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Danger of death videos of the 90s

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Quackpot · 20/05/2022 17:53

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.

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SlightlyGeordieJohn · 20/05/2022 20:51

MoreRainbowsPlease · 20/05/2022 20:48

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.

I had to read that twice, I thought you wrote “willy”

ChaiTea20 · 20/05/2022 20:52

CocktailsOnTheBeach · 20/05/2022 18:36

I remember the pylon one and there was a train one where for some reason his laces gets caught on the railway line and he's trying to get his shoe and a train comes. I was about 5, talk about traumatised 🤣. Late 80s, I never played on railway lines or pylons though, so job done 😅.

Yes I remember the boys laces getting stuck! Definitely left me traumatised!

I'm also still irrationally scared of unlit and packaged fireworks, I vaguely remember a video about kids messing with a tin of fireworks that explode!

Knittingchamp · 20/05/2022 20:53

I remember all of these and then a few years later, what really frightened me was Ant n Dec where Ant (Dec?) got blinded by not having his safety glasses on during paintballing. Omg!! Never paintballed to this day because of that exact memory!

Knittingchamp · 20/05/2022 20:54

(on Byker Grove)

BluecheeseandBaskerville · 20/05/2022 20:55

@WeDontShutUpAboutBruno I agreed with this and then I realised that quicksand/ mud is actually the only way in which both me and my husband nearly died 😆

SlightlyGeordieJohn · 20/05/2022 20:55

Knittingchamp · 20/05/2022 20:53

I remember all of these and then a few years later, what really frightened me was Ant n Dec where Ant (Dec?) got blinded by not having his safety glasses on during paintballing. Omg!! Never paintballed to this day because of that exact memory!

Ah, that was Byker Grove though, so not quite the same.

He still managed to put out a bangin’ floor-filler in “Ready to Rumble.”

MindatWork · 20/05/2022 20:58

The budding footballer getting his laces caught in the train tracks terrified me 😑. I vividly remember the closing shot of that ad was his bedroom door closing with his football boots hung up on the back…

marmitecake · 20/05/2022 20:59

Building sites, fireworks and railway lines used to terrify me but worst of the lot is the 'Say no to strangers' P.I. film. It's grim.

SlightlyGeordieJohn · 20/05/2022 21:02

MindatWork · 20/05/2022 20:58

The budding footballer getting his laces caught in the train tracks terrified me 😑. I vividly remember the closing shot of that ad was his bedroom door closing with his football boots hung up on the back…

Do you think his feet were still in them?

BringbackSecretchocolatebar · 20/05/2022 21:09

NI always had some pretty hardcore road safety adverts
The one above, however, was about the troubles and if you're over 35 you were definitely traumatised by this one as a kid, I first saw this aged 6 😬

GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 20/05/2022 22:06

All of the ones mentioned and also - the warnings about sniffing aerosols. This was probably late 80’s/early 90’s. They were so grim and I was a bit scared of accidentally inhaling when I was messing about with my brother’s deodorant 😂

stargirl1701 · 20/05/2022 22:07

The electrical substation...

The AIDS tombstone...

The smoking druggy girl in chains...

The horror...

BluecheeseandBaskerville · 20/05/2022 22:10

Dark water.

can’t say it put me off wild swimming.

Oscarthedog · 20/05/2022 22:11

Nower days parents are more likely to complain about their child being traumatized by those videos. They served a purpose in a less PC time.

RishiRich · 20/05/2022 22:27

I remember the kite one and also the one about a few lads making a fire in an oil drum for a homeless man. One of the boys' puffer jackets catches fire and his mates wrap him up in an old carpet to put it out. That was back in the 90's and I remember being disappointed that the safety films weren't more gory. It sounds like I would have enjoyed the 70's and 80's versions! Not now though.

BertieBotts · 20/05/2022 22:30

CaptainBeakyandhisband · 20/05/2022 20:10

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

There was an urban legend/myth that went around about this, maybe somebody warned you? Like the precursor to those bizarre hoax things that go around on Facebook. People said that there were drug dealers selling LSD on temporary tattoos so that they would appeal to children. It was just a load of nonsense, no idea where it came from.

BertieBotts · 20/05/2022 22:42

I definitely thought, from all the anti-drugs education we had in year 6, that the minute I set foot in secondary school people would be trying to get me hooked on drugs. It wasn't explained very well and children don't think through the logic of what a drug dealer actually wants. I just assumed that drug dealers would try to get anyone and everyone hooked at random because it would be their goal to have everyone in the world as their customer.

We were in a slightly (not really) rough area and I think they wanted to make sure they got the message in early but really what happened was that the message became totally cartoony and by the time I was encountering drugs IRL it felt like a totally different thing to this image I'd been presented with!

mintich · 20/05/2022 22:46

These weren't just shown at schools, they were adverts on prime time television.
The one that scared me was the little girl who burnt her hand with a sparkler.

whoami24601 · 20/05/2022 23:09

SlightlyGeordieJohn · 20/05/2022 21:02

Do you think his feet were still in them?

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Tigrillo · 20/05/2022 23:29

I particularly remember the sparkler one, it put me off fireworks for life. Also the one about chip pan fires, I will still never have one in the house.

Also stranger danger and the seat belt one. The undercooked sausages one was just funny though

I agree with the previous poster about the drugs ones being so exaggerated that they had no impact at all by the time you actually encountered drugs in real life.

Bumpsadaisie · 20/05/2022 23:32

AdamRyan · 20/05/2022 18:39

Oh god yes. 80s for me though. The one where several kids die a variety of horrible deaths on a farm wad the worst. Why did adults do that to us?

Oh lord yes. We lived rural and half the kids at school were farm kids. I was terrified for them!

Still vividly remember being herded into the school hall, the school telly and Betamax video being wheeled in and us all sat watching it on form benches.

The horror - didn't they all die bar one?

It was 1982 and I was 8 years old.

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Quackpot · 20/05/2022 23:33

BertieBotts · 20/05/2022 19:19

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?

That's the one! Though it wasn't a school one, that one was on a compilation video of random cartoons I'd bought in the charity shop with my pocket money 🤣

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Quackpot · 20/05/2022 23:43

GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 20/05/2022 22:06

All of the ones mentioned and also - the warnings about sniffing aerosols. This was probably late 80’s/early 90’s. They were so grim and I was a bit scared of accidentally inhaling when I was messing about with my brother’s deodorant 😂

For us it was not to spray an aerosol through a lighter or it will blow back at you and set your face on fire

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Lovinglife45 · 20/05/2022 23:43

I recall the Don't Talk to Strangers 1980's video. It scared the shit out of me!

The creepy man trying to coherce the teenage girl into his car acted in Emmerdale for a number of years. I could not bare to look at him.

They showed two scenarios, one where the girl accepts a lift home and one where she says no.

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Quackpot · 20/05/2022 23:46

Well they certainly introduced me to fags and e's......curiosity and that

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