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Disturbing Television
I want to know the absolute most disturbing thing you've ever seen on television. Something that has stayed with you long after you've watched...
I was watching a nature show about elephants. They are smart and communal, and matriarchal, so I thought it would be interesting.
It was about how the elephants had to leave their homeland and go off in search of water. There was a baby elephant there too. The big group of them goes off, being led by the oldest female.
Then suddenly, one of the male elephants kicked the baby elephant in the head! I was horrfied. Then they kicked him again...and again...and again as he ran after them, trying desperately to keep up.
I started sobbing and had to change the channel as the narrator explained that the herd couldn't care for an infant in their current state. Apparently they were saving the baby elephant from starvation.
A few minutes later I had to turn it back on to see if they had taken pity on the poor little elephant. They hadn't. When I turned back, the herd was gone and the baby elephant had been unable to keep up. He was surrounded by hyenas. I could not watch.
Needless to say, I laid off the nature shows for a while. That kind of stuff never happens on shark shows.
I was watching a nature show about elephants. They are smart and communal, and matriarchal, so I thought it would be interesting.
It was about how the elephants had to leave their homeland and go off in search of water. There was a baby elephant there too. The big group of them goes off, being led by the oldest female.
Then suddenly, one of the male elephants kicked the baby elephant in the head! I was horrfied. Then they kicked him again...and again...and again as he ran after them, trying desperately to keep up.
I started sobbing and had to change the channel as the narrator explained that the herd couldn't care for an infant in their current state. Apparently they were saving the baby elephant from starvation.
A few minutes later I had to turn it back on to see if they had taken pity on the poor little elephant. They hadn't. When I turned back, the herd was gone and the baby elephant had been unable to keep up. He was surrounded by hyenas. I could not watch.
Needless to say, I laid off the nature shows for a while. That kind of stuff never happens on shark shows.
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It sounds very familiar.
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Also, I suppose it goes without saying that, even without living in NYC at the time, footage from 9/11 left me trembling.
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But it was a movie about concentration camps and it showed the people being sent into the showers and then into the ovens to be burned... Maybe even showed footage of people beginning to be burned.
That's all I remember about it, but it was probably 25 years ago and I still have a clear picture of the showers and the ovens in my head.
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I imagine I'd remember that forever too...
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When I was in high school one of the primetime news stations was doing a report on a dog pound in the south west. They have very little funds and the dogs were kept in chicken coop looking huts on the side of a dirt road. They could only keep any particular dog for like two weeks , as I recall. After it's time was up the handler (or what ever you want to call him) would remove a dog, drag it a few feet away from the others (but still well within sight and hearing,) and shoot it in the head with a handgun. They showed the other dogs flinch and whine as their former companion had it's brains blasted out.
That disturbed me so much, I wanted to find that man and curb his ass with steel toed boots.
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Go figure...
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Herman got shot in the mouth with a cannon ball, and for his voice with the cannon ball in his mouth they played him at half speed. Creeped me right out, and I started crying. I went to my mom and told her what happened. She told me it was okay, and that it wasn't anything to be afraid of. She then took me to my little red & white record player and showed me what a 45 sounded like at 33. It was easily ten years before I listened to another record. I wouldn't go near a record player.
The thing that made me finally break down and buy another record was Count Scary's Christmas song, which was not available on cassette.
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Well, I can certainly understand that.
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