# The almost sickest thing I've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841 "2001-09-15T17:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/1 "2001-09-15T17:29:59Z")
I’m not going to post a link because it was a Powerpoint executable slide show that I received as an email attachment. I expect it’s making the rounds and others out there have seen it. Most of the slides are the images we’ve seen on TV. Explosions, planes, etc. But 3 or 4 (I deleted the email completely from my account so I can’t watch it again, nor would I want to) of the slides were pictures of the people who jumped. Pictures of people as they were falling. Why the hell do you think I need to see that??? Even the TV media isn’t showing those pictures. I know it happened, but seeing pictures isn’t going to make it better. It’s horrible, terrible, and… I can’t begin to describe it. It’s just not appropriate. This event is going to haunt us for a long time. But now those pictures are burned into my memory. Let us heal. If anyone is interested in seeing the slide show, I think some of my coworkers were also sent the email. I might be able to track it down. But I don’t really think you’d want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/2 "2001-09-15T17:35:21Z")
I got a copy of it, too. There were over 140 people on the ‘cc’ list. Recycle bin with that trash, immediately. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/3 "2001-09-15T18:25:53Z")
Ahh, that explains it. I received it, too, but I don’t have PowerPoint. ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/4 "2001-09-15T18:32:22Z")
They showed a picture of someone falling in the newspaper the day after it happened. It made me sick. I couldn’t beleive that they would put something like that in the paper. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/5 "2001-09-15T18:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tattva \* > \*\*Even the TV media isn’t showing those pictures. \*\* What are you talking about? I couldn’t watch TV for 5 minutes on days 1 and 2 without seeing that. ---
**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-sickest-thing-ive-seen/81841/6 "2001-09-15T18:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > What are you talking about? I couldn’t watch TV for 5 minutes on days 1 and 2 without seeing that. Well, I didn’t see it on TV. I saw videos of people hanging out of windows, but no one jumping. Granted, I didn’t have access to a TV from 10am-4pm CDT on Tuesday, but I did hear Peter Jennings say that they weren’t showing those pictures because of how gruesome they could be. But my point is that I don’t think they should show them.