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Kids today don't know how good we used to have it... (lemmy.world)
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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

One time I was travelling through Latin America and we stopped somewhere at a food place by the road. They said: see that huge rock in the field there? One time many years ago there was a circus in town, and everybody in the town went, and it was in that field. But then there was an earthquake, and a mudslide started, and it was wiping everything out. But a clown managed to get a bunch of kids to safety and they huddled on that rock while the mud wiped out everything around them, killing everyone else in the town.

Maybe it was all BS but it was a pretty vivid image. (edit: OMFG I remembered it mostly right.)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

There's a memorial in my town for a department store Santa Claus who rescued a bunch of people from a fire and then died in that fire.

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago

That's wild, thanks for sharing.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Very great read , wild

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can definitely think of worse ways to spend my final moments

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Being scalded to death in a vat of boiling toothpaste that you are dipped into head-first while being held by clamps attached to your toes would certainly be far less pleasant.

Especially if it was that bubble gum toothpaste they give to kids.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why are you people down voting this? That is indeed a much worse way to die. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE TRUTH?

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I'm pretending that they downvoted it because they were horrified he could come up with something so horrifying.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, good to know, and here I was thinking that it was improper infrastructure and safety inspections, but sure, blame the clown, okay... 🙄

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same thought. That's gotta be a pretty shitty bridge.

You didn't have to add the murder clown picture though.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, here's a happy scene instead :-P

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fantastic first movie, and I'm still one of the few that liked the ending, though I agree it robbed the story of some weight for a final scare.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

May I ask what this is? I don’t recognize it.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nightmare on Elm's Street. Worth a watch if you like classic horror.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve seen that once over a decade ago hella weed high with my best friend (rest in pieces, love) and I remember nothing. now it’s on the top of my list. Thank you!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Perfect for a kid's birthday party.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, give the kid ~as~ ~a~ gift!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

This was intentional.

The clown was just an automaton, the geese needed to draw a crowd so when people fell into the water the geese could easily eat them.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In 2019, several hundred people went to a vacant lot in Philly to celebrate an event they knew was not happening. In 2020, another couple hundred people went to an abandoned pier in Philly to watch a man eat an entire rotisserie chicken in one sitting, for the 40th day in a row. Things haven't changed that much.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's the death count at those events though? Did any of them require major construction to restore the damage done to critical public infrastructure?

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

not the point

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Netflix unfortunately does not produce this kind of content.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

All those people dying violently really stole that poor clown's thunder.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Im not even sure I would stop to take a picture on my phone if I saw that today.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Sure, there's lots of other entertaining things to do, but a bridge collapse isn't exactly boring.

And a video of geese attacking people trying to get to safety while a clown desperately tries to stop them only for the geese to then turn and gang up on the clown has to have high viral potential.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

As if any of us would be allowed to leave work to go watch a clown be pull upriver in a bathtub by geese.