Danger of death videos of the 90s

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Anyone remember?

Made me terrified as a child 🤣

The one about half cooked sausages on a Bbq.
The one about seatbelts needing fastened.
The one about not climbing pylons.
The one about smoking.
The one about crossing the roads.
The one about STDs.
The one about drugs.

All in primary school.

All with the message "IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL DIE"

I still daren't walk through a field with a pylon in it 😂 though it never stopped me smoking at 13.

Oh well.

The budding footballer that gets his foot cut off on the railway terrified me!

Maybe this?

I am still scared
Also the one where the young girl burned her hand on the sparkler

This incredible eight minute epic - sponsored by Slush Puppies of all things - was filmed in the local park and shop where I spent a huge amount of time as a child. The backdrop is so nostalgic for me. Never saw any evil clowns though
www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/163/

Hang on the BBQ one... That was badly cooked sausages on a BBQ with the song playing "When will I see you again?" And then text came up on the screen saying "Sooner than you think, if you don't watch out" (or something like that).

I asked my mum what it meant and she said if you get food poisoning from a sausage you might die and see your dead relatives in heaven? But I think actually it was just saying that you'd throw up, ie, see the sausage again!

Anyone else remember that?

So they stopped?

That explains a lot.

Very outing but the place where I lived featured a lot of homes near a huge river, and lots of walkways (like bridges but no railings at all!) between them. There was a tv campaign showing a toddler waddling along a walkway, then it showed his perspective of going off the edge and falling into the water, then it showed the mother realising he was missing and ~slo-mo~ having a breakdown.

It wasn't until years later I wondered why the gov just didn't put railings on the walkways.

I loved that - it made me laugh every time I saw it.

I interpreted it that you'd be seeing the sausages again sooner than you thought if they weren't properly cooked.

The Aids advert terrified me as a child. Those headstones falling and the words that "anyone can die from Aids. Don't die of ignorance".

I saw a video recently on YouTube that explained how you can't get sucked into quicksand and sink in it. It's a physical impossibility.

I remember watching 'The Finishing Line' when it was on nationwide. I was just 7 and watched it alone, haunted me for years. Can't imagine my dgd being shown something like that now, thankfully.

Wow that's just unlocked something I'd forgotten about these, I always felt well prepared in case I found myself in quicksand 😅

I also remember a Quentin Blake book / leaflet about the dangers of trains, vividly remember drawings of a boys head flying through the air after he put it outside a moving train window and another bit of where a guard gets covered in wee after flinging it out of a window?!

Yes 🤣 my cousin had that book and see I found it hilarious. The guard with his arms like upside down L shapes.

That is exactly the sausage and!

The one that freaked me out is "Dark And Lonely Water" - voiced by Donald Pleasance. Though I'm sure it had an influence on my subsequent love of horror films!

www.google.com/amp/s/tygertale.com/2014/06/25/final-warning-roald-dahls-guide-to-railway-safety/amp/

Ooh found it, wow this is massively nostalgic I looked at this book so much as a child

here I am in my early '50's yet to get stuck in a fridge, yet to meet the Grim Reaper on the side of a canal and no cartoon gobbledygook speaking cat to warn me not to play with matches. Oh and Kevin Keegan never appears whenever sparklers are lit in our house.

Oh yes!! We were given these out at school!

The clunk click adverts terrified me as a child. The one where the boy turns into an elephant to show the force you'd go through the windscreen in a crash. I thought I was going to turn into an elephant if I didn't wear a seatbelt.

Or maybe Kevin Keegan was meant to appear every time I ambled leisurely across the road whilst reading my 'Jackie' magazine, can't remember...

I was worried about quicksand as a child.
When I was an adult hiking we had to cross some marshy ground. I stepped with one leg into a mass of mud and got stuck. DP was bemused when I totally panicked as I thought my whole body was going to sink in.

I don’t know if it came from a video but I had a random and vivid fear as a child that some random might come along with a sticker impregnated with LSD and turn me into an addict

Four minute warning- take your door off its hinges. Dad had better be bloody handy with a Black and Decker!

We used to have special whole school
Assemblies to watch the films, the train track one was particularly memorable.

They clearly worked though, I always tell my children they must buckle up if not for themselves to save the person in front and when my 3 year old found himself in quick sand (which was more like deep sticky mud) DH and I both had a completely over the top reaction!

Remarkably few of my friends had their feet cut off by a train either.

We used to have special whole school Assemblies to watch the films

Yes, us too - with a cine-film projector.

I remember a 'stranger danger' one and asking my mum why someone would want to abduct a random child (as opposed to kidnapping someone rich for a ransom) and, obviously, being considered too young for a truthful answer as she replied vaguely and I remained baffled until a chance encounter with a Readers' Digest englightened me.

I'm 42 and I still am absolutely terrified getting on escalators thanks to that one where the little girls welly gets sucked in. I prefer to use the stairs if they are available. Twice though when I was a child we had to get the escalator stopped so I could walk down it as it was the only way down. I'm not too bad going up, but it is the coming down which frightens me. Most of my friends are equally scarred by the public information videos of the 80's and early 90's.