I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old that I remember seeing the exhibits at mall entrances that the American Cancer Society welcomed mall goers with. On a table they had two glass jars. Looked like canning jars with meat. One was a healthy non smokers lung and the other was a smokers lung. One was dark and nasty looking and one was a bright pink. I don't think they used food coloring....

 

[TOMTE]

I'm so old that I remember seeing the exhibits at mall entrances that the American Cancer Society welcomed mall goers with. On a table they had two glass jars. Looked like canning jars with meat. One was a healthy non smokers lung and the other was a smokers lung. One was dark and nasty looking and one was a bright pink. I don't think they used food coloring....

They did this at my high school cafeteria... During lunch... No jars, either, just lungs out on display. During lunch. With kids eating. Always thought that was a strange choice

 

[Nomadicus]

They did this at my high school cafeteria... During lunch... No jars, either, just lungs out on display. During lunch. With kids eating. Always thought that was a strange choice

When I was in high school we got to watch blood and guts courtesy of the highway patrol every year. I still can see in my mind that one photo I could never forget. A teen boy and a teen girl laying strapped to gurney boards laying on the grass beside their wrecked vehicle. The straps were the only thing covering their bodies. There is no way to unsee that and that's what the officers wanted. Still classmates died. The school bully was one of them. A survivor that was with him was left with a scar across his face for all to see the next 3 years.

 

[Sally PB]

In my high school, I thought it was ... strange ... that the "wild kids" who smoked, drank, and were getting into drugs did the science reports on the effects of smoking and drugs.

Were they fascinated by what they were doing to their bodies? Or so sure it would only "happen to someone else?"

 

[pertnear09]

When I was in high school we got to watch blood and guts courtesy of the highway patrol every year. I still can see in my mind that one photo I could never forget. A teen boy and a teen girl laying strapped to gurney boards laying on the grass beside their wrecked vehicle. The straps were the only thing covering their bodies. There is no way to unsee that and that's what the officers wanted. Still classmates died. The school bully was one of them. A survivor that was with him was left with a scar across his face for all to see the next 3 years.

I remember a film similar to that. It was of a trucker hauling telephone poles that had crashed and the poles had speared through the cab of the truck and driver . It was gruesome, to say the least. Seems like I was in Jr high. Can't remember for sure. Mid 60's I believe.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember a film similar to that. It was of a trucker hauling telephone poles that had crashed and the poles had speared through the cab of the truck and driver . It was gruesome, to say the least. Seems like I was in Jr high. Can't remember for sure. Mid 60's I believe.

Similar happened to one of my wife's distant cousins. He was hauling a load of steel I-beams when he had to slam on the breaks and his load came through the cab. Cabs by now maybe have a safety barrier to prevent these. His accident was a long long time ago. I remember when the word came of this accident in the 70's.

 

[pertnear09]

Similar happened to one of my wife's distant cousins. He was hauling a load of steel I-beams when he had to slam on the breaks and his load came through the cab. Cabs by now maybe have a safety barrier to prevent these. His accident was a long long time ago. I remember when the word came of this accident in the 70's.

Yea, I haven't heard of anything like that happening in a long time and I'm sure there's pretty stiff penalties for not having a load strapped down properly.

 

[sdm111]

Yea, I haven't heard of anything like that happening in a long time and I'm sure there's pretty stiff penalties for not having a load strapped down properly.

Ironic, something like that just happened by me a few days ago

 

[Evadig]

Back in driving school 2017 we had to watch 70s films of accidents caused by drunk driving and train wrecks. Those were bad. And people not paying attention to the road and going off the cliff.

The wrecks caused by train accidents were so bad that to this day I still stop and listen at railroad crossings unless there’s cars behind me - especially as I was fairly in the way of getting hit by a train a couple years ago.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

We had to watch a film like that in driver's ed. It was called "Red Asphalt." It grossed kids out but I doubt it had the desired effect of making them more careful drivers. You just don't have the capacity at that age.