Friday, October 31, 2008

Boy chops dad's arm off during World Series

Okay, I'm sure the headline got you. But here is what happened.

I was watching the World Series game on my TV. I was watching it live on Tivo, meaning I had it delayed by about 10 minutes to skip the commercials.

I was fast forwarding through the commercials, hit the play button, and for the shortest fraction of an instant I saw something extremely disturbing, I saw a boy with a machete hitting a man.

At first it was so quick, so sudden, so fast, that I didn't react. The news was announcing it was on after the game and then I was back to the game. And then my consciousness caught up with my brain. What had I just seen?

I paused Tivo and flipped back and watched it again...sure enough, for about as long as it takes for you to blink, there was an image on the screen.

I rewound and put it into slow motion...Tivo is great for that...but even in slow motion, the image was only on the screen for a fraction of a second.

After about six attempts I was able to have the image up in slow motion and then I was able to hit pause, then pushing pause again moved the image forward one frame at a time. There were about 6 frames.

There was a boy, covered in blood, standing with a machete in his hands. He is standing behind a man who would seem to be his father. His father is sitting in a chair with blood over his head and clothes and his right arm hangs limp. There is a woman in the foreground watching with her back to the camera. The boy has the machete over his head and slashes down on the man's arm/shoulder...an inch before it enters the arm the image flashes to a jungle tower with a man standing guard looking off into the distance. That lasts only 1 frame and is almost impossible to catch.

All the people in the scenes are black.

I don't know if it was a Halloween joke, if it was a silent protest of Darfur, if it was an anti-Obama item. It appeared to be a family being forced to torture other members of the family.

It was grisly, it was shocking, and it was definitely not TV approved.

I'm wondering if anyone saw it or might have an idea of what it was.

I've looked on Google for any statement but haven't found anything.

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