What's the worst thing you have ever witnessed first-hand happen on live tv?

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For me it would have to be Christian Eriksson collapsing at the euros in 2021

I recall this episode and I was actually a bit shaken by it.

I wondered if they left him there by that tree, did they have a back up grew to collect him or what happened?

Another thing I watched was a man dying at dignitas. It was a recorded show, and despite working in healthcare, having cared for dead/dying people, that film plays on my mind. ❤️

As a child watching the rescue operation in America when the plane went down in the Potomac river in 1982. Helicopters hovering and trying to pull out dead and dying frozen bodies, clinging to life buoys and not having the strength to hang on. I can still see the bodies dropping back into the water.

Challenger
9/11 - I still feel sort of weird when I see it, even now after all this time. It was quite literally unbelievable.
The Raoul Moat shooting
The Grenfell Tower fire
The Bradford City football fire… I cried and cried and got really upset. Found out I was expecting DS two days later.

9/11

Oh, yes, goodness I had forgotten that! It was awful.

After 9/11, the 2005 London bombings - I was working in an office in London close to one of the sites at the time and we didn’t have the tv but did have internet and radio in the office and we had to turn off the radio as it become progressively more terrifying throughout the day. At one point I remember just blood curdling screams and sirens being broadcast and each of us realising how it could have been any one of us caught in the chaos and devastation.

The livestream of the Hamas terrorists going into people’s houses and murdering children while their parents watched. My friend found out his twins had died this way.

The storming of the Iranian Embassy

Makes me feel old, so few people putting this.

Then Challenger. I cried.

9/11 and 7/7.

7/7 because I was living abroad at the time and knew my dad was going to London that day. Watching it and not being able to contact him (thankfully he was miles away and safe) was probably the worst moment of my life.

A number of things from the Balkan wars but in particular colonel Bob Stewart discovering yhr massacre of over 100 people and shouting at the soldiers he believed responsible. His rage & disgust was palpable

Oh God Beslan was horrific
Still upsets me now to think of it
9/11 too of course 😟

Hillsborough- I knew a Liverpool supporter who was there.

Another I recall, was watching them pull the only survivor out from a landslide at this ski resort in freezing conditions. I think it was his girlfriend or fiance that died next to him. I was living in Aus at the time and had skiied at that same resort many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Thredbo_landslide

Harrowing events I recall
Hillsborough
Murder of James Bulger
Dunblane
Chillenden murders
9/11
Soham murders
Beslan
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I remember the Iranian embassy thing. My bus went past there on the way to work every day and had to be rerouted so the building was very familiar to me.

That reminds me- I was in the US on holiday when columbine happened.

turning on the tv in the hotel room, and the rolling 24 hour news showing the video over and over again, in amongst the live reporting. That kid with the broken arm trying to get out the window.

can’t believe school shootings are still happening.

Surprised how many saw 911 live! I was at work, didn't see the news coverage until the evening.

Me too. I will never forget my two year old son looking up from his toys and saying ‘oh!’.

About 10 years ago: a boy, about 11 or 12 years old, on the ground with a tear gas canister embedded in his head, fired over the wall in Gaza by Israeli soldiers.

It's the most horrific thing I've seen with my eyes.

I was at work but we had a Reuters feed on a screen so it was a huge shock to see it.

9/11 and the Boxing Day tsunami

9/11
Beslan
The Cumbria shootings
Grenfell
The 2004 Tsunami. Live footage of people struggling in the water was horrific.
The Tsunami in Japan. It literally looked like the world was ending when you saw the literal ocean of black water taking over everything and sweeping homes and cars away.

Oh gosh yes, Walking the Nile. Is still clearly remember “So, Matthew’s just died”. It seemed so matter of fact.

9/11, the second plane. I was on a half day from college and was watching shit daytime TV when all of a sudden 'we interrupt this broadcast' - only time I've ever seen that in real life.

The tsunami that hit Fukishima, cars driving along the road trying, and failing, to outrun the water. Just horrendous.

Oh god yes. The Japan Tsunami. I'll never forget footage of a man riding a bike as fast as he could and because it was an aerial shot viewers could see the water coming and how fast it was going. Horrible.