Video nasty
A few years ago I worked for a magazine's website. Money was woeful, but I got to go to numerous "celebrity" parties. Anyway they were doing something called "Carnival of The Grotesque" which had some fairly ghastly pics and online they wanted some videos too. After pointing out that one clip which had been sent in (turns out it was from Meet Joe Black) was fake, because you could see an edge as he's being hit by the second car, I was put in charge of weeding out fake clips.

This was much less fun than anything I'd done before, as being sent execution movies etc from sites such as ogre.com just isn't nice... especially when you have a hangover. The worst video I saw though was of a yugoslav soldier of some kind being slowly decapitated with a huge commando knife - the guys eyes as he realises that they have just stuck a wacking great blade into his throat. It's one thing watching a horror film, completely another seeing somebody actually being killed.
Obviously, we didn't put anything like that on the site but there were still a number of complaints. To this day though the memory of that one video still haunts me.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 27 Jun 2007, 15:03, Reply)