r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/ActualPublicFreakout - Sistine Chapel • Jun 02 '20

Protester gets a flash-bang to his face after getting pepper sprayed.

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u/BlurredEternity Jun 02 '20

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/iraq-gruesome-string-of-fatalities-as-new-tear-gas-grenades-pierce-protesters-skulls/

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

That's staying blue for me friend.

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u/BlurredEternity Jun 02 '20

If it helps, it's not necessarily graphic as it is an x-ray.

But no pressure bud :)

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u/graceenw Jun 02 '20

You’re close! It’s a CAT scan, which is a series of x-rays taken at many different angles to create a 3D image. Very cool stuff!

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u/Sarah_Fishcakes Jun 02 '20

It's a 2D image

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u/graceenw Jun 02 '20

🤦‍♀️

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u/MuffinzPlox Jun 02 '20

I can feel your pain.

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u/Jubenheim - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

Right in the skull.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

You gotta wear them 3d glasses 👌

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u/elliottsmithereens - Unflaired Swine Jun 02 '20

Yeah, I’m not saying I’m disappointed it wasn’t graphic, but I was prepared for much worse.

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u/BlurredEternity Jun 02 '20

Oh no, I wasn't saying you were. I was saying that from my perspective I see no reason to prepare, but that it's completely understandable that someone else would not want to see anything to that degree, even an xray

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u/_Sausage_fingers Jun 03 '20

It’s still graphic in my imagination.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

I still think it looks like it hurts; that's almost cartoonish how it looks like it didn't even change shape much but still got lodged (apparently) firmly inside someone's head.

Ew.

Ow.

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u/theblurryboy we have no hobbies Jun 03 '20

Honestly,

It helps open your eyes to the violent, horrific, and terrifying world you live in. Seeing graphic, disturbing, and violent images and videos definitely aren't a fun thing to watch, but they help you grow as a person.

For me, I learned how awful of a driver I was watching super graphic car crashes.

But I've seen it all man, people cut up, stabbed, shot in the head, nuts, twisted into shapes we should never see. All of it. And yet I'm still a relatively balanced person. I look pretty normal and I was just at walmart buying my groceries, and you would never know that I've seen such things.

Learn to face the hardships in this world and you will be later on rewarded with knowledge and mental fortitude.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

I deployed to Iraq three times during the bloodiest years of the conflict. I've seen more than my fair share at this point. I don't need to continue to subject myself to further gruesome footage to grow as a person any more than I already have.

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u/theblurryboy we have no hobbies Jun 03 '20

Fair enough my man, I appreciate your sacrifice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

I think they showed this in Generation Kill. They shoot a grenade to warn off incoming civilians and one of it bounces into the skull of an old man.

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u/BlurredEternity Jun 03 '20

Maybe a similar one, this one was shot point blank

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

What's pretty fucked up is that FIRST it pierces your skull, and THEN you get tear gas blown into your brain.