The cultural penetration of this scene has become visible when on the highway and you see a truck carrying logs and how everyone avoids being directly behind it.
Was this scene in the trailers or something ahead of another more popular movie that year? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this movie, but the scene is still burned into my mind 20 years later.
maybe, but logging trucks are second only to hay trucks in rate and lethality of dropped load. It’s a really good and basic safety practice, the movie didnt come up with the idea of logging truck accidents.
each of the hay bales on those trucks weighs between 500 and 1600 lbs, normally on the high end. they also suck to haul.
My Dad’s friend in college had this happen, except with a plumbing truck and pipe, and it decapitated his wife and daughter.
I always wondered why he wouldn’t sit behind those trucks, then one year he finally told me. Really tragic. I don’t know how his friend actually overcame that, or if he did, they fell out of touch, but that would ruin me. On so many levels. I don’t know that I would drive a car again, at the same time, I live in the US, how do you not? lol but that’s a rant for another day.
On a trip to the US on a road trip from Detroit to Louisiana, I think it was like Kentucky or Mississippi, I had a truck in front of me lose a star picket off the tray and it flew past my widescreen to the left, missing me by about a foot.
Could not stop thinking about that video for days.
The final destination scene was one thing but do you all remember that real video where it was I think a brick that just obliterates one of the occupants, you don’t see much but you hear the reaction from the other passenger and it fucking haunts you for years.
I can absolutely confirm this. Always joked about it until we found ourselves out in the PNW and that joke became very real very quickly.
At least it isn’t a brick.
I know exactly what this is referencing and I’ve never watched the clip. The comments at the time were enough to properly disturb me.
Good choice, that’s a video that’s been burnt in my mind for 15 years or however old it is…I feel like that was a rotten.com special back in the day
