Trennfurt's skeletal scandal

[@Siocain]

Has anyone even bothered to ask the children what they think? Little me would've found it so awesome, plus we had a skeleton hanging out in the biology room in school anyway...

[@renerpho]

Don't be silly. Asking children about their opinion is a ludicrous idea. Next we encourage them to go near the small library and read books!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Exactly my thought. Especially the idea of the skelleton reading a book of horror stories, is something that little me would have loved.

[@fariesz6786]

Little you isn't a good argument though. Little me loved brussel sprouts; that doesn't mean it's reasonable to assume children will love those.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Ofc not, the parents opinion is all that matters 9,9 Concerned parents screaming wont somebody please think of the children while specificaly making sure to not listen to the children; its a tradition as old as time.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@fariesz6786 I mean, it is reasonable to assume that if the children arent being made to eat brussel sprouts boiled in plain water... Which is the way most folks make brussel sprouts (and all veggies) for folks who claim to not like brussel sprouts (and all veggies). Brussel sprouts are delicious, even to children, when theyre actually salted and have something like butter or olive oil; at a bare minimum. Thdyre def far superior to veggies like plain broccoli or cauliflower.

[@anoukanouk5595]

Man kann sich doch glücklich schätzen, wenn man das ein Problem nennt.

[@uncinarynin]

This is becoming the channel of things rotated in interesting ways. Supermarkets, book exchange booths ...

[@vsmash2]

Bei so was zitier ich immer gerne meine Oma: "Wer keine Probleme hat, der macht sich welche.". Dass ständig Kinder vorgeschoben werden nur weil jemand was nicht mag ist eine absolute Unart. Gibt halt anscheinend Leute die nix besseres zu tun haben als Ihre eigene Ästhetik und Lebensart anderen aufzuzwingen.

[@RevCode]

Mir tun die Kinder dieser Leute leid.. ob sie wohl jemals eine Gruselbahn in einem Freizeitpark oder auf einem Jahrmarkt von innen sehen werden? Falls ja, hoffe ich, werden die Eltern nicht gleich rot anlaufen und versuchen den Laden dicht zu machen

[@theranredguardist1949]

Meinen zukünftigen Kindern könnte dein Kommentar nicht gefallen deshalb muss ich dich jetzt leider cancelln

[@HalfEye79]

@@RevCode Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass die meisten davon selbst keine Kinder haben, sondern einfach nur stellvertretend empört sind. Beruhigt ungemein das Gewissen und ärgert nur andere.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

"Won't somebody please think of the children!?" they shout while taping the mouths of the children to make sure they can't speak for themselves about what they want or like.

[@RevCode]

@@HalfEye79 Kann gut sein. Ich hatte bisher mit meinen Kindern noch keine Probleme, wenn sie etwas gesehen haben, das sie nicht verstanden haben. Einfach erklären - "So sieht ein menschliches Skelett aus, also deine Knochen.". Ebenso zur Herkunft von Fleisch, was der Tod ist.. Kinder sind nicht dumm, wenn man ehrlich mit ihnen umgeht verstehen sie die Welt auch und sind nicht überempfindlich oder schockiert. Daher kann ich mir gut vorstellen dass diese Leute, wie du sagst, keine eigenen haben, da sie es sonst wüssten. Oder ihren kleinen immer nur eine heile Welt vorgaukeln in der Rosa Elefanten in einer Wurstfabrik die Schnitzel vom Baum ernten..

[@olafjaeger995]

When I was a little child I was totally afraid to pass ghost trains in fairgrounds . Did my parents call the authorities to remove these rides? No, they taught me to remain calm because everything that scared me there was just an illusion. In my opinion the skeleton is not the problem - it's the parents mindset.

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

Probably the people who are bothered by this don't even have children.

[@benn87]

This "scandal" with the phone box is once again a perfect reflection of our society today. I have the feeling that some people only get up in the morning to get upset about something. But thank you for the video.

[@gottfriedneuner3721]

our church (in upper franconia) had a skeleton rising from the grave over the exit of the churchyard. no way to miss it if you came from mass. I don't think anyone ever complained about that. or mentioned it for that.

[@rzeka]

Those parents are really gonna freak when they realize that their kids have skeletons INSIDE them

[@qwackkk]

Seriously? People have nothing better to do? I thought from the title that it would be disturbing imagery, but this is just a normal skeleton, like, come on. That's just sad.

[@alexanderkupke920]

I wonder if really 10 people complaint to the mayor orif he was just annoyed that the whole art thing didn't happen in his town?

[@swanpride]

Those people don't have anything better to do. It's the downside of living in a prosperous country.

[@NicolaW72]

@@alexanderkupke920 Good question.

[@commanderkruge]

Absolutely 100 percent harmless. Back when I learned reading the second book I read for myself, after Pipi Longstocking, was "Die große Gespenstertruhe", a collection of classic horror stories, including, amongst others, Poe's "Pit and Pendulum"... :D Also: That guy on the old phone box looks a lot like one of my all time favourite characters from literature ever. Okay, he also wears a black robe, carries a scythe AND ALWAYS TALKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS... But close.

[@ilsekuper3045]

😂😂😂 Guess the same helicopter parents take their kids to the Geisterbahn on the nearby fun fair. 😱👻

[@raythevagabond3724]

Good idea to ask the kids. I remember it as something fascinating to see the skelleton of the holy Fructuosus in the chapel of the hunting lodge in Sögel or the black hand in the castle/museum in Hagen-Hohenlimburg. Not to mention those man-made skelletons in some doctor offices.

[@John_Weiss]

I initially read, “…skeleton of the holy _Fructose…”_ 😲😆 Patron-saint of sugar???

[@Weissenschenkel]

Older people usually don't like to be remembered that they're mortal. Children and teenagers don't have the same perspective and often don't fear death.

[@jkb2016]

I don't know. When I was five or six years old I found images like that... awe-inspiring? But also, strangely irresistable.

[@BlackAdder665]

My fascination for skeletons and skulls began when I was a child. Of course they gave me a little shiver but, hey, fairytales did that, too, especially from Hauff and the Grimms. And in the end it's just what's underneath our skins and flesh, so it's educational, too. Ha, just remembered: I watched a film as a kid where skeletons were fighting with swords. I thought that was cool, too.

[@HalfEye79]

Well, fairy tales are washed even softer, than they were in my childhood.

[@karsten_m]

Can only speak for myself but the billboards of the political parties trigger me way more. And come on, the little snowflakes, err, kids, have probably seen much worse. I like the painting.

[@ichsagnix4127]

I guess their parents are the actual problem here.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

The kids are not the ones that complained

[@karsten_m]

@@SylviaRustyFae Did I blame the kids? Afaik they didn't choose their parents.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@karsten_m You called the kids "little snowflakes" >.>

[@bigscarysteve]

Harmless. When I was a child, I would've thought the skeleton cool.

[@elrond8490]

Das ist, meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach, vielleicht eher darauf zurückzuführen, dass man nicht gerne auf sein endliches Leben hingewiesen werden möchte und sich deshalb dadurch gestört fühlt. Wie Menschen die sich von spielenden Kindern gestört fühlen, den Geräuschpegel vorschieben, aber eigentlich sich dadurch belästigt fühlen, dass sie ständig daran erinnert werden, dass sie das nicht mehr können. Aber das ist nur eine Vermutung von mir.

[@brucequinn]

Harmless. In Los Angeles, we have some kind of electrical or communications box - about 1x1 meter by 1.5 meter high. Sort of like a half-height phone booth. They used to just be plain gray boxes. Nearly all of them are now painted in some colorful way - cats, flowers, sunsets. The overall idea is similar to the repainted phone booths in this video.

[@naruciakk]

A local scandal in a small town in Unterfranken, I had no idea that this could so interesting

[@davidfranzkoch9789]

And once again a small but very loud minority makes life a tiny bit worse for everyone. Sad. I congratulate the solution the town found, though. Great idea for a compromise to make the Karens quiet down.

[@lillywho]

_mimimimimi think of the children_ I'd actually go to a primary school and ask the children there how they feel about it... I would almost wager that a lot of them wouldn't mind. Maybe wee kindergarten tykes might be disturbed by it, but they might also be getting dragged into that church you mentioned, so that is indeed a moot point.. It's not even doing anything scary. It's reading a book.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Reading!? Ahhhhhh! the horror!

[@thulyblu5486]

I mean in the church is probably a crucifix with Jesus wearing his crown of thorns... in other words someone dying on an ancient torture device... and they complain about a cartoon skeleton?

[@albussr1589]

Well, it's reading Ghost stories ...

[@Balligat]

.. but a half-naked, almost or actually dead person is totally OK ..!?

[@furzkram]

Wenn manche Leute nix zu bekritteln haben, dann geht's ihnen nicht gut.

[@Yulo2000Leyje]

My childhood saving box had a Skelleton hand grabbing the coin, and in front of my first year clasroom was a glass protected skeleton for adjucational pp. Nickname Hui-Buh. When playing in the garden, the fields or the forest we found things from WWII on a regular base. Some where or incl. bones. My nightmares where of total diffrent source.

[@weinhainde2550]

Wer keine Probleme hat, schafft sich welche ...

[@peterkroger7112]

Oh, these must be ten lucky people if they don't have more serious problems than this...

[@jensgoerke3819]

Chas Addams's books were part of my childhood library. The skeleton is a fitting illustration for scary stories.

[@Colaholiker]

It may be different in a village like this, but when you grow up in a large city like Frankfurt (well, large on a German scale that is), you see graffiti all over the place that is certainly worse than this nicely painted skeleton. And we also used to have one in the biology room in our school, so seeing a skeleton (which many of us believed was real, not a replica) wouldn't have been an uncommon thing.

[@edspace.]

Is it just me or is the world becoming harder to understand; A skeleton reading a book is a problem, I've certainly seen worse ideas for encouraging children to read in the last few months, anyway Halloween is coming up next month and no doubt skeletons will deck the halls for about a month.

[@paulsj9245]

Those who abhor this picture are probably reading Grimms Märchen and other traditional tales to their grandchildren, including the visual descriptions of their time. But, they would not ask to censor these, would they? And, today we've learned to know Halloween here. So what?

[@HalfEye79]

The version from now or the version from their childhood? FYI: They are different.

[@chrissiesbuchcocktail]

Geisterbahnen auf dem Rummel sind oft wesentlich gruseliger bemalt - da macht sich niemand Gedanken drum. Ich finde außerdem, dass dieses Skelett irgendwie niedlich und nicht besonders gruselig aussieht. Und in der Schule stehen meist auch Skelette im Biologieraum. In alten Schulen sogar manchmal echte ;) Hoffentlich gehen diese Eltern nicht mal aus Versehen mit ihren Kindern in ein Naturkundemuseum.

[@hurtigheinz3790]

Nobody asked the parants' initiative to also support the removal of the spooky art in the church?

[@eisbombenterror]

I think the church has to be turned around, too.

[@aaalbert]

It's so cool to watch videos about the region I live in, I also personally know the guy who wrote the newspaper article

[@untruelie2640]

There is nothing scary about a sceleton. We all have one, it's just a part of our anatomy. Just because some people interpret some of their fears into the image doesn't mean it should not be looked upon. This pure superstition, nothing else. I would argue that children SHOULD see it so that they learn that there is nothing scary about it.

[@ollllj]

"someobody please think of the children" is an overused logical fallacy.

[@abdulkadirgoranovic6593]

As a kid I used to stare at a wall with grafitti art on it that was part of a air quality measuring station at the HSB bus station area on the Freiheitsplatz in Hanau. I can't remember all details of the painting because I was really young at that age. There was a guy depicted there who was lying on the ground bleeding and bones were poking out of his body. It just always fascinated me. That wall was unfortunately painted over. Needless to say this air quality measuring station fell victim to the conversion of the area later anyway. There also was a skeleton in the class room of my primary school and no kid ever expressed fear because of its presence.

[@connectingthedots100]

Ich mag diese Wald- und Wiesenberichte. 👍🙂

[@fariesz6786]

I have to say that I for one found skeletons truly fightening as a child. Therefore I would have been happy to get some understanding from parents or adults in general. That being said though: considering the pandemic I wouldn't be surprised if the parents themselves were uncomfortable with seeing the skeleton.. not so much for finding it fightening but more so for it being a reminder of mortality. Maybe it's even a combination of both as children ask questions about death, which the skeleton may or may not contribute to.

[@_aullik]

There are people who identify with being triggered so they search for things that could trigger them.

[@aaron2709]

If they'd asked 10 kids, I imagine the skeleton would have been their favorite part of the box.

[@SolarWebsite]

I can't help but wonder about churches being struck by lightning... You'd think that they would have "extra protection" from mishaps like that. You know, friends in high places.

[@frankhooper7871]

And what's even more confusing is that they teno to call lightning strikes "acts of God".

[@alexanderkupke920]

Ah, the whole parish must be of weak faith to let this happen... Isn't that the excuse or explanation some religious groups or reverends would use? I would just call it bad luck during bad weather. The highest objects in an area have always been more prone to being struck by lightning. Happens all the time.

[@Aaronwhatnow]

People seem to be very picky with what they choose to be angry about. It's not even that accurate of a skeleton.

[@sarahmayer8539]

accurate, real sceletons in every german household by 2022! Vote now!

[@HalfEye79]

No, its not very picky. The only point is, that they themselves don't like it.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

And the kids are likely gonna see an accurate skeleton in their science classes xD

[@thulyblu5486]

@@sarahmayer8539 there are plenty of German households with a crucifix: a dying man on an ancient torture device

[@sarahmayer8539]

@@thulyblu5486 thats not enough, we need to actually let people nail a toy jesus to a cross. We shall name this game "Nail-it"

[@stevelknievel4183]

Given that we all have a skeleton, I don't see what the problem is.

[@miriamreiss]

Through history, skeletons were often used to show us our mortality. Especially at the Theater....And this one is a nice skeleton...even smiling.

[@pixoontube2912]

This "scandal" is the most German thing I have ever seen

[@HippoXXL]

No, it's the most german *christian* thing. Greetings from germany, Marcus

[@phosphoros60]

Had this happened in Britain, the people there would say it's the most British thing ever. I like how our two nations can bond over how annoyed we each are about how annoyed our countrymen are at everything.

[@ichsagnix4127]

Just helicopter parents doing their thing.

[@susanne5803]

Any image or statue inside and outside that church depicting torture, suffering and death is much worse than a skeleton reading ghost stories ... But we're so used to the church stuff that we don't think of it in the way an alien would think of it seeing it for the first time with no advance warning or info ... My parents continued visiting churches and art exhibits completely undeterred by their children. To shut us up they bought a couple of postcards showing pieces inside the church or museum. If we found all of the originals we got a huge ice cream afterwards. I still think it's a brilliant idea! I therefore spent hours walking among gravestones, saints in various stages of torture and death, naked statues and gargoyles from a rather early age.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Concerned Parents are the absolute worst kind of parents >.> And ofc not a one of them sees a problem with skull imagery at the church; which i suspect many of them even attend.

[@sisuguillam5109]

But skeletons are everywhere in catholic churches and in medieval buildings? I am so confused...

[@karlwhite2733]

It's cute. My 7 & 10yr olds would laugh

[@zomskull5571]

Can you please speak about the german music? That would be very intresting

[@HotelPapa100]

Not even Disney objects to skeletons: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2LHhIxsj9qLe7s

[@hoppes979]

Back to interesting facts, welcome

[@KitsuneHB]

Harmless. When I was a child I had a friend (sadly he passed away when I was 11 and he was 9 - he had leukemia) who really loved skeletons. :D He was a fan of Skeletor from He-Man (it was in the 80s) and for him skeletons were interesting. I guess most kids react that way.

[@ChasedWheels]

Total harmlos!

[@tibojanssen8137]

I think a sceleton is not a problem, its allready seen at a young age in cartoons and comics etc. We even as young kids visited a medievel sceleton, that is famous in our village with our school. For me it is normal to let kids see sceletons so they can have a basic understanding of what dying is like.

[@MythosHB]

I really like how you use german pronunciation for german place names. I don't get the point why most germans, speaking english, always try english pronunciation of names, even their own one. Places that have a proper english name, like Munich, is another story (I wonder where they got that from). And as a Terry Pratched fan, I don't see why depiction of skeletons is considered unaesthetic.

[@HippoXXL]

Aloha! Gibt es Aufzeichnungen darüber, wie viele Leute sich über den Schädel an der Kirche beschwert haben? Und was der Bürgermeister deswegen unternommen hat? Does any documentation exist, how many people don't feel comfy with that skull on the church? And what the mayor did about that? So long, and thanks for all the fi..., er, good edutainment! Marcus

[@Sp4mMe]

Rumors have it that the church was rotated in its entirety in 1683 after some locals complained about the constant reminder to their own mortality.

[@bumtisch]

@@Sp4mMe Come on, didn't you watch the video? The church was turned 1975. It had to be rebuilt after it was "struck by a lightning". This refers to Greta Leitning, the first known helicopter mum of Germany.

[@mrmoshpotato]

Yo ho ho and a liverwurst ala mode! -Scooby Doo

[@thulyblu5486]

Church: has an ancient torture device as a symbol, sometimes with a dying, bleeding Jesus wearing a crown of thorns - a second torture device. Some Christians when they see a cartoon skeleton: TOO SCARY FOR CHILDREN, PUT IT OUT OF SIGHT! Oh and dear children, if you don't behave, the creator of the universe will send you to a place of eternal torture. We teach that at sunday school.

[@NUeB_net]

Ridiculous. And especially hypocritical by those who have an instrument of torture as a symbol of their faith. (The cross that is.)

[@Wheeljack2k]

Back in my first school years I felt more triggered by people saying "Sklett" instead of "Skelett".

[@LarsEllerhorst]

Seeing a skeleton depicted on their way to work or shopping may have triggered a reminder how many skeletons are buried in their own basement and made them a bit uneasy, that´s why they probably complained. My assumption, those ten are from the local city council, politicians.

[@TigruArdavi]

Utterly ridiculous to get upset about a painted skeleton. Some people should get a live. Or to put it with the words of great comedian Ricky Gervais: "You found it offensive, I found it funny. That's why I'm happier than you"

[@fraso7331]

Well, for a lot of little children and some adults it can be frightening, but that's why we have psychologists.

[@ZHibri]

Harmlos

[@Melissa0774]

You said, "now that we don't need so many phone boxes anymore." So there actually still are SOME working phone boxes in Germany? That's surprising because there are none left in the U.S. They were all removed in 2007 or so. I was in college at the time and I watched them all be removed from the campus. Plenty of people were still using them, just the year before.

[@pocketdynamo5787]

I think there are a few still in service, but I wouldn't count on finding one when your cellphone runs out of power.

[@Melissa0774]

@@pocketdynamo5787 They should have ones with phone chargers.

[@MonicaTheMad]

Harmless. People can be so silly.

[@JurassicRaptor1993]

Harmless. Those 10 people are just winey little panzies!

[@Xaen82]

Aber vor jeder Farmeinfahrt hängt ein Toter am Kreuz...

[@Thiesi]

Harmlessly triggering.

[@tbk2010]

If your school-aged kid has issues dealing with a painted skeleton in broad daylight there is something wrong with your kid...

[@jwvdvuurst]

Completely harmless.

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

Um, we actually had a realistic skeleton in the biology/chemistry room at school. And after school I beat up skeletons in video games. It's always amazing what kind of unworldly weirdos there are out there.

[@germanshepherd6638]

Halloween is my favorite holiday, I wonder what Germans think about Halloween?

[@xml571]

Helikopter-Eltern

[@phosphoros60]

The only people this will *trigger* , in the literal sense of the word, are graverobbers.

[@surfingbird1985]

reaktionär-konservatives pseudo und alibi-mimimi war das von dem bm

[@argusauge4812]

Wer den Wichtigtuer kennt wundert sich nicht.

[@Renuclous]

Absolutely nobody:…. These parents: 3SPOOKY5MYCHILDREN!!!!!!!!

[@paxundpeace9970]

Please get rid of the auto CC. If it not your fault my apologies.

[@rewboss]

I get rid of auto CC whenever I can, but sometimes they just pop right up again.

[@stroke_of_luck]

I am not fan of catholic art which. is full of torture, but I imagine Bavaria has lots of this kind of art EVERYWHERE. So kit strikes me as a bunch of people who see something neat and they want to destroy it just because. They ate vandals who are too cheap to buy a can of spray paint.

[@downhilltwofour0082]

LOL!!

[@gozerthegozarian9500]

As a kid on my way to primary school, I had to walk past graphic anti-abortion posters put up by conservative groups. Funny how that was perfectly acceptable, but a skeleton, just like to one pictured in the kid's biology books or standing as a model in their classroom is supposed to be baaaaaaaaad.... * eyeroll *

[@compphysgeek]

harmless or triggering? do you really have to ask? A skeleton on a phone box is such a non-event, I am sure when I was little I was exposed to scarier things :D

[@tickyballart4325]

Ich sage nur: Memento mori ...💀

[@noajmoses4379]

Hey rewboss how are you doing today

[@botigamer9011]

"Scooby Doo and Ghostbusters" Andrew your age is showing

[@ollllj]

both franchises have quite recent cinema movies.