Comments on: Insane Safety Videos

By: Shasta

Shasta — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:19:00 +0000

I couldn’t bear to watch the first video past the first few incidents. Yikes!
As for the second film… That’s why everyone should sit safe and snug in front of their computers reading Mental Floss all day. Good thing we don’t need pencils or filing cabinets anymore!

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:42:00 +0000

You gotta watch out for those red umbrellas.

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:30:00 +0000

I remember another safety video called “Hats Off To Safety” or somesuch. The tune that plays throughout the video was really catchy…

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:16:00 +0000

I didn’t read the intro paragraph at first, so I felt sort of bad for laughing through the whole thing, especially when the actual people would come on screen. I’ve seen another safety video like that one, just as hilarious but less gory.

By: Analouisa

Analouisa — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:12:00 +0000

The worst was a drivers ed video about kids having an accident where one loses his head and it ends up on the dashboard – the two we saw were “Red Asphalt” and “11:57 pm” (I think that is the time). They scared quite a few of us!

By: JD

JD — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:12:00 +0000

I hadn’t seen the first video and “simultaneously terrifying and hilarious” is a perfect way of describing it. It made me laugh and cringe.

By: Hastings

Hastings — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Best example of schadenfreude I’ve ever seen!

By: Wilson

Wilson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:49:00 +0000

I have it on the good authority of a friend living in Germany that the Stapelfahrer Klaus video was in fact meant to be a parody. The little moment with the woman distracting everybody around 6:30 was almost Benny Hillian.

By: Joe Maz

Joe Maz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Droppen der chainsawen, sch*isskopf!

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:20:00 +0000

Perhaps missing from this post is a train-safety video I was forced to watch in 6th grade. In the video, kids at different locations are playing on some train tracks, and the main character is stuck on a train traveling down the tracks watching the events unfold. At the first location, kids threw rocks and debris at the train, injuring passengers and the main character. At the second location, kids are trying to put branches on tracks on a bridge, and one kid gets his foot stuck and is run over, a la Fried Green Tomatoes (but much more graphic). In the third instance, kids are playing on a stopped boxcar that the train runs into, killing all the children on board. It was gory, violent, and if it had been a theatrical release, probably would have been rated R. Gave me nightmares for the longest time.