Jerusalem Bulldozer: seeing man shot in head

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snoboardrThu 03/07/08 10:53

Last night, on the 10 o'clock BBC News, the story of the man going on a rampage in a huge bulldozer through Jerusalem was covered. Eventually the driver was shot in the head and killed.

This was filmed by a local correspondent and during the report, prior to showing film of the event, he said something like "We did film the moment the driver was shot in the head". It then showed the bulldozer with a number of men up on the cab, then the action stops, they put a ring around the guy to the side of the driver, and say "This man then shot the driver in the head". The scene then continues and very clearly from behind the bulldozer you see the man point the gun into the cab, the driver's head moves right and you see smoke, the driver grabs his head, another bullet. And another and another. The driver slumps in his seat. Back to the correspondent.

Did anyone else see this? How did you feel about the BBC showing that? I felt it was pretty pointless to the story and really I didn't particularly want to see some guy being shot in the head four times at point blank range. For sure, it's real-life and perhaps we should be exposed to these things but I'd actually never ever seen anyone actually being shot in the head before, particularly the reaction to the first bullet not killing and the guy putting his hand up to his head before more bullets were pumped in.

I remember years ago where the BBC covered a story of a hostage being blown up by terrorists wrapping him in explosives and standing him against some sand dunes in the desert. Seconds prior to "the action", they cut the story and said "The following scene is too horrific for us to show it". Even so, I've been haunted by seeing that poor guy wrapped in explosives ever since. I should probably just stop watching the News.

If you did see it, were you surprised by it? Is this sort of thing on the News a lot and I've just never noticed? I'm ok with seeing the bad sides of life in this world, the results of beatings of Mugabe's mob, the sick and dying in the starving third world, corpses lying on the ground or being thrown into mass graves.. but not really someone being shot in the head like that. I'm also not quite sure why I've got a double standard on that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7486595.stm

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