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Originally Posted by Martian
analog - a twisted and demolished car has the same impact. Looking at something that weighs nearly (or over, depending on the model) two tons and seeing it utterly destroyed. A splash of blood on the pavement. Someone mentioned an arm. Showing a mutilated body seems exreme and nnecessary and even if you feel the need, why give names, dates and locations? That just seems to be asking for something like this to happen.
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Originally Posted by feelgood about using other regions
That's exactly what they should've done but I get the feeling that police from different parts of the country or state are less likely to share those kind of thing, I could be wrong thou
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The reason they do it, and the reason they give names and locations and choose people locally is that they
want it to hit home, hard, that this is real. That it happens to people just like you, who live(d) in the same area. They give details because it brings it into focus. This isn't something that happened somewhere. It happened to
this person, on
this day and it ripped the shit out of them. I can understand feeling that the experience, even without this kind of horrible coincidence, is too traumatizing. I personally disagree, but I can understand that opinion.
I guess I've come through a close one myself, and I know a lot of people who weren't so lucky. I think about really close friends who might still be here if they or "the other guy" hadn't gotten behind the wheel. I honestly don't know if it really works or not, but assuming they've got some evidence that it does, I say keep doing it. And you want to talk about traumatized? Let's talk about a guy I grew up with, who got behind the wheel drunk and killed
everyone else in the car, except himself. And they were all 90210-type close friends. He was a fuck up, but a really good guy at heart...and he is definately going to be massively fucked up for the rest of his life.