Warning: If you don’t like seeing people get hurt, avert your eyes. Especially if you get squemish when a man gets hit in his no-no parts by a pole.
Americans love pain and they especially love watching people they don’t know experience pain. This explains the popularity of demolition derbies, Ultimate Fighting and America’s Funniest Home Videos. So don’t be afraid to indulge your need for people getting–as the Internet folks dub it–”pwned,” embrace it. And watch this collection of videos I found on YouTube of people making fools of themselves.
Ouch! And, since I’m sure plenty of non-Medill kids want to see the majority of us journalism nuts caught in an electrical storm, here is a collection of reporters getting “owned.”