What is the sickest thing you've seen?

[chewy]

after seeing these were you sick? or is it just something you have gotten used to and it doesnt really bother you much?

I couldnt imagine seeing these things in real life. :eek: :eek:

I've never been sick from anything at work. The closest was in the Coast Guard when I already wasn't feeling good and we went to get a floater who'd been in the water since winter (five months prior). The body gases fill the body cavity up and they float back to the surface when the temperature warms up. They STINK like you wouldn't believe then when you try to grab onto a body part (this particular one had no cloths to grab except underware) like the arm the skin literally peals off in your hand. I didn't blow chunks but that's the closest I've come to it for a work related thing.


I should say that you do get used to it if you see it enough. Everyone learns to deal with it differently, either by rationalizing that it isn't a person but just an object, or whatever. Everyones a little different. When I was in the CG we used to joke about it a lot to relieve any tension that was there. When I started with the ambulance there were always people around so you couldn't do that and I just tried not to think of them as actual persons although it didn't always help and I did sometimes have dreams and such that disturbed me a little.

[Ken K]

Had a guy take a junior size .410 to the temple. No big deal scene wise except the pool of blood on the floor. Didn't even penetrate, just scrambled everything.

What was sick about it? Bastard did it with his 14 year old daughter watching.

[0311Marine]

Group of republican guard (there was no way to count how many) that decided to stand out in the open when an arty shell hit about 10 yards from them. One that didnt think we could see him walking through baghdad with a weapon with his friend and a .50 sniper bullet saying hello. And a whole lot of other things that are to numerous to mention.

[kels]

Guy dies while taking a bath.
Summer time in Kansas (ie HOT)
No air conditioning.
He is laying in the tub for about TWO weeks.
He is basically SLUDGE.
They had to use Hazmat suits and air packs to
enter the house.
(I didnt see it, I went to the other part of the county
when they called for the air packs.)

[LA5150]

This isn't as good as some of the others, but I don't have as much time on as a lot of you

At a shooting call with two victims down courtesy of a rival gang with an AK-47, one is DOA and the other is screaming on the ground while his intestines are hanging out all over the place. I notice that his left arm is missing and there is a shredded stump where it should have been, so I look around for his arm as FD works on him. When they lift him up to put him on the stretcher I saw the guy's left arm dangling behind him by a little bit of skin. He'd been laying on top of his arm the whole time.

[Upandatem]

Guy dies while taking a bath.
Summer time in Kansas (ie HOT)
No air conditioning.
He is laying in the tub for about TWO weeks.
He is basically SLUDGE.
They had to use Hazmat suits and air packs to
enter the house.
(I didnt see it, I went to the other part of the county
when they called for the air packs.)

Creme of Farmer soup anyone? *insert vomiting smiley here* :D

[cntryboy0531]

A 300lb male that had died in his bed, in an R.V., in the Florida heat. He had been there for about a week. He was black and green, oozing, and had began the process of melting to the bed. Couldn't go into the RV without a Mask. Crime Scene and the Body Removal company could, but they are some sadistic sumbitches.

Rolled up on a car accident on the way home from work one day, semi-truck rolled over. The driver's foot was smashed from the ankle down, and I was able to see through what was left of his ankle.

Worked a homicide about a week ago. Drive by. Lady caught the bullet with her head. Brain matter, blood, all over the place on the ground. She was laid out on the ground, bled out, they pronounced her dead later when she arrived at the hospital. She had that 1000 mile stare going on. Knew she wasn't coming back.

And some Misc other things, but that's the worst of it.

[Cinnamon]

I can't think of any super cool ones at the moment...all I can think about are twinkies now!

[RT302]

Every day driving a boat through St. Bernard Parish and N.O. last year brought worse stuff than the day before. Floating bodies were tied to something solid, GPS'ed, then moved on in search of live ones. After about the 11th day, you couldn't ID the bodies by sex or race, just tied them up and kept going. I spent two days assisting DMORT at St. Rita's Nursing Home (google it and it will come back). That had to have been the worst.

Then of course, when I was on with a Volly FD, was the two car head-on on 09/11/02 (yes, the first anniversary) at 0630 hours. Both drivers drunk, had to cut the brake pedal out of one driver's left buttock (through his thigh). While tearing apart the second vehicle, I couldn't help but look into the eyes of the middle passenger, rear seat whose nose was hanging below his mouth, with a look that implored us to go faster. He died on the way to the hospital. Two cars, seven people, one survivor (drunk off his a$$).

Or Father's Day 2005 on the Colorado River, Jet-ski vs. Jet-ski head-on. Two Marines who had just returned three days earlier from 7 months in Iraq. Closing speed was around 60 mph. Ever tried CPR on Jello? Working that one sucked.

I sure am not trying to brag, I keep these as reminds of the "bad days". It does feel good to get some of these off my chest. CISD was always available, but I never took them up on it.

[bayareahopeful]

Ok, so after all of the fighting died down a bit in Fallujah, the body snatchers were sent in to take away as many of the bodies as possible. When we went on patrol, if we saw a body we'd put it in the street so that the body snatchers could pick it up.

So on patrol we come across a body under some rubble. Can't figure out if it's one or two so we decide to pull it out. Quick tug on the leg, WHOA, off comes the leg at just below the knee. Insert mental picture of Marine holding lower leg of some insurgent with a semi-surprised look on his face. Ummmm......yeah.

[Rookie 87]

16 y/o suicide.gsw with 30'06 outside his residence. when we arrived his black lab was licking his brains off of the side of the house, and the pressure from the muzzle blew his eyes out of their sockets,they were dangling down his face by the stalks....

[Jenna2006]

Ok, so after all of the fighting died down a bit in Fallujah, the body snatchers were sent in to take away as many of the bodies as possible. When we went on patrol, if we saw a body we'd put it in the street so that the body snatchers could pick it up.

Body snatchers? :confused: :eek:

[Skippy9821]

An old man was standing behind a garbage truck and was backed over. He shot his heart and other entrails out his ***. The heart was still twitching laying ten feet away. Like a train wreck...you don't want to look, but can't look away.

[Bearcat06]

--Daddy whipped his daughter so hard with a belt that two days later there were still welts on her legs from the metal buckles on the belt (my first child abuse case).....

--Drunk GI walking down train tracks in Germany being struck by the Frankfurt to Paris train......

--Farmer's arm getting sucked into a hay bailer and out in the field for over 4 hours before EMS/Da Police get called......

--6 year old girl fell out of the back of a pick-up with daddy at the wheel.....truck was going about 45 MPH.....and she landed on the pavement......

--Drunk GI tipped a soda machine on top of himself and crushed himself btwn it and the wall of his barracks.....

--GI hung himself in his room on a Friday Night....didn't find him until Tuesday Morning (Labor Day Weekend).....

--Dad doing nasty sex things to his 3 step-daughters (ages 8, 10, 11) and taking pics (first sex abuse case by myself)


Those are the ones I can think off the top of my head.......

[Hoffa218]

The man-unders (struck by the train) were usually good for a sick scene. The funniest was on my post where a male EDP in his pajamas jumped on the roadbed in front of an oncoming southbound N train, was able to sit up, fold his arms across his chest and yell "take me now" (according to witnesses) - but only ended up with broken ribs and a collapsed lung. In the back of the bus on the way to the hospital he kept screaming how he was such a failure that he couldn't even kill himself.

The sickest had to be a where a college kid decided to end it after getting a poor report card and jumped in front of a southbound local train (I forget which...wasn't my job) in Queens. The begining of the platform was around a bend, so the train couldn't see him coming in. Apparently he jumped on to the tracks and put his neck on the rail and got decapitated. Since it was a curve, and since trains don't stop on a dime, it took a bit to stop so we were looking between the few cars that pulled into the station for the head...I'll never forget this grizzled old hairbag chewing on a slice of sicilian pizza from the pizzeria upstairs going "Yup, found the head" and when we all go to look and the guy's brains are laying next whats left of his face, which looked remarkably similiar to the gooey pizza this cop was chomping on. Suffice to say, I passed on meal that day.

A close second would have to be the man under on the 7 line (elevated) on a really cold day in the winter that had his blood and other bodily matter dripping and freezing to the cars on the street beneath it. Yech.