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LiveLeak definitely had the ability to change you. There was a video from a dashcam where a couple is driving down a road, and a brick or rock falls off a truck driving the opposite way. It bounces on the road before slamming through the windshield and instantly killing the wife sitting in the passenger seat. Whenever I feel like a member of my family has gotten on my last nerve, pushed me to my limit, I think of the sounds that man made as he looked at his wife and my anger just melts away. LiveLeak may have scarred me but it taught me not to ever take the people I love for granted.

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After seeing countless videos of car/trucks/lorries with unstable load, my dad has been very annoyed with me whenever I need to help him drive a trailer around with stuff. He just throw shit onto it, an leave it. I lock that shut down, hard. I'm not gonna be that one person who accidently killed someone one the road, because I had something come loose.

Same here. I believe watching that video (with follow up discussion about what happened) should be mandatory for getting your driving license.

That exact video changed my life in exactly the same way.

Thank you for putting it so well.

RIP LiveLeak. Its loss is a tragedy that is hard to quantify. Perhaps a catastrophe, that nobody will ever understand the full invisible scale of.

Be careful with that stuff. There are only so many scars you can accumulate before it really affects you. Life will give you scars all by itself eventually, no need to seek them out.

This generation has experienced an unprecedented amount of isolation from danger and I think we are far closer to a state where we need to be more exposed to the lessons those dangers teach than we are to being over-exposed

Or, you can embrace the abyss and find out what's on the other side.

Which, keep in mind, could very well be horrific emotional damage, PTSD, nightmares, regret, etc.

Yeah I paused right before the brick hit the window and realized what I was about to see, I'm kind of glad I stopped.

The video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iazTQVi1CEE

Skip to 1:45.

Warning, it’s disturbing. Perhaps in a good way.

Holy shit I've never seen the full video before. It's so much more chilling then the 20s clip.

I was behind a truck, driving by myself at age 16, along an on-ramp with my window down. An object fell off the truck, came through my window, ping-ponged around the cabin of the car instantaneously and landed on on the passenger side floor. I looked down and saw that it was a sharpened screw driver about 8" long.

This along with many other incidents just like it have me completely paranoid of the highway. If it isn't projectiles entering a vehicle at highway speeds it's pedestrians and cyclists getting run over at 20mph. Between safety concerns and health concerns (burning gasoline) I have about had it with automobiles.

I know that video and I think it’s his mother.

If I recall, you hear a baby’s cry at the end, so presumably it was the driver’s wife and mother of the baby.

>Don't take the metro it's inconvenient

This is why I don't like driving.

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