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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norciuolo4 days ago
+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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stater3544 days ago
+57
Quicksand and falling pianos
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Rizzy54 days ago
+28
And piranhas
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BualadhBoss4 days ago
+12
also roads obstructed by fruit-carts and men carrying large panes of glass
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TheManOnThe3rdFloor4 days ago
+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_Fan4 days ago
+3
And a [16-ton truncated pyramid shaped weight.](https://imgur.com/yM0dDsj)
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Pledgeofmalfeasance4 days ago
+5
Turns out 90s weed dealers were contractually obliged to own those so it did come up
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YeOldSpacePope4 days ago
+4
Don't forget about falling safes and anvils
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Stillwater2154 days ago
+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-Friendship94404 days ago
+6
Ha!! I blame Scooby Doo…they were always getting stuck in quicksand!!
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throwawayformobile784 days ago
+28
And free drugs everywhere! Wtf man, some bs we were taught.
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stater3544 days ago
+18
I was so disappointed when I found out people don’t actually put free drugs in Halloween candy
Every time I see an open well I think abut falling down in there and getting stuck.
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__JDQ__4 days ago
+12
Every time I see a large hole in the ground I’m like, “Well, well, well…”
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jmpalermo4 days ago
+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-guitarist4 days ago
+4
I’m coming down
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Cube-in-B4 days ago
+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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Zombiefap4 days ago
+7
Don’t forget the killer bees.
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booktrovert4 days ago
+4
Bermuda triangle. And people just giving me drugs for free on every street corner
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NectarOfTheBussy4 days ago
+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
3
GermanBadger4 days ago
+9
I'm still terrified of acid rain
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SirDrexl4 days ago
+4
"Doggone near lost a $400 hand cart!"
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AudibleNod4 days ago
+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.
2598
jessnotok4 days ago
+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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bigfatbrains4 days ago
+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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CanadianTrueCrime4 days ago
+195
“Because we’re sending our love down the well…alll the way dowwwwwn”
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SonOfMcGee4 days ago
+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_daddy4 days ago
+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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DonnieDickTraitor4 days ago
+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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Fallouttgrrl4 days ago
+7
Now that sounds fun
7
IAMA_Plumber-AMA4 days ago
+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-Range14564 days ago
+3
Of course we were wearing onions on our belts then.. it was the fashion at the time.
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mikeyriot4 days ago
+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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SonOfMcGee4 days ago
+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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calamititties4 days ago
+59
🎶Though we can’t get him out, we’ll do the next best thing!🎶
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bigfatbrains4 days ago
+46
We’ll go on TV and sing, sing, SIIIIIIIIIIIIING
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Oughtonomous4 days ago
+5
[Clarence Carter Sings... ](https://youtu.be/Dv-3VOOhSo4)
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Xitnal4 days ago
+14
Shhhh Marge, hes a good digger.
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AnalogFeelGood4 days ago
+16
Sting will always be there for his fans!
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CSpiffy1484 days ago
+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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henryrblake4 days ago
+27
The movie 12 Monkeys made reference to this event (kid down a well not Bart down a well)
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Mulchpuppy4 days ago
+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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henryrblake4 days ago
+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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Mulchpuppy4 days ago
+5
Sorry if it sounded like a correction. I was more going for an "additional information" thing!
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__Nels__Oleson__4 days ago
+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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repeatwad4 days ago
+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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TheManOnThe3rdFloor4 days ago
+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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backdoorintruder4 days ago
+12
There's also an American dad episode about a similar situation
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Emotional_Ad_61264 days ago
+12
Fun fact, Timmy never fell down a well and Lassie never had to save him from that situation. 😂
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Current_Volume37504 days ago
+8
But my derpy goldens don't know that so we will continue to use it in our household 😅
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sump_daddy4 days ago
+5
he did get trapped in quicksand, and then in a mineshaft, and then a burning building
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chellis4 days ago
+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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Sharsmajka4 days ago
+79
I’m 48. I definitely remember baby Jessica.
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Tennessee19774 days ago
+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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ToastMate20004 days ago
+5
Now I want to watch Rags To Riches again. I wonder if it's available anywhere.
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ThatPancreatitisGuy4 days ago
+3
Don’t know if I’ve ever heard anyone reference Rags to Riches before!
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Suckerforcats4 days ago
+3
46 and I remember it as well.
3
Cltspur4 days ago
+3
Yep, as soon as I saw “baby Jessica” I thought “McClure?”
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MrBurnieBurns4 days ago
+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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Proph3tAtreid3s4 days ago
+19
Yes- elder millennial here as well- this story terrified me as a kid and it definitely gave me nightmares
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bros4024 days ago
+18
I read "Elder Millennial" as "Eldritch Millennial" and I was wondering how
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Osiris324 days ago
+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_VentureJr4 days ago
+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_Brow7104 days ago
+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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Kwanjuju4 days ago
+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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sowhat44 days ago
+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?
4
ayyygeeed4 days ago
+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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thisisredlitre4 days ago
+15
What I remember most is The Simpson's Sending Our Love Down a Well
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iamjustatourist4 days ago
+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-12334 days ago
+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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jessnotok4 days ago
+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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CaptainPunisher4 days ago
+12
I'm 49, and I remember it WELL.
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dodrugzwitthugz4 days ago
+26
Bro EVERYONE over the age of 40 remembers this story.
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Aethermancer4 days ago
+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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Cocky04 days ago
+3
It was amazing too. All the news that happened in the world managed to perfectly fit the newspaper.
3
saintash4 days ago
+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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ElefanteAmor4 days ago
+13
No I remember. As someone who’s claustrophobic the idea was terrifying. I felt so bad for that child.
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RobertBorden4 days ago
+5
I suspect this is where my claustrophobia comes from.
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gingerbreadmans_ex4 days ago
+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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Quackman20964 days ago
+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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SewSewBlue4 days ago
+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-CooperOnTheBeach4 days ago
+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.
3
swandive194 days ago
+5
I’m also 43. One of the earliest major news stories I remember.
5
PunkRawkSoldier4 days ago
+3
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
3
Osiris324 days ago
+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.
3
tfaboo4 days ago
+3
We watched the developments at a slumber party I went to in elementary school. We were cheering when she was rescued!
3
LindsayOG4 days ago
+3
I clearly remember it. I was 11. Traumatized Generation X through and through.
3
Southpawn4 days ago
+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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TheDylorean4 days ago
+51
Kind of makes one wonder, why the person who *rescued* the baby did not also become famous.
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threetiredbicycle4 days ago
+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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UnusualHoneydew16254 days ago
+83
Well, shit.
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jooes4 days ago
+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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twistwrist98764 days ago
+48
He sadly committed suicide a few years later. 😓 His name was Robert O'Donnell.
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twistwrist98764 days ago
+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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palcatraz4 days ago
+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.
7
Noto9874 days ago
+9
How does a baby not die after falling 22 feet is my question
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xIllustrious_Passion4 days ago
+78
Babies are surprisingly squishy
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dwilkes8274 days ago
+30
She didn't hit the ground, she got lodged in the well
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steve_dallasesq4 days ago
+3
Doing the splits no less
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ttw814 days ago
+18
got stuck. she fell straight down, so she was lucky and wasn't stuck upside down,
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Specialist_Gap_33994 days ago
+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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iyqyqrmore4 days ago
+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!
3
Eclectic_Barbarella4 days ago
+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_3404 days ago
+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-Hoff4 days ago
+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_holy4 days ago
+7
And yet, we'd still be riding our bikes at night.
7
Eledridan4 days ago
+96
You either die a baby in a well or you live long enough to become a villain.
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Dirtydeedsinc4 days ago
+15
It’s sad to see how far she’s fallen.
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ReactionJifs4 days ago
+164
pipe to prison pipeline
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library_wench4 days ago
+8
🤭
Also, this should be posted on the Xennials sub. One of the defining news stories of our childhood.
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fatboobslover4 days ago
+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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OfficeChairHero4 days ago
+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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JustHereForCookies174 days ago
+33
And decades later we had Balloon Boy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax
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Genius-Imbecile4 days ago
+12
I remember whatever show I was watching getting preempted to watch her coming out of the well.
12
Punkinpry4274 days ago
+8
That story had an absolute chokehold on this country at the time.
8
barbariantrey4 days ago
+61
Happy almost 40th?
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fatboobslover4 days ago
+14
39 in October!
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Ragnarotico4 days ago
+15
"Oh my god, that poor baby..."
"Guys, I'm delivering one like RIGHT F****** NOW!"
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fatboobslover4 days ago
+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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HippyDM4 days ago
+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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ShanzokeyeLin4 days ago
+3
Agree with the username
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imadragonyouguys4 days ago
+121
You don't want to f*** with someone who lives their life through Well Rules.
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Kitakitakita4 days ago
+12
is that like Pond Rules?
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kingravs4 days ago
+21
Good ole baby Francine
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ZackyGood4 days ago
+15
And what HAS she done with her life.
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beastson14 days ago
+11
I'm surprised more people haven't made this reference yet
11
Penguin_shit154 days ago
+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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StungTwice4 days ago
+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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talklouder3144 days ago
+3
1 in the bible, 1 in Pinocchio, and Moby D***, right?
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EmilioMolesteves4 days ago
+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-Cake79934 days ago
+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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KopOut4 days ago
+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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NetNpIVijCI4 days ago
+25
I think of wayne Brady on whose line making a baby Jessica joke and the audience jeered at him.
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Kornholyo4 days ago
+11
I loved when The Simpsons putting their spin on this.
https://youtu.be/atPh0aEL2oo?si=EAt98SI5BMc1sL17
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OakTreesForBurnZones4 days ago
+10
We’re sending our love down a wellllll
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JiffSmoothest4 days ago
+6
American Dad did an ep on this as well.
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TheGlassHammer4 days ago
+4
Baby Francine!
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Bouse4 days ago
+6
They did it again during the Best Buy Firing skit.
https://youtu.be/1H_MAY9ZK6c?si=8IyZwrRo47Nl0f4M
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SlimSieber4 days ago
+5
"I AM Baby Jessica"
"Well NOW you work at Best Buy!"
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Bouse4 days ago
+3
“You was better off in the well!”
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Bgrngod4 days ago
+4
And now "Ooooohhh eeeeee" is again stuck in my head.
4
chaachie124 days ago
+58
Well........that's too bad.
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lemme_just_say4 days ago
+21
That was deep
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OptimusSublime4 days ago
+27
This is what happens when we stop sending our love down the well.
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Redfalconfox4 days ago
+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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fatherlyadvicepdx4 days ago
+59
Who would have ever thought she could fall so far.
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crosswatt4 days ago
+16
Jeessssiiiica NOOOOOOO
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McqueenVendetta4 days ago
+3
I just played that clip the other day... it kills me :)
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bedbuffaloes4 days ago
+14
I feel like this is none of our business.
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melodypowers4 days ago
+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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TheShadowKick4 days ago
+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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edWORD274 days ago
+8
All’s not well after it starts in a well.
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ChefCurryYumYum4 days ago
+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-Estate68574 days ago
+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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dblan94 days ago
+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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vegetaman4 days ago
+5
Dang i didn’t recall how long it took.
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LesterMcGuire4 days ago
+16
I'm so glad she got glasses.
She couldn't see that well.
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Lissas8124 days ago
+4
I laughed too hard at this 🤣
4
Dry-Airport80464 days ago
+179
Leave the woman alone.
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NeighbourNoNeighbor4 days ago
+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-Damage4 days ago
+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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angrymountie4 days ago
+8
Ya, put her back.
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ShoNuffAllDay4 days ago
+22
Wow! How far she has fallen.
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Any-Power-11644 days ago
+5
Cindy the news is on! Another little white girl done fell down a well!
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LinkLinkleThreesome4 days ago
+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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aflyingsquanch4 days ago
+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-Yogurt4 days ago
+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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toomuchtostop4 days ago
+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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jigokubi4 days ago
+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_compound4 days ago
+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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DVWhat4 days ago
+3
The nation waits with bated breath to see if they’ll be able to bail her out.
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argonzo4 days ago
+7
news media going back to the well again I see. /s
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donnerpartytaconight4 days ago
+8
(shakes head)
Well, well, well.
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Cam_Dubz4 days ago
+3
aww. they grow up so fast.
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ilikebeer194 days ago
+3
So she's not doing Well?!?
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usernamechooser4 days ago
+3
Now she's Mama Left Hook.
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DamD1rtyApe4 days ago
+3
The only solution is to put her back in
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yaykat4 days ago
+3
“We’re sending our lovvvvvve down the wellllll”
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braedan514 days ago
+3
Krusty (singing off key), "Alll the waayyy Doowwn!"
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Calm-Maintenance-8784 days ago
+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_Horde4 days ago
+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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Tennessee19774 days ago
+3
Her mugshot. https://www.nxsmediawire.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2026/04/Morales-1.webp?strip=1
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summersa744 days ago
+3
I bet they’re on city water.
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PurplishPlatypus4 days ago
+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_Piss4 days ago
+3
She fell down a well for God's sake! Well 30 some odd years ago lol
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Hey_Im_over-here4 days ago
+3
Why is this even news???
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amsurette4 days ago
+3
I remember watching this rescue on tv as a kid.
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sofbert4 days ago
+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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flyting18814 days ago
+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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OGLikeablefellow4 days ago
+11
You'd hit people if you were trapped in a well as a baby too
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nocturnal_carnivore4 days ago
+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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