# What's the most disturbing thing you watched on purpose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769 "2010-04-11T21:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/61 "2010-04-13T03:28:55Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > The woman who was burned very badly in a drunk-driving accident is [Jacqueline Saburido](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Saburido). The link is Wikipedia; there is one small picture that you do not have to enlarge if you don’t want to. See? Not sickening at all. The world needs more Jaqueline Saburidos. (FTR, I’m not watching a single thing mentioned here. Just reading about them is exposure enough.) ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/62 "2010-04-13T04:50:59Z")
I watched the interview Oprah did with the lady that was attacked by the chimp. Her name is Charla Nash. Bless her heart, it literally tore her whole face off! I changed the channel a couple of times because I just couldn’t bear it. I can’t even begin to imagine how she copes daily with what happened to her. I did want to see what was being done for her medically so I watched until the end. The Oprah show aired back in November. Then just a couple of weeks ago Animal Planet aired a show called Fatal Attractions. The episode was about people owning chimps. They played the 911 call made by the owner of the chimp Travis while he was attacking Charla Nash. I have to admit I cried because I could still see that poor woman’s torn up face or what little was left of it, knowing it was happening during this very phone call! When the police got there, the chimp’s owner was screaming “Shoot him, shoot him!” It was very disturbing. I do hope that when we see someone like this lady who is still so brave and strong, it makes us count our own blessings. Material possessions aren’t everything. Your life can be turned upside down in an instant just like hers was. PS: I also am NOT watching anything posted here. I agree with Olive. Reading the descriptions is enough for me, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/63 "2010-04-13T06:09:12Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have seen some of these and used to look at some shocking stuff until I learned it wasn’t good for me and exercised self-control. > > But the one that disturbs me the most is this. There is a woman out there who has a website…she was in a drunk driving accident, and her car caught on fire. Her father was there and tried to get her out but it was a relatively long time and she was badly burned all over her body. > > The website is truly horrifying. She was a pretty young Spanish woman before the accident. After the accident, she is a monster. Unrecognizable. She is still living her life, but she has had countless surgeries. She tells of how children scream and cry when they see her. > > She has a billboard in some places. It shows a before and after picture and it says “Not everyone is killed in drunk driving accidents. Some live.” Or something like that. The after pick is deemed too horrifying to put up on the road in most places. > > I don’t remember her name and will not google her. After years and years I am finally gettting the imagery out of my mind. Most likely it’s because I read so much of her story but it truly disturbs me and for a while I had nightmares about it. And how bad is that? How must she feel, knowing she gives nightmares to people? I’d rather die. Oh, Lord! She was on Oprah once and I’ll never forget it! Hard to watch, but SO compelling! ---
**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:** [April 13, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/64 "2010-04-13T11:44:57Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > One woman just sat there, feet/legs in the fire and just taking it. Smoke (steam?!) was coming from her mouth as she sat. Men beat the women with sticks. I wish that tomorrow all religion would disappear and science and philosophy would take its place. Mengele’s & the other Nazi camp doctors’ atrocities were for science. Some supposedly yielded valuable data that is still in use. And the Jacobins were quite the philosophical fellows. Just sayin.’ ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/65 "2010-04-13T11:59:56Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Mengele’s & the other Nazi camp doctors’ atrocities were for science. Some supposedly yielded valuable data that is still in use. > > And the Jacobins were quite the philosophical fellows. > > Just sayin.’ And two wrongs don’t make a right. Just sayin. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/66 "2010-04-13T12:35:25Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Mengele’s & the other Nazi camp doctors’ atrocities were for science. Some supposedly yielded valuable data that is still in use. > ’ This is probably for another thread, (aside from the fact that the Nazi doctors’ guinea pigs did not volunteer) but might you have a cite for that? I did see the Daniel Pearl execution video not long after I watched the movie A Mighty Heart. And I had seen Jacqueline Saburido as well as the chimp lady. That’s about it, and that’s plenty. This thread is horrifyingly educational. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/67 "2010-04-13T13:50:15Z")
> [@Caprese](#): > > This is probably for another thread, (aside from the fact that the Nazi doctors’ guinea pigs did not volunteer) but might you have a cite for that? I’d like to see one too. From what I’ve read, I understand many (maybe most) of Mengele’s “experiments” were essentially sadistic, and not scientifically valuable at all. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/68 "2010-04-13T14:10:06Z")
Being super-sensitive, suffering from depression and OCD, I contrarily started reading this thread out of some fascinated perversity. About a quarter of the way down, that little voice in my head, the one that tells me to not eat a whole bag of pistachios, to stop drinking tequila shots - that voice screamed “Stop reading this stuff right now, you asshole - want to wreck your day starting at 10 a.m.?” I have learned, when reading newspapers or whatever, if there is any horrendous cruelty coming up, especially to animals, I have learned to identify such is coming up, and skim over it until it’s safe to read again. Usually the headline is more than I want to know! Well, I’ll contribute one of the horrors I saw on cable TV one night - it was either the History, Learning, or Travel channel, and it was a documentary on life in a present day African village. Cut to a shot of a woman at work, digging or planting something. Voiceover explains she has exiled herself from her village. She had given birth to twins and their teeth either started to come in too early, or in the wrong order. According to their grand poobah Witch Doctor, this was a sign of Evil, and her children were put to death. So she left her village to live alone somewhere. Cut to shot of grizzled old Witch Doctor, sucking on a cigarette, lounging in filthy orange polyester pants that probably came over in a church clothing drive. Don’t tell me any sad stories about the poor/oppressed/backward/ starving/needy Africans, roaming around with child soldiers committing genocide. or killing babies with early teeth. I won’t listen, I won’t read the stories, La la la I can’t hear you! ---
**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:** [April 13, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/69 "2010-04-13T14:10:37Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > I’d like to see one too. From what I’ve read, I understand many (maybe most) of Mengele’s “experiments” were essentially sadistic, and not scientifically valuable at all. I’ll concede on Mengele but other Nazi experiments, mainly on the effects of freezing & poison gas, have provoked controversy in that scientists have indeed examined them for data. I thought their use was more extensive, so I’ll admit I did overstate the case. Anyway, my point was that science & philosophy are not always pure humane disciplines any more than religion is not always the root of atrocities. > **[Nazi human experimentation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation)** > > Final Solution > Pre-Machtergreifung > Post-Machtergreifung ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/70 "2010-04-13T15:42:11Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > A while ago, someone posted a video of an Indian monk or some such who burned himself alive as a protest. He just stood there, on fire, not making a sound, until he fell over. Would that be [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RageAgainsttheMachineRageAgainsttheMachine.jpg) particular monk? ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/71 "2010-04-13T15:58:32Z")
I’ve seen a few of these videos, plus one involving a horse and a man, and I guess I have the ability to put them out of my mind afterwards because I don’t remember them that clearly. But reading this thread has made me sick to my stomach. Really. I’m going to take my lunch break and go home and lie down now. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/72 "2010-04-13T16:12:45Z")
> [@BrandonR](#): > > A video of what I want to say was Czech rebels putting a knife through a Russian soldier’s throat (I could be mixing up the people or circumstances). The accompanying sound was horrifying. If ever there was an “unsee” feature for the brain, this would be the use for it… This is mine too. I’ve seen worse, but this really affected me. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/73 "2010-04-13T16:33:26Z")
[Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=559319&page=2). Not so much the videos, but some of the descriptions. My imagination took care of the rest, unfortunately. I tried to stop reading, but couldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/74 "2010-04-13T16:46:22Z")
The Monica Bellucci movie _Irreversible_. I will not explain what was so disturbing about it, because if you’ve seen it you know, and if you haven’t seen it you don’t want it in your head. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/75 "2010-04-13T16:57:09Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > You know, it’s so interesting that horrifies you. I’m pretty sure I saw that woman on Oprah and she seemed like just the nicest person. She said, ‘‘I only let myself cry once a day.’’ I remember feeling moved and inspired. > > It was shocking, though, how badly someone can be disfigured and survive to tell about it. And that is what is so horrifying about it. Inside that body is a perfectly formed human mind, healthy and desiring of love, happiness, and all of the things we strive for. But she’ll never have it, I don’t think. Yes, that horrifies me, because she’s ordinary. She is Me. ---
**Author:** ![beatlejuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@beatlejuice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beatlejuice)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/76 "2010-04-13T19:37:02Z")
There was a documentary on TLC that showed a woman who had a terrible accident that destroyed most facial bones. When the doctors did the reconstruction surgery, they cut from the top of her head around her ears and literally pulled her face down. Couldn’t grab the remote fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/77 "2010-04-13T20:34:53Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > A couple years ago I was browsing though some website with examples of twisted asian porn. One of them was an otherwise naked Japanese woman stomping a kitten to death with a high heel. I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to sexual fetishes, but what kind of sick fuck would actually get turned on by that? I think I’m the second to point out that it is not a Japanese lady, but a Chinese lady. > [@MTCicero](#): > > Unquestionably, this: [Police Interview Room Suicide | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/interrogate.asp) If you don’t know, it’s a video of a guy being interrogated by the police. When the police leave the room, he pulls out a gun and kills himself. ---
**Author:** ![Brandus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Brandus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brandus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/78 "2010-04-14T17:15:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I think I’m the second to point out that it is not a Japanese lady, but a Chinese lady. She was also tracked down by people outraged by the video. In addition to receiving charges for cruelty (as well as the cameraman), she was basically ostracized from society. ---
**Author:** ![myriad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@myriad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myriad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/79 "2010-04-15T00:46:28Z")
> [@Brandus](#): > > She was also tracked down by people outraged by the video. In addition to receiving charges for cruelty (as well as the cameraman), she was basically ostracized from society. that is by far the best thing I have read in this thread! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/80 "2010-04-15T11:28:09Z")
> [@BrandonR](#): > > A video of what I want to say was Czech rebels putting a knife through a Russian soldier’s throat (I could be mixing up the people or circumstances). The accompanying sound was horrifying. If ever there was an “unsee” feature for the brain, this would be the use for it… Not for anything in the world would I watch that! In fact, I’m with all of those who are not clicking or googling anything! But it reminds of me of the most disturbing things I’ve ever _read_ which was a graphic description written from the point of view of an inexperienced intern watching a man slowing choke to death due to swelling in his throat. The intern tries and fails to find help and then, in desperation, attempts a thracheotomy which goes horrifically wrong. Can’t remember the name of the book but will know it if I see it and never wish to go anywhere near it ever again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769.md?page=5)