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The Italian press is making quite a bit of the fact that the marshalls dropped the stretcher with Simoncelli on it it.
Whether that would have had any bearing on the outcome I very much doubt, but not the Marshalls finest hour.
'Barella' is the Italian for stretcher for those interested in the video.
Whether that would have had any bearing on the outcome I very much doubt, but not the Marshalls finest hour.
'Barella' is the Italian for stretcher for those interested in the video.
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Originally Posted by Bassoctopus' timestamp='1319450788' post='21095374
9-11 raised the bar for what the news channels deem acceptable.
I remember some TV awards show where they replayed the 9-11 footage 4 times before giving one of the news channels an award for the best footage. WTF? So for an award show we were shown 100s/1000s of people jumping to their death. Utterly unacceptable.
I just missed the accident yesterday and turned on as the teams were waiting for the track to open. I have no intention of viewing it on youtube or the news, showing it is completely uneccessary.
Brings to mind when we were at the Canadian GP sat at the hairpin where Kubica had that enormous crash. For about 15 mins we all thought he was dead and there was a real feeling that you just didn't want to be there any more. Of course Kubica was lucky that day.
EDIT to Gads comment. There are very few people that you actually see die live on tv. Maybe someone who is dying, but to actually see the death is very unusual.
I remember some TV awards show where they replayed the 9-11 footage 4 times before giving one of the news channels an award for the best footage. WTF? So for an award show we were shown 100s/1000s of people jumping to their death. Utterly unacceptable.
I just missed the accident yesterday and turned on as the teams were waiting for the track to open. I have no intention of viewing it on youtube or the news, showing it is completely uneccessary.
Brings to mind when we were at the Canadian GP sat at the hairpin where Kubica had that enormous crash. For about 15 mins we all thought he was dead and there was a real feeling that you just didn't want to be there any more. Of course Kubica was lucky that day.
EDIT to Gads comment. There are very few people that you actually see die live on tv. Maybe someone who is dying, but to actually see the death is very unusual.
Similar scenario to Senna
And Sheldon...
I said in the Sheldon thread I wouldn't want to see gory images and if had been decapitated I would not have wanted it transmitted
Working backwards from such an extreme situation it becomes a matter of judgement and judgements differ
In the Senna case whilst there may have been signs of life, according to Prof Syd Watkins' book, it was obvious from the Prof's arrival at the scene that there would be no saving him. From what I have read about Wheldon's and Simoncelli's accidents the same is true. In reality they were all, effectively, dead at the scene.
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Originally Posted by gaddafi' timestamp='1319451365' post='21095382
[quote name='Bassoctopus' timestamp='1319450788' post='21095374']
9-11 raised the bar for what the news channels deem acceptable.
I remember some TV awards show where they replayed the 9-11 footage 4 times before giving one of the news channels an award for the best footage. WTF? So for an award show we were shown 100s/1000s of people jumping to their death. Utterly unacceptable.
I just missed the accident yesterday and turned on as the teams were waiting for the track to open. I have no intention of viewing it on youtube or the news, showing it is completely uneccessary.
Brings to mind when we were at the Canadian GP sat at the hairpin where Kubica had that enormous crash. For about 15 mins we all thought he was dead and there was a real feeling that you just didn't want to be there any more. Of course Kubica was lucky that day.
EDIT to Gads comment. There are very few people that you actually see die live on tv. Maybe someone who is dying, but to actually see the death is very unusual.
9-11 raised the bar for what the news channels deem acceptable.
I remember some TV awards show where they replayed the 9-11 footage 4 times before giving one of the news channels an award for the best footage. WTF? So for an award show we were shown 100s/1000s of people jumping to their death. Utterly unacceptable.
I just missed the accident yesterday and turned on as the teams were waiting for the track to open. I have no intention of viewing it on youtube or the news, showing it is completely uneccessary.
Brings to mind when we were at the Canadian GP sat at the hairpin where Kubica had that enormous crash. For about 15 mins we all thought he was dead and there was a real feeling that you just didn't want to be there any more. Of course Kubica was lucky that day.
EDIT to Gads comment. There are very few people that you actually see die live on tv. Maybe someone who is dying, but to actually see the death is very unusual.
Similar scenario to Senna
And Sheldon...
I said in the Sheldon thread I wouldn't want to see gory images and if had been decapitated I would not have wanted it transmitted
Working backwards from such an extreme situation it becomes a matter of judgement and judgements differ
In the Senna case whilst there may have been signs of life, according to Prof Syd Watkins' book, it was obvious from the Prof's arrival at the scene that there would be no saving him. From what I have read about Wheldon's and Simoncelli's accidents the same is true. In reality they were all, effectively, dead at the scene.
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I was simply responding to Neil's assertion that we don't see many 'actual moments of death'
In the three cases you list that's apparently true and I see no difference between them
Not even a split hair
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