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.

There's a wonderful book called "Scarred for life" which is all about growing up in the 70s and 80s which any of us as kids at that time will relate to.

Occult, quicksand, graphic infomercials with motorcyclists smashing through windscreens, protect and survive etc etc. Complete with pics. Highly recommended.

@OpposableThumbs2 omg poor Robbie! And his name appeared in big capital letters across the screen at the end ... ROBBIE 😭I would have seen that mid-late 90s in primary school. It really stayed with me, I think it was the one where his shoes were hanging off the wires above the trains?!

🙈🤣we were truly put through it weren't we ! Even now pylons scare me and I have never been able to light fireworks at home ! As for the chip pan fire I've never owned a chip pan because of this advert

The frisbee landing on the pylon 😱

I remember a stranger danger one in a park. A little girl slides down a slide and is greeted by a man proffering a paper bag and saying, “would you like a sweet?” The little girl shouts “NO!” and runs off. I remember thinking, “how rude!”

This has brought back some great memories.

I'm also disappointed by the lack of quicksand in my adult life, and never having to need to use "stop, drop, and roll", although that is probably a good thing. My boss a few years ago had to talk to us about what we'd do if someone came into the office with a gun. We decided on stop, drop, and roll, more to confuse the person than anything else plus we'd get a chance to do it.

On one of Mr Ballen's YouTube videos, he talks about a woman who got stuck in a quicksand type thing but it hardened like concrete and then when the tide came in, she drowned cause they couldn't get her out, not even by trying to winch her up by helicopter. That was in America I think, so maybe that's where you need to go for quicksand

Ooh the sausages oozing blood in the bbq have put me off sausages for years

God that is traumatising as an adult never mind as a kid!

That Roald Dahl railway safety guide! Anyone else?

Protect and Survive even worse

Nuclear threat, satanic panic, how did we survive?

Remember the one where the man had accidentally killed a child through dangerous driving and everywhere he looked there was a dead child?
That doesn’t feel as if it was that long ago!

I was always traumatised by the car advert which had the baby travelling up the motorway in a floating car seat, no car. Literally used to make me feel sick, although I knew it obviously wasn’t real.

Another one here terrified by Apaches, and still remember it years later. Rewatched on YouTube, and I'm still surprised they showed us that age 7!

Modern videos still have the same ideas, but much less traumatising I think:

Dumb ways to Die became a bit of a hit among teenagers a few years ago. Cartoon characters dying on the railway - it was Australian I think, very effective

Worst one was in the mid 70s called ' the finishing line ' about trains and not playing on the tracks.
I looked it up online because I thought I had dreamt being shown it in the assembly as it was quite graphic.
In Biology we were shown a video about STDs , that put me off sex !
The smoking one too , people on oxygen.

Yes, I remember this one! And the girl screamed so loudly she lost her voice? They were trying to get the shoes down from the wire or something.

I also remember the quarry one, where they were playing hide and seek and the boy dug a hole to hide in and then they couldn't find him because the hole had collapsed 😱

I watched Apaches ages ago on YouTube thanks to Mumsnet. Disturbing, even as an adult. They were a very accident prone group of kids though 😂 Mumsnet also introduced me to Threads and Protect and Survive.

I’m sure I read somewhere that Protect and Survive ads were never shown on TV but only made in case nuclear attack was imminent. Is that right?

I just watched The Finishing Line on YouTube. Graphic as!

The other children took the rise out of me for being a bit upset re 'the finishing line!'
It did its job for me ( not that I played on train tracks anyway !)

DH was in a band called danger of death. I thought you meant videos of them lol

There was an animated one about playing with matches. A young firefly wants her light and, fed up with being told she’ll get it soon, finds a box of matches and ends up setting the entire village on fire. I had a real fear of fire as a kid and I swear this advert is why.

Every time I cook sausages I sing "when will I see you again" in my head.

I remember being told if a stranger approaches you, you scream blue murder. I thought you literally had to shout 'blue murder!' Like it was some kind of code and committed it to memory.

The sparkler one was the one which terrified me as a child in the 80s. Also had the Roald Dahl book, our senior school was next to a station so we had the train safety people in every term.

Re the LSD urban myth, I remember a Grange Hill story line in the mid 90s where a girl had a druggy older brother who asked her to take LSD into school to sell it. It got mixed up with some stickers or transfers or something and some kids ended up taking the LSD accidentally and trying to jump off the school roof or something.