A PSA.

[theweaselking]

CANADIANS understand how public service announcements work. (Warning: Music, sound, and it's a Canadian "workplace safety" PSA. Those are generally pretty gruesome.)

We've gotten the practice at making them good, from centuries of experience in teaching our children to avoid the moose.

Here's another example - it's a catechism that we ensure all schoolchildren know by heart, by the time they're able to spell their own names:
Q: What do we do when we are awake?
A: Keep two eyes on the sky.
Q: What do we do when we sleep?
A: Keep one eye on the sky.
Q: What do we do when we see the moose?
A: Dig hard, dig deep, go for shelter, and never look back.

Comments

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Boiling water will do that to your skin very quickly. It's more or less a 2nd degree burn with the blisters popped open. Steam and hot water injuries are some of the most overlooked, and thus the 2nd most common burn injury that is taught in first aid behind sunburn. Holding your arm over steam for less than 5 seconds can give you a second degree burn. That pot of water was ample to do the damage it did. And then even after the source of heat is gone, your tissues continue to burn because of the heat transferred to your skin, so her face is actually going to get worse.

The fire flareup looks like she hit a frying pan on the way down and upended oil onto a grill or something. That could have actually gone way worse, because if the grease lights on fire and water is added, then the flaming grease actually floats on the water and becomes really hard to contain.

[sanityimpaired.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. Thanks!