the right ethical choices. Like, whenever there’s an isolated community of meatheads somewhere, hellbent on burning a gypsy or two, it’s the doctor who’ll say “don’t burn that gypsy. It’s just not nice.” Internet pictures like the one under debate have made me believe that if doctors do possess this quality it’s because of exposure to real life blood and guts. They know that the human body is just a squishy bag of glunk and that when it knocks against something hard it’s likely to spurt open. It stands to reason that this could easily be a picture of an unprotected motorcyclist who may have had half-successful plastic surgery. I think I’m better off for having seen it -why should it be the exclusive domain of the medical profession?