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When you turn on the news most days, you tend to forget that, often enough, you will see real, live footage broadcast through your screen. A developing story can quickly turn into something you will end up remembering forever.
A netizen asked the internet “What is the scariest/weirdest/most mysterious thing to ever happen on live television?” and people share their best examples. We also got in touch with obsessed_with_dogs who made the initial post. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples, and share your own experiences in the comments.
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#1
The 2nd plane hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
That was surreal to watch live on tv. It was extremely sad and terrifying.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
One of my best friends worked in the World Financial Building right next to the towers. She had just come out of the subway stop in one of the towers and was on the attached bridge to her building when the plane hit. I'm so grateful she was OK. It took her 8 hours to walk home and she ended up with foot problems because she was wearing heels at the time. I can't imagine what that experience must have been like - she's never been the same since.
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SquiddoDiddo 2 years ago
My mum was in NY at the time and watched the whole thing. She said the noise was LOUD.
Nimues Child 2 years ago
This day is seared into my memory. Work stopped while we all kept watching the news coverage, unable to believe what we were actually seeing was real. My town has two pieces of tower steel for those in our town that died that day and, in my state, 9/11 is a day of remembrance, service to others and the Madeline Amy Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery is presented to those who put others before self.
Lee 2 years ago (edited)
I own a tiny piece of steel from the towers, it's about two inches by an inch. It's a piece of history itself. I do not have it on display, it's in a silk lined box sealed shut. Have a piece of the Berlin Wall too and a fragment of coal from the Titanic.
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StarlightPanda! 2 years ago (edited)
I had just turned 14 only 10 days earlier. My mom woke us up early for school (our middle school opened at 9:45am.) We watched it on TV, and when I saw the 2nd plane hit, I knew it wasn't an accident. I may have been young, but I was like "Why in the world would someone do that intentionally?" It was scary and so evil. Hope all the survivors and families affected are doing ok..
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#2
The Space Shuttle exploded.
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
I was in fourth grade. The teacher were all crying and we got sent home early if we wanted to go.
Dragonfly 2 years ago
My grade had piled three classrooms' worth of kids into one room so we could watch the launch live. We had watched several space shuttle launches every year prior to that. We never watched another one. (Although part of that may have been aging out of elementary school before too many more were done.)
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Kevin Beard 2 years ago
Growing up in Florida our entire class was actually there when it happened, talk about a very quiet ride back…
Matt Wheeler 2 years ago
Christa McAuliffe was my social studies teacher and this happened on my 16th birthday.
UnseeJuiceWitch (any pronouns) 2 years ago
and this is the reason i have Astrophobia (fear of space) well this and Apollo 13 and laika and soviet shuttles and crashes and that one guy in Soviet Russia who was a charred clump of flesh corpse_cus...00-c50.jpg 
Nimues Child 2 years ago
I met Christa MacAullife while student teaching long before this. This moment absolutely broke my heart. I kept watching the news coverage hoping against hope that the rocket would make it this time...
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
We were home from school that day, because teacher workday. Watched it live on TV with my mom, who loved space stuff. I remember it vividly because my mom died a little over a year later :-(
wayne whitson 2 years ago
My late mother saw this from her S. Florida home. She also a visitor at Lakehurst (N.J.) and saw The Hindenburg Explosion.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Eating cereal with my son & a neighbor kid I watched. They both screamed and then just broke into tears. I kept them home that day.
#3
I remember the tanks rolling in on Tienanmen Square. The bravery of those people protesting for democracy was astounding. But knowing what was coming was horrifying.
RabidChild 2 years ago
I'm still disgusted that Clinton denied asylum for the students involved in this protest.
Fee 2 years ago
The TV footage of "Tank Man" was shot from their hotel room by cameraman Willie Phua, who was working with ABC (Australia) journalist Max Uechtritz. I edited the ABC-TV (Aus) news story at the time. Made worldwide news. The classic photograph of the same event was captured by Jeff Widener of Associated Press, who was staying at the same hotel.
Anesor Ducasse 1 year ago
I strongly recommend the book by A. B. Abrams - Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order. It revises many events and processes we have thought indeniable truth such as Tienanmen , Jogoslavia, uyghurs' genocide, Vietnam...
Rizzo 2 years ago
This is my Madela-Effect moment. Until a few years ago I was convinced that I saw the tank rolling over the man and making a turning movement on top of him. I was shocked to see it on the TV back then. Now I think I either dreamt it or I accidentally slipped into this dimension. :O
Vicki Perizzolo 2 years ago
Horrific moment.. very brave young man - didn't change a thing in China tho
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago (edited)
This was not broadcast live. Nobody would have seen it even if it was, since Beijing time is 11-13 hours later than US time.
der sebbl 2 years ago (edited)
1: You're aware that there are more countries than China and the USA, right? 2: There are news-teams from this countries (Australia for example) 3: People can watch TV in night hours.
Load More Replies...Bored Panda got in touch with obsessed_with_dogs who originally posed this question to the internet and they were kind enough to share their thoughts. Firstly, we were curious to hear their reasons for asking this question in the first place.
“So much has happened in the world that has been lost to time, but in these cases, they’re cemented forever because they just so happened to occur while someone was filming. The live aspect just adds to it as it connects millions of strangers by showing just one moment in time,” they shared with Bored Panda.
#4
When the Australian reporter discovered a hostage she was talking about live, was her friend
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I presume this is about the Lindt cafe hostage situation. I remember seeing footage of it but somehow miss this fact (I don't watch morning shows would be the reason, but the situation itself lasted hours).
Zoe Dalton 2 years ago
wow f**k! This was my comment on reddit. it was a really sad thing to witness live. :(
#5
Seeing that dye drip down Giuliani's face. Bonkers that would ever happen. Plus the Four Seasons Landscaping thing...
María Hermida 2 years ago
I saw that. I don't remember what was happening, but I do remember the dye dripping down. He got a handkerchief and tried to wipe it, but he made it worse.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
To say nothing of the giant fart he aimed at Jenna Ellis during a press conference. It made an extremely loud flubbering noise, broadcast live from coast to coast.
Susan Teter 2 years ago
Oh damn...I just peed myself a little laughing!!!
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SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
😆 Never saw this live but it's an internet treasure, for sure. A nice combination of being old, overweight and hammered dog s**t on hard alcohol definitely makes the body rain.
#6
When the sky opened up and started raining while Prince played Purple Rain at the Superbowl halftime show. Sent chills down my spine.
Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
Plus the seven guitar changes and electrics involved. When his Manager rang Prince at the hotel to suggest pulling out Prince responds with, "make it rain harder".
Nimues Child 2 years ago
That guitar solo behind the curtain while the rain caught the lights, tho'... The memory still sends chills...
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
You have to appreciate the moment, it’s awesome. Add in the footwear that’s being worn on a wet stage by both Prince and his back up singers and it’s another level 😀 https://youtu.be/lElCzhjiPX8?si=d_Q4FtcITYnxE58u
We also wanted to know if obsessed_with_dogs had any strange or scary live TV experiences themselves. “The only shocking thing I’ve ever seen live was watching the news here in Ireland during a snowstorm. Some poor man slipped on the ice and was caught alive. The poor man goes viral every winter, and this was back in the early 2000s.” As some readers may have noticed, most of these examples are older, as modern “live TV” often actually has a slight delay to help avoid the very situations listed here.
#7
OJ Bronco chase
TTorrest Author 2 years ago
I was a 22-year-old Jersey girl on vacation in L.A. during this. We were in our hotel room on Sunset watching it on the TV when I called home to tell my father about it, naively thinking it was merely local news. I'll never forget my dad telling me, "Tina, the WHOLE WORLD is watching this!"
Mama Bird 2 years ago
I remember this. I was too young to understand the significance or no one explained why they were chasing him. But I remember somehow my sister knew. I thought it was so boring that they were filming a guy driving.
#8
I know the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen was a guy throwing his shoes at the President.
der sebbl 2 years ago
I remember that. Back in the day I thought he was the worst that could happen to the us
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
For a while it looked from the outside like the UK and the US were in some sort of competition to see which could be the stupidest. First the UK voted for Brexit, then the US elected Trump, then the UK appointed Boris as PM... has the lunacy ended yet, or are we just enjoying a moment of relative calm before it gets worse again?
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Susan Teter 2 years ago
Honestly, I totally forgot about this. Also couldn't hold back my giggles as I read it.
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Being hit with the sole of a shoe means you’re no better than dirt. A huge insult in the Arab world.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
no idea why you got downvoted. War on terror has claimed over a million muslim lives.
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#9
Not really crazy or out there, but I remember watching the live updates on TV about Steve Irwin’s condition after coming home from school. Seeing them update the headlines from things like accident, to serious, to fatal followed by non-stop news and reflections on his life for the next few days. The world lost a legend that day.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
Rather, may his afterlife be as joyous and active as his life here.
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Nurichwersonst 2 years ago
Hate me for that but i never liked him... the way how he catched the animals and waved them in front of the camera while hysterically talking about whats so special about that thing really made me feel uncomfortable...
Donald 2 years ago
He helped instill a love for the natural world and conservationism in an entire generation around the world. He acted for the cameras to keep people engaged and keep ratings up so he could further his work through his show. He never harmed the animals he captured and treated animals with respect and admiration even risking his own life to relocate nuisance crocodiles when they were vilified in Australia. He is a champion I my book and has done more to educate people about the importance of bio diversity and conservation from his grave then most people do in a lifetime.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Heard it on the radio at work, we sold out of the wiggle DVD he made an appearance in within the hour and phonecall after phonecall to find out if we still had it, when we will get more. Make me so sad and angry that people buy products when someone dies. It's equal to not telling someone you love, or admire, or....., until they die, and then tell everyone at the funeral. TELL YHOSE YOU LOVE THAT YOU LOVE THEM WHILE YHEY CAN GEAR YOU. Yes I'm. Yelling
Barbara Baldwin 2 years ago
It was only this year that I could once again see him on television. Before, it hurt too much
We were curious to hear obsessed_with_dogs’ thoughts on the thread’s popularity. “I think some people just want to share something they’ve personally witnessed to connect with others who have witnessed it too. It could be like group therapy, especially when it’s something dark. Others just like reading about historical events, or macabre topics.”
#10
Gary Plauche smoking his sons kidnapper/rap**t, revolver point blank to the head.
Tamra 2 years ago (edited)
I don't generally condone vigilantism, but I honestly can't say I wouldn't try to kill the person who raped my child.
Wonky Donkey 2 years ago
What's the saying? I think its "I'm not saying he was right, but I understand."
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
With how short prison time, if any at all, is given to rapists & molesters, that POS would have been back on the streets. Gary sent him straight to Hell where he belonged. I think crime would go down faster if there was MORE vigilantism.
#11
The fly that landed on Pence’s head during a debate
Jeremy James 2 years ago
Last August, during the first RNC debate, Pence started speaking and a fly landed on our TV in the exact spot on his head as the 2020 VP debate fly. My partner and I were dying from laughter.
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
Lol , omg that was hilarious! I was like" is this really happening live"
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
No seriously... what is it with our national leaders and flies. This happened to Bush, Obama, Clinton... all of them... they've all had multiple flies land on their faces and just stood there while the fly meanders all over their face. Don't they know that this is how horror-movies let you know someone is demonically possessed or about to bring about the deaths of millions?
#12
Randy Johnson hitting that bird mid flight 100 mph fastball
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Believe me; it never felt a thing. One moment it was there, and the next, it was a cloud of feathers and a small pile of birdmeat as dead as a serving of Chicken McNuggets.
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Martin Kaine 2 years ago
And Johnson hates to be reminded of this......he likes animals and was upset that he killed the bird by accident.
Nimitz 2 years ago
Doubtful that he "hates" to be reminded of it given the logo for Randy Johnson Photography 2023-11-29...c2426e.jpg 
Susan Teter 2 years ago
I was watching this. The last thing that went through that poor birds mind was that baseball
Cthulhu Kitty 2 years ago
The timing and chance for that to happen was astonishing. I remember watching it and being so confused
maswartz 2 years ago
No, it flew in front of the ball at the last second and *poof*
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#13
The night princess diana died. The Simpsons used to come on at 11pm, I was watching one night and they interrupted the broadcast to show the paris crash scene. I had no idea who she was at the time and I kept waiting for the Simpsons to come back on. It was all over the news the next day
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I remember the following morning coming back from holiday with my family really early in the morning (I was 13). I put the TV on and it was on the news. I told my parents, “Princess Diana died,” and they didn’t believe me. Understandable. It was impossible to believe that somebody so well known and loves could die that suddenly.
Parmeisan 2 years ago
And young. Well-known, loved, and so very young. :(
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Our store had just gotten internet on their computers that day. One of the guys was showing me how to use the computer and I clicked on a Yahoo site and saw that Princess Diana was dead. Everyone else was standing around talking and I asked, "Is everything here really happening?" One guy said yes without looking, and I asked if Princess Diana was really dead then. At that point, after a WHAT?!?, you could have heard a pin drop as everyone was reading off the monitor. The first day I was on the internet.
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
Initially they said she just had a broken arm. I was so relieved. The truth came out a couple of hours later.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
When Kennedy was assasinated, I (then 11) wanted to watch a (UK) programme called 'Emergency Ward 10' I was really miffed that it was pulled from the schedule because this American guy had been shot.
Kat Lyle 2 years ago
I came in at about 7am from a nightclub, this was a terrible way to come down. I had loved Diana since that wedding when I was about 6 years old.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
My mum bought me a book about the wedding, love it so much, still have it.
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I was at an AFL semi at the MCG. Drew a crowd of 80,000. Her death was announced on the screens at half time. 75% of the crowd got up and left in TOTAL SILENCE.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago (edited)
I had not turned on the TV to avoid the AFL....but found out later
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I was suffering from insomnia that night and watched the whole thing unfold on TV.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
My at-the-time boyfriend & I were visiting his parents when it happened. His dad kept complaining about how all the TV stations were covering the story instead of showing their normal broadcasts, how Diana had nothing to do with the US, "no one is interested in this!" etc. etc. I lost a lot of respect for him that night.
#14
The Station nightclub fire is the reason why I case every single room/building I walk into and make sure there are multiple exits, and that I know where they are. That video was horrifying and terrifying in equal measure.
Ellen Woods 2 years ago
There was no Modus Operandi. It was the pyrotechnics they blew off that started The Station fire.
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Snakebite Mcghee 2 years ago
I missed out on that because the person I was supposed to go with had car troubles and canceled
Adrienne Gallo-Girard 2 years ago
I pass the memorial every day. Haunting, even 20 years later.
Jorie 2 years ago
My best friend called me the morning after and said that her 21 year old cousin never made it out of the ladies room at The Station. She and her friend were found on the floor, having died from smoke inhalation.
Big Chungus 2 years ago
Yes, unfortunately, my dad taught me to do the same thing. Always know where every potential exit is
Nimues Child 2 years ago
Yet another unforgettable day of hard-to-believe local news coverage of this terrible tragedy. Maybe I should stop reading this list!
#15
The scariest is the Hillsborough disaster as it unfolded during the FA Cup semi final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in April 1989. It was a terrible, terrible crowd crush that was caused by poor policing and poor stadium management. 97 people unnecessarily lost their lives while going to see a sporting event. The worst part is the absolutely f**kery that the victims’ families went through (and still fight) for justice.
KB 2 years ago
I was 8 when this happened and distinctly remember watching it live on TV. I remember the fans in the lower pens climbing up to the higher stands and I thought it was funny because they were being 'naughty'. Had no clue about the actual events
Julie S 2 years ago
🎶 When you walk through a storm hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark at the end of of a storm there's a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark. Walk-on through the wind walk on through the rain for your dreams be tossed and blown walk on walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone. You'll never walk alone walk on walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone. You'll never walk alone🎶
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
I heard this year that they had got dome compensation! Over 35 years on, and still fighting for it.
Load More Replies... Danish Susanne 2 years ago
When I got home I found that my husband (a great soccer enthusiast) had seen it and were just sitting there weeping and moaning a little. I am so thankful, that I came home to late to see it myself.
Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
This was tragic yes, but the way soccer hooligans riot is pretty pathetic and tragic too.
“But in the middle of it all, there were strangers rushing to help strangers. People of different cultures, people who couldn’t speak each other’s languages, hugging and offering shelter. Firefighters, paramedics, and police officers all rushed into the chaos, most knowing they were likely to die, but doing it anyway because that’s the right thing to do. Through the devastation, there was compassion, humanity, courage. Things that we as viewers would have never seen had it not been caught live. 9/11 coverage in particular is bittersweet - it contains the worst of humanity and the best of humanity all in one.”
#16
Opening Al Capone's vault.
u/fhrblig added:
Oh man, there was so much buildup to it, too. Then they opened it and it was just full of dirt
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
Geraldo Rivera deserved to be humiliated. He was a total PR hound who would've sold his Grandmother for airtime. He continually failed in his attempts to be relevant.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
I remember that. Was disappointed. If I remember right nothing in there except empty space and some empty bottles. .Really disappointing.
Richard Rice 2 years ago
I wish DVRs had been a thing then. I would have recorded it and skipped to the end.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Geraldo Rivera made such a fool of himself. What a f*cking waste of time.
Susan Teter 2 years ago
Watching Heraldo opening this up with nothing in it and half an hour of time to fill...PRICELESS!
#17
I was up at 2 or 3am or whatever it was when the tsunami hit Japan in 2011. They had live footage from a helicopter and you could see the water destroying everything in it's path.
Xenon 2 years ago
I immediately looked up whether there were any nuke plants in the path of the tsunami. The rest is history.
Sunchaser 2 years ago
A gentle 'tell me your age with out telling me your age'. Indeed, it was sad history to watch in 2011. Fukushima. 😢
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Had to ring a supplier weeks after the tsunami as to why our orders for the coloured ps2 controllers was always on back order....the factory that made them got swept away
Mary Ballard-Johansson 2 years ago
My brother and family were in Tokyo on vacation when it happened. They told us about being in the earthquake that started the whole thing.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
It seemed all the more sad to me, when I heard, that they build dams against tsunamis, that was higher than any tsunami ever recorded, and the waves was just a lot higher. Also it frightens me to think, that climate change will do this again.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
I was going on my second year in Japan ( shizuoka) and was shopping with our baby when it happened - really scary
Toujin C'Thlu 2 years ago
I remember seeing this the morning after a sleep study. My mom had turned on the TV while helping me get ready to go home, and the earthquake/tsunami was all over the news
jamesmcwhirty 2 years ago
I was a currency trader at the time this happened. There was huge volatility in the markets and lots of opportunities to make money. We spoke to our colleagues in Tokyo who were suffering from quakes and aftershocks. We all closed any existing positions we had in the Yen and did not trade the currency going forward unless for a customer request. I have never known a trading floor to be so quiet and so utterly devastated as we watched the TV and heard our Japanese colleagues over the squawk box talking about the building moving.
#18
The Balloon Boy Hoax of 2009. Specifically when the kid unintentionally outed his parents for orchestrating the whole thing.
Victoria Rendon 2 years ago
Last I saw, the kids had a metal band going. About as cringey as the whole balloon hoax.
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StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
The parents are horrible! They used up so many emergency services/resources that could have been used to help people in REAL emergencies! It's f***ed up!
MadMonkey 2 years ago
It was a hoax perpetrated by the family. They sent up homemade helium balloon (silver, constructed to look like the standard UFO disc-shaped craft) and told authorities their son was on it (or in it). The balloon was tracked by local police and the National Guard until it finally came back to Earth about 50 miles or so away. They searched the balloon, no son. Since someone had seen something fall from the balloon, they searched for the child in that area, too. No sign of the kid. Eventually they found the child hiding in the attic of his parents' house and had been there the entire time. The parents eventually admitted it was a hoax. The wiki article ("Balloon boy hoax") says a lot more about why they did it. As Lavender rose commented above, the family was bonkers.
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The Internet Historian has a great video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhUvm8SunY
#19
Tommy Cooper was one of the most high profile and loved comedians in England during the 1970s and early 80s (and possibly all-time). He was famous for his slapstick, irreverant humour and for his 'failures' in magic - which took incredible skill and he was one of the higher ranked members of the Magic Circle.
He was famous for hosting variety shows, which were huge draws attracting massive viewing figures every week. One night in 1984, he was up on stage doing his act, about halfway through, he went to put on a cloak as part of his act. After this, he promptly slumped to the floor and people proceeded to laugh, thinking it was part of his act. Even after a few minutes of this people we still laughing until they realised that it was not intended.
Long story short, Tommy Cooper had a heart attack in front of 12 million people, many of whom thought it was a joke for the first few minutes of it happening and died on that April night in 1984.
Adrian 2 years ago
I saw this live. In a way, it's how he would have wanted to go. Just like that!
Sheba's Mum 2 years ago
I remember watching this. I believe it was Jimmy Tarbuck's hand that came through the curtain to do a pulse check.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
I remember the hand coming out from the curtain and then dragging the poor guys body backwards
Hetal Vyas 2 years ago
I saw this, the audience thought it was part of his act, and started laughing, but he was having a heart attack on stage.
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
I was watching. I remember, we couldn't understand the joke. We only found out later.
KB 2 years ago
If you're in the UK you will not be able to find this video on YouTube. It is banned
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
It's not banned, just a content advisory warning.
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The Max Headroom incident.
MadMonkey 2 years ago
Essentially, two Chicago stations were signal hijacked, meaning the pirates broadcast on the air instead of the regular program. The first incident lasted all of 17 seconds before the signal was restored by the stations, during which someone wearing a Max Headroom mask and suit didn't do much at all. The second incident lasted about 90 seconds and consisted of a lot of babbling and weird content (you can read the details on the wiki article, Max Headroom signal hijacking). Nobody knows who did it or why they did it. It's known mostly for how weird it was rather than threatening.
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Nimues Child 2 years ago
Explainer is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
#21
Boston Marathon Bombing
It was so surreal and I knew a lot of people there (running and spectators). The timing was seriously scary as the Sox game had let out and I couldn't get a hold of family members who had gone to Fenway and planned to walk to the finish line. They decided not to, but our neighbors were directly impacted.
That and the next few days were wild, to say the least.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I know somebody who regularly does marathons, and he frequently ran in the Boston Marathon. Thankfully that year he got past the finish line well before the bomb went off.
Nimues Child 2 years ago (edited)
Lived through this. We live on a train line and offered our house to any runner who needed help and a place to stay. A few days later, I stayed up all night after Officer Collier was murdered. The lockdown was creepy and I was texting/emailing friends who were trapped at MIT, letting them know what happened. Afterwards, found so many friends who narrowly missed being at the finish line. I still wear my "No More Hurting People" bracelet in honor of Martin Richard. These paper cranes appeared on the "police car hack" in Stata within a day: https://live.staticf...1b5b192d9_b.jpg. And we all contributed to the Collier Cranes on the one-year anniversary: http://cranes.mit.edu/.
#22
An old TV show called ‘That’s Incredible’ had a guest on that claimed he could catch bullets with his teeth.
All so long they built up the suspense. When the time came for the feat, the trigger was pulled and the show immediately cut to commercial. When they came back, they said there was an unfortunate accident.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Another candidate to the Darwin Awards. You've just decided you can catch bullets with your teeth. What could go wrong?
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
It’s usually an illusion with a bullet hidden in the performer’s mouth and a blank gun. I guess maybe the gun had some debris in it or the bullet wasn’t a blank. There have been many incidents where people died when the gun was supposed to be blank, just look at the film Rust or the 1993 film The Crow.
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RavenTheCat 2 years ago (edited)
The bullet catch is a illusion typically done with a prop set in the catchers mouth and a blank shot
Nimues Child 2 years ago
In the 1970s, ABC's Wide World of Sports periodically featured a German man who caught a bullet in his teeth. Wikipedia has a great article on the history and tricks of the Bullet Catch trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_catch
#23
Clint Malarchuk getting his jugular sliced by a skate.
Meowzers! 2 years ago
This happened recently in the UK. Adam Johnson, a player for Nottingham Panthers, sadly died. The player responsible is being charged with manslaughter.
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 2 years ago
Have not found anything confirming he has been charged with anything, just arrested. Being arrested after killing someone is pretty standard in order to gather critical evidence during the investigation.
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#24
WWE (then WWF) wrestler Owen Hart dying during a live pay-per-view. He was supposed to be lowered into the ring with a harness. The harness failed and he fell 80 feet into the ring. The cameras wound up panning away before he hit the ring, but they announced his death later in the same broadcast.
StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
My uncle's best friend is one of the former WWF wrestlers. He mentioned how hard it was on all of them to lose him..
SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
His death occurred while a video package hyping the story/match was being shown both on television and to the live audience and when WWE does this they dim the house lights so even those there live barely saw what happened. There was no "cameras wound up panning away before he hit the ring". I don't understand why people feel the need to twist facts on something that was tragic enough without false details. This one hit hard as a fan. RIP, Owen.
#25
The L.A bank robbery shoot out was wild to watch on tv
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
The LA police at that time couldn't have hit the broad side of a barn. They were worse than Stormtroopers.
Donald 2 years ago
Their handguns couldn't do much against the criminals because they had bullet proof vests and other armor. Once the cops "barrowed" some high caliber rifles from a local gun store, it was over pretty quick.
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#26
Fox News was showing a car chase live narrated by Shepard Smith...
The driver gets out of the car with a shotgun; Smith knew something bad was going to happen so he started yelling at the booth "Get off it!" "Get off it!"
But the booth didn't and the guy shooting himself in the head was broadcasted live on Fox News. [Heres the whole story](https://youtu.be/tCqZE5nuJp4) semi NSFL.
Surenu 2 years ago
To be fair, gun violence is exactly what Fox News viewers love to see apparently. I'm just sorry for any innocent children forced to witness this.
Donald 2 years ago
Even my local news spends the majority of its broadcast covering gang related shooting in nearby cities. If it bleeds it leads.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I don't even believe the baseball scores on Fox, That's not about politics - it's about Murdoch.
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StretcherBearer 2 years ago
I watched this it was absolutely dreadful. I spent a while talking about it as I had a Therapy session an hour afterwards.
Sue Phillips 2 years ago
Shepard Smith was the only person that gave Fox any legitimacy. Thank god he's out of there.
#27
The guy who robbed a bank with a collar bomb.
Weirdo with Internet 2 years ago
I think the lady who gave it to him told him it was fake. It was not. She was/ is in prison
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Made. The documentary ‘Evil Genius’ on Netflix is all about this.
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 2 years ago
I'm from Erie and vividly remember how surreal the whole thing was. The woman responsible for this murdered her first husband and then was part of the murder of another man, after the pizza bombing. I think that murder ended up with the victim in a coffin freezer. She died in prison not too very long ago. Her name was Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong.
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
Dont forget the guy who shot himself on live tv ( i think he was a judge or politician)and then oral Roberts going down a waterslide
°CORLEONE° 2 years ago
This device was so complicated that, sadly they cut his head to remove the bomb device.
#28
I remember watching Malice in the Palace live. It was terrifying while it was happening because it seemed like the entire stadium was brawling.
PeeledPotato 2 years ago
im not quite sure but im pretty sure it was some kind of fight between the players and the crowd
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SonicAlchemy 2 years ago (edited)
I rarely ever watch regular season NBA, even if my favorite team, the Lakers, are playing but I just so happened to see this live, as it was the national game that night and I was bored, flipping channels after work. I feel like I was watching for all of a minute before the chaos. Nobody died and it was just a bunch of dudes being dudes, so there really wasn't any "tragedy" of the event but it was still a "holy s**t" moment for live television. It's more amusing and laughable these days.
#29
The wine grapes lady falling
Ingrid Smith 2 years ago
no but you must watch on you tube. The sounds she made were unworldly and hilarious.
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María Hermida 2 years ago
What they did was really stupid. She was playing the fool with both feet inside a small bucket on top of an elevated platform. What could go wrong?
Kathy Sinclair 2 years ago
In the '60s, I remember seeing, on the TV news, an African American woman on fire falling out of a bus. People outside the bus got the fire out. As a kid, I had nightmares about that for years. And then there's Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. No one mentioned that one. And the video (Magruder video?) of JFK being shot.
SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
Only those living in the immediate and surrounding market areas of the local Fox broadcast saw this live. It wasn't a national broadcast but still damn funny and an early years of YouTube and memes staple. She got the wind knocked out of her and definitely felt some pain but sorry about it, it's still F'N hilarious 😂
What do you think ?
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
I watched the on-air suicide of Budd Dwyer. Yeah, I had to therapy my way through that.
obsessed_with_dogs 2 years ago (edited)
I never saw it live but it did the rounds in the early 2000s, back before you could really vet the videos you saw online. I’ll never forget it. Can’t imagine how you felt seeing it live
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Nacho Man Sandy Ravage 2 years ago
In the weird/funny realm, I saw BBC News do an interview with a man about a court case regarding Apple Music streaming and The Beatles record label but they got the interviewee mixed up and actually had, live on air, a man who was there for a job interview!! Chap just rolled with it.....absolute legend!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc
Kirsty 2 years ago
This was brilliant. Especially watching it the second time so you can watch the surprise and alarm on his face as he's introduced 🤣
Load More Replies... Lee 2 years ago
It isn't unique at all- the author of this article has simply copy and pasted everything from a Buzzfeed article that was released a day or two before this was put online. Copying Buzzfeed articles word for word is a very common practice for Bored Panda and they delete comments I make that call them out on it. I emailed Bored Panda to make them aware that their 'contributors' were doing this and all that happened was they deleted my account!
Load More Replies... Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
Watching Lee Harvey Oswald get fatally shot in the stomach on live TV by Jack Ruby
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago (edited)
I started watching the game, but stopped before it actually happened, but NFL player, Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the field early this year. I was checking daily for updates on his condition. Thank God he's alive and healthy; if it wasn't for those first responders, he could have very well died.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Came out of my room, cousin was watching baseball.... and then... cut to commercial... cause there was a massive earthquake... 1989 :-) That was a bit odd.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
That was a mind blower. Also, I went to the wedding of this couple who were both on disability due to weird incidents. They had their honeymoon in San Francisco, just in time for the earthquake, and not long after they got home, their house burned down
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Red_panda 2 years ago
I don't see the Reginald Dennys beating video. I didn't see it live, but I know people who did, and I have seen the video. It's disturbing to say the least.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
True. I lived in Long Beach, Ca at the time and it was definitely scary, it wasn't safe to leave home, for several days the city had a curfew and pretty much the only traffic you'd hear was emergency vehicles. My nextdoor neighbor was a 911 operator and the police came and escorted to work each day it was happening.
Load More Replies... Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
I watched the on-air suicide of Budd Dwyer. Yeah, I had to therapy my way through that.
obsessed_with_dogs 2 years ago (edited)
I never saw it live but it did the rounds in the early 2000s, back before you could really vet the videos you saw online. I’ll never forget it. Can’t imagine how you felt seeing it live
Load More Replies... Nacho Man Sandy Ravage 2 years ago
In the weird/funny realm, I saw BBC News do an interview with a man about a court case regarding Apple Music streaming and The Beatles record label but they got the interviewee mixed up and actually had, live on air, a man who was there for a job interview!! Chap just rolled with it.....absolute legend!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc
Kirsty 2 years ago
This was brilliant. Especially watching it the second time so you can watch the surprise and alarm on his face as he's introduced 🤣
Load More Replies... Lee 2 years ago
It isn't unique at all- the author of this article has simply copy and pasted everything from a Buzzfeed article that was released a day or two before this was put online. Copying Buzzfeed articles word for word is a very common practice for Bored Panda and they delete comments I make that call them out on it. I emailed Bored Panda to make them aware that their 'contributors' were doing this and all that happened was they deleted my account!
Load More Replies... Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
Watching Lee Harvey Oswald get fatally shot in the stomach on live TV by Jack Ruby
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago (edited)
I started watching the game, but stopped before it actually happened, but NFL player, Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the field early this year. I was checking daily for updates on his condition. Thank God he's alive and healthy; if it wasn't for those first responders, he could have very well died.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Came out of my room, cousin was watching baseball.... and then... cut to commercial... cause there was a massive earthquake... 1989 :-) That was a bit odd.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
That was a mind blower. Also, I went to the wedding of this couple who were both on disability due to weird incidents. They had their honeymoon in San Francisco, just in time for the earthquake, and not long after they got home, their house burned down
Load More Replies... Red_panda 2 years ago
I don't see the Reginald Dennys beating video. I didn't see it live, but I know people who did, and I have seen the video. It's disturbing to say the least.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
True. I lived in Long Beach, Ca at the time and it was definitely scary, it wasn't safe to leave home, for several days the city had a curfew and pretty much the only traffic you'd hear was emergency vehicles. My nextdoor neighbor was a 911 operator and the police came and escorted to work each day it was happening.
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