Saw a man cut in half, everything spilling, alive, alert for a long time...how?

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Yeah, I am fascinated by that stuff. And I’m a girl! (The one type of thing I won’t watch is beheadings - never seen one, don’t wanna. I saw a video of a man getting his throat cut from a side-stick out the front and that was all I ever need to see of that sort of thing. Actually, I’m generally not that big on living people suffering and dying, but once they are dead they are just meat. Fascinating meat.)

Easily the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen. Vietnamese policeman was run over by a truck. Judging from the condition of his torso, he was torn completely apart just above his hips. His lower half was lying at a right angle beside him, nothing attached.

So he’s lying there, his intestines completely spilling out, because, well, he had nothing to hold them in. He’s talking, his hands are weirdly touching his guts and the ends of his skin as he talks, looks around, and even tries to sit up a few times. But of course he can’t, because he has no hips. (Amazingly, he’s extremely calm…but that must have been extreme shock, because it’s hard to imagine someone not in shock calmly observing their lower half lying at their side and their guts spilling out without screaming hysterically)

There’s blood, but not nearly what you’d suppose, given the insane nature of his “injury” and there doesn’t seem to be any gushing from anywhere. His guts are very pale, however. I think the video is about… 6 minutes? Not sure about that, but it is WAY longer than you would ever dream someone in that condition could remain alive, never mind conscious.

The video ends before any paramedics arrive, and while he’s still clearly alive and aware.

Here’s what I wanna know: how in the world did he not bleed out? Can you tear someone in half at some perfect spot in their torso and somehow not hit an artery? That makes no sense, given that someone can bleed out from having the artery in their leg cut. Is it possible that in the process of ripping him in two, the truck also managed to “seal” whatever artery HAD to have been torn in the process?

And no, it was not faked. I’m very familiar with real gore vs. fake gore. this was real. It was on the street, people were milling, cars honking, slowing… it was really strange, but clearly real.

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What did the guy put on his chest about half way through the video? It looks like one of those light meters used on film sets. I think they were filming a movie or something and standing around waiting for the next take.

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Maybe if it was a rail car with heated wheels and rails, and rolled slowly enough, it might maybe cauterize the lower aortas. Except I really doubt that something as large as a lower aorta could be sealed by heat cauterization.

I’m not watching it, but I really doubt you saw what you thought you saw.

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I saw that one back when I wore a younger mans clothes…
It was a truck that ran over him, something like a dump truck.

The end of the legs showed they’d been squashed down… So it seems the arteries were squashed down at the body end too. Hard to see with the guts spilling out over…
He was bleeding out, but adrenaline had kicked in … This may have then raised his blood pressure with fatal result - to keep him alive they’d have to keep him calm, relaxed, doped… and of course have plenty of blood transfusions at hand…

Here’s an american who had his hip similarly cut off … a little better in that he still has one hip and most of its femur , losing that leg from just above the knee and below…

They may have created intestines etc from the remaining half ?

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Wow, that takes “playing with yourself” to a whole new level.

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It’s fake. I have seen footage of the shot being set up, when the guy isn’t in costume yet, and the blood isn’t there. He’s standing in a hole, and leans back until his torso is lying down. He stands up once in the preparatory video. This is still probably preparatory footage with the light meter, and people standing around, no paramedics, no one blocking traffic.

My brother is a special effects tech in Hollywood,a nd I asked him about this, and he confirms that it’s fake.

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Where?
I did some more googlage, and some people think its fake, you are the only one claiming evidence. Care to produce?

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Found two more…apparently its more common than you would ever dream. One an African man by another truck, and what sounds like a Russian man cut in half by a train. Amazing. Sad.

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The earliest posts of this video seem to be from 2009. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion of the video on line, whether it is real or fake. Snopes has a threadon it, but apparently no page.

It certainly appears to be faked to me. The amount of blood and the movements and reactions of the victim are inconsistent with such an extremely traumatic injury, nor do the exposed intestines seem realistic. An object that appears to be a light meter is placed on his chest at 1:52. It’s hard to imagine why someone might place some other object on such a severely injured victim. Although he moves his torso somewhat, the area around his waist never shifts even slightly, consistent with his lower body being in a hole.

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I thought it was snopes, but you say there was a thread but no page. Maybe it was rotten.com. Occasionally they debunk something if they are getting swamped by submissions of something they have confirmed is fake, and they want to say “Hey, quit sending us this.”

Like I said, my brother works in Hollywood in special effects-- he mostly does CGI, but he visits sets when they set up other effects, because sometimes they will want him to enhance a real-time effect, so he has a lot of experience with how film shots are set up, and how special effects are done. He is certain this is an FX. In the set-up video, someone gives the torso guy a drink of something out of a cup with a straw. It seems an unlikely ministration to someone actually in that predicament, but something a set assistant is very likely to do for an actor stuck in a hole outside on a hot day.

It’s also an unlikely injury for someone hit by a vehicle. Tires crush, but don’t cut.

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So why are beheadings worse and simply unwatchable? To me, it would seem like a person getting ripped in half would be a bit more traumatic to watch than a beheading.

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And how convenient is it that all these behalvings take place while someone is filming? (Okay, nowadays EVERYTHING is on camera, with all the camera phones around.)

It wasn’t always like that. Sometimes, you just had to read about it in the newspapers (back in the day when newspapers were actually paper), and use your imagination.

There was a case in San Francisco some years ago that you would have loved, Stoid! A cable car maintenance worker was working on the machinery at the Cable Barn. Scroll down to the second pic, showing the huge pulleys. It’s not real obvious in the pic, but each huge pulley that you think you see there is actually two huge pulleys side-by-side, turning in opposite directions.

So this worker was working on something-or-other on an idle line, with the pulleys not moving. To get at whatever he was getting at, he wriggled his body through the pulleys, in between the spokes.

And then, somehow, the cables moved and the two pulleys turned – in opposite directions! :eek: – and cleanly cut the guy right in half.

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Actually, the count is now four men cut in half, still alive, conscious & moving. Two traffic, two train. The other three are behind this ONE spoiler box, click at your own risk.

(And none of this were filmed happening, they are all after, which is not so surprising)

Train man Sri Lanka:
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Train Man Eastern Europe:
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Traffic Man Africa (EXCEPTIONALLY gory)
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How many exposed intestines have you seen for comparison? Check out the rican traffic accident particularly for something to add to your data set. And the movements of all the victims seem inconsistent with such traumatic injury…then again, what movements would be consistent? I think we all agree “none”, cuz they all oughta be dead or at least unconscious. yet they aren’t. If we have at least four on video, my guess is that it’s happened more often than that. Wacky, horrific, sad, but true.

That I would love to see for myself.

Guess again. Reference: African Man Cut In Half.

If what we are seeing was the ripping… it isn’t. It is the post-ripping. Which is pretty damn awful, for sure, but a terrible accident, which is not the same thing as watching someone aware that they are about to be murdered actually be murdered. It isn’t the gore factor, it’s the pain and terror and horror in the victim. No thanks.

Cleanest half-cut ever has to be the man who (reportedly…good god!) *committed suicide *with a gigantic table saw. Holy fuck! But damn clean cut, for sure. Black and white, sometime in the 50’s, I think. Long time since I saw it, probably findable on Rotten.

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I know exactly what video you are talking about without even clicking the link, I’m unaware if it looked fake or not since its been many years since I saw it. I have heard a case or two where a person got caught or something between a subway car and the platform and were kept alive even though there lower body was crushed I think because it basically acted as a giant tourniquet.

One of the cases I heard about supposedly they called the person’s next of kin or something that came to see them one last time before they moved the train, after which the person invariably died. Not sure if the story was true or if I just have a bad memory, but it seems pretty similar to the scenario in the movie Signs with Mel Gibson’s character’s wife being pinned between the car and the tree.

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You are thinking of a different video. The ends of the legs in this video are not squashed, despite the fact that they lay in the path of the wet tire tracks. This is definitely a backstage video.

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Pool: in all four of these instances there is nothing pressing on the torso to act as a tourniquet.

But something must be “sealing” the torsos. The Eastern European, according to Liveleak, lived for 50 minutes, and there was barely any blood. The Sri Lankan man is removed in the video and the videographer does a close up on the blood left behind, hardly what you’d expect from a cut finger in the kitchen, much less a person cut in half. Both of those were trains.

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I personally witnessed a young man falling off his bicycle in Lower Manhattan, and falling directly under the tires of an 18-wheeler. Blood and guts oozing/squirting out everywhere. Mercifully, he lost consciousness immediately . . . as did a few witnesses.

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But it is consistent with how an actor, dressed up in full special effects make-up would act between takes on location.

Even his innards he was casually picking at weren’t moving realistically. If you’ve ever witnessed a deer or any other mammal field dressed, the intestines are fairly loose. These just clung together like they were all part of the mould.

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That’s another point. Getting cut in two by a truck with thick tires would cause a massive spike in blood pressure, before you were sheered in half. How could he just be acting perfectly normal and lucid as if it were just another day, being torn in half?

There’d be loads more blood, and the innards I’ve seen from several mammals gutted have a deeper bluish, slick and slippery look to it; not pink or fleshy.

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I’m not a doctor, but I’ve read that certain types of injury can cause blood vessels to retract away from the cut, thus minimizing bleeding.