Things you wish you could "un-see"...

[LeeH]

From when I was 6 - The mailman carrying our collie, Rags, to our front door after he'd hit him with his truck.

The video an old high school friend posted on Facebook recently. Said something like "Karma at Terrorist's Funeral." Not sure what I was expecting. The video was taken during a funeral in Syria where a car bomb exploded. 85 people were killed. The video showed close ups of piles of mangled bodies/parts.

My dad just before he died: Drove from Atlanta to Tampa to help take care of him as he was going down hill. It had been months since I'd seen him. Never would have recognized him. He was painfully thin. Thought I was going to visit my dad and give my step mom a break. He passed away about 12 hours after I arrived. I'm glad I was there for her and for him (he was mostly comatose but seemed to respond to me at first), but would have preferred to remember him as he looked 6 months earlier.

Anything you've witnessed in life that you wish you could "un-see?"

[Arizona_928]

Saw a beheading once.... not any of the recent isis ones. One is enough in a lifetime.
Why can't Lacuna Inc. be real?!

[cantdrv55]

I saw my grandma's tits when I was younger. Older women have never appealed to me probably due to that experience.

[Bill Douglas]

[Chocaholic]

I saw my grandma's tits when I was younger. Older women have never appealed to me probably due to that experience.

Coffee all over the keyboard!!! After the two preceding posts, that's exactly what I needed. Too funny.

[VINMAN]

All of the 9/11 victims I dug out. ( and pretty much what led up to that..)

The four teens burning to death in a car after an accident

My brother laying in bed, dying from cancer.


On a lighter note..

Walking in on one of my buds banging his extremely overweight g/f. That was over 25 yrs ago, I think I still need therapy because of that.


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[GH85Carrera]

More than a few things. I worked in a photo-lab for many years back in the days of film.

We would get the film from crime labs, doctors offices and many accident investigations. One particularly gruesome one was a little boy that decided all the fences and warnings did not apply to him. He climbed the fences and tried to get on top of a oil pump jack and ride it like a bronco. Unfortunately he fell off into the drive belts and was cut up into many little pieces.

One of the worst was a local gynecologist that was writing a medical textbook on the diseases female reproductive system. Lots of crotch shots of women with some horrible problems.

[dave 911]

The hot tub scene with Kathy Bates in the Jack Nicholson movie 'About Schmidt'....

[cockerpunk]

some of the not published pictures from 9/11 and the boston bombings. real life gore is very different than any other kind.

[flipper35]

Years ago the downstairs neighbor and his rather large wife were sitting outside. She had sweats on and as we talked when I got home she moved in her chair. Her sweats had holes in the crotch and she was commando.

Saw a guy drink a bag of vomit for $20.

I try to avoid the real life gore stuff and fortunately haven't had many instances where it has come up. Vinman, those would be tough.

[sc_rufctr]

I wish I could unread this thread but here goes.

The worse for me was seeing dead bodies riddled with bullets. Meat and broken bone hanging out everywhere. Heads and torsos opened up. It's nothing like the war movies.
I've had the misfortune to have seen a fair few in my early 20s and you never even get close to getting used to it.
The BIG problem is after it's all over and you're back home.

For a while that's all I thought about but now not so much but it's still there.

You all have my respect but VINMAN 9/11 must have been a really difficult time for you. Thank you and take care.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

some of the not published pictures from 9/11 and the boston bombings. real life gore is very different than any other kind.

For sure. My first job while I was in high school was at a photo lab. The police department photo lab had fire and we "got" to process their film and make the evidence prints for several weeks while they set up the new lab. Murders are a lot different than the movies and TV.

[wdfifteen]

This is the part I wish I hadn't seen, but the whole story is below.

It shot in the air and rolled a couple of times in the air, came down flat on the highway and rolled another couple of times. Somewhere in all of this I saw something blue and white shoot almost straight up into the air.

It was Friday, February 25, sunny and dry, and the time was about 10:30 AM. I was driving west on I 74 just west of Indianapolis. I was in the passing lane and I believe there were some cars in the slow lane and about 200 yards in front of me was a PT Cruiser. A truck in the slow lane crossed the center line and the Cruiser went left to avoid it. The Cruiser went off the left side of the road and got all four wheels in the grass. I think it got a little sideways there and may have started to roll but it happened fast and there was dirt and grass flying. The truck was ahead of the Cruiser by then. I went to the slow lane and slowed some, but was about 50 yards behind the Cruiser.
The car moved back toward the pavement and suddenly took off like it was launched out of a catapult. It shot in the air and rolled a couple of times in the air, came down flat on the highway and rolled another couple of times. Somewhere in all of this I saw something blue and white shoot almost straight up into the air. Somehow I ended up all by myself in the slow lane about 10 yards short of the car, surrounded by the PT Cruiser parts strewn all over the pavement. The Cruiser was lying across the slow lane on its side with the bottom towards me. I called 911 and was hassling with the dispatcher and walking up to the car thinking, “Oh man, what am I going to see on the other side of this.”
When I got around the car there was a girl, maybe mid-twenties, squatting on what would be the driver's window looking at me through either the windshield hole or the sunroof it was hard to tell. She had a bump on her lower lip and a lower tooth was pushed in but she looked pretty much OK. I talked to her but she wouldn't talk, she just sat and shook. Some people came up and someone offered her their cell phone and there was some milling around and I heard someone say, “THAT doesn't look good.”
I looked around and about 20 yards away in the ditch was a pile of something that was blue and white. I started walking over to it and a woman started coming behind me. It was a body - a woman, probably in her 20s. She was what I saw flying out of the car when it was rolling because she was wearing jeans and a white top. It looked like she had landed on the top right side of her head, because there was nothing there, a patch of her scalp about the size of my hand was laying in a pile by her skull. She was laying kind of on her back and on her left hip. I don't know much about first aid, but after 5 years with TJ I knew how to take a pulse. But taking a pulse to measure a heart rate and doing it to see if there IS a pulse are two different things. I thought I felt something weak and irregular. The lady behind me turned out to be a nurse. She took her other wrist and felt her neck and we agreed that there was a weak pulse. The nurser knew CPR started working on her while I monitored her pulse. I only felt a few beats, then nothing. After a while her lower jaw opened a little and she made a couple of choking kind of coughs, then her jaw moved again and that was that. Her lips and the inside of her mouth got darker and darker. The nurse kept asking “How are we doing” and after a while I said, “I think she's gone.” And the lady checked her pulse at the wrist and neck and said “So do I. She's dead.” She had blonde hair and though she was a little heavy she had small hands and slender, graceful wrists. She was wearing eye makeup too.
The nurse disappeared and I never saw them again. All the time we were there with her only one other person came around. A cop walked over and looked at her, didn't even bend over, just stood with his hands in his pockets and looked for a minute and left.
I walked back to the wreck and a cop asked me if she was dead and I said yes. I was standing there and some guy poked me in the ribs and pointed into the back of the car and there was a baby seat. He started to say something, but I shushed him and we looked in the junk in the back of the car and looked under the car. If a 150 pound woman could get thrown as far as that lady did when the car was rolling, a baby could be anywhere. We got some guys together and started searching the ditch. I don’t ever again want to have to search a ditch for a dead baby. We finished the ditch and were walking back to go check the median when someone told us they got the girl talking and she said there were only the two of them in the car. Some guy got her to give him a number and he used his cell phone to call her friend or someone. I thought that was pretty smart.
The ambulance and a bunch of fire trucks showed up and the cop that watched us when we were with the dying girl said, “There's a deceased female there and an injured female in the vehicle.” I thought, “How does he know she's dead? He's taking my word for it and I don't know anything about dead people.” So I told the EMT he ought to check her.
Something I found strange was that a lot of cops showed up very soon, but all they did was direct traffic. They never took charge of anything. When the cop came over to the dying woman I thought, “Great, somebody who knows something.” But he just looked and walked away. We were debating about whether to get the girl out of the car or not I was hoping one of the cops would know the best thing to do. I said we should leave her in there and they didn't say a thing. I hope it was the right thing. They left it up to me and a couple of other guys with no experience to take charge of what to do with the people in the wreck.
What weird day. One minute I was driving along thinking about this talk I have to give and a few minutes later I was kneeling in a cold ditch holding a strange woman's wrist as her life slipped away. I got on the Indianpolis newspaper’s web site and found out the woman’s name was ------------ and she had two kids.
The Mercedes had two damaged tires from driving over the PT Cruiser parts and they went flat before I got to Peoria.

[dw1]

There's been a few:

My own bones exposed, and subcutaneous tissue visible via lacerations, after being hit by a car running a red light while I was riding a bicycle across the intersection.

The severely burned (but alive) body of a fire victim when I was a volunteer fireman, and the lack of success providing rescue breathing a short time later.

While in the service, a training accident that resulted in several fatalities.

The look of disappointment and sadness on my young daughter's face when I gave her some particularly bad news.

My best friend's face gaunt & drawn weeks after he was severely injured and shortly before he died.

My beloved '67 Camaro crunched in an accident due to my own driving stupidity and inexperience.

My mom's face when my dad died.

[RANDY P]

2 months ago- visited a friend who was in ICU for liver failure. I just happened to be in Corona, CA passing thru when I got a call...

You think that ICU- they are out cold, people praying, maybe she'll pull through- nope, not in this case. She was on life support, and AWAKE when I walked in. I saw her, she saw me.

They pulled the plug on her shortly thereafter. She couldn't breathe on her own, turning yellow and blue, just, done. Tripped me out for a full day.

rjp

[Evans, Marv]

I've seen some sights, but one that was tragic stands out. Back in the '60s when I worked in the mountains, I was driving up into the foothills to work for the week. On a sweeping curve, I saw a truck hauling timber enter the top of the curve. My first thought was that those guys really hauled ass down the mountains. We passed in the middle of the curve, and I saw the inside duals of the rear dolly lifting off & bumping back down on the road. After we passed each other, I continued to look in the rear view mirror to see the load slide off the road jack knifing the trailer with the tractor. The trailer & load hit the hill side in a road cut, and the tractor separated and slid down the middle of the pavement on it's side. I hauled a U turn & hurried down to see if there was anything I could do. When I got out & went up to the tractor, it was on its side with the door peeled back & the driver's head was on the pavement just separated from the cab. He had been flung out & the edge of the roof had landed on his neck as the truck hit the pavement. There was a long line of blood going downhill on the pavement and his face turned to a dark purple. I waited for somebody else to arrive & told the driver to get the highway patrol. After a little while several cars had stopped, and since there was nothing I could do, I gave my name & phone number to one of the people as a witness and continued on up the road to where I worked. A few days later I got a call from the Highway Patrol telling me an officer wanted to talk to me about the accident. I described what I had seen to him, and he said it was very different from what somebody at the scene told them I said. He said they told them I said the driver was driving slowly at about 20 mph & had a wild look on his face. Anyway another sad part was the driver was only 19 and had just gotten married the week before.

[Buckterrier]

When I was a boy a stray dog found it's way into our yard. The poor thing was infested with tics. Huge blood engorged tics literally everywhere. Even around the eyes. Wish I could un-see that poor dog.

[Rikao4]

thanks for trying Patrick...
but that nurse was an idiot..
CPR with a pulse present

Rika

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

thanks for trying Patrick...
but that nurse was an idiot..
CPR with a pulse present

Rika

In her defense I dont' know CPR and I'm not sure that what she was doing was CPR. The woman wasn't breathing and she was trying to get her to start breathing.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Walking in on one of my buds banging his extremely overweight g/f. That was over 25 yrs ago

Thanks a bunch Vinny - actually laughed out loud recalling a similar situation with a roommate of mine. Man - she redefined what it meant to be "a big girl".

Cheers
JB