Why scooters are dangerous... VERY GORY!

[dipshit]

Scooters and pople in Thailand not wearing the right gear will not be relevant to some pople around here to get a glimpse of their own mortality. This image is far more shocking because many of us can relate to it more.

Be warned...

[barty5]

wicked video then i found this one not as fatal but must have been painfull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-EL2...eature=related

[MisterD]

Scooters and pople in Thailand not wearing the right gear will not be relevant to some pople around here to get a glimpse of their own mortality. This image is far more shocking because many of us can relate to it more.

Be warned...

And that pile of bits appears to be wearing ATG...lesson: don't ride like a fuckwit

[Headbanger]

This is worse, it still gives me nightmares!! You were warned!!!

What?....No grin on his face?

Well, Ok, He didn't have a face.

Horrible horrible stuff, That video should be required watching for nubs, Nightmares may help.

Though I'd say some infantile defence system would kick in and they would just laugh.

[Steam]

After reading through the thread and seeing people's reactions, I don't think I need to see it thankyou.

[McDuck]

After reading through the thread and seeing people's reactions, I don't think I need to see it thankyou.

Yes you do... go on.... it is funny...... if you are a sicko...

[Finn]

Scooters and pople in Thailand not wearing the right gear will not be relevant to some pople around here to get a glimpse of their own mortality.

Even if that poor chap was in full leathers, he still would of ended up floor pizza.

[Blue Velvet]

This is worse, it still gives me nightmares!! You were warned!!!

I think that dudes head held together quite well, considering. Must have been wearing a good helmet

With an avatar like that... YES you are!

Spidy rocks

[Number One]

This is worse, it still gives me nightmares!! You were warned!!!

Why couldn't I resist looking at that....

And how many people were diving into those bodies without any gloves on....I struggle with cleaning chicken pieces!

Spidy rocks

You mean Blue Ball Sack guy rocks

[Lissa]

I want to look, but I fear from everyone reaction I would probably have nightmares about it ... you will have to let me know what its about trudes.

[Bikernereid]

Not all truckers are bad!!

Anyway, what is a coffee burn compared to making a 15 meter skidmark out of someones intestines?

He should get a bumpersticker saying: "Darwin is a trucker!"

[matt83]

Thats bad. The only thing that makes me feel better is the scooter rider wouldn't have had a clue what was happening, instant lights-out.

[Monamie]

That is sooooo gross. I feel sick

[Mikkel]

This is worse, it still gives me nightmares!! You were warned!!!

Hmmm, doesn't bother me truth be told. After having read one of the first comments in the thread (the one about not wanting to let go of the pole) before watching the video I couldn't help laughing when the rescue workers started getting a bit frantic about getting him off it.

However, I find the scooter video far more cringe inducing... But truth be told - it's not the gore or the carnage itself that get to me, it's watching it unfold and just knowing that while that fella might be alive and well now, but he's not going to be well, and most likely not alive either, in another 5 seconds.

Both are fascinating photage to watch in a part of the world where we're spared the more gory sides of life...

Another example is this homepage: Wound Ballistics
No videos - but a lot of very graphic black and white images embedded in the text. Makes for interesting reading btw. Some bits of it are not for the faint of heart though.

I have a strong stomach for this kind of thing, and tend to tolerate most of it. This one was no exception, but it defiantely disturbed me how graphic it was. I've never seen anything quite like it. What a horrendous end to a life - I'm sitting here imagining what it would be like if that were my brother or father. Terrible.

I don't think it would be that horrible. Horrible for the family to watch yes - but that would be pretty much "Hey, looks like I'm gonna kiss that pole - good thing I'm wearing a hel...."

Its from Taiwan.

Let's get hold of a set of the Taiwan road code then.

Thats bad. The only thing that makes me feel better is the scooter rider wouldn't have had a clue what was happening, instant lights-out.

Hmmm, I'm sure he'd have a few seconds to think WTF before being run over by the first wheel - and he might very well have been conscious even after that point.

[Dilligaf]

This is worse, it still gives me nightmares!! You were warned!!!

It was Thailand - lived there and recognised the writing. The reason they take the scraping every last bit of body up seriously is as buddhists they believe that the next life will not suffer more if all body parts are present when they go on to their next life.
Only a select group of people in Thailand will touch a dead body (something about the dead person's bad karma attaching to you) and so many times when driving around you will see many a motorbiker who has lost a fight with a truck - oh and they don't cover the body with a sheet. A very large crowd will gather and gawk - makes for nice traffic jams while you get stuck right next to the body in the back of a taxi while you try desperately to distract your child so as they are oblivious to the whole thing
When we first arrived the hotel (where we worked) regularly had the police in trying to scare the staff into wearing helmets etc and brought along some gnarly photos. The brain in the middle of the road is one that will stay with me forever...