Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Fascinating Horror" channel.

  1. I can totally forgive companies for mistakenly thinking that it was safe, given the prevailing wisdom, but I can't forgive the slurring and dismissal of victims. To write that one girl off as having died of syphillis was a really nasty stain on character.
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  2. I try never entrust my life to the integrity or judgement of another human being any more. I drive defensively, don't fly, prefer to ride the back of trains, and try to avoid tall buildings. These owners do NOT have our interests at heart. Not in the slightest.
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  3.  @MikinessAnalog  A large passenger ship that crashed in the Mediterranean. He was showing off to his girlfriend and crashed the ship. He also left early while it was sinking.
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  4. What I took from that, was the fact that she was stubborn, arrogant, and when she could have shouted warnings and saved lives, she didn't.
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  5. Can you imagine being the parents on set and seeing that happening?! This was f***ing disgraceful. Landis' behaviour afterwards screams "Me me me!" He should never have made another movie, and it makess you wonder about the studios that hired him. At least Spielberg comes out of this looking somewhat principled.
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  6. There were 300,000 people there and 63 spectators died. Your chances of dying even if you were there, was minute.
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  7. That boy's courage gained him immortality a way that most of us will never achieve. A tragic way to do so, but he will be remembered long after most of us are forgotten. In the normal course of things, it's doubtful that anyone, even his decendants would even remember his name today.
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  8. The police should all have been fired for that incident. The operator actually didn't believe him, and the poor lad died from positional asphyxia. It was f***ing inexcusable.
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  9. This was appalling criminal negligence to take a group of children out in such challenging country when bad weather was forecast.
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  10.  @sarabachmann2837  Oh wow, that's despicable.
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  11. Yeah, it's completely outrageous how how callous the hotel was with their guests' safety.
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  12. Usually with these stories, I feel like some of the participants were wilfully, callously negligent, but in this case, it feels like none of them comprehended the risk.
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  13. 100%. These bastards should always get life in prison but instead they are rarely held accountable at all.
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  14. It's ALWAYS about money somewhere.
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  15. Is there any rule against owning an armoured vehicle?
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  16.  @foximacentauri7891  The OP said "probably saved our lives." That's what I addressed.
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  17.  @MrArgus11111  Clearly having the instructor in the plane was not sufficient. You say "1 crash in the 70's" but the FAA considered this single incident a serious enough indicator of risk to change air field policy across the nation. It's like saying of the Titanic "1 sinking the early 1900's."
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  18. There are dozens of modern fireproofing materials that I would trust more than baking soda. And where are you supposed to spray it? Every surface of your building? Spraying furnishings with water and baking soda is certainly going to be destructive. If you care about fire risk, keep fire extinguishers and don't keep open flames in a wooden buildng.
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  19. I've always considered technical air demonstrations to be nothing but pathetic dick waving where the audience are the ones that unknowingly roll the dice with their lives. Yet another case where it's lunacy to trust to the competence to so-called "experts." These sort of air displays should be banned world-wide. Seeing the names of children and tots on that memorial is especially heartbreaking.
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  20.  @KaladinVegapunk  Same with asbestos and asbestosis, fibre glass manufacture and lung conditions, coal mining and black lung. So much we didn't know was harmful.
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  21. You'd think that that would be shunted off to extremely quiet rural airstrips wouldn't you?
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  22.  @rustybucket5465  Riiiight - like people didn't die in their thousands in Texas and Florida due to the wilful anti-vax stupidity of their GOP leaders...
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  23. Yeah, same with lead, and tobacco, and thalidomide. Numerous products in fact.
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  24.  @markrichards636  In the early days, the world thought that not only was it safe, but it was beneficial.
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  25.  @173jaSon371  Not quite the same. Lots of people make extremely dangerous products without understanding them. So long as they can follow instructions precisely and have safety measures in place, you'd hope things would be okay. Admittedly, the owner was horribly negligent, but I bet no employee at a fireworks factory understands the properties of what they are creating.
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  26. If there was a God that cared, they wouldn't be dead now would they? 🤣
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  27.  @NucleaRaptor  Not the point at all.
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  28. Risking his life for a thrill, and then not even checking his own equipment. What a fool.
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  29. Every single story on your channel simply confirms my absolute belief that in a disaster, you should NEVER entrust your survival to other people; other people supposedly taking care of safety precautions, or other people to rescue you. So-called experts are massively incompetent, reckless, careless, and fantastically stupid. The idea of simply sitting in a room while an inferno of that degree rages around you is simply incomprehensible to me.
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  30. "Stay where you are" Advice I would never heed when a ship is listing. My mother scarred me as a child by telling me to always obey adults. It did not serve me well with the creeps in her church. These are examples of why I never trust other people with my safety if I can help it any more. At best, they are incompetent, and at worst they are outright cowardly and evil. SOOO much incompetence in this case. All of that said, if the safety training budget was just $2, and the captain was off duty when it went down, why the hell did HE receive a life sentence? The people going to prison should have been the ship's owners, not any of the crew. He was a sacrificial lamb to sate public anger.
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  31. This is why you need regulatory bodies. Course, now you all voted for Trump, there will be far less oversight. The idea that the owner was allowed to get away with it because her was an FBI snitch is appalling. 15 years in prison was a gift.
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  32. It amazes me that so many lives are in the hands of a single person.
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  33.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  It's disgusting. There is always a compromise between safety and utility, but the more lives are affected, the greater that should err towards safety. The slapdash way that Fukishima plant was run, as well as the Windscale plant in Britain, and the entire nuclear weapons arsenal of the USA is appalling.
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  34.  @janicesullivan8942  In a train crash, I always consider that the further you are from the bit having the direct impact the greater your survival chances. I do try to avoid large crowds although I LOVE people, especially tourists in London. I hate the thought of my exits being restricted by bodies though. The situation in Israel this week (and Hillsboro) attest to the dangers of crowds.
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  35.  @tonykrizan3641  Yeah, but judging by all the comments, they KNEW that the chemical she'd worked with caused it so...
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  36. Ahh loving Christians and their imaginary friend failing them utterly.
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  37. "[the next quake] should be nowhere as destructive as the quake that changed the face of the city in 1906" The population density is way higher, the buildings are taller, and if this channel has taught me anything, it's that building codes and lives mean nothing when there's a nickel to be saved by construction companies. Also can we stop and consider the immensity of the land moving 6 meters in under a minute.Not sure how ANY building on top of that, or the resulting sinkholes could possibly survive.
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  38.  @Walamonga1313  Given that the computer KNEW that radium was problematic by that stage, it would have been most prudent to at least withhold speculation until a definitive answer could be demonstrated, especially when the speculation was so scurrilous.
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  39.  @sudonum3108  Yes, he talked about that in this video. Seems like an insane justification - like removing lifebelts from a pier because they might tempt people to swim.
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  40. It enrages me beyond expression to see the total contempt (as with the Titanic) that these owners have for human lives; especially the working class. And then the sc*m get away without punishment.
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  41.  @SteRDLK  Go away.
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  42.  @thegriffin88  100% That's why there's such a high mortality rate among teens and early 20 - a sense of immortality. First serious injury cures that.
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  43.  @LittleKitty22  Awww, dida little kitty not like the disagweeing words? I'm sure you can find a nice fluffy safe space to hide in. I guess not mature enough for an adult who calls herself "Little Kitty" huh? 🤣🤣🤣
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  44.  @Lie-wr7bq  My comment was supportive of Spielberg. Your explanation only makes me like him more.
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  45.  @kam2894  I don't expect to be fully safe, but I simply prefer to take as much control over the things that affect my safety as possible.
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  46. 🤗
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  47. Let's just stop and note that Ford declined to recall dangerous vehicles that had just killed two dozen people. :-(
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  48. It blows my mind that they would place a runway that aims directly into heavily crowded residential or commercial areas.
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  49.  @colemarie9262  Yes Cole, that's EXACTLY how I perceived it.
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  50. Me too - I mean, ginger, what a huge set back! ;-)
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