Can't believe NBC showed video of fatal luge crash

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

They just showed on NBC that they have built a wooden retaining wall.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

They also moved the start point down the hill to slow them down.

 

[Sillystunt]

no respect for the dead! There are some things we should not see! I hate the news sometimes..........

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

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[ChicknJ]

I am so glad to come on here and see this thread. I was just stunned... then nauseous, then disgusted, then crying. I could not believe we watched a young man lose his life on TV. To show it... was vile enough, but to repeatedly show it? I am an ICU nurse, so blood and guts does not phase me.... that footage was just over the top. I walked away from the tv thinking, " am I the only one that feels this" then I come here and realize others were as deeply affected.

to his family and friends.


and

to my BYC family for reaffirming my belief that not all of the world is skewed

 

[michickenwrangler]

People in general just seem to have a morbid fascination with death, especially unusual death.

After 9/11, a lot of co workers talked about the "airplane" footage constantly and said that the news played it over and over again. I had a faulty antenna so I could only get CBS and PBS on my TV so I rarely watched it (just watched movies in the evening). It wasn't until about 2005 when we got DirecTV that I saw any 9/11 footage. I don't feel a need to watch it over and over again. Look at how many people watch NASCAR just for the crashes. People are weird.

Such a tragedy, the luger being so young and competing for a country that most people haven't heard of. Does the Olympic committee do any kind of memorial service or acknowledgement?

 

[Brickman House]

Quote:
Royd,

With all due respect, this is just plain wrong, and unfair. The Whistler Sliding Centre has been in use for over two years, and has already hosted three World Cup events. The poor athlete (may he rest in peace) who died yesterday at the track had run his sled on it personally 20+ times.

The track was designed by a designer who has already done six Olympic tracks, and built by the same architectural firm that built the track for the Salt Lake City Olympics, at a cost of $70 million dollars. The venue is dedicated to the slider track for bobsled, skeleton, and luge. Nothing else is crammed in there-- the supports along the track are for observation decks, maintenance walks and other associated structures.

There has been a lot of concern that the track is too steep and too fast, and that may very well be true, although yesterday's crash didn't occur on a particularly fast part of the track.

Whatever the cause of the accident, however, it certainly wasn't a hastily built track with no "pre-game testing," and you shouldn't assume a "major design flaw." That unfairly criticizes and discounts the work of talented and seasoned designers, architects and engineers who put together these fabulously specialized structures.

 

[Imp]

On the news tonight they said the accident was driver error. He had entered the turn wrong and was unable to control the run. They also interviewed his father in Georgia (Who was a 3 time national Russian luge champion). He was heartbroken of course, but had not seen the footage and said he did not want to see his son's death. The entire hometown was in mourning.

Imp

 

[Buster52]

I'm all for free speech and all, but this was just about ratings. Dramatic footage sells. A couple days ago I was watching GMA and they showed a news helicopter plunge all the way to the ground before I could reach for the remote. I kept thinking they would cut away before the crash, but never did. The pilot was encased in the copter, so you couldn't actually see his death, but even that was too close to me. It must have been even worse seeing this.

 

[augustmomx2]

OMG, I thought and said that same thing. I was horrified to see someone's life gone right in front of me on tv. I kept thinking, if that was my son, such a private moment of losing one's life (tragically) should not be made public. Somethings aren't sacred anymore...