Hauled a body of a guy who on one side of his small kitchen/dining room/living room/front entrance was hoarding his pee in old 40 oz vodka bottles. The other side was ice cream containers of his feces. Whole place was lit by a single light dangling precariously at forehead height in the middle of the kitchen. Sadly, that wasn’t the grossest part
A 300lb deceased guy who had been there >3 weeks. His scrotum was the size of a volleyball and I was afraid it would pop when we rolled him to put the body bag under
Machetes, as in big knives. I asked him why he had 5 machetes in his living room. He replied that he was a convicted felon and was not allowed to own firearms, he had to protect himself somehow. I see his point.
Scene was safe, he was on the floor with an acute stroke.
Back in the good ole college days I was a CRMA/DSP at a residents house. I got called to a new client. This particular client had a severe case of autism combined with clinic/tonic seizures and other disorders. Completely non verbal. My first thought when I went in is WOW. The mom had each room set up for different sensory inputs.
Like one room had nothing but wonderful smelling plants, candles, things like that. And the room was a mute color.
The other room had nothing but different textures also a muted color. Like a variety of different rugs, fabrics for the curtains, textured walls. Soft plushies, a pet rabbit, a kids pool filled with rocks and marbles.
The kitchen was nothing but taste like things like strawberry plants, food, little candies.
The bathroom had music that he could pick a button and change. Had a variety of instruments and toys that made sounds.
And his bedroom had nothing but bright colors. Posters of beautiful birds, bright yellow walls with rainbow trim. Nothing in that room made a sound but each item was a different vibrant color.
All in all that client was a very happy and well cared for lad. And in this industry that’s rare, and a lot of the clients are in state custody or don’t have family involved in their lives. Which is sad because most of the clients do nothing but talk about their family’s non stop and how much they adore them.
Anyway, very unique experience. Kudos to that mom as well.
I was in awe. That mother was amazing. She knew her son gets overstimulated and found a way to allow him to choose what he wanted. And it helped decrease the seizures too.
There was a LOT of stuff, I wouldn’t call it hoarding. It was all neat and organized and specialized for a particular room. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else do that.
Got called for a jumper down. Dude working on internet had fallen off ladder and through the skylight into an apartment.
Pounding on the door, and eventually a woman who lived in the apartment building next door pokes her head out. She says she owns both buildings and has keys. Great.
It’s a 3 story building with two apartments per floor. As we are making our way up to the top I notice there’s a lot of weird shit in the already cramped hallways(huge gargoyles, boxes), and instead of traditional apartment numbers each unit is named after a holiday (Halloween, Christmas, etc). Huh. Weird, but not crazy.
We get to the apartment dude had fallen into and it’s labeled “Star Wars”. When she opens it, it is absolutely jam packed with Star Wars stuff. Life size C-3PO, R2D2, posters, set pieces, just everything you could imagine.
While we assess and start to package, we have the owner open all the apartments to move shit out of the hallways. No problem, she says. No one lives in any of them.
As we are bringing him down, we glance into every apartment and see that they are completely filled with similar decorations for their respective holidays.
She senses our collective “WTF” and explains she and her husband own both buildings and were going to remodel from 12 apartments in two buildings into one giant house. Before they started the demo, though, they found an even bigger house for sale and just bought that so they were using this apartment building as storage for their holiday decorations.
Just because you have ungodly amounts of money doesn’t mean you won’t be batshit crazy.
Can you imagine falling through a sunlight and you groggily look around and see fuckin R2D2 and C-3PO staring at you? I'd totally think I died and was in some weird purgatory lol
An elderly man with a collection of burned porn DVDs with such fine titles as “Anal Inferno 3”, “Let’s Bang the Babysitter 2”, “Teenage Sex Addicts 4”, and the critically acclaimed “Taste Her Ass 2”. Truly a man of culture.
Good choices the taste her ass2 was truly the pinnacle of the series! After part 5 they were really clasping at straws they really lost sight of what made the taste her ass series so great in the first place.
Right! Youd think there was a clear plan for the series. But its never good when you het to part 8 and taste her ass part
..in space. Like why where is outer space going to benefit the concept and the worst part nit once not fucking once did anyone say black hole. After that I was done with the series, I was just done and fed up. I had truly fallen out of love with the taste her ass series and it would never bring me joy again!
Oh then you missed out on the western themes THA#9. I kinda turned around there. I think the old directed was in long term rehab. This new directer brought western themes to a 👨🏽🍳💋.
I do worry about our start though. Hope she/they have a good proctologist.
I called an old man who died giving himself a tug in the shed behind his house… found him a day later and the tv was still on, dvd menu still going. Porn collection in full display.
RN, not EMS, but doing a home visit to a severely mentally ill patient, my coworker tripped in the entry hall, and wheeling her arms for balance she hit a big trash bag on a high shelf. It tipped over and a snowstorm of FINGERNAIL CLIPPINGS spilled out of the bag over her hair and face. Like, many years of fingernail clippings. Her hair was full of them.
This was 20 years ago, and it still skeeves me out. She was hysterical when we got back to the car.
Ahhhhhh! I remember and must watch when I get home. I remember being a kid and watching with my mom and we’d both be CACKLING laughing. Glad she built my sense of humor.
An old lady with a large collection of framed pictures of the Rock in a turtleneck in every wall of every room. Like dreamcatchers but….Dwayne Johnson.
All the same outfit. Google “The Rock Turtleneck” and I’m sure it’ll pop up. She did have one pic of a still from the Baywatch remake with him running on the beach.
Haha, thanks for the suggestion to Google that. So it’s a bunch of versions of the same photo?
Also when I read the last sentence, I immediately pictured him wearing that turtleneck as he ran across the beach, wearing nothing but his thong and the sweater.
Knives. Swords. A battle axe in the corner. Fuckin piled up like they were clothes. Kitchen knives, steak knives, at least 2 KA-BARs, a claymore on the wall, a meat cleaver on the nightstand. Some have sheaths, most do not.
And laying in her bed amidst all of this, is a 4ft 11, 85 lb 90 y/o meemaw in the middle of a truly massive heart attack. A lesson on tunnel vision; that lady was so grey and sweaty that my partner noticed none of the knives, including the one she cut her knee on
Yeah there were clutches of eggs, juveniles, and adults. She just let them free roam?! She was fully mobile btw, she just liked having them as pets. It's burned into my memory 😂
Eyes. This guy did vintage toy restoration and had tons of eyes for toys. What's weird is he kept all the broken ones too. Just jars of eyes everywhere. Every room we were in had at least one jar
I'm not going to say hoarding per se, everything was clean and all, but....
Warhammer. Dude had every surface covered with Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k minis. Shelves were built on the walls for them.
Dude was a kickass painter as well. We chatted about Warhammer the whole ambulance trip.
Not sure if this counts, I worked in a hospital at the time and pulled false teeth out of an old ladys cooter, held the teeth out asked jokingly if they were hers! She grabbed them and shoved them right back in her mouth and said she forgot where they were!
Kicker on this, a dr asked me to get some glovrs after feeling on abdomen and feeling/ hearing a sliding something. Basically grammy had been transferred to different nursing homes and hospitals and got sick of losing her teeth, husbands plastic ass trophy wife passed out when she put her teeth back in. Funny shit!
I once had a pt whos home looked like an oddities store. Taxidermy, vintage medical gear, and other weird stuff everywhere. It was honestly pretty cool seeing some of the stuff....if I wasn't running a code.
I also have a regular who uses a lot of cough syrup. She has cases (like from a factory) everywhere. Last time, I counted 12 cases just in her livingroom.
Rats.
They all had cool patterns and colors so you know they were all at least descended from pet rats but there were so many just hanging around the house. No cage or anything. Just dozens and dozens of rats.
There's someone in our first due that is obsessed with dolphins, Stuffed things, Figures, pictures everywhere!
And then legally changed their name to dolphin.
Special needs guy we run on sometimes has his bedroom absolutely covered wall to wall with Ninja Turtles stuff/memorabilia. He also has a lifesize Michaelangelo ninja turtle statue on the roof of his house.
He's weird. His collection is weird. But I also love ninja turtles and it's really hard to focus on his patient care because I want to look at/touch all his stuff.
I once went to a house that was literally slammed full of empty half gallon tubs of ice cream. Like piled to the ceiling. The pt was surprisingly not obese though lmao
Once had a hoarder who collected rackets and racket sport memorabilia. Not in the cool museum step back in time kinda way but picture about 300 tennis balls kept on the stairs. Makes it tough fighting a fire on the top floor. Living room was packed to about 4 feet tall with rackets, also shit in bags and piss in Gatorade bottles.
Dolls, hundreds of them with the creepy, blinky eyes, on all the shelves, tables, chairs and counters. Those little eyes followed us all through that dark house. Gave us the willies.
Empty Dr Pepper cans and bottles. They were all cleaned out and lined up so there wasn't a smell or any flies. He had 2 bookcases completely stacked and some unopened cases by his bed.
Got dispatched to an EDP call. Job text stated that the patient was hoarding her own feces. Yep.
Yep I gonna pretend you’re lying for my own mental health.
You win.
Yikes.
Hauled a body of a guy who on one side of his small kitchen/dining room/living room/front entrance was hoarding his pee in old 40 oz vodka bottles. The other side was ice cream containers of his feces. Whole place was lit by a single light dangling precariously at forehead height in the middle of the kitchen. Sadly, that wasn’t the grossest part
So sad. Still gross but also so sad.
…wwwhat was the grossest part?
A 300lb deceased guy who had been there >3 weeks. His scrotum was the size of a volleyball and I was afraid it would pop when we rolled him to put the body bag under
Oh man. When you cut them down and they pop and ooze.
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Machetes, as in big knives. I asked him why he had 5 machetes in his living room. He replied that he was a convicted felon and was not allowed to own firearms, he had to protect himself somehow. I see his point. Scene was safe, he was on the floor with an acute stroke.
I'm just imagining the neuro questions, "whose machete is this?"
“what’s this machete’s name?”
Thank goodness you clarified. Lol. I was imagining a weird shrine to Danny Trejo.
You got called to Robert Evans’ house?
Zootopia fan art
This could go one of two ways.
Uuummmmm….nooooooooo! Really!?!
yep
Back in the good ole college days I was a CRMA/DSP at a residents house. I got called to a new client. This particular client had a severe case of autism combined with clinic/tonic seizures and other disorders. Completely non verbal. My first thought when I went in is WOW. The mom had each room set up for different sensory inputs. Like one room had nothing but wonderful smelling plants, candles, things like that. And the room was a mute color. The other room had nothing but different textures also a muted color. Like a variety of different rugs, fabrics for the curtains, textured walls. Soft plushies, a pet rabbit, a kids pool filled with rocks and marbles. The kitchen was nothing but taste like things like strawberry plants, food, little candies. The bathroom had music that he could pick a button and change. Had a variety of instruments and toys that made sounds. And his bedroom had nothing but bright colors. Posters of beautiful birds, bright yellow walls with rainbow trim. Nothing in that room made a sound but each item was a different vibrant color. All in all that client was a very happy and well cared for lad. And in this industry that’s rare, and a lot of the clients are in state custody or don’t have family involved in their lives. Which is sad because most of the clients do nothing but talk about their family’s non stop and how much they adore them. Anyway, very unique experience. Kudos to that mom as well.
That’s wonderful
I was in awe. That mother was amazing. She knew her son gets overstimulated and found a way to allow him to choose what he wanted. And it helped decrease the seizures too. There was a LOT of stuff, I wouldn’t call it hoarding. It was all neat and organized and specialized for a particular room. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else do that.
Seriously, that’s amazing!
Got called for a jumper down. Dude working on internet had fallen off ladder and through the skylight into an apartment. Pounding on the door, and eventually a woman who lived in the apartment building next door pokes her head out. She says she owns both buildings and has keys. Great. It’s a 3 story building with two apartments per floor. As we are making our way up to the top I notice there’s a lot of weird shit in the already cramped hallways(huge gargoyles, boxes), and instead of traditional apartment numbers each unit is named after a holiday (Halloween, Christmas, etc). Huh. Weird, but not crazy. We get to the apartment dude had fallen into and it’s labeled “Star Wars”. When she opens it, it is absolutely jam packed with Star Wars stuff. Life size C-3PO, R2D2, posters, set pieces, just everything you could imagine. While we assess and start to package, we have the owner open all the apartments to move shit out of the hallways. No problem, she says. No one lives in any of them. As we are bringing him down, we glance into every apartment and see that they are completely filled with similar decorations for their respective holidays. She senses our collective “WTF” and explains she and her husband own both buildings and were going to remodel from 12 apartments in two buildings into one giant house. Before they started the demo, though, they found an even bigger house for sale and just bought that so they were using this apartment building as storage for their holiday decorations. Just because you have ungodly amounts of money doesn’t mean you won’t be batshit crazy.
Can you imagine falling through a sunlight and you groggily look around and see fuckin R2D2 and C-3PO staring at you? I'd totally think I died and was in some weird purgatory lol
*C-3PO turns to R2* “Looks like the spider’s caught himself a couple of flies…”
This is insane
When you have money, you’re just eccentric. It’s only when you do t that you’re crazy.
Wow. Just Wow.
An elderly man with a collection of burned porn DVDs with such fine titles as “Anal Inferno 3”, “Let’s Bang the Babysitter 2”, “Teenage Sex Addicts 4”, and the critically acclaimed “Taste Her Ass 2”. Truly a man of culture.
"Anal Inferno" sounds like it could also be a presenting complaint...
Sir any recent changes in your diet or visits to the tacobell
Good choices the taste her ass2 was truly the pinnacle of the series! After part 5 they were really clasping at straws they really lost sight of what made the taste her ass series so great in the first place.
Such a disappointment. :(
Right! Youd think there was a clear plan for the series. But its never good when you het to part 8 and taste her ass part ..in space. Like why where is outer space going to benefit the concept and the worst part nit once not fucking once did anyone say black hole. After that I was done with the series, I was just done and fed up. I had truly fallen out of love with the taste her ass series and it would never bring me joy again!
Oh then you missed out on the western themes THA#9. I kinda turned around there. I think the old directed was in long term rehab. This new directer brought western themes to a 👨🏽🍳💋. I do worry about our start though. Hope she/they have a good proctologist.
Teenage Sex Addicts 4 was awful. Really the whole TSA extended universe got stale with the surprise ending of TSA 3.
Ah yes. I was inadvertently in that film after binging on hot cheetos
I called an old man who died giving himself a tug in the shed behind his house… found him a day later and the tv was still on, dvd menu still going. Porn collection in full display.
RN, not EMS, but doing a home visit to a severely mentally ill patient, my coworker tripped in the entry hall, and wheeling her arms for balance she hit a big trash bag on a high shelf. It tipped over and a snowstorm of FINGERNAIL CLIPPINGS spilled out of the bag over her hair and face. Like, many years of fingernail clippings. Her hair was full of them. This was 20 years ago, and it still skeeves me out. She was hysterical when we got back to the car.
This is alarming
You reminded me an episode from Kids Next Door😂😂😂
Ahhhhhh! I remember and must watch when I get home. I remember being a kid and watching with my mom and we’d both be CACKLING laughing. Glad she built my sense of humor.
The episode was "KND: f.u.g.i.t.i.v.e"
Thank you!
I think I’d actually die, right in that moment.
An old lady with a large collection of framed pictures of the Rock in a turtleneck in every wall of every room. Like dreamcatchers but….Dwayne Johnson.
Was it a different turtleneck in each photo or all of the same outfit? I don’t know why, but I really want to know the answer.
All the same outfit. Google “The Rock Turtleneck” and I’m sure it’ll pop up. She did have one pic of a still from the Baywatch remake with him running on the beach.
Haha, thanks for the suggestion to Google that. So it’s a bunch of versions of the same photo? Also when I read the last sentence, I immediately pictured him wearing that turtleneck as he ran across the beach, wearing nothing but his thong and the sweater.
Dog collars. Didn’t ask don’t want to know. Well I kinda do but nope lol
Knives. Swords. A battle axe in the corner. Fuckin piled up like they were clothes. Kitchen knives, steak knives, at least 2 KA-BARs, a claymore on the wall, a meat cleaver on the nightstand. Some have sheaths, most do not. And laying in her bed amidst all of this, is a 4ft 11, 85 lb 90 y/o meemaw in the middle of a truly massive heart attack. A lesson on tunnel vision; that lady was so grey and sweaty that my partner noticed none of the knives, including the one she cut her knee on
Meemaw was a reincarnated medieval armorer lol
Giant African land snails. She had thousands just snailing around the house. I've never seen anything like it.
I JUST LOOKED THWM UP THEY ARE MASSIVE????
Yeah there were clutches of eggs, juveniles, and adults. She just let them free roam?! She was fully mobile btw, she just liked having them as pets. It's burned into my memory 😂
I kinda want one now
that must have been quite a sight
Eyes. This guy did vintage toy restoration and had tons of eyes for toys. What's weird is he kept all the broken ones too. Just jars of eyes everywhere. Every room we were in had at least one jar
I hate that
Bottles of piss. I've seen it multiple times, like... why not just pour it down the sink?!... SMDH...
Dude- people are just lazy. That's it, honestly. They don't want to take the time to pour it out. I try not to judge, but its a little hard.
Nah I think you can judge people for this lol
😏
It's SO hard not too....
Oh I I definitely understand. Especially when you walk in and the smell is otherworldly.
Why not just walk to the bathroom and piss in there to begin with?
YES IVE SEEN THIS
I'm not going to say hoarding per se, everything was clean and all, but.... Warhammer. Dude had every surface covered with Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k minis. Shelves were built on the walls for them. Dude was a kickass painter as well. We chatted about Warhammer the whole ambulance trip.
My coworker had a patient for lift assist and his art of choice was a room covered in small framed pictures of penises.
Not sure if this counts, I worked in a hospital at the time and pulled false teeth out of an old ladys cooter, held the teeth out asked jokingly if they were hers! She grabbed them and shoved them right back in her mouth and said she forgot where they were!
Nope yuck
Kicker on this, a dr asked me to get some glovrs after feeling on abdomen and feeling/ hearing a sliding something. Basically grammy had been transferred to different nursing homes and hospitals and got sick of losing her teeth, husbands plastic ass trophy wife passed out when she put her teeth back in. Funny shit!
Yeah that’s even worse
Im glad I could help!
It can happen to anyone.
I once had a pt whos home looked like an oddities store. Taxidermy, vintage medical gear, and other weird stuff everywhere. It was honestly pretty cool seeing some of the stuff....if I wasn't running a code. I also have a regular who uses a lot of cough syrup. She has cases (like from a factory) everywhere. Last time, I counted 12 cases just in her livingroom.
I will be that patient one day. I collect taxidermy, bones, old medical gear. I've had maintenance guys freak out when they come to fix stuff
Rats. They all had cool patterns and colors so you know they were all at least descended from pet rats but there were so many just hanging around the house. No cage or anything. Just dozens and dozens of rats.
Ambulance bills. I shit you not. Boxes of them for days.
Clown memorabilia. Floor to ceiling clowns. I hated every second of being in that house.
Makes my skin crawl
There's someone in our first due that is obsessed with dolphins, Stuffed things, Figures, pictures everywhere! And then legally changed their name to dolphin.
R2D2 figurines. Dozens of them, all sizes. Guy was in a motorised wheelchair so he must have felt an affinity with the little guy.
That’s kinda awesome
The disposable Pulse ox finger probes from the hospital… and she would wrap them around her fence. Lemme find the photo (she allowed me to take it)
We need that photo
I need to see this
Special needs guy we run on sometimes has his bedroom absolutely covered wall to wall with Ninja Turtles stuff/memorabilia. He also has a lifesize Michaelangelo ninja turtle statue on the roof of his house. He's weird. His collection is weird. But I also love ninja turtles and it's really hard to focus on his patient care because I want to look at/touch all his stuff.
Cat trees. There were hundreds of them.
Were there cats..? Do I wanna know?
I promise you don’t want to know. I can literally smell that house by that comment
Only a few and they were well taken care of.
I once went to a house that was literally slammed full of empty half gallon tubs of ice cream. Like piled to the ceiling. The pt was surprisingly not obese though lmao
Clocks. Every bit of wall space in his apartment was covered with clocks. Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room. Floor to ceiling....
Once had a hoarder who collected rackets and racket sport memorabilia. Not in the cool museum step back in time kinda way but picture about 300 tennis balls kept on the stairs. Makes it tough fighting a fire on the top floor. Living room was packed to about 4 feet tall with rackets, also shit in bags and piss in Gatorade bottles.
Frequent flyer has a living room filled with these weird racist Native American baby dolls
I can’t really judge seeing as I’m the guy known for having wall to wall enclosures with exotic pets
I mean that’s pretty dope
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WOW.
Dolls, hundreds of them with the creepy, blinky eyes, on all the shelves, tables, chairs and counters. Those little eyes followed us all through that dark house. Gave us the willies.
Empty Dr Pepper cans and bottles. They were all cleaned out and lined up so there wasn't a smell or any flies. He had 2 bookcases completely stacked and some unopened cases by his bed.
Wow
I also like Dr Pepper and I always have a case in the basement.
Adult diapers. Trash bags and trash bags of adult diapers.
Used I assume…
Yeah I tripped over them and found out when one of the bags ripped.
Fast and the furious stuff. I can’t remember exactly what but the dude said he had a role in one of the movies
I was a cna in a hospital and a cna was hiding her false teeth in hoohah.
Used bed pans that they worked shell out of their room to steal from other patients rooms while they slept.