Most Shocking Things Ever Seen

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[quote]dre wrote:
Holy crap, incredible stories Manonfya and Push.

I don’t know if I could have handled those situations like you guys did. I’ve always thought of changing careers to something like an EMT or Firefighter, but I don’t think I could handle it.

It wouldn’t be seeing the blood and guts of an accident scene. It would be trying to save someone and then losing them. I just couldn’t handle that.[/quote]

You get used to it rather quickly, and sooner or later the Shock Factor, or what I call the “Holy Shit!” factor wears off, and you are able to quickly place yourself in clinical mode and do what needs to be done.

It’s actually rewarding, even if you lose someone, you know you worked your hardest on them and can tell the families that you did so and they can lean on you for support- the family then becomes your “patient” and you can be theraputic and helpful with them as well.

I would like to encourage you to go on ride-alongs, speak with Firefighters/EMT’s, etc. first before you rule it out. People like you are really needed, people who want to help others. You sound caring; and once you are able to find how you’re able to cope with the many things you will see, the actual Caring nature can be a tremendous asset in that kind of work.

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Wow. These were some truly shocking things to have witnessed.

The only thing I’ve got wasn’t graphically shocking, but it’s something I won’t forget.

I was a new 2LT going through my officer basic course. For a 3 day section of the course, they hooked us up with companies of AIT students to act as platoon leaders. On the last day, the company I was with went on a 5 mile PT run. Anyone who has served knows that these are fairly easy runs because you have soldiers in varying degrees of fitness.

Well, I was told to drop back and bring up the fallout group (the folks who couldn’t hang with the rest). As we were coming down the home stretch (the last 100 meters) I saw one of the guys at the back of the main formation stagger off to the right and go face down into the ditch. As trained, the formation moved on and I pulled over to attend to the flailing PVT who was barely breathing (it was more of a gurgling really) and twitching. I rolled him over to see that his eyes were rolled back in his head and he had stopped breathing.

I got a couple of others’ attention and we pulled him up to flat ground and began CPR. After about 5 minutes, EMT arrived and took over. It turns out, the 19 year old PVT, who was married with a 9 month old, died of a massive coronary.

Like I said, not really shocking, but certainly memorable.

DB

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One of my 1st jobs out of college was for a funeral home doing renovations for the owner, and after a while I would help out when they got into a bind. Note: noting with the deceased per se, but helping them move the bodies, pick upas at their place of rest, etc. Some of the more odd things:

A man about 40 came home early from work, cleaned the house, made sure all of the bills were paid for the month, and left notes for his wife and kids. The then proceeded to walk out into the woods next to his house and fire a single .38 caliber into his left temple. His remains were found after about 3 days, at which time the aminals had already gotten to him. The bad thing was, his wife insisted on an open casket. Not pretty, but the mortician worked their ass off for him.

Had to do a reinternment of a corpse after evidence came about that he may have been poisoned. He was in the ground for about a year, and water had gotten inside the casket. I still remember the smell to this day.

Morbidly obese woman passed away. If you have ever see “What eating Gilbert Grape”, this will give you a picture. It took 5 men to move her from the gurnee to the table, and then agin to the casket. Two of us hurt our backs. I think about it when I feel like going to the Chinese Buffet table one more time.

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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
dre wrote:
Holy crap, incredible stories Manonfya and Push.

I don’t know if I could have handled those situations like you guys did. I’ve always thought of changing careers to something like an EMT or Firefighter, but I don’t think I could handle it.

It wouldn’t be seeing the blood and guts of an accident scene. It would be trying to save someone and then losing them. I just couldn’t handle that.

You get used to it rather quickly, and sooner or later the Shock Factor, or what I call the “Holy Shit!” factor wears off, and you are able to quickly place yourself in clinical mode and do what needs to be done.

It’s actually rewarding, even if you lose someone, you know you worked your hardest on them and can tell the families that you did so and they can lean on you for support- the family then becomes your “patient” and you can be theraputic and helpful with them as well.

I would like to encourage you to go on ride-alongs, speak with Firefighters/EMT’s, etc. first before you rule it out. People like you are really needed, people who want to help others. You sound caring; and once you are able to find how you’re able to cope with the many things you will see, the actual Caring nature can be a tremendous asset in that kind of work.

[/quote]

Thanks for the kind words Chinadoll. Maybe I will look into it some more.

I noticed that you are an ER Nurse. I’ve recently been thinking about that as a career also.

Would it be alright if I shot you a pm with some questions about the profession? I don’t want to hijack this thread anymore than I already have. haha

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Like another poster I have been involved and been witness to some pretty nasty shit for well over a decade now.

A bad couple of days though…

Day 1. A small group of immigrants walked through the desert carrying one their fellow travelers who was suffering from heat stroke. When the arrived at the first road they flagged down a driver, who in turn called for help. When I arrived the man was in the final stages of heat stroke and died before the air lift arrived.

One of the other travelers told me that while they were walking through the desert they passed a man that was lying under a bush. I back tracked the groups foot prints until I found the man under the bush. I estimate he had died earlier in the day.

While waiting for the coroner to arrive I was approached by another man walking from the south. He told me he was traveling with two women and one of them was in distress.

We back tracked his foot prints for about half and hour until finding the two women. One of the women had already succumbed to the heat.

The man requested that we take his picture with the dead woman as proof to her family that he didn’t abandon her.

The next day, I was called to assist the Sheriff’s department to locate two Navy boys who were missing in a large off road recreational area. We found the first one, shirtless, on a road near a remote housing area. We were probably within 15 - 20 minutes of him dying.

From there we back tracked his foot prints for over 3 miles until we found two dirt bikes, one with a shirt stuck in the back wheel. I inspected the second motorcycle and nothing was wrong with it. Had gas, started right up. There were tracks leading away from the bike and in a different direction than that of the other Navyman who we had already found.

It was already dark at this point so the tracking went slower than in daylight.

Approximately two hours later we found the second Navyman in the backyard of a house. He had succumbed to the heat.

Five needless heat related deaths. This shit happens hundreds of times every year.

Not gruesome but thought provoking for me.

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I used to live in Saudi Arabia while working for Lucent/Saudi Telecom. In Riyadh, there is a place the westerners referred to as “Chop Chop” Square.

I decided to check out the gold souks and while there, I witnessed an execution. Some poor bastard from India (or Bangladesh) was beheaded in front of my eyes.

Months later, I was living in Al Khobar, KSA…I saw another poor bastard lose a hand.

Every once in a while, the scene replays in my mind of the beheading. Not cool.

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When I was in Brazil, in Salvador, there was a guy selling candy by the side of the road. This is very common in that part of the country, so I didn’t really pay attention.

Well, the bus crawled along for a while, and as we got closer, I noticed the fellow had an enormous bandage around his jaw. Y’know, the kind of thing people used to wrap around their head when they had a toothache, back in the day.

I found this a little odd, but given that street vendors probably don’t have much in the way of dental care, I gave it no further thought.

The bus finally started moving, and I looked to the side one last time: and I finally realized that he was wearing that bandage because he had no lower jaw. I could see his front teeth sticking out, but there was nothing below that.

That freaked me out a little bit.

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[quote]n3wb wrote:
Loose Tool wrote:
n3wb wrote:

why do I always have to see this sick crap?

Someone makes you watch this … like in Clockwork Orange?

yeah its horible they say if I dont watch it they will kill me[/quote]

… and viddy films I would. Where I was taken to, brothers, was like no cine I’d been in before. I was bound up in a straight-jacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lidlocks on my eyes so I could not shut them no matter how hard I tried. It seemed a bit crazy to me, but I let them get on with what they wanted to get on with. If I was to be a free young malchick in a fortnight’s time, I would put up with much in the meantime, my brothers.

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A woman being run over by a bus in front of my eyes.

A near relative slowly dying on cancer.

A fatal stabbing incident after a soccer game.

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[quote]dre wrote:

Would it be alright if I shot you a pm with some questions about the profession? I don’t want to hijack this thread anymore than I already have. haha[/quote]

Sure. Any time. We need more people like you in the field.

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Nearly every day at work I see children who are neglected, underfed, (or overfed), dirty, sad, tired and otherwise mistreated by their loser parents.
The most shocking and morally repugnant thing I see? One of the above mentioned mothers pregnant, again.

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
3) a box with about 20 different penises with testicles and scrotum attached. One was sliced cleanly right down the middle…[/quote]

Good God man, that would disturb me like no other.

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I was at a large intersection waiting for an arrow to turn left. I had just left my brothers place and I was on my way home. Across the intersection I saw two young boys on their bikes. It reminded me of when my brother and I used to rule the the streets on our Schwinns.

The light for them to cross and the younger one started to go. It was quitting time on Friday around 5 pm and just then some jackass had pulled out of the 7-11 and punched it to beat the light on his side.

The kid got hit 3 times. The car hit the bike, the kid then went flying through the air and hit the windshield and then he landed on the ground. He flew across 2 lanes of traffic. I immediately ran over to him thinking that this was gonna look like a JFK type scene with his skull coming apart.

He was still conscious and I held him still until the paramedics got there. (His brother had went to tell his mom)He was pissed and kept asking me who hit him.

I was shaken up but glad he was alright. It was one of those slow motion things that I saw it happen before it did which was the scariest part.

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Two things. One on the internet. One with my own eyes:

During my freshman year of high school, there was a period of time where several American contractors were beheaded by Zarqawi operatives in Iraq. The film footage was put on the internet. I can’t really explain why, but I felt compelled to watch one of these videos.

I won’t get into all the details because I’m still haunted by the image and sound to this day, but the execution was done with a knife that was too small. It was a slow and painful death. It took almost 3 minutes to complete the act. I don’t even want to describe the sound. It was the most disturbing and revolting act I have ever been exposed to.

I was shocked that a human being could do that to another human being. I was so ashamed of myself for watching the video and so disturbed that I sought counseling. I still have nightmares about it in the daytime (like a daydream).

The second thing happened when I was 10 or 11. I was watching a friend’s soccer game and got bored, so I began to explore like kids do. Near a service road in a ditch I found a badly wounded kitten. It looked like an animal had bitten it across its spine near the tail. There was a large open wound behind its rib cage and maggots were crawling in and out of the wound and the rectum. The kitten was still alive.

I tried to comfort the kitten was best I could, but I knew it was going to die eventually. I wanted to put it out of its misery, but I couldn’t do it with my bare hands. I ran and found the nearest adult. I don’t remember what happened after that. I love animals, so that was especially sad for me to see at such a young age.

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I can’t even read most of these as they’re too horrifying, but when I was 16 I worked at a photolab and we developed pics for the fire dept.

and I saw pics of a young lady who had been hit by a garbage truck and it severed her legs off, and you could see her spine sticking out of the bottom of her torso and there were pictures of her legs still encased in bloody pantyhose.

I was also told that she was still breathing right after it happened with eyes open for at least a minute or two. Thinking about those pics still makes me feel sick to my stomach.

When I was 9 on my dad’s sailboat one summer docked in Miami, a dead guy floated up and he was all bloated and missing his eyeballs. Nice image for a little girl to see…

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Last December 31 I celebrated the coming of 2007/send-off for '06 by going to a Russian New Year celebration at my friend’s house. After the food came to me, I looked down to see – Meat jell-O.

Cold, clammy and bouncy like jell-O, but the rubbery shit is made from, like, egg whites and lard or something. As though this weren’t delightful enough, his mom put pork (the inferior meat, IMHO) in with the mix. Imagine the feeling of jell-O, but salty as fuck and chewy from sausage. Presumably the taste of a big, sloppy blowjob.

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[quote]Puny@138 wrote:
Last December 31 I celebrated the coming of 2007/send-off for '06 by going to a Russian New Year celebration at my friend’s house. After the food came to me, I looked down to see – Meat jell-O.

Cold, clammy and bouncy like jell-O, but the rubbery shit is made from, like, egg whites and lard or something. As though this weren’t delightful enough, his mom put pork (the inferior meat, IMHO) in with the mix. Imagine the feeling of jell-O, but salty as fuck and chewy from sausage. Presumably the taste of a big, sloppy blowjob.[/quote]

ugh, that one is going to give me nightmares.

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When I was a kid, I remember my parents getting a solicitation for money in the mail from an organization in Africa that arranged plastic surgery for people who couldn’t afford it.

They had a photo of a guy with no flesh from his mouth to his neck, and they told a horror story about how soldiers broke into his house, cut off his lips and stripped all the skin off from the lower half of his face, and made his wife cook and eat the flesh.

I had nightmares about that for years.

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I had to go in the superdome after Katrina…

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[quote]Andrew Dixon wrote:
Someone in my gym once used the smith machine to do bench press…shocking.[/quote]

Nice.