u/BatHunterofDevon

Hi guys,

When I was 8, 9 or 10 years old (This would have been from 2002-2005 but I don’t remember the exact year), I remember my neighbour once lent me a car racing game for the PS2. It was pretty standard; it could easily have been something like Gran Turismo or Need for Speed, but I don’t really remember that much–this was decades ago; my memories of it are very sparse and fragmented. All I remember is doing some kind of time trial (either that or solo navigation of a track with no other competition).

What I do remember, however, was that it had this really EERIE pause menu music. And I don’t exagerrate–the music was just so eerie and ominous, even as a child I remember being slightly scared, thinking ‘this music doesn’t seem to fit the theme of the game.’ It didn’t give me nightmares, but lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about it, and now I’ve become curious.

I am really sorry that I cannot offer anything in terms of visual evidence or proof that this game existed, but I will say that I don’t think it’s any of the Need for Speed games. As I write this, I am currently on a mission, listening to the entire soundtrack of all the known PS2 car racing games.

If you like, I could open up Logic Pro X, and try to recreate the melody from my head, because I remember it very clearly. It was in C Minor, if that helps anybody.

I’ve begun to notice on X(Twitter) that there’s been this alarming trend of horrific Indian snuff videos on the internet.

There is a plethora of candid videos of people in India (typically in rural villages) getting themselves into dangerous situations and getting killed, in ways that range from genuine tragic accidents, to outright stupidity, to pure idiocy that defies the limits of human comprehension. You would not believe the things I have seen if I did not have the video evidence to describe it. All you need to do is just open up X, and you will likely come across them whether you asked to or not.

I am British, and while I won’t deny that we too have our own share of stupid people who occasionally get themselves killed doing ridiculous stunts, the kinds of things I have seen Indian people do really make me wonder how they make it to adulthood.

I have seen videos of Indians dying in the following ways:

• Diving headfirst into pools of shallow water.
• Diving into massive, fast-flowing rivers of muddy water.
• Touching live electrical wires with a long metal pole (Or sometimes grabbing them with bare hands).
• Leaning outside of a moving train carriage while recording a selfie, to be struck by stationary objects near the train track's path.
• Walking casually on train tracks right into the path of oncoming trains (or recording a selfie right in front of them).
• Operating heavy machinery on unsteady bridges that cannot possibly withstand their weight, resulting in a collapse.
• Driving recklessly and knocking over pedestrians in cars without checking their mirrors or even stopping.
• Getting gored to death by elephants/cows.
• Carelessly handling dangerous animals (ie: snakes) in a provocative manner that allows them to get bitten.
• Casually lying backwards into a vat of hot porridge, and boiling to death.
• Lighting a firecracker during a family photo near a man’s head.
• Easily getting into crowd crushes during festive events with no stewards or organisation.
• Tossing heavy metal equipments (Hammers/anvils) into the air and having it land right on top of their heads.
• Construction workers being blown off their wooden scaffolding at a building site and being crushed to death by the wall they were working on.
• Peering through an elevator shaft, and getting their head crushed by a descending car (without noticing it was coming down or reacting in time).
• Lighting themselves on fire.

I could go on, and on, and on. There are so many of these.

One of the most disturbing videos I ever saw was of a female acrobat performing a circus rope trick, where her neck ended up getting caught in the rope used to suspend her midair, which made her spin rapidly midair while also strangling her, resulting in her being hanged to death in front of the audience in a most cruel and disturbing way.

It just seems to me, after all the videos I have seen, Indians do not seem to value their own personal safety or lives at all. There is very little regard to safety in public infrastructure; the roads, cars, and buildings are deathtraps. Dangerous electrical wires loom only a few metres high above the ground where they can easily be touched by accident by anyone unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Has nobody in India ever heard of pylons?

But more to the point, it is the *attitude* of the Indians that astonishes me in these videos. Not only do the people in these videos behave in irresponsible ways that result in them getting killed, but it is the attitude of onlookers that also disturbs me. In many of these videos, nearby witnesses tend to be quiet and passively uninterested in the suffering of the person dying in each video. It is like they are just standing there, relieved that whatever is happening to the other person is not happening to themselves.
And keep in mind, even while hundreds of these videos can be found on the internet, just how many more deaths in this fashion have taken place without being caught on camera? Do we even dare to imagine?

I am struggling beyond words to find an explanation for this phenomenon. I have never seen Westerners behave like this. Lack of education does not even *begin* to explain this.
No matter how curious I may have been as a child, I have never once thought about diving headfirst into a shallow pool of water. The thought has quite simply never entered anybody's mind. I have never once wanted to lean outside a moving train (certainly not without looking to see what might be coming my way).

Why do so many Indians keep getting killed in these absurd circumstances? Are these deaths all the result of misadventure, or could they be creative, artistic suicide attempts for the purpose of infamy?