# Things that you've read/seen that you wish you hadn't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408 "2014-12-29T04:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/121 "2015-01-21T12:04:58Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I’d left the TV on and woke up in the middle of the night. Footage of a young woman tied up, asking for her child, the murderers cut her bra off. She says 'hey - that’s my bra" and they respond 'You don’t own anything anymore." > > It was actual footage of this persons last moments, they’d already killed her husband and child. Some sort of documentary. Charles Ng (SFW) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/122 "2015-01-21T13:57:29Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Charles Ng (SFW) Extremely safe. It goes nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/123 "2015-01-21T14:44:54Z")
I was flipping through either rotten .com or gore gallery back when the Internet was first invented and saw a picture of a cat cut in half across a railroad track. The only thing I can think is that the cat was already dead and some sicko placed the body there. But it was still a horrifying image. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/124 "2015-01-21T14:58:41Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Extremely safe. It goes nowhere. well fiddle-dee-dee. [http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial\_killers/predators/ng/call\_1.html](http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/ng/call_1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/125 "2015-01-21T15:03:15Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > well fiddle-dee-dee. [http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial\_killers/predators/ng/call\_1.html](http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/ng/call_1.html) Yeah that’s it. Shudder McShudder. The fact that it was quietly playing out on my TV in the middle of the night, this womans last words. The voiceover was saying she had no idea what was going on at that point. Poor thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/126 "2015-01-21T20:23:06Z")
> [@chorpler](#): > > The tanuki video I saw implied that it was a normal practice in the Chinese fur industry, but as people pointed out, that makes no sense; it would expose you to danger from the animal, make it much harder to do the procedure, and would result in a much worse final product. So it seems the reason would have to be either pure cruelty, or as a staged incident to rile people up. In the one I saw, they bang the animal’s head against a tree to stun it, and then they pin it to the tree with nails. When they’re done, they let the animal loose and trust me, it’s too busy wondering WTF just happened, and probably in a lot of pain, to do any harm. Only their eyelashes are left. My guess is, they’re lazy and just don’t give a crap to bother killing it first. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/127 "2015-01-22T15:08:25Z")
Did you guys ever see “Faces of Death” back in the day? The one where they put the monkey into a hole in the table then everyone beats it’s head until it dies then they eat the monkey’s brains. What in the everloving fuck is wrong with people. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/128 "2015-01-22T15:34:57Z")
I realize this thread is intended to talk about videos but since since I had to ‘see’ to read. Chuck Palahniuk’s Guts was wrong on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/129 "2015-01-22T18:05:50Z")
Indeed. My name here is from _Choke_, of which \*Guts \*is a part. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/130 "2015-01-22T18:06:50Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > Indeed. My name here is from _Choke_, of which \*Guts \*is a part. I thought both were from _Haunted_. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/131 "2015-01-22T20:58:01Z")
Today, I am actually more than a little angry at myself for having wasted 13 + hours of my life watching “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” Mind you, I was not repulsed, sickened or made uneasy by anything they showed onscreen or alluded to; instead I am appalled at the sheer pointlessness of the entire series. It was an absolute incoherent mess from the first episode, but I thought to myself “Well, it can only get better from here.” And with every episode, it seemed to get worse. The finale didn’t so much wrap up plot lines as simply arbitrarily stop. I am not even being snarky. I really mean this - I cannot believe I invested so much of my time in a show that is such pointless drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/132 "2015-01-23T14:30:27Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Today, I am actually more than a little angry at myself for having wasted 13 + hours of my life watching “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” I know eh. My husband and I watched the first season of “American Horror Story” then I said “Well I’m done.” I wish I hadn’t continued to watch “Glee” after (I think it was) the 3rd season, when they all graduated. It went from “fun and sometimes serious” to “stupid intelligence-insulting crap”. Did you guys ever see the serious of pictures on Gore Gallery where the woman and her boyfriend kill her husband and pose with his corpse? They cut him all up, posed naked with the bloody body then posed the body parts and took pictures. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/133 "2015-01-23T17:24:51Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Pass the brain bleach: That picture of the private parts of the man who allegedly has two penises. > > :dubious: If he’d had five, his pants would have fit like a glove. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/134 "2015-01-23T17:30:35Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I know eh. My husband and I watched the first season of “American Horror Story” then I said “Well I’m done.” > > I wish I hadn’t continued to watch “Glee” after (I think it was) the 3rd season, when they all graduated. It went from “fun and sometimes serious” to “stupid intelligence-insulting crap”. > > Did you guys ever see the serious of pictures on Gore Gallery where the woman and her boyfriend kill her husband and pose with his corpse? They cut him all up, posed naked with the bloody body then posed the body parts and took pictures. I saw those pics at the Los Angeles Museum of Death! And the reason they were caught- they took the film in to be developed! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/135 "2015-01-23T18:51:00Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > There are quite a few “TMI!” moments in this story, and most of them are about Dr. Brantly. Apparently, he WANTED things like this printed, so people know what this disease really truly does to people. > > I pictured a lot of people pushing their breakfast plates aside at one point, and if you read the story, you’ll know exactly where it is. Reading it wasn’t easy. EXPERIENCING it, whether first- or secondhand, would be beyond horrible. Repeat x 10,000 and that must be what’s like in parts of west Africa. Incredibly, some of the survivors want to go back, or in the case of British nurse Will Pooley, already have. > > [http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-ebola-survivors-tread-painful-lonely-journeys-1414801784](http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-ebola-survivors-tread-painful-lonely-journeys-1414801784) Update: Dr. Sacra went back to Liberia last week. He plans to stay for a month, and since he’s immune, he won’t have to be quarantined when he returns. As for the link, it never really bothered me to read things like that in people’s charts, although I might have cringed a bit or said, “Oh, gross!” I didn’t expect to see it in the Wall Street Journal. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/136 "2015-01-23T18:52:07Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I saw those pics at the Los Angeles Museum of Death! And the reason they were caught- they took the film in to be developed! Jay Leno always hated stupid criminals. :dubious: Museum of Death? Only in Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/137 "2015-01-23T20:39:40Z")
When I was in college, a young woman and I dated a bit. On one occasion, she invited me to her place to watch a movie. It was the most wretched, disgusting, awful, cheesy, sappy, tear-jerker wannabe film: _A Walk To Remember_ Plot spoiler: A popular bad boy type fellow in high school falls in love with an unpopular plainly dressed preacher’s daughter. Apparently, she is terminally ill with leukemia. They later get married in her father’s church and then she dies soon after that at about age 18 I think. \ I’d like to unwatch that garbage. I’d rather see _2 Girls 1 Cup_ and skinned live animals consecutively on repeat for two hours. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/138 "2015-01-23T22:38:28Z")
I was an editor at a newspaper on 9/11, so we got the live feed from the AP photo wire. We saw every single photo of the people jumping out of the towers. Those horrific sights still stick with me to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/139 "2015-01-23T23:36:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > …Then there was the time I was in tenth grade and we had to do an essay for English class, and then do a presentation on our topic. One girl chose the meat industry. She showed this 15 minute video of a pig being slaughtered. Basically, they slit it’s throat, but not enough to kill it – they hung it upside down and let it slowly bleed to death while it moaned in pain. And then, before it was totally dead, they took it down and then cut off its hooves while it squealed and struggled. At the time, I was horribly disturbed and ended up having nightmares. (I think it was a year before I ate bacon or ham again)… Your post reminded me of an atrocity photo of ISIS doing what they do. Only the creature being bled was a naked woman, in public, with two or three of those pieces of filth holding her down as she bled from her throat into a large basin. God only knew what they intended to do with the blood. As far as things I’ve witnessed in person that I’d just as soon not see again, the decapitated man lying in the roadway in front of my house is high on the list. He was thrown through a windshield, just in time to have the front axle of a semi take his head off like Tiger Woods crushing a drive. I think his head was found a few hundred yards up the highway, near where the axle ended up. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/140 "2015-01-24T02:53:43Z")
The Luka Rocco Magnotta murder video. That is one sick freak. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408.md?page=8)