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Low effort post but I found it interesting. We treat human life as irreverrantly as the aztec empire did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1veucdd/whats_the_craziest_freak_accident_you_know_about/

And yes I know we're supposed to hate reddit, I just end up there sometimes nonetheless.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

My sister volunteered as an ambulance assistant in hs. She got a call one night of a car crash, she went. A friend of hers was driving way too fast, lost control, went off road and ran into a tree.

Worse he was not wearing a seat belt and got sent out the windshield and head first into a tree. Her description was "I had to pick up his body with a shovel and put it in a bucket".

There was also a bus crash a few years later on a local highway. It was kids going on a field trip. According to the 911 call, the operator asked "how many ambulances are needed?" and the caller who witnessed it just said "all of them"