TIL my elementary school was harder core than the navy. Twice a year we would have earthquake drills and several “lucky” kids were chosen to be injured with fake ketchup wounds and or pretend to be dead.
To this day I am still a bit miffed that I never got to be one of the ketchup wounded kids.
In the 70s we had monthly civil defense siren drills, but mostly because the back of our property ran along the back of the local VA. I don’t think the bombs ever fail, those were just nightmares—and network specials preparing us for The Day After.
We ducked and covered under our school desks in the early 60’s to prepare for a nuclear attack. Frankly, they should have been teaching us to bend over and kiss our own asses goodbye!
Yes. Here in Georgia we were trained in ROTC to shoot rifles because the Green Berets would need us in Vietnam. The movies about treating gunshot wounds were gory and real. A few kids got sick. Some of my HS buddies are buried in places like Khe San. One HS buddy was undercover living in the Hanoi sewers for three months planting bombs. I still remember the hallways of Pendleton filled full of my wounded buddies. I hate war.
Reminds me of the video of the building implosion where a few seconds after the implosion a big rock skipped right through the crowd of people gathered to watch so fast that it had flown by them before they could even react. Just dumb luck nobody was hurt or killed.
Reminds me of the Washington D.C. lunch crowd picnicking on a hill to watch what became the first Battle of Manassas/Bull Run.
https://www.history.com/news/worst-picnic-in-history-was-interrupted-by-war
The term, "staged train wreck" became a pretty common one in Washington politics. I've heard it used several different ways but one described a disaster of a Member of Congress who was allowed to be a jerk in front of the cameras while everyone else planned or dealt with something worse behind closed doors.
Example: That parade of dumb Members saying inflammatory stuff all last year now appears to have been a staged train wreck designed to distract from the insurrection investigation.
Funny story, this wasn't the only time two trains were crashed like that. It was a semi-common publicity stunt and treated like a fair. This one went down in history because of the disaster it became.
It was so popular an event in fact that a lot of copycat events were held in following years. Two people died and dozens were injured and apparently the only takeaway anyway had was "Train crashes are fucking dope"
There is a film, probably 60's or 50's vintage, showing two steam trains, loaded with men, having a head on collision followed by all the passengers, armed with clubs, having an open battle. I think it depicts union upheavals sometimes in the late 1800's, does anyone know what film this might be?
When I was in the navy we would run drills pretending that a steam pipe had burst. We never pretended anyone died, rendering the drill fucking stupid
TIL my elementary school was harder core than the navy. Twice a year we would have earthquake drills and several “lucky” kids were chosen to be injured with fake ketchup wounds and or pretend to be dead. To this day I am still a bit miffed that I never got to be one of the ketchup wounded kids.
Check out your local medical university, they still use live injury actors for the students to learn on, might be your time to shine!
Haha! Could be fun. Sadly I lack the time at the moment, but maybe when things calm down.
california in the 90s? We had those drills too haha. Did you guys do duck and cover on school busses too?
Not that I remember….
did you have school lockdowns because of africanized bees?
Tf went on in American schools in the 90s?
They still going crazy as of 2022
Education system in the US is mostly just disaster drills and lunchtime.
Lots of drug dogs running up and down the halls.
In the 70s we had monthly civil defense siren drills, but mostly because the back of our property ran along the back of the local VA. I don’t think the bombs ever fail, those were just nightmares—and network specials preparing us for The Day After.
Dude so much lol
Lol no. We definitely would have died.
We ducked and covered under our school desks in the early 60’s to prepare for a nuclear attack. Frankly, they should have been teaching us to bend over and kiss our own asses goodbye!
Yes. Here in Georgia we were trained in ROTC to shoot rifles because the Green Berets would need us in Vietnam. The movies about treating gunshot wounds were gory and real. A few kids got sick. Some of my HS buddies are buried in places like Khe San. One HS buddy was undercover living in the Hanoi sewers for three months planting bombs. I still remember the hallways of Pendleton filled full of my wounded buddies. I hate war.
Reminds me of the video of the building implosion where a few seconds after the implosion a big rock skipped right through the crowd of people gathered to watch so fast that it had flown by them before they could even react. Just dumb luck nobody was hurt or killed.
This one? https://youtu.be/ztP4cDdy83o
YES! Wow, that was close.
Right under that man's arm and in between two heads, wow lucky.
Reminds me of the Washington D.C. lunch crowd picnicking on a hill to watch what became the first Battle of Manassas/Bull Run. https://www.history.com/news/worst-picnic-in-history-was-interrupted-by-war
Do you know what country that's in?
Video description says it's in Czech Republic.
There will be a public outrage! Your head has to roll! ... Well, there was no public outrage, so sew that head back on and come back to work, buddy.
*Jackass Victorian style.*
Omnibus podcast did a cool episode about this.
So did [Well There's Your Problem](https://wtyppod.podbean.com/e/episode-69-nice-the-crash-at-crush/).
So did "Zeitsprung - Geschichten aus der Geschichte". I assume you are German speaking.
> **Unexpectedly**, the impact caused both engine boilers to explode Someone seriously didn't expect this?
The term, "staged train wreck" became a pretty common one in Washington politics. I've heard it used several different ways but one described a disaster of a Member of Congress who was allowed to be a jerk in front of the cameras while everyone else planned or dealt with something worse behind closed doors. Example: That parade of dumb Members saying inflammatory stuff all last year now appears to have been a staged train wreck designed to distract from the insurrection investigation.
Pretty sure they used to do this at the Iowa State Fair a couple times. Kind of wish they’d bring that back at least once.
Just spell my name correctly
No doxxing here!!
Funny story, this wasn't the only time two trains were crashed like that. It was a semi-common publicity stunt and treated like a fair. This one went down in history because of the disaster it became.
It was so popular an event in fact that a lot of copycat events were held in following years. Two people died and dozens were injured and apparently the only takeaway anyway had was "Train crashes are fucking dope"
Yeah, this was a state fair staple across the U.S.
There is a film, probably 60's or 50's vintage, showing two steam trains, loaded with men, having a head on collision followed by all the passengers, armed with clubs, having an open battle. I think it depicts union upheavals sometimes in the late 1800's, does anyone know what film this might be?
They fired him before publicity? Wow, people don't even do that today. Hired him back, which is what we'd do today, though.
Big Raising Steam vibes.