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No-Friendship9440 Apr 14, 2026 +578

As a kid when this happened, they made it seem like there was a well on every corner you could fall into, and it scared the shit out of me, that and quicksand!!!

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norciuolo Apr 14, 2026 +238

"I always thought that quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be". - John Mulaney

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stater354 Apr 14, 2026 +57

Quicksand and falling pianos

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Rizzy5 Apr 14, 2026 +28

And piranhas

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BualadhBoss Apr 14, 2026 +12

also roads obstructed by fruit-carts and men carrying large panes of glass

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TheManOnThe3rdFloor Apr 15, 2026 +5

Movie:1972 "What's Up Doc?" A more modern take of the classic comedy routine of Window Plate Glass in the Street seen in several other movies from the 1920s-30s onwards. "Howard!, Howard Bannister!" -Madeline Kahn The classic "plate glass" scene, in which O'Neal and Streisand are pedaling on a stolen grocery store delivery bicycle, was filmed at Balboa and 23rd Avenue in the Richmond District of San Francisco.

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Warcraft_Fan Apr 14, 2026 +3

And a [16-ton truncated pyramid shaped weight.](https://imgur.com/yM0dDsj)

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Pledgeofmalfeasance Apr 14, 2026 +5

Turns out 90s weed dealers were contractually obliged to own those so it did come up

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YeOldSpacePope Apr 15, 2026 +4

Don't forget about falling safes and anvils

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Stillwater215 Apr 14, 2026 +21

From the number of times I heard “Stop-Drop-Roll” I thought catching on fire was going to be far more commonplace.

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No-Friendship9440 Apr 14, 2026 +6

Ha!! I blame Scooby Doo…they were always getting stuck in quicksand!!

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throwawayformobile78 Apr 14, 2026 +28

And free drugs everywhere! Wtf man, some bs we were taught.

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stater354 Apr 14, 2026 +18

I was so disappointed when I found out people don’t actually put free drugs in Halloween candy

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technobrendo Apr 14, 2026 +3

DARE was waaaaay wrong about this.

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Paavo_Nurmi Apr 14, 2026 +11

Dare means.... **D**rugs **A**re **R**eally **E**xpensive

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weekend-guitarist Apr 14, 2026 +16

Every time I see an open well I think abut falling down in there and getting stuck.

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__JDQ__ Apr 14, 2026 +12

Every time I see a large hole in the ground I’m like, “Well, well, well…”

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jmpalermo Apr 14, 2026 +7

You should join us it’s great down here. Way better than the mess you’ve all got going on up there…

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weekend-guitarist Apr 14, 2026 +4

I’m coming down

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Cube-in-B Apr 14, 2026 +7

I grew up in the Oregon dunes and just thought that everyone had dunes when I was a kid because the quicksand emergency training seemed so ubiquitous.

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Zombiefap Apr 14, 2026 +7

Don’t forget the killer bees.

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booktrovert Apr 14, 2026 +4

Bermuda triangle. And people just giving me drugs for free on every street corner

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NectarOfTheBussy Apr 14, 2026 +3

Man I’m just at reading the wikipedia article about it. The paramedic that saved her committed suicide in 1995 because of it all apparently

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GermanBadger Apr 14, 2026 +9

I'm still terrified of acid rain

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SirDrexl Apr 14, 2026 +4

"Doggone near lost a $400 hand cart!"

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AudibleNod Apr 14, 2026 +2598

>Jessica McClure Morales, the woman widely known as “Baby Jessica” after she was rescued from a deep well in 1987, was arrested Saturday following allegations of a domestic disturbance at her Midland County home, NBC affiliate KXAN reports. It's got to be odd to be famous for an event you don't even remember taking place. Then you make the news simply for being famous.

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jessnotok Apr 14, 2026 +467

I remember following the story when I was 4 it terrified me. I'm 43 and I'll still randomly think about it. Maybe I'm the only one who remembers lol

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bigfatbrains Apr 14, 2026 +295

I mostly remember the simpsons episode where Bart fell down a well. I guess it must have been based off this lady.

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CanadianTrueCrime Apr 14, 2026 +195

“Because we’re sending our love down the well…alll the way dowwwwwn”

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SonOfMcGee Apr 14, 2026 +60

Before lowering my eyes half an inch and reading your comment, I played that exact part of the song in my head and heard Krusty’s voice crystal clear. Crazy how ‘90s Simpsons imprinted on me. Not only did I watch new episodes religiously, I caught reruns probably five or six days a week!

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sump_daddy Apr 14, 2026 +16

now put that in perspective, there are probably enough new episodes since then, to fill every single rerun s*** you watched as a kid (they just passed 800 episodes aired)

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DonnieDickTraitor Apr 14, 2026 +33

January 1st 2025 I decided no more news in the morning while I get ready, I switched to watching The Simpsons instead. I am currently on season 31. I am really enjoying trying to piece together what real world current events were happening during each season/episode.

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Fallouttgrrl Apr 14, 2026 +7

Now that sounds fun

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IAMA_Plumber-AMA Apr 15, 2026 +21

"Wow! How do you know so much about history, Grandpa?" "I mostly pieced it together from ~~sugar packets~~ Simpsons episodes..."

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Asleep-Range1456 Apr 15, 2026 +3

Of course we were wearing onions on our belts then.. it was the fashion at the time.

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mikeyriot Apr 14, 2026 +3

> I caught reruns probably five or six days a week! the syndication block between 5-8pm meant that between CFMT, CBC and WUTV, I could basically get 3 hours of episodes, 5 days a week.

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SonOfMcGee Apr 14, 2026 +6

Don’t forget 11:00-midnight… We didn’t have cable growing up and I swear that three of the six stations we got had Simpsons rerun at some point during the day.

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calamititties Apr 14, 2026 +59

🎶Though we can’t get him out, we’ll do the next best thing!🎶

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bigfatbrains Apr 14, 2026 +46

We’ll go on TV and sing, sing, SIIIIIIIIIIIIING

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Oughtonomous Apr 14, 2026 +5

[Clarence Carter Sings... ](https://youtu.be/Dv-3VOOhSo4)

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Xitnal Apr 14, 2026 +14

Shhhh Marge, hes a good digger.

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AnalogFeelGood Apr 14, 2026 +16

Sting will always be there for his fans!

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CSpiffy148 Apr 15, 2026 +13

"I'm not sure if I ever heard Bart listen to one of your albums." "Shhhh, Marge, he's a good digger."

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henryrblake Apr 14, 2026 +27

The movie 12 Monkeys made reference to this event (kid down a well not Bart down a well)

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Mulchpuppy Apr 14, 2026 +19

Right, but the kid wasn't really down the well. It was a prank that Cole remembered hearing about when he was a kid.

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henryrblake Apr 14, 2026 +30

Right, but it’s a touchback to this event. Every one who was alive then remembered the constant coverage and the worry over the little girl. Gilliam nailed it.

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Mulchpuppy Apr 14, 2026 +5

Sorry if it sounded like a correction. I was more going for an "additional information" thing!

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__Nels__Oleson__ Apr 14, 2026 +5

There's also a Canadian cbc mini series called More Tears which is about the media circus surrounding a kid down a well.

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repeatwad Apr 14, 2026 +6

There is a Billy Wilder movie, *Ace in the Hole*, about a man stuck in a cave and the media circus that blew up around it.

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TheManOnThe3rdFloor Apr 14, 2026 +5

Kirk Douglas ? as the newspaper reporter? 1951. The reporter wanted to keep milking the situation so things didn't go as quickly as they might have if the press reporter hadn't been involved.

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backdoorintruder Apr 14, 2026 +12

There's also an American dad episode about a similar situation

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Emotional_Ad_6126 Apr 14, 2026 +12

Fun fact, Timmy never fell down a well and Lassie never had to save him from that situation. 😂

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Current_Volume3750 Apr 14, 2026 +8

But my derpy goldens don't know that so we will continue to use it in our household 😅

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sump_daddy Apr 14, 2026 +5

he did get trapped in quicksand, and then in a mineshaft, and then a burning building

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chellis Apr 14, 2026 +12

The American Dad one had to have been directly based on this event since she was "baby franny" and is slightly applicable in this article about her arrest as the episode is based on her feeling guilty about being saved and not doing anything notable with her life. I had no idea about this story until right now though.

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Sharsmajka Apr 14, 2026 +79

I’m 48. I definitely remember baby Jessica.

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Tennessee1977 Apr 14, 2026 +19

I’m also 48. I remember they interrupted my favorite show, Rags to Riches, to show the footage of her rescue. I remember being so pissed my show got interrupted. 🤣

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ToastMate2000 Apr 14, 2026 +5

Now I want to watch Rags To Riches again. I wonder if it's available anywhere.

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ThatPancreatitisGuy Apr 15, 2026 +3

Don’t know if I’ve ever heard anyone reference Rags to Riches before!

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Suckerforcats Apr 14, 2026 +3

46 and I remember it as well.

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Cltspur Apr 15, 2026 +3

Yep, as soon as I saw “baby Jessica” I thought “McClure?”

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MrBurnieBurns Apr 14, 2026 +41

If you had asked me growing up, how long was Baby Jessica in the well? I would have guessed at least a month. Seemed like it was on TV for weeks. The whole rescue operation was two days. If you look at the rescue footage, it was a media circus. That kind of national mobilization seems insane in this era, much less the 80s.

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Proph3tAtreid3s Apr 14, 2026 +19

Yes- elder millennial here as well- this story terrified me as a kid and it definitely gave me nightmares

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bros402 Apr 14, 2026 +18

I read "Elder Millennial" as "Eldritch Millennial" and I was wondering how

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Osiris32 Apr 14, 2026 +15

The Xennials. We are the confluence of the analog society of our parents and the burgeoning digital age. We didn't build the internet, but we molded what it would become. We grew up drinking water from the hose and riding bikes until the street lights came on, then went on to create Facebook, Youtube, and Minecraft. We are the catalyst that started many revolutions in science, communications, and politics, and also the reason you can't talk to your parents about anything in the news because they get everything they want to hear from their feed. That is why we are eldritch. We are a horror. Source: Vintage 1983.

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Jonas_VentureJr Apr 14, 2026 +7

Gen X’er here, the Gen X thing would do not make statements like this as to bring attention to us.

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Furrowed_Brow710 Apr 14, 2026 +41

Same! I was only 5 but I seem to recall the entire ordeal. One of my earliest and strongest memories.

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Kwanjuju Apr 14, 2026 +9

We had just moved to Texas. I was 5 years old, and we watched this unfold on a TV at dairy queen.

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sowhat4 Apr 14, 2026 +4

I was a Mom x 2 by that time and followed the story closely. I remember reading that she suffered some nerve damage on her arm?

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ayyygeeed Apr 15, 2026 +3

I think it was her foot due to the way her leg ended up being positioned while she was stuck. They thought she might end up losing her whole leg but then they ended up only having to remove her pinky toe. (Source: just listened to the new Morbid podcast episode about this yesterday)

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thisisredlitre Apr 14, 2026 +15

What I remember most is The Simpson's Sending Our Love Down a Well

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iamjustatourist Apr 14, 2026 +7

There’s a hole in my heart as deep as a well for that poor little girl who’s stuck halfway to hell

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Elegant-Aerie-1233 Apr 14, 2026 +13

My husband and I are 42 and he randomly brought up baby Jessica last week when we saw a well on a tv show. We both wondered what she was up to these day. Ha

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jessnotok Apr 14, 2026 +4

lol I just made a reference to her to my husband last night. Saw a well in a YouTube video in the woods my husband used to play in. I joked he's lucky he didn't fall in like baby Jessica

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CaptainPunisher Apr 14, 2026 +12

I'm 49, and I remember it WELL.

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dodrugzwitthugz Apr 14, 2026 +26

Bro EVERYONE over the age of 40 remembers this story.

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Aethermancer Apr 14, 2026 +13

It's back when there was only one news story at a time. A week with two news stories was like the end of days.

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Cocky0 Apr 14, 2026 +3

It was amazing too. All the news that happened in the world managed to perfectly fit the newspaper.

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saintash Apr 14, 2026 +9

I was born a year after this happened. And I know for most of my childhood, this was like brought up in so much pop culture that it feels like I lived through it.

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ElefanteAmor Apr 14, 2026 +13

No I remember. As someone who’s claustrophobic the idea was terrifying. I felt so bad for that child.

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RobertBorden Apr 14, 2026 +5

I suspect this is where my claustrophobia comes from.

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gingerbreadmans_ex Apr 14, 2026 +13

I had two small daughters when this was all over the news. Same with Elian Gonzalez in the late 90’s. News about small children always hits me hard since having my own. I still don’t think Jessica should have her issues blasted on the news bc of what happened to her when she was four.

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Quackman2096 Apr 14, 2026 +5

Non famous people who commit domestic violence make the news literally all the time. Don’t assault someone and you won’t have your issues blasted on the news.

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SewSewBlue Apr 14, 2026 +3

I was 7 and it was terrifying for me. Assuming a kid you could relate to her, so as a story it felt more real than anything else on the news. It had a huge impact on pop culture at the time too. All kinds of comedy bits and jokes. And then poof, just gone. If you were a kid when it happened it never left you, but if you were an adult, it was a news cycle you long ago forgot.

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DB-CooperOnTheBeach Apr 14, 2026 +3

I was 9 and remember seeing the photos of the well as the events unfolded and this photo later when she was rescued in the newspapers and tabloids in the grocery store checkout line. A vivid memory indeed.

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swandive19 Apr 14, 2026 +5

I’m also 43. One of the earliest major news stories I remember.

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PunkRawkSoldier Apr 14, 2026 +3

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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Osiris32 Apr 14, 2026 +3

Nope, same age, same memories. It was huge news at the time, covered on all the 5 o'clock news programs (because that was how we got news at the time), and it also terrified me of holes in the ground as a kid.

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tfaboo Apr 14, 2026 +3

We watched the developments at a slumber party I went to in elementary school. We were cheering when she was rescued!

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LindsayOG Apr 14, 2026 +3

I clearly remember it. I was 11. Traumatized Generation X through and through.

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Southpawn Apr 14, 2026 +22

>"Fence P**** Gary" Arrested For Tax Evasion Gary Williamson, widely known as the famous "Fence P**** Gary" after he was rescued by firefighters in 1987 from having his p**** stuck in a fence after a dare gone wrong by his middle school friends, has been found guilty for tax evasion.

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TheDylorean Apr 14, 2026 +51

Kind of makes one wonder, why the person who *rescued* the baby did not also become famous.

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threetiredbicycle Apr 14, 2026 +209

Robert O'Donnell. He did become famous, but he had severe PTSD from the combo of the stress of the rescue and becoming extremely famous overnight and ended up committing suicide.

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UnusualHoneydew1625 Apr 14, 2026 +83

Well, shit.

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jooes Apr 14, 2026 +42

> [Paramedic Robert O'Donnell (August 27, 1957 – April 27, 1995) developed post-traumatic stress disorder after the rescue and later struggled to cope with the rapid fame **and subsequent obscurity** he experienced in the immediate aftermath of his heroic act. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_McClure#Aftermath) Seems like it was a bit of a rollercoaster. I read the NYT article that Wikipedia cited, I got the impression he was kind of an a******. It sounds like he got all of the credit for the rescue and he let it go to his head. They made movies about him, he got to meet the president. He thought it was his ticket to fame and success, and then it wasn't, and he ended up burning the relationships with everybody around him in the process. And then he turns to pills, his life falls apart, he loses his job, his wife leaves him. He moves in with his mom and then kills himself just after the Oklahoma City bombing, probably because of all the people who were trapped in the rubble. [It's an interesting article, I'd recommend it](https://web.archive.org/web/20150526145139/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/magazine/death-on-the-cnn-curve.html?pagewanted=1). But yeah, seems like fame was the last thing that guy needed.

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twistwrist9876 Apr 14, 2026 +48

He sadly committed suicide a few years later. 😓 His name was Robert O'Donnell.

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twistwrist9876 Apr 14, 2026 +7

His brother stated Robert eventually wished he had let someone else save Jessica. He just got lost in the whole thing and it ate him alive. His poor son was turning 11 years old a few days after the suicide happened and he wondered why his dad couldn't have at least waited until after his birthday. 💔 A detailed article linked below. COLUMN ONE : A Hero's Fame Leads to Tragedy : Helping to pull little Jessica McClure from a Texas well made firefighter Robert O'Donnell a star. But the limelight soon turned to darkness. - Los Angeles Times https://share.google/4OUEV2pzvWNRXRE7O

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palcatraz Apr 14, 2026 +7

Her rescue was not the work of one man. Only highlighting the man who went down in the well would be ignoring the work of dozens.

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Noto987 Apr 14, 2026 +9

How does a baby not die after falling 22 feet is my question

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xIllustrious_Passion Apr 14, 2026 +78

Babies are surprisingly squishy

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dwilkes827 Apr 14, 2026 +30

She didn't hit the ground, she got lodged in the well

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steve_dallasesq Apr 14, 2026 +3

Doing the splits no less

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ttw81 Apr 14, 2026 +18

got stuck. she fell straight down, so she was lucky and wasn't stuck upside down,

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Specialist_Gap_3399 Apr 14, 2026 +8

Yeah, this is the dark side of “human interest” stories. She’s a random Texan with a bad night, not a public figure. Media could just… not run every minor charge as national news.

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iyqyqrmore Apr 14, 2026 +3

Man! I was in Monhans Texas with my whole family watching this as a kid. I remember staying up so late for her to get rescued!

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Eclectic_Barbarella Apr 14, 2026 +155

I have to say, as a GenX kid, getting trapped in quicksand, nuclear bombs, the Atlanta serial killer and falling into a well, were the greatest hits on my midnight anxiety playlist.

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Comfortable_Bird_340 Apr 14, 2026 +37

or that a "bad person" was going to take you away, if you walked out of your mom's sight while you were shopping with her. i.e Adam Walsh or James Bulger (in the UK)

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Jahkmi-Hoff Apr 14, 2026 +12

Gen X life was a series of urban legends elevated by church leaders and the media into moral panics. That's why we were the last free roaming generation. They locked down outside after Sally Jessie Raphael and Maury Povich scared the shit out of everyone.

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everything_is_holy Apr 14, 2026 +7

And yet, we'd still be riding our bikes at night.

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Eledridan Apr 14, 2026 +96

You either die a baby in a well or you live long enough to become a villain.

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Dirtydeedsinc Apr 15, 2026 +15

It’s sad to see how far she’s fallen.

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ReactionJifs Apr 14, 2026 +164

pipe to prison pipeline

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library_wench Apr 14, 2026 +8

🤭 Also, this should be posted on the Xennials sub. One of the defining news stories of our childhood.

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fatboobslover Apr 14, 2026 +316

I was born while she was stuck in the well and the doctors and nurses were glued to the tv while my mom was laboring. My dad delivered me. No joke.

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OfficeChairHero Apr 14, 2026 +112

I can absolutely imagine that. Baby Jessica was 9/11 levels of big news. We were all glued to the TV for her rescue.

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JustHereForCookies17 Apr 14, 2026 +33

And decades later we had Balloon Boy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

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Genius-Imbecile Apr 14, 2026 +12

I remember whatever show I was watching getting preempted to watch her coming out of the well.

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Punkinpry427 Apr 14, 2026 +8

That story had an absolute chokehold on this country at the time.

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barbariantrey Apr 14, 2026 +61

Happy almost 40th?

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fatboobslover Apr 14, 2026 +14

39 in October!

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Ragnarotico Apr 14, 2026 +15

"Oh my god, that poor baby..." "Guys, I'm delivering one like RIGHT F****** NOW!"

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fatboobslover Apr 14, 2026 +5

That’s basically how it went down. They told my mom that she wasn’t ready yet. Good thing dad played ball and could catch me.

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HippyDM Apr 14, 2026 +26

I was forbidden from watching SNL because they made fun of the whole thing. Can you imagine a satire show satirizing the biggest news story of that year? The temerity of some people.

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ShanzokeyeLin Apr 14, 2026 +3

Agree with the username

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imadragonyouguys Apr 14, 2026 +121

You don't want to f*** with someone who lives their life through Well Rules.

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Kitakitakita Apr 14, 2026 +12

is that like Pond Rules?

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kingravs Apr 14, 2026 +21

Good ole baby Francine

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ZackyGood Apr 14, 2026 +15

And what HAS she done with her life.

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beastson1 Apr 14, 2026 +11

I'm surprised more people haven't made this reference yet

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Penguin_shit15 Apr 14, 2026 +20

LOL.. I was 11 years old, and stupid me heard everyone talking about it, except I heard she was stuck in a "Whale" not "well".. I thought she somehow got swallowed.

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StungTwice Apr 14, 2026 +11

That's understandable considering how a sizable portion of young children are taught that humans can be swallowed by ocean beasts with only slight inconvenience.

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talklouder314 Apr 15, 2026 +3

1 in the bible, 1 in Pinocchio, and Moby D***, right?

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EmilioMolesteves Apr 14, 2026 +17

Are we at a point in this world where we cant even rely on well children to set a positive example?

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Fearless-Cake7993 Apr 14, 2026 +37

We merely adopted the dark; she was born in it, molded by it. She didn't see the light until she was already a young woman, by then it was nothing to her but blinding

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KopOut Apr 14, 2026 +57

When I see her mentioned, I always think of the SNL episode of “What’s Up With That” with baby Jessica in it 😂 The link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaRiOU5IiXw

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NetNpIVijCI Apr 14, 2026 +25

I think of wayne Brady on whose line making a baby Jessica joke and the audience jeered at him.

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Kornholyo Apr 14, 2026 +11

I loved when The Simpsons putting their spin on this. https://youtu.be/atPh0aEL2oo?si=EAt98SI5BMc1sL17

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OakTreesForBurnZones Apr 14, 2026 +10

We’re sending our love down a wellllll

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JiffSmoothest Apr 14, 2026 +6

American Dad did an ep on this as well.

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TheGlassHammer Apr 14, 2026 +4

Baby Francine!

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Bouse Apr 14, 2026 +6

They did it again during the Best Buy Firing skit. https://youtu.be/1H_MAY9ZK6c?si=8IyZwrRo47Nl0f4M

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SlimSieber Apr 14, 2026 +5

"I AM Baby Jessica" "Well NOW you work at Best Buy!"

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Bouse Apr 14, 2026 +3

“You was better off in the well!”

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Bgrngod Apr 14, 2026 +4

And now "Ooooohhh eeeeee" is again stuck in my head.

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chaachie12 Apr 14, 2026 +58

Well........that's too bad.

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lemme_just_say Apr 14, 2026 +21

That was deep

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OptimusSublime Apr 14, 2026 +27

This is what happens when we stop sending our love down the well.

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Redfalconfox Apr 14, 2026 +8

We never stopped sending our love down the well, but she got out of the well and no longer received it.

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fatherlyadvicepdx Apr 14, 2026 +59

Who would have ever thought she could fall so far.

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crosswatt Apr 14, 2026 +16

Jeessssiiiica NOOOOOOO

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McqueenVendetta Apr 14, 2026 +3

I just played that clip the other day... it kills me :)

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bedbuffaloes Apr 15, 2026 +14

I feel like this is none of our business.

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melodypowers Apr 15, 2026 +6

Agreed. The story captured America, but she was a baby. She had no agency in any of it. And now she is a private citizen. Domestic disturbances happen and they should usually be private affairs.

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TheShadowKick Apr 15, 2026 +7

Who is even keeping track of her to make a new article about this? Why is anyone paying attention to her life at this point?

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edWORD27 Apr 14, 2026 +8

All’s not well after it starts in a well.

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ChefCurryYumYum Apr 14, 2026 +69

So because she was involved in an incident when she was a baby she gets to have her personal issues dragged in front of the world decades later? Let the woman live her life.

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Miserable-Estate6857 Apr 14, 2026 +5

Do you think her nephews and nieces call her aunt baby Jessica? It could be a perfect match for uncle baby billy

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dblan9 Apr 14, 2026 +19

>Morales gained worldwide attention in October 1987 when she fell 22 feet into a narrow well casing outside her aunt’s Midland home. The 18-month-old became lodged in the eight-inch-wide shaft. >Emergency crews worked around the clock for nearly 60 hours to free Baby Jessica during a rescue mission that gripped the nation. Rescuers eventually drilled a parallel shaft and a horizontal tunnel through rock to reach her. Yeah I would be claustrophobic in anything smaller than a gymnasium after that.

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vegetaman Apr 14, 2026 +5

Dang i didn’t recall how long it took.

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LesterMcGuire Apr 15, 2026 +16

I'm so glad she got glasses. She couldn't see that well.

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Lissas812 Apr 15, 2026 +4

I laughed too hard at this 🤣

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Dry-Airport8046 Apr 14, 2026 +179

Leave the woman alone.

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NeighbourNoNeighbor Apr 14, 2026 +55

This feels kind of gross to report on. She never chose to be a public figure, and people are just in here making jokes about her trauma. I don't need to know the intimate details / issues in her marriage - that's for the police and courts to sort out. Normally I read the articles before commenting, but this time I'm skipping it.

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Addative-Damage Apr 15, 2026 +6

Right? It’s not like she’s running for public office or hosting an advice podcast or anything. Literally just a random private citizen who had a horrible near death incident as a baby. Of course DV is a serious issue, but using it as c**** tabloid fodder like this isn’t helpful or healthy imo. Even if she’s the perpetrator, how would this type of reporting affect the victims and family? My guess is that it sucks

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angrymountie Apr 14, 2026 +8

Ya, put her back.

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ShoNuffAllDay Apr 14, 2026 +22

Wow! How far she has fallen.

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Any-Power-1164 Apr 15, 2026 +5

Cindy the news is on! Another little white girl done fell down a well!

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LinkLinkleThreesome Apr 14, 2026 +6

Is this where the Simpsons Bart-gets-trapped-in-a-well thing came from? I know they took the piss out of the dingo woman which in hindsight is shocking but I figured this was a Lassie thing.

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aflyingsquanch Apr 14, 2026 +10

There were several "stuck down a well" stories in the 80s but this was definitely one of the inspirations for that particular episode.

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Geek-Yogurt Apr 14, 2026 +3

I wouldn't have considered it to be a slow enough news day to cover this story with the current state of affairs being what it is. But, here we are.

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toomuchtostop Apr 14, 2026 +5

This was always presented as a feel-good story so imagine my surprise when I learned the guy who went down to get her ended up killing himself. His family thought he had untreated PTSD and also couldn’t handle it when the world moved on from this story and he was no longer getting attention…really sad all around

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jigokubi Apr 14, 2026 +5

Man, I remember worrying she wouldn't survive to be able to grow up to make the news for a domestic assault.

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Venture_compound Apr 14, 2026 +4

I grew up in a Midland and am a year older than her. Never met her, but her name floated around MHS and Lee in the same way chupacabra or mothman did.

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DVWhat Apr 15, 2026 +3

The nation waits with bated breath to see if they’ll be able to bail her out.

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argonzo Apr 14, 2026 +7

news media going back to the well again I see. /s

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donnerpartytaconight Apr 14, 2026 +8

(shakes head) Well, well, well.

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Cam_Dubz Apr 14, 2026 +3

aww. they grow up so fast.

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ilikebeer19 Apr 14, 2026 +3

So she's not doing Well?!?

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usernamechooser Apr 14, 2026 +3

Now she's Mama Left Hook.

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DamD1rtyApe Apr 14, 2026 +3

The only solution is to put her back in

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yaykat Apr 14, 2026 +3

“We’re sending our lovvvvvve down the wellllll”

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braedan51 Apr 14, 2026 +3

Krusty (singing off key), "Alll the waayyy Doowwn!"

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Calm-Maintenance-878 Apr 14, 2026 +3

I can’t relate to this article but I’m guessing there’s a trove of older folks saying “oh my god, not baby Jessica!”

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Lampadas_Horde Apr 14, 2026 +3

Lol this is so funny. My daughter just turned in her simulated baby for her school class. We named it baby jessica after her.

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Tennessee1977 Apr 14, 2026 +3

Her mugshot. https://www.nxsmediawire.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2026/04/Morales-1.webp?strip=1

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summersa74 Apr 14, 2026 +3

I bet they’re on city water.

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PurplishPlatypus Apr 14, 2026 +3

There was a made for tv movie about this that I saw several times in the 90s. They called her Juicy. "Juicy, can you hear me, don't cry, Juicy."

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Wakeup_And_Piss Apr 14, 2026 +3

She fell down a well for God's sake! Well 30 some odd years ago lol

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Hey_Im_over-here Apr 14, 2026 +3

Why is this even news???

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amsurette Apr 15, 2026 +3

I remember watching this rescue on tv as a kid.

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sofbert Apr 14, 2026 +16

jfc how desperate for headlines must you be to even waste the AI's time with a headline like this. 'Dude who played shipwrecked pirate on 1 ep of Gilligan's Island gets parking ticket."

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flyting1881 Apr 15, 2026 +6

The EMT who saved her, Robert O'Donnell, ended up having a lot of trouble later in life too. He struggled with addiction and depression, and ended up taking his own life in 1995.

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OGLikeablefellow Apr 14, 2026 +11

You'd hit people if you were trapped in a well as a baby too

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nocturnal_carnivore Apr 14, 2026 +14

yeah, it’s interesting (and sad), but early childhood trauma can have a huge effect on the mental and emotional stability of a person. domestic violence is never right, but it’s worth noting that untreated trauma can contribute to crimes. the childhood traumas are rampant in those imprisoned. if only we had prevented or treated those traumas, just imagine what our communities would be like!

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padbodh Apr 14, 2026 +5

Hurt people hurt people ya dig

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Kruse Apr 14, 2026 +8

A valuable news story. Rich and compelling.

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ZackyGood Apr 14, 2026 +2

I thought her name was Francine.

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heartsholly Apr 14, 2026 +2

I was just wondering where she ended up

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