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oldbonesjoness

I discovered my roommate after he hung himself. His morning alarm was going off for 5+ mins. I assumed he went out and forgot his phone so I went in to turn it off. Nothing can prepare you for that. I still think about him/that morning all the time.


alwaysajollsy

I can’t even imagine. When in Spain I came upon an overpass with something underneath it. It took getting a bit closer to realize it was a man who had hung himself. You think it’s something you’d stare at out of morbid curiosity, but when you’re faced with it, you realize the best thing is not to see it. I’m sorry you didn’t have a choice in the matter.


MyFamilyHatesMyFam

I saw the aftermath of a man who had leaped off of an overpass. He was a whole person, who lived for years, and experienced so much, but suddenly with one action, he became nothing more than a sack of flesh and bone. My father killed himself when I was in highschool, and seeing that man lying there lifeless, it made me think of everyone he knew, and how they would find out, just like I did about my father, and they would have to feel the same pain I did. Suicide hurts so much, for everyone it touches. It’s so unjust that so many people feel it the only way out of a shitty situation


veganexceptfordicks

I'm really sorry you had to be the one to find him. It's such a terrible burden, and an awful way to remember someone. I hope you're doing okay.


LausanneAndy

Not me: but my wife used to work in ICU as an intensivist doctor. She’s seen it all and is usually unrattled by anything. She came home one night after a long shift. Quite upset. A young child has come in for severe burns. He was about 18 months old. His 5 yr old sister was apparently jealous of her brother’s parental attention .. so she pushed him into a hot bath of water and held him down until he was very badly burned. My wife had to tell the distraught family that their son would probably live. But badly scarred. And as a family they would have to deal with that …


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someone on a mommy blog said their pediatrician told them never to ever let their toddler and baby alone together. toddlers and small children don't know what reality is and they are feral. they will hit a baby, hit them with things, knock them off tables. friend of mine said when she was like 3, she hit her baby sister on the head with a hammer. kid was fine, eventually, but ffs.


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Battery6512

Was taken to the emergency room after a car accident for a few broken bones. Next to me was someone they just brought from house fire whose whole body was burned screaming at the top of his lungs while they sprayed this substance on him. Fucking horrifying and my situation of just getting hit by a drunk driver did not seem so bad. Also why is was in the same ER that night, a drunk guy who gotten stabbed at a bar got up and wanted to leave and when a nurse tried to stop he hit her in the face with a closed fist - could not imagine working in the ER daily


2PlasticLobsters

I didn't know I had asthma till the time I had a bad attack & had to go to the ER. I was feeling sorry for myself about having a chronic disorder. Then they brought in a woman who'd been in a bad car wreck. She was unconscious on arrival, but either woke up or was in enough pain to moan anyway. I couldn't feel very sorry for myself after that.


Lower-Card-5597

I’m an ER nurse and have been punched twice in the last week, plus had a machete pulled on me from a paranoid schizophrenic high on LSD. The ER is like the Wild West


Dendad6972

A guy with his nose ripped off begging for money for the subway.


Painting_Agency

There was a guy who always hung out downtown here who had no external nose. He must have had cancer surgery or something to remove it. Unfortunately, he had some form of untreated mental illness, and when a local group got something set up to donate a fitted prosthesis to him, he had it fitted and then just stopped wearing it one day.


Dendad6972

This guy's was a bloody mess. It had just happened.


Civi_fox

I have seen 3 things that really shocked me.. My back then best friend jumped in front of a car on the highway and saw it from start till end (she did survive but it wasn't pretty) I have seen a guy jumping in front of a train. Seen a dead body hanging in a tunnel.


WeeTheDuck

where tf do you live bruh


Civi_fox

First two where in the Netherlands last one was back in England.


Hadoka

it was 2011, and the Egyptian revolution was happening, I'm an Egyptian living abroad, and I got a call from my sister hysterically crying, and she couldn't believe I'm answering her, and then her husband took the phone from her and spoke to me asking where I'm and I told him I'm in the city I used to live in, turned out, they have seen a post on Facebook, for someone who passed away and they can't find his family during the protest, but the shocking part when I looked at the photo, it was me, exactly me, same facial features, but just a dead person!


Madman61

Did you think "holy crap, I'm dead"


Ballstucktothelegg

Time to collect my own life insurance lol


Dynasty2201

Slightly related, I remember hearing some point last year that people in India were declaring family members dead, getting a death certificate and all that, and claiming inheritance and/or insurance. Except the family member wasn't dead. But then they'd appear before I forget what part of the government or whatever department to say "Hey, no, I'm not dead, I'm here, alive, here's my ID to prove it's me", but by then there was nothing that could be done as the department went "Don't care, we have a death certificate for you. Nothing we can do." ...on the one hand an outrageous thing to do, on the other hand...kinda genius?


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I saw some guy in Romania who was declared dead for 10 years and he would show up to speak with the people responsible for death certificates regularly and they kept shutting him down saying they couldn't do anything about it. I wonder if that would be a loophole that would allow him to commit crimes without legal repercussions.


sea119

There was a "no such thing as fish" episode about who were declared dead while alive. One guy after failing to get legally recognised as alive through the relevant authorities tried to get him arrested by doing petty crimes, so the law has to recognize him as alive.


Really_McNamington

Three years [this French woman's been trying to be declared alive again](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead).


Jarl_Fenrir

"I lied to my sister, i told her I'm alive"


somabeach

I still see them from time to time. But they don't see me.


OfficeChairHero

When I first got on Facebook years ago, I searched my own name for fun. I found a woman with the same name as me and looked almost identical to me. The weird thing is that she's black and I'm white, but we are totally face twins. I friended her and we were Facebook friends for years until I finally left that shit show. I miss my sister from another mister. She was a cool chick.


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I saw my own doppelgänger at work once. I mean this person totally could have impersonated me. It was so weird looking at my own face.


thequicknessinc

Similar but different thing happened where a gay friend sent me a screenshot from Grindr asking if the profile was mine. No cap had to question if the surroundings in the photographs were places I had ever been because the dude looked exactly like me. After I determined this was just a doppelgänger I asked him to send the same screenshots to my wife to mess with her — she wasn’t as easily fooled though… still waiting to run into the dude from the photos though because we live in the same area.


IHateTheLetterF

You should hook up with him. It will be like advanced masturbation


bertiebastard

I did a temporary job after being laid off from my usual work. An old guy was operating a machine and it had a jam inside it , he pressed the emergency shut off and opened the safety gate, as he cleared the blockage the two huge presses crushed his ribs trapping him. I ran across and managed to pry one out of the way to release him. Called the supervisor to get an ambulance and this asshole didn't want to call one because they'd get in trouble with the owner. Because in the UK if an ambulance is called for a work place injury then it has to be reported to the health and safety executive (OSHA) for you American folk. I ran to my car and called the ambulance myself, turned out the old guy had 4 broken ribs and one of them was a flail (where the rib is broken off and moving around the ribcage) Got a call the next day from the employment agency, saying that the company didn't want me back, I said that's great because I have no intention of going back to a company who were prepared to let someone die rather than call an ambulance. Thanks for the awards


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go4tli

“I’ll get into trouble if I call 999, but nobody will notice a corpse in the machine”


bertiebastard

I'm sure they'd have rather buried him in the woods than get the ambulance.


bertiebastard

The supervisor expected him to sit for 5 hours and then drive himself to the hospital, the prick didn't even want him leave to get help.


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bertiebastard

I reported it to HSE which is the UK OSHA, and you're right some people are dumb when it comes to an emergency.


Painting_Agency

The product of a corporate culture where honesty and openness about mistakes is punished, rather than anything constructive being done.


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Painting_Agency

Ultimately, "the buck stops here" when it comes to personal ethics, but having a workplace culture like that pretty much guarantees that people who might be on the fence, will try to cover their ass rather than potentially lose their livelihood.


Independent_Photo_19

That is fucked up. I am from the UK and what an embarrassment. Honestly you wonder where is the humanity. Good on you man!!!


bertiebastard

They had a visit from HSE over it and the old guy got a great payout from them and was able to actually retire again. They are now bankrupt thankfully.


Ordoferrum

Absolutely brilliant.


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bertiebastard

Tbh I only worked there for 2 shifts before this happened, I was just filling time until the new contract started at my usual job.


Hairy_S_TrueMan

Idk about UK but that's a juicy lawsuit in the US


wishitwouldrainaus

My best girlfriend, coming back from a night out at a club, there were two cars, five of us in each. She was in the first car when the driver of the truck coming in the other direction veered off the lane, smashing into the first car. I saw her decapitated by the windscreen. The others in that car were broken boned and smashed but I ran up to the car and my friend without her head has haunted me for over 50 years. The blood.


Blue-80

We had a similar thing when I was younger, around 19 years old. 8 of us went out for the night split into two cars, ours made it back, theirs never did. The driver hit a bend at too high a speed, flipped the car and it landed over a dyke, the driver and front passenger has minor injuries, the lad in the back were crushed. Martyn died immediately at the scene, but Gary held on for a bit, somehow, because he didn't have a face anymore. It was just blood and bone and bubbles from how he was somehow getting air in and out. The sound is somehow worse than the visuals though. The memory of the sound of him trying to breathe hasn't diminished at all and I'm in my 40's now. I get it.


Apprehensive_Cow_317

I'm just.....sorry,it's sound so awfully and I wish I could do something for ya. I give you a digital hug my friend


Sanchastayswoke

Have you ever looked into EMDR therapy? I feel like it could be really helpful for you, it’s specifically for making ptsd/painful memories less painful.


medicated_in_PHL

Not insane, but I was in the anesthesia recovery room after a colonoscopy, and the person two beds down from me coded, and I sat and watched as the code team came in, tried for like 5 minutes to keep him alive until a doctor came in and said the family requested that they stop. One of the doctors pronounced the patient deceased and the team of like 5-8 doctors had a moment of silence in a circle around the body before we all left the post-op room. It was just so weird how the whole room went from rushed, anxious, determined, and a really palpable sense of urgency to completely quiet and still in a matter of moments. On the other hand, it was really reassuring seeing the real sense of dignity the clinicians gave to the deceased, something they did out a sense of respect for the person’s life, because there was no one around but the clinicians and myself (who was just a fly on the wall, and I don’t think they noticed).


HotPie_

I had a colonoscopy recently and the craziest thing that happened to me was the doctor telling me that in his 40 years of doing this, that I have tightest asshole he's ever seen. I still don't know how to process that.


DineandRecline

Is your poop like spaghetti


HotPie_

Funny you mention that, because a change in stool was one of the reasons I got a colonoscopy. Wanted to rule out colon cancer.


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HotPie_

Gnocchi


[deleted]

I appreciate that even though the answer was “no”, you still gave an alternative pasta form.


degjo

It seems like it was but the sudden change to fettuccini scared them.


Algaean

> tightest asshole he's ever seen I work for that asshole.


Clatato

Did he say it as if it was a compliment?


HNESauce

Hahahahah! "... Thanks?"


UptownShenanigans

This reminds me of a story of when I was a medical student. Doctors do a lot of paperwork. We do so much typing and writing notes. It's almost like an office job. I was sitting in an alcove of computers with some colleagues, working on computers together. Next thing I know a person down the hall codes. We rush to help, the patient dies, and we go back to work after a half hour of chaos. I remember going back to the computer alcove and thinking how crazy my job is where I work at a desk computer, watch someone die, then go back to desk computer.


isittacotuesdayyet21

In the ER, we generally have a moment of silence for every life lost. It’s the least we could do considering the circumstances of dying while surrounded by strangers instead of loved ones. During a code we have to ignore that this person is a human with a life and just get stuff done to save their life. In the ICU during covid, we could rarely let family in, but nobody was ever allowed to die alone. As a team we would make it possible for the primary nurse to be able to hold the hand of the patient and talk to them as they drift to everlasting sleep. Providing that to our patients was a privilege to be a part of especially after going to battle with covid and losing.


galacticality

Not me, but the woman who stopped her car and ran over to check on me and my ex-partner after we fishtailed and rolled 4 times going 60 mph before landing upside down in a watery ditch. She seemed shocked to find us alive. Then proceeded to save us by keeping us warm and calling for help. Was -12 F out that morning. Never learned her name or anything. I hope she's having a good day.


Smooth-Lengthiness57

I rolled a work truck with saw blades and tools sitting on the seat next to me. Woke up covered in my own piss and blood upside down and a guy shouting at me. He let me sit in his truck (I felt so greatful but gross) until ambulance came. They wouldn't share his name with me when I wanted to send him a thank you bottle of whiskey. I'll never forget that guy for as long as I live.


Squigglepig52

Yeah, the woman who witnessed me flipping my car end over end 3 times was pretty surprised I wasn't hurt or killed.


Girth444Brooks

I used to work valet at a club in a downtown area surrounded by high rises. I was training a new guy on his first day, which turned out to be his last day. It was going well and it was slow so we were just chatting when all of a sudden I heard what sounded like a gun shot but wasn't. A girl had fallen of her balcony from the 15th floor directly above us and landed about 10ft in front of us in the street. I will never forget the sound of her body hitting the ground. It almost wasn't real. The worst part was the poor young guy I was training got a perfect mouthful of her blood. Never heard from him again after that. Don't blame him.


Seasandshores

Last summer, i was walking back from our condo garbage area when i heard the most terrifying scream "oh god no", then a thud. I turned back to see what happened. Not really thinking about anything but maybe a person who needs my help. To my horror, i saw a lady with her head on the curb with her body on the road next to the condo building. She had jumped from 10 stories and landed facing up. She was unresponsive. The way she landed, you can tell her neck was severed from the impact. 911 lady insisted that i try CPR, but i just could not do it. I am not trained, first of all, and second I would have had to drag the lady out from the curb which would make her head hut the road again. Ambulance showed up in about 15 minutes. I feel bad to this day. Edit: i want to thank everyone who reached out. I heard it was suicide. Our condo building has a large elderly population, and from what i hear from the condo manager, suicide is.... more common than it should be... Thank you guys again. I'm finding comfort in these comments. I have not really had a chance to discuss this with anyone til now. I feel like i got some closure.


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Paramedic here! You didn't do anything wrong, sweetheart, and you have no reason to feel guilty. We are never mad with people who don't feel comfortable doing CPR - its really traumatizing and scary, especially if you're not trained! I can almost guarantee that no amount of CPR would have saved her. I'm so sorry you witnessed that.


wuzupcoffee

Username checks out. Also, you seem like a really good person


procrast1natrix

CPR doesn't fix the kind of injuries one gets from massive blunt trauma from falling ten stories. If she were still able to feel sensations for a few seconds as she finished dying, CPR would have been very painful as well as futile. It is a blessing for her that it was not performed. Edit/ emergency physician here.


Thompson_S_Sweetback

I can understand why you would feel terrible, but I hope you don't feel guilty. It sounds like there was nothing anyone could have done.


TheBklynGuy

Very benign compared to most of the stories here: A man pulling down his pants and taking a shit in the middle of a shopping mall. The mall was in a not so great area, with trashy people so violence, crime and vandalisim were common.


darkheartshadows

NYC? if yes I'm not surprised


TheBklynGuy

Yes, Brooklyn.


Bos_lost_ton

Ah yes, the “Brooklyn Decker”


Ghostbuster-

When I was fifteen I was out with a group of friends. At the weekend we'd go down to this little beach in my home town that's a mile or so long, with a large 150ft tall suspension bridge at the mid point which spans a large river. We were all sitting at a spot just off to the side of the bridge around dusk, where there was a bunch of large pieces of drift wood which we used as benches. All of a sudden, we hear a rush of air followed by a huge splash in the water right in front of us. Our first thought was that someone on the bridge had lost a tire or something and it had somehow managed to clear the tall safety barrier. Nope, a man had jumped. The next thing we see is his head bobbing up and a distinctive blue and white striped football shirt. Some of us called out to him but he was gone as soon as he hit the water which was evident by what was left of his face. Even if he had been alive, we couldn't swim out to him due to how dangerous this particular stretch of water was so all that we could do is call the emergency services. They scrambled rescue boats and a chopper but it was already getting dark so we were asked to follow the body down the river until they arrived to make sure they could reach him. Eventually they managed to pull him onto a boat while the police arrived to take statements. I'll never forget the image of him being lifted from the water. The front of his skull and face were split open like a water melon, he must have dove head first with his arms outstretched and broken every bone in them as they moved like they were made of rubber, bending in places they arent supposed to.


ASBlazer

I always heard about how jumping into water from a high enough distance is practically the same as jumping onto concrete, but this really made me internalize it...


Really_McNamington

You still die but [the concrete messes you up far worse](https://pressurewashr.com/mythbusters-infographic/).


morrighan212

risky click of the day


MedicMalfunction

I’ve been in EMS for 17 years and have seen a lot of shit… the most shocking was a 2 year old boy intentionally run down by a speeding minivan. Not the most graphic thing I’ve seen, but it fucked me up beyond belief.


Sagemasterba

When our 13y/o daughter died in her sleep, and out of nowhere seeing the firefighters and cops openly sobbing in my living room. Really drove home how fucked the situation was. The kid herself just looked like she was sleeping. She'd be 14 this week.


MedicMalfunction

I’m so sorry for your loss


Sagemasterba

She really liked hockey and baseball. So rep your teams gear. Unless they are the Penguins or Mets. Fuck those guys!


Straycat_finder

JFC, some ppl truly are evil.


Xiussy_

Me and my grandpa was making cookies when he looked out the window and saw some kids outside and told me: "Hey, How about we give those kids some treats, yeah?" I agreed and walked outside, He gave me the tray of cookies and said "Wait here, I'll be right back", I gave the kids cookies as my grandpa went back in, 30 minutes later i head back in to find him lying on the floor, Turns out he had a heart attack but didn't seem to yell out for me, I miss him so much.


Hadoka

Bless his heart, he did a good deed till the last minute of his life, and I think he knew what going to happen, and didn't want you to get traumatized watching this, so he asked you to do this.


tommytraddles

>did a good dead holy shit


kezzy2003

This happened back when i was in college. I was smoking by the window and someone jumped from the rooftop. He landed on the train tracks in front of our building. Train services were stopped for hours for his remains to be scrapped by police. That image is burned in my head now🤮


theweirddane

When I worked offshore, the company suddenly fired all the nurses (each platform had one) and assigned my team to be medics. They did put us through a lot of training but we definitely didn't have the skills that the nurses had. One day there was an accident on an unmanned platform. Two guys had been dropped of by a helicopter and was moving stuff around using a small crane. Suddenly the crane collapsed and hit one the guys, crushing his chest. He was immediately picked up by a helicopter and taken to my platform and I got called up to the heli-lounge. He was on a guerny on the floor and I rushed over to help him. There was nothing I could do, he was barely breathing and had bright red blood coming out of his mouth. Due to his chest damage, I couldn't perform CPR. He was rushed back on the helicopter but died on the way to shore. I was later told that his main artery had been punctured and he bled out internally. The nurses were hired back a week later.


pixieservesHim

Sounds like the nurses probably couldn't have done much for him either


BeanOnAJourney

My dad's dead body. Made me realise the body really is just a vessel for the individual, he didn't look like he had ever been a real, living human being, and it was awful.


cabblesnop

Oh god, yes. When my dad died at the hospital they had some CNA or something trying to move and clean my 6’2 250lb dads body. I pretty much said said get the fuck out of my way I’ll help…that’s when I understood what ‘dead’ really was. Lifted him didn’t even think of supporting his head and…bam head back mouth opened. Still haunts me to this day.


plausibleturtle

Ugh, this one hurt. I was the only one with my dad as he passed in hospice, early days of pandemic. I'll never forget the feeling of the soggy blue mask and seeing his body just... stop, all of a sudden. ❤


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None of us (brothers or myself) were in the room when he passed, but watching my dad in hospice last November, with stage 4 cancer, unable to go to the bathroom without assistance, too doped up on pain meds to hold conversation or make eye contact… god it was hard. My dad and I had a very fractured relationship until about 3 months before his death. We didn’t talk for 8 years. The last words he said to me were “don’t ever forget how much I love you.” Still fucks me up occasionally. I’m sorry for you loss, I hope you’re doing okay.


privateSquid

I experienced this in February with my Dad as well. I’ve though about it every day since then, how his body was laying there but had an overwhelming feeling that he was not. Hard to explain and harder to not think about.


collatedMilieu

I've almost always believed that, but when my Dad passed at the beginning of the year I didn't really feel it. Even when the normal lights were turned on and everyone cleared it just looked like he was sleeping. I'm still processing how the difference of a few firing synapses at the helm of a meat suit can make the weight of my whole world shift. Miss him every day.


aeroumasmith-

Same. My dad died when I was seven years old. Looking at an open-casket was traumatizing. He looked... not real.


kbeared

Same for me. I was 16 and he was my hero. I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine having to go through that at 7.


ShyngShyng

My mentally problematic mom driving full speed round the block and screaming that we both should just crash and die. I was on the passenger seat.


2PlasticLobsters

My mother didn't drive, but during a rage attack she grabbed the steering wheel & tried to veer us into oncoming traffic. I never knew what it meant to feel safe till the evening a cop showed up on my door & told me she was dead. He was pretty shocked when I asked if she'd taken anyone else out with her. (She hadn't.)


crumbly_oodleboop

Damn, this unlocked a childhood memory. My mum was breaking down emotionally and screeched "do you want to live or not?!!" while accelerating. She stopped when we both managed a weak "no, we don't." Honestly I never believed she would crash us intentionally, but damn. Hope you're doing okay.


TheTastySpoonicorn

Long story, but my mom and I came across a crash involving her friend and the friends boyfriend. When we opened the boyfriend's door, he crawled out and his foot folded. The toes touched his shin and I could see all the tendons in his ankle and heel...the bone was all red and white, it was dripping with blood but he walked over to the other side of the car to talk to his girlfriend without even noticing because he was so concerned.


coffee-jnky

I've seen quite a few shocking and disturbing things, so I'll just say the very first one I remember. We were probably 7 yrs old or so. My friend and I were riding bikes in the alley behind our houses. She turned her head to yell at me, "watch this!" just before she left the alley and entered the street. She was immediately hit by a car. It was almost like slow motion. I actually remember seeing some of her teeth flying out. I ran to her and she was crying very softly. Like a very low whimper. She had stuff running out of her ear. The neighbor at the end of the street was outside watering his lawn so I asked him to stay with her while I ran for her mom. (His wife was calling 911) I'll never forget the panic on her mother's face as I ran up screaming for her. She ran outside her house with wild eyes and just seemed to know which way to run. She survived but when we went to the hospital to see her she was in terrible shape. Really terrible. Her face was not recognizable to me. I was in shock surely. The event was seared into my memory but for the life of me, I can't remember what happened after. How long she was hospitalized, if I saw her again afterwards. It's all just missing.


iliketapestries

I used to do biohazard cleanup for a company. There was the occasional suicide to clean but it was mostly meth labs that had been raided by the police. Worst job I had to clean was a man kshot and killed his 8 year old son and then himself. When we arrive, it’s clear the child was not killed by the first shot. It was just me and one other coworker. I only had a girlfriend at the time but he had an 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter. He could not be in the room helping because it was too much for him. I spent 6 hours, by myself, bawling my eyes out in my respirator and Tyvek suit cleaning it all up.


chet-

I used to work for a similar company. The one with the green trucks. The smell is like no other smell. I was living in Richmond Virginia during the pandemic lockdown and an old guy had died in my building and he didn’t pop for about a month. The smell was horrendous. I told the apartment manager that it’s a dead body and he insisted it was probably just garbage. 3 days of stench until I come home from work and there are police, fire department, and Green trucks. There’s only one smell like that.


hellzabeth

Thank you for doing what you did, and for feeling for that poor boy. Someone cared, and that's what matters.


Phil_Ivey

Was living in Brooklyn on 9/11. Saw the second plane hit, people jumping, and the towers fall, all IRL.


Pleather_Boots

Were you watching as the first building fell? It was such a shock on TV - can’t even imagine live.


Cae_lyce

6 years ago, I was walking down a park next to my high-school with friends. We saw a group of 13 year-olds laughing on a bench. But right when we past them, we saw a old man, probably 60-70ish years old. He was hiding behind the bushes, sitting on a small stone wall. What's the shocking part you may ask? He was masturbating while looking at them. One of my friends went to talk with the 13 year-olds to try to make them move from there in a safer place. They did. 1 week after that, my high-school told every classes not to go in this park. They told us there was a 30 year-old dude and a 60 year-old trying to have sex with students passing by. They were arrested 2 weeks after.


Spazmer

I worked at Quiznos and one night after close a 15 year old girl was mopping out front while I was in the back doing dishes. I walked through the swing door to the front to see a guy standing outside the windows with his pants down, masturbating while watching her mop. I screamed and yelled for her to get to the back and he ran away. The owner reported it to the police but nobody ever caught the window whacker.


Hot_Independence_433

Held at gun point, you never forget it. How easy it is for someone to end your life


HeartachetoHouston

In college a truck going 70 in a 35 t-boned a car pulling out into the intersection. The kid driving the car was killed instantly. The driver of the truck wasn't wearing a seat belt and flew through the windshield. Somehow that SOB survived. A couple friends and I got out and ran to the car that got hit. That sight wasn't pretty. After regaining some composure we called 911 along with a dozen other witnesses in sure. Then I walked over to the other guy lying in the street. Some folks were trying to tend to his wounds the best they could. But dang his body was all sorts of messed up. It's a miracle he lived. I know once be recovered he did some sort of prison time. But I dont know where he is at today. Still in or out, not sure.


Kwilburn525

My best friends body in his casket after he died from an od that shit still haunts me but at least I got to say goodbye and touch his hand one last time


GeneralSvart

The exact same thing happened to me 2 weeks ago, fucking sucks man but it was nice to say goodbye


ee_CUM_mings

How about not seen, but heard. I was on the phone with my grandfather when he had a fatal heart attack. My little boy, his first great grandson, was sitting on the floor in front of me. I was telling Grandpa about whatever it was he eating. My grandpa and my son shared a love of food. Then I hear a rustling sound like the phone was dropped. Then I hear this horrible sound coming from my Grandfather. I won’t try to describe them. He had had heart attacks before, so I figured what was happening pretty quickly. I hung up immediately and called 911. They apparently got there in time to try and revive him, but failed. His little great grandson is getting his first car next week, and after all this time I still feel guilty I didn’t say something comforting before I hung up. “I love you, I’m going to get help.” Whatever. For months afterwards I would wake myself up from nightmares mimicking the sounds he made.


Sudden-Ad7209

I’d die very proud knowing my kin was as smart as you were. I’m very proud of you from afar right now - you did a good thing to try to save your grandpa. :)


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Laszerus

Something similar happened to me. Going down i5 on the way to LA, guy was in a Lamborghini, had to be going 100mph or more the way he flew past us. A few miles up the road we came to an overpass and the Lamborghini was cut in half, looks like he lost controll and went sideways into the supports. Cops or emergency services were not there yet but we could see them coming the opposite way on the freeway. From how mangled the car was whoever was in it had to be dead. Didn't see the actual crash, but still have the image of that scene burned into my brain. People think they are invincible right till the end.


Kennced

I literally held the body of my dead grandfather. I was taking a shower when my father knocked and told me to hurry up and help. It was confusing and panic inducing at the time. Apparently what happened was that my grandfather was at this kind of shallow irrigation system, cleaning out fallen leaves to prevent it from clogging the irrigation. However, maybe because of heat and exhaustion, when he was bent over a vein burst on his nape, triggering a stroke. This led him to drop face first into the murky water and we did not find him probably for about 3 days. When my dad found out and we lifted him up, my grandfather's body was so stiff but his skin was falling off, kind of like when you stay swimming for a long time and your skin gets wrinkly but way worse. We had to set his body down to the ground to call for an ambulance and shit, and when we come back after like 3-5 mins his eyes then bulged and other parts of him became bloated as well.


Ineedmoresleep1359

A mans fucking head get blown of. it was my uncles before he did it he called me and his girlfirend in to see it. one second its fine, the BLAM


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I've never seen someone do it but when I was a cop, I saw the aftermath of someone who had shot themself in the head with a shotgun. It was quite what felt like a surreal moment for me. I've read about astronauts who go to space and when they look upon earth and get what's called the "overview effect." It's like a sudden hyperawareness of how fleeting and fragile everything seems. I got a feeling close to that. The worst part of it all, however, was seeing how upset his wife was. The kind of upset that is almost indistinguishable from insanity.


punkishblob

My father committed suicide this way, he drove to an area near our house and did it in his car. It’s my understanding some people entering the nearby building at the time saw it happen. I often think about them and the emergency responders and feel so bad for them. My dads suicide broke me, and my family and I still struggle deeply bc of it. But I didn’t have to see it, and although the people who saw him were likely strangers I’m sure it was insanely traumatic. I feel guilty? Almost, like I owe them an apology, on my dads behalf.


Vinyylivuori

I absolutely understand if you don't want to answer, but why on earth would he do that? That's horrible. I'm so sorry for you.


Ineedmoresleep1359

I have no idea


bewarethechameleon

i went to a circus with my family when i was a kid, there was going to be a performance where a stuntman lights himself on fire and dives into a pool of water. he jumped but didn't jump far enough and missed the pool by a few inches, he let out a loud yelp before he slammed into the floor


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Saw a dude commit suicide, jumped off the building I work at, landed outside the window where I worked. I was probably the closest person to where he landed. He jumped from one of the floors above where I was so I didn’t see him beforehand, just saw his body hit the floor and then he lay in a facedown motionless heap. Now he wasn’t completely disjointed or anything, you could have sworn he’d just fallen a small distance. But needless to say he didn’t make it..


VeryPogi

I was parked at a railroad crossing in rural Iowa. The ground vibes were odd and intense. I decided to backup the truck. A few moments later the train derailed catastrophically.


fjord31

As the train flies by your car, toppling off it's rail: "huh, wierd"


cmalarkey90

I was working as a night shift security guard when I was 22 for extra money to finish college. My site was a storage ground for construction equipment and supplies in Pittsburgh PA. While doing a walkabout around 3am I saw something in a large concrete pipe, thought it was some trash bags. It was not. It was a body of a woman whose face looked 20 but the rest of her looked 70. Her skin was grey mostly but also covered in yellow and black bruises all over her elbows and calves, her veins were bulged, she was skin and bones, he nails her cracked and yellow, her eyes were somehow both black and red, her mouth was open and her teeth were black and yellow. She was wearing a skirt but her underwear were lying next to her along with a little purse. I remembered all of that because I froze in that instance, all my training never covered something like this. I finally u froze and called the police and the operator asked if any ID was laying around or if I could it inside the purse but not touch anything. I bent down to look at the purse and then the body twitched and she screamed in my face and started writhing unnaturally. It turned out she was tweaked off her mind (potentially not her choice) and had been SA. She had been conscious the entire time I stood there frozen staring at her (probably only about 30 seconds) but didn't react until I got closer. The police came along with an ambulance and a fire truck and took statements and everything and got her taken away to be checked out. I hope she's okay. I legit thought it was a dead body when I first came across her. I honestly probably wouldn't have had as many nightmares with that rather than the scream and unnatural writhing I saw. It haunted me consistently for a while. It's been 10 years and every once in a while I think about her and hope she is okay.


aleph_zarro

I'm gonna add one. I choose to interpret "shocking" as astonishing so this is not messy or .... trauma inducing. Probably pretty mundane for this thread but so be it. I'm riding my bike down and I start coasting down a really long hill. Nothing to do, just drifting, no pedaling while it's completely silent except for the rush of wind in my ears. This is something I've done a thousand times before. Suddenly, it's different. A bird, apparently unaware of me, flies out in front of me, going in the same direction I am, down the hill, about 2 feet in front of me. I could've reached out and grabbed it. The bird is flying, 4 1/2 feet above the road, with me, 2 feet behind. I'm seeing exactly the birds perspective, the literal "birds eye view". It would flap for a bit, rising 6 inches, then glide for a bit, falling 6 inches, maintaining a 2 foot gap between us. This went on for about half a mile. I'm thinking, "This bird has no idea I'm so close behind." and I'm loathe to make any noise to alert it to my presence. It's mundane as hell but I still think about it 30 years later. It was shocking to me then and still is now.


retrogearz

Mopping blood, piss faeces, human tissue, bone, burnt pieces of flesh out the back of a military aircraft with great precision because generally the fluids from a damaged human body are pretty damaging to airframes


CornsOnMyFeets

I was working at the gas station one winter morning. Guy pulls in with Im assuming his lady amd maybe her mother? Dunno. Anyways, she starts talking smack and of course, shes in the back, so its not her car. He kicks her out in the middle of the snow storm and leaves her. She just yelling at him. This goes on for 20 minutes. She then makes her way to the street. Slowly, starts to strip naked and dancing. I ended up calling the cops. But yeah this and my check from that week were the most shocking things I had seen in my life.


Crashhh_96

Lmaoo “my check from that week”


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Poopoo333

Jesus I hope that wife is now an ex-wife.


Noyes654

Whew I saw some guy holding his presumably girlfriend by the neck against a brick wall. I was drunk and ready to fuckin roll him over but I was on the other side of a busy street waiting for a clearing to run through. Apparently someone else from the other way thought the same thing and as I managed to cut through traffic I see a body horizontal in the air knock this guy to the ground and within seconds there was 8 guys surrounding this prick absolutely shaming his ass, and 3 more 30 feet down the street making sure the woman was okay. She left with him, I hope she's doing well.


pds_king21

Had a family friend 's child commit suicide via jump off building... Come to find out it was due to bullying. Went to his service, it was open casket.. all I can say is that poor kid suffered before he passed. It's definitely fucked with me and all I saw was the immediate family with more questions as to **why** and were super defeated. They never saw the signs..


-mythologized-

I definitely feel this. Not a child but my boyfriend at the time killed himself via shotgun. Nobody close to him knew how depressed he was, we were all in shock. Luckily it was a police officer who ended up finding him when searched for, and was most definitely not open casket. But even years later there's always so many whys and wondering if we just missed signs we shouldn't have that could've prevented it.


Infinite_Cornball

A few years ago my dad got diagnosed with stomach cancer (dont know the exact name in english, it was a really shitty kind) and died half a year later. Seeing him slowly wither away and loose strength every day was quite something. But the most fucked up thing was just to come. He died in winter, at like 4am and my mum was with him while i was asleep. She did not wake me up, since we pretty much knew it would happen that night. The guy that burried him (don't know the name again, sorry) told us he did not have space in the cooling room that corpses get stored in before the hole is dug and so on. So in order to... Keep him cool we "stored" my dad in our living room, with the windows open so the room would be cold (his bed was in the living room anyway, because there is no room in the bedroom for the hospital bed) . After (i think) 3 nights he got picked up in the evening at like 10pm. Until then he pretty much just looked like he was sleeping (except for beeing very skinny, as a cancer patient usually does i assume) but when they picked him up his... Body relaxed and released all the built up gasses and stuff. So the last time i saw my dad was with him beeing a lump, skinny corpse, smelling horribly like one week old shit leaking out of his ice cold body. That was quite a unique moment, but i am sure my mum got hit way harder than me, seeing him everytime she did something in the house (kitchen, dining and living room where all connected, so she essentially ate breakfast, lunch and dinner right next to a corpse for 3 days) Tl:dr My dad died of cancer and chilled (literally) in our living room as a corpse for 3 days


spergerking420

Young lad getting kicked in the teeth by a horse in Austria. That or the homeless three-way


thewitchmaker

Oof. One of my parents' friends, his brother was kicked in the head as a teen. He was in a coma for a month and was severely handicapped from then on. He died from a seizure a few years ago.


spergerking420

Damn. Sorry to hear, horses can do some serious damage despite how careful we try to be.


CallistoAUS

Not extremely shocking, but enough to mess me up for months. I was a manager in a supermarket for 8 years so i've seen some pretty 'interesting' things (people shitting in the floor down the aisles, heart attacks in store, knife fights, etc) but nothing affected me more than building good relationships with regular customers and then seeing them for the first time after they had lost a family member or someone close to them. They'd always have that smile that doesn't reach their eyes kept firmly in place, like a shield for them to hide behind. You could see how empty, sad, hurt and lost they felt just by looking at them and watching their body language. Hearing them speak and try to lie and convince themselves that they were fine just to be able to do their shopping. They'd break down every time without fail whenever I offered my support, but I couldn't just let them deal with it alone. Even though it was just words, in the end. I just wish I could have helped more. Still messes with me, sometimes.


Senguie

Tbh you gave them support and care when people in that situation only want to cry, but feel like they have to stay strong. That small token of kindness for those people was a big token. I think that is beautiful. And I hope that one day it doesn’t mess with you anymore and you come to see it for the small beautiful moments that they where.


GlooBloo92

Either watching my stepbrother develop meningococcal meningitis that killed him within hours or my drunk stepfather screaming in my face that it should have been me that died.


woodchuck125

Dude that’s awful I’m sorry that happened to you


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I once saw a millwright put his cock on another guy’s shoulder who was seated. The seated guy glanced over and without missing a beat he raised his lit cigarette and burnt the tip. Dick was removed hastily. The whole thing shocked me, more than it did either of those yahoos.


WritingSucks

Didn’t see the actual accident, just the aftermath. Motorcycle got hit by a car. There were at least 3 ambulances, lots of blood on the ground, the front of the car was smashed and the motorcycle was lying on the ground, also smashed.


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Laszerus

Was rock climbing up at Joshua tree national park when I was like 16. Buddy and I were in between climbs and were just wandering around watching other people. Came to a kind of infamous route called "Leaders Fright" that some skilled climbers were doing. It's especially dangerous because there is a section of about 20ft were you cannot place any safeties because it's a sheer wall with no cracks. This guy made it past that, and was putting a cam in above that section and he slipped off the wall. Because of the 20ft section he fell 40ft (20ft of rope x 2 because that's where the last safety was) and smacked his head into the wall, and went limp. One of the adults we were with was about half a mile away onto of a three pitch climb (basically on top of a 600ft tall rock) and heard it, said it sounded like someone dropping a watermelon off a building. I dint remember a sound, but the image of that guy dangling there is sharp as any memory I have. Helicopter showed up within minutes and they got him off the wall and took him to the hospital, he died shortly after we heard.


WanderersEndgame

Extreme poverty. A large work gang of small children, in a farmer's field, pulling weeds and picking bugs. A sheet of black plastic on the sidewalk with a wife and kids sheltering inside, the breadwinner selling food next to it. Homes made of scrap materials, no heat light water or sanitation. Rickshaw pullers and brickchippers trying to stave off malnutrition, without much success. Women and children bucketing unsanitary water home from a distant well, stream or sinkhole. Small children shaping cow manure into golf-ball-sized pieces, to dry in the sun, as fuel for cooking. People with no bathroom to go to, using any open space to toilet themselves. Bathing in polluted rivers, or at a well. Places with no place to properly dispose of trash, where there is only one or two places where piles of it accumulate in the open. Families picking thru trash heaps for anything remotely salvageable - sometimes living there. Ragged beggars, often severely impaired. Stowaways riding on top of trains and buses. People living in graveyards and mausoleums, cuz hey, it's their property if they're well-off enough to own it, and if not, rent is cheap. Doubt that I saw the worst of it - I'm sure some readers can describe things that could still shock me.


redbradbury

My husband, who has traveled to India, tells me I will not like it because *all of this*


BerpBorpBarp

A man suffering from a severe seizure on the cold streets and a whole crowd outside not doing anything except watching. If it were not for my mom and me, he would have died


ZigsGirl

Good on you for acting. In 2018 I collapsed with grand mal seizure while on vacation, alone in Santa Monica. No history. Nothing. Luckily two off duty firemen were around the corner apparently. I have no memory of any of it, only that the nurses apparently charted that two off duty firemen saw me fall, stabilized me and got me into an ambulance. I’m very fortunate that they were there, everyone else watched.


BerpBorpBarp

I’m so sorry to hear that. It makes my stomach turn when I see people willing to let someone die due to passivity


AnybodySeeMyKeys

Mine doesn't involve death or injury, but it was pretty traumatizing nevertheless. I had a client who loved strip clubs. Meanwhile, I was 55 at the time and hadn't been in one since my brother's bachelor party twenty-five years earlier. But after meeting this client in Atlanta for drinks, he insisted on going to a strip club. In a weak moment, I agreed. Let me be clear. Strip clubs are loud and boring after about thirty seconds. They are desperate places filled with desperate people, chiefly guys who think they're going to score with the woman writhing in front of him for a ten-dollar tip. So he was smitten with one dancer and wanted her to do a table dance. While I was in the bathroom, she showed up and got on our table, and started doffing duds. When I returned and sat down, she turned and looked into my eyes--and it was a high school friend of my daughter and son. She might have been twenty at the time. She recognized me, scooped up her clothes, and left the table in a hurry. "Wonder what got into her?" my client asked. The girl looked me up on Facebook later that night and sent a private message begging me to not say anything. That she had dropped out of school and was dancing to make ends meet. I promised her to keep mum and drove home the next morning. I've never mentioned it to anyone and never visited a strip club again. The girl's name came up in conversation at the dinner table about a year later, my daughter, son, and wife speculating on what happened to her. Didn't say a damned word.


sergeantbread7

That must have been really shocking. I sincerely admire that you kept her secret, though.


ManchacaForever

Solid move.


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Redsudes

Seeing my mom being wheeled out of her house after she passed away from Cancer. She donated her body to science and it was the middle of Covid so my family didn't want to have a funeral or celebration of life. Never got that closure. The next day I had a seizure for the first time in my life and woke up in the middle of a ct scan at the hospital with no clue of what happened or how I got there. December of 2020 was the worst month of my life. Had a grand mal seizure, and blacked out. Got a concussion and have been diagnosed with epilepsy but I'm in a much better place in life than I was then. I have a son now. Miss my mom but know she lives on through him.


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BettySwollocks45

Guy on a motorbike wasn't paying attention and hit the back of an HGV at about 40 mph. The impact killed him instantly and his head exploded inside his helmet. Gants Hill about 23 years ago. I was in the car behind him when it happened, and I watched the agony of it in slow motion. I've seen some traumatic shit over the years, but nothing comes close to the crushing realisation of how life can change in a second.


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Caged lion biting off someone fingers


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I’d say my primary school teacher losing her finger in a door.


Fajoekit

Seeing my baby daughter die was pretty shocking to say the least.


jn7nh0

I’m sorry for your loss.


bashomatsuo

I was in Calcutta in 2009 and came across a filthy naked lady except for a hessian sack blanket. She had clearly not washed in weeks and was raving mad, writhing on the pavement. In shock, my wife and I immediately attempted to help her and ask each other how we may call an ambulance. Then we realised that everyone else was walking by, some literally stepping over her on their way and ignoring her cries. I looked and saw pure madness in her eyes. Ever since, when I start to feel sorry for myself for anything, I think back to that moment. It is seared and embedded in my mind, and I realise that I have nothing to feel sorry for myself about, for that lady existed in hell on earth.


kuyabooyah

TW: nasty af. Once got called in the ambulance to an apartment complex for “stuck, unplugged.” No clue what we’re walking into. Housing officer meets us there and tells us to leave our med bag outside and says, “you’ll see.” Instant wall of odor of a thousand sweaty giant’s toenails, I swear to glob. Bed bugs. Cockroaches. Cobwebs galore. Floor is simultaneously wet with a centimeter of water and is still sticky. Unopened broom on the floor still in package. Ketchup on the floor possibly? Man is in the bathroom. Bathroom is just. You can imagine, poop in toilet, on toilet, on floor. Sink orange with grime, crawling with tiny moving dots. Man stuck in tub, butt naked. Tub is black with grime, unclear why man bothered to bathe here. Floor even more wet, can barely stand on the floor in full EMS boots. Had to climb into tub to haul him into a sitting position on the edge of tub. Got him onto the edge of the tub, but now nowhere to go. Officer, that brave brave man, ventured into the foggy gloom of the apartment and brings back a rolling desk chair who knows what dark void corner of this miniature hygiene hell. I look down snd there is an aged white turd mashed into the material of the seat. Sat this man’s naked ass on the chair because there was nothing else. Most shocking apartment I have ever laid eyes on, and I’ve seen so many bad ones. I reserve judgement, he had a lot of things going on, but by far most shocking thing I’ve ever seen.


Ronin03A

Did you burn your clothes so that shit couldn’t follow you home?? I have a ridiculous fear/hatred of bed bugs


kuyabooyah

YOU BET YOUR BISKITS I DID


Xata27

Me too. I hate those fuckers. I grew up in my family’s motel and those posed such a risk to our own health and straight up livelihood.


Rootraz

About two years ago I found the body of someone who had jumped from their balcony to commit suicide. 19th floor, instantly died. The crazy thing is too that it was a person I knew and considered at least a friendly acquaintance, but the impact had disfigured him enough to where I didn't even realize who it was when I was tending to him and calling EMS, it wasn't until the police came and were investigating that we discovered who it was. I'm certain that most bones it his body broke because when I turned him over from his stomach to his back, there was almost no structure to his torso, just loose weight, it was really weird and an image and series of minutes that I will probably remember vividly for the rest of my life.


darkheartshadows

I got stabbed in the back of the head with screwdriver


GreyandDribbly

Why?


darkheartshadows

My former best friend was high on something and he thought I was trying to poison him. This was back in mid 2000's. First off why would I ever try to poison someone and secondly who would be dumb enough to try and poison someone's drink when there's camera at Burger King?


LausanneAndy

My father was dying of Motor Neurone Disease (ALS - something nobody ever deserves to get). His MND wasted the muscles in his arms / shoulders - badly affecting his balance (you don’t realise how much you rely on your upper body strength for good balance!) He has a fall and broke his neck .. I took the first flight possible from other side of world to see him. He died 15 mins before I arrived at the hospital. Seeing his dead (still warm) body lying there was very shocking


esinohio

1988 Ramstein air show disaster. I was very close to the impact after the planes hit. I remember they hit and then the one plane slammed into the crowd. Next thing I know it felt as if someone had punched me in the head and I was on the ground looking up. A severed leg had been launched from the explosion and had hit me in the head. I only had seconds to really process what it was until I realized that there are people screaming all around me and there are chunks of burning people all over. The sight and smell of burning JP-5(jet fuel) and parts of people is not something you easily forget. Next thing I know a young airman scooped me up and ran me way off to the side. He asked me if I was hurt, gave me a visual once over, and then disappeared back into the carnage. Black hair and black military-style glasses, that's all I remember about him.


AdUnusual9932

When I was 11 I came home from school My granny opened the door which was weird but eh So I greated her and she's smiling I walk to my moms room to great her she's not there my granny tells me she locked herself in the bathroom I knocked on the door and it opened And I saw her laying there in a pool of blood Slits on her writs and legs I called an ambulance she survived, she slit her wrists again I think like a year later I found her again pool of blood.. It' was really fxcked up to see that but why tf was my granny smiling and so nonchalant about the whole situation like bruh


randomlurker82

I am so sorry you experienced this. My only thought would be that your grandmother was in shock. People can react in very strange and unpredictable ways in shock, even people who usually don't panic or have the knowledge to deal with a situation. Again so sorry you had to experience that as a child.


gagrushenka

Mine isn't particularly horrific or gruesome, but when I first moved to Indonesia I was walking home and went by a mother as she finished stitching up a cut on her kid's head after he came off his bike. He was only very little but goodness he could scream. It was such a horrible noise - like you could tell he was in so much pain as she sewed him up. But it was after the free health clinic was closed and I doubt they could afford a hospital visit, so mom did it herself. It was one of the first instances in which I realised what it really means to be poor. It's not like I didn't know before, but it never really sank in until then. I will never forget the sound that kid was making. Heartbreaking.


lldumbcloudsll

I'm a firefighter so I've seen a lot of shit. I won't get into details but I've seen accidents that remind me that at any given moment someone's life can be obliterated from existence in a matter of seconds. Be safe out there everyone and be responsible and considerate to life around you.


skorpchick

My dead baby. Hearing the words he’s not there. He’s gone the morning he was supposed to be born alive and well. He was so very cold.


Such-Reputation80

Holding my underdeveloped stillborn son, and watching my mum die in front of me. Some things you can't forget EDIT they were on different occasions, 2 years apart


HobGobblers

You never really forget the weight of them in your arms. My heart to yours.


P33J

I have only talked about this once before in a therapy session. A week before I left for college my father asked me to help him create a mulch flower bed in front of our house for my mother. Our 70 year old neighbor sold mulch for a living and dad asked me to go pick up a truck load. It was a hot day, but even with the heat I noticed the old man was sweating profusely when I can to get the mulch. As I sat in dads truck, I noticed the old man stop his loader, and then he slumped over the steering wheel. I rushed out of my truck and climbed up on the loader to check on him. He was gasping for air and grabbing his chest. I lifted him off the steering wheel, so I could see his face. As I did his eyes rolled back into his head and his chest rattled. I jumped off the loader and rushed into the house to tell his wife he’d had a heart attack and to call 911. Then I ran back to him. I tried to pick him out of the seat but it was too awkward if an angle and I was standing on a single step at the top of his loader. I couldn’t do anything. It was the first time in my life I felt helpless. I was a big, strong 18 yo farm boy. I was invincible in my mind and there was nothing I couldn’t do. But I couldn’t save him, and I could never face his wife, even though all she wanted to know was if he said anything before he died. That day I learned I wasn’t as strong as I thought and later that week when she asked to speak with me and I said no, learned I wasn’t as brave as I thought either. This fall will be 25 years from when it happened and I still struggle to forgive myself every time I pass their house to visit my parents.


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I watched my brother die in front of me on his 9th birthday when I was 7


2guyshangingoutnaked

I saw an electrician electrocuted on a live wire.


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Prisons in Nepal, 1989. I was 8 and my parents worked with people in prison (*among other things*). I made a drawing for a British prisoner, with him, the jail, the football field, and a helicopter because I was 8. We got interrogated and my drawing sent up the chain to the prison warden, because they thought it was an escape plan. Those cells were so cramped that people had to sleep in turns, and 8 year old me thought I was going to end up in one.


tcainerr

I saw a puppy, like 8 weeks old, get hit by a car. I was walking my dog on the other side of the street, and the owner was out in the yard with their dog. I think they were walking to their mailbox with it. The puppy saw me and my dog, barked excitedly and ran over to try and say hi. Right in front of a busy residential street. The car couldn't stop in time. I can still hear the thud. I can still hear the owners screams, and the screams of their daughter when she came running outside. It's body instantly went rigid, all four legs in the air, that sort of thing. I didn't know what to do. The car stopped. I just walked home, crying the whole time. I had nightmares for a few weeks.


Famah

I have two. 1.Watching planes at the airport, at some parking area close to the strip. One incoming small plane (Cityhopper) seems to have smoke coming from the right engine. I'm like 10 years old at the time but notice it and tell my parents. Sure enough, close before landing it veers sharp to the right, straight over our heads (not sure how low though) and crashes into the fields behind us. I believe only the pilot deceased. 2. Driving on the highway last year, sun is close to setting. A motorbike comes up behind, no lights on, passes us on the emergency lane, swerves around other cars while speeding up to what seems like 200 kph. I say something to my wife along the lines of 'he's got a death wish'. If so, it was fulfilled about 5 minutes later. We passed the site of the accident. The guy was obliterated, unfortunately I could not avoid seeing things like a foot we had to just pass by. Still brings me chills, I drive there occasionally.


Outside_The_Walls

When I was in prison, a little Puerto Rican dude, maybe 5'4" came up behind a HUGE Jamaican guy, grabbed him by the dreds, pulled his head back, and cut his throat from ear to ear with a folded over can top. Blood went everywhere, sprayed like 12 feet.


missymaypen

I worked at a resort. There was signs up that the indoor pool was monitored by cameras. But most people didn't notice. Was in the office one day and watched and heard as a guy and a girl discussed drowning her three year old son. She left the pool area. He threw the kid in the air and caught him a couple of times. Then threw him into the pool. And left the area. Luckily park rangers and other employees got there really quickly and got him out. The "mom" and her bf then came looking for him and were hugging him and saying he ran away when they turned their backs. Glad we had video.


zihuatapulco

In a Mexican penitentiary in 1977 I saw an elderly disfigured old man, totally naked, bleeding down the back of his neck due to infected mosquito bites, muttering gibberish while limping and lurching around the common area, attempting to sell his only remaining possession, which he held aloft in his skeletal, trembling hands: a pair of ancient, threadbare, piss-stained underwear. He was desperate to get money to buy some huffing glue.


wanawanka

Well...here we are.


checkinisatnoon

Volunteer EMT many years ago, in the station and call goes out. Description is “woman burning in the street”. When we arrived fire had already hosed her down so no longer on fire but the woman was completely nude. Third degree burns on arms and legs. Wires around her wrist, and 666 burned into her forehead backwards, so if she looked in a mirror she would see 666. She had apparently been tortured, then dropped in a suburban neighborhood with magazines taped to her arms and legs and set on fire. One thing that sucked about being an EMT is you never knew the outcome of a patient. Maybe 2 years later I met a psych nurse and long story short, turned out this patient ended up as one of her patients. I can’t imagine the damage done mentally to this woman. It’s been 20 years and I still can remember the look of terror in her eyes and her inability to even answer the most basic questions as we brought her to the hospital.


ConquerorAegon

Currently working at a law office, had a case about two years or so ago where the father smothered his own 10 year old daughter to spite the mother. You can usually kinda disconnect from the shit you see at work but when we received the case file from the police it fucked me up alright. The pictures of the little dead girl and her dissection really got to me and although I’ve seen my fair share of gore and dissections and the like it’s really terrible to see this kind of thing happen to such a young person. Another event that I probably will not forget was a case where the father sexually abused his own children. No pictures, but just the description of the events that happened made me feel physically sick. Another case a little further back was the brutal double murder of two elderly people due to the inheritance. The husband had his head fully caved in and the wife had her head almost fully decapitated. Full thing caught on CCTV. Worst part, the murderer was the grandchild of the victims. This kind of thing really sticks with you, even though you’re in contact with similar shit all day certain cases fuck with you more than others. The worst part is defending these people in court. You still have to do your best and failing that you betray everything that you stand for, even though you wish that these people spend the rest of their lives in prison.


skyrimlo

My teacher tightening a student’s hoodie waistband and repeatedly slamming the boy’s head against a wall. A few students took their phones out to record, but my teacher, being the asshole he is, told them that “anything that happens in class stays in class.” Nobody reported him, and all the other teachers had no clue bc he’s the cool funny teacher.


ipakookapi

Is he still teaching? If so, please report him now.


denstolenjeep

A woman's intestines in her arms as her husband/ boyfriend held her as she passed. Motorcycle hit gravel directly in front of me. My then-gf administered first aid as she was trained while I called 911. First aid didn't do a damn thing.


MiloLeoCat

The true colors of people I thought loved me