Today in the academy we were looking at pictures of people who have been arrested, this one guy had this snot thing hanging from his nose, it comes out of his nose when he breathes out, and back into his nose when he breathes in. Its actually some kind of membrane from his brain or something so he cant remove it... its just... nasty.
Officer Tina Griswold, EOW 11-29-2009
Rest in peace.
I was on a coroner case a couple of weeks ago. Some dude got backed over by a gravel truck. His nut was launched out of his sack and down to his ankle. It was still tethered. Brutal.
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"Life's journey is NOT to arrive at your grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in a$$ backwards & sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy $H!T, what a ride!" - Unknown
There's gotta be one fish down there dumber than I am drunk.
Went on a ridalong with my dad on Thanksgiving 2004. At the ambulance company owner's house with pretty much everyone but Dispatch. Get the call just after we stuffed the turkeys. Load up, roll out to a settlement between Ridgecrest and Inyokern called Buttermilk Acres- basically a glorified trailer park. Now, R/C is in the Upper Mojave. We have 90+ degree Thanksgivings.
Anyway, we roll up. I'm 14, want to help, so I carry the heart monitor and the trauma bag for my dad. RPD rolls up at the same time and we see her boyfriend come out, dripping with his own puke. The officer smells the smell and pulls him aside. We go in- and I step in a massive wet pile of dog feces and some sort of meat. I see a plate with some potatoes next to this pile and I assumed it was the dinner the BF had been carrying. This is a single-wide trailer, mind you, so I can already see the bedroom. We go in, with a Chihuaha nipping at our heels.
This woman is dead. There's a few pics of her on the nightstand. I'd guess 130 living. She's lying on the bed, covered in vomit and black all over, oozing green-yellow pus. Bloated to the size of a 250-pounder, at least. The worst part was that the dogs had been nibbling on her for like a week. My dad shouts has me come over and see death (he wanted me to see what he had to deal with). FoxNews with Brit Hume's on the screen.
Anyway, we leave. My dad points at my boots when we're in the unit. That pile of feces and meat had been the missing half of her face. Nasty, that.
Her BF had found her, she'd apparently aspirated overnight a week or so beforehand. Poor guy was all broken up. Wanted us to start CPR because he had come to propose to her. We waited until the sheriff's office coroner arrived and finished our dinner.
Worked a single motorcycle crash a few weeks ago that was a good one. Guy was on one of those crotch rockets going about 90mph around a curve. He loses control, and flys off his bike and begins to slide at a very high rate of speed. He slides into a large chain link fence, in which he was moving with so much force, he slides under it. The skin and nose from his face was ripped off of his face, and was stuck to the fence. He was DOA, and wasn't wearing a helmet.
I use humor when I get these calls, and like other posters had said you try and not start laughing at inappropriate times. We respond after spring break to a roomate that had gotten home, and found his friend who had OD on pills on his bedroom floor. He had been there about a week, and he was pretty gross. Anyways, the TV was left on when he ended his life, and it was left on the Cartoon Network. Just so happens family guy was on when we were doing the investigation. We turn over the body, and find a bag of feces under him. (strange and still don't know why it was there) At that moment, Cleveland from Family Guy says his classic line, "That's just nasty". All of us on scene look at each other, and all bust out laughing. We finally turn the TV off, and finish, but it was pretty funny.
-Baghdad 2004 we shot an armed insurgent with a 50cal round in the chest and watched his spinal cord separate from his body while falling.
-Baghdad shot an armed insurgent in the head with a 50 cal round
-Talafar Iraq an armed insurgent shot with a a Mark 19 explosive round--He seemed to disintegrate in th explosion
- Talafar made a driver search his car after being shot in the back with a 7.62 round and all of the bodies in his trunk
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We looked at some pictures from a man vs. Train the other night... pretty brutal. This guy layed down where the road crosses the tracks so the top of the tracks were at ground level. I guess it dragged him for about 300 meters. his head had been removed and his body was the single most mangled thing Id ever seen.. there was a blob of a torso and then an arm coming out where a leg should be and a face with half the skin removed... yuck!
Officer Tina Griswold, EOW 11-29-2009
Rest in peace.
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We looked at some pictures from a man vs. Train the other night... pretty brutal. [QUOTE]
I did a ride-along about two months ago and responded to a train accident. We arrived on the scene and the first thing that I saw with the body was that the person had two blue eyes..........one eye blew this way, and the other blew this way * insert pointing in different directions *
For me, i was in the USCG for about 3 months at the time, stationed in FL, and i was non-rate, going to BM A school in3 months. Soooo we get a call of a PIW (person in the water) we arrive on scene, and right away the COXN (one of the smartest dang BM1's i've ever known) says "yep...he's a floater" (meaning he's dead, dead bodies float, then sink, then float again. this guy was HUGE, his body was very very bloated with veins showing and everything.
Now i knew we don't normally deal with recovery, but the Coxn goes "hey Ronnin...pull him on board, we'll be nice to the locals" so i go to grab a arm.....the worst thing i've ever felt in my life!!!! my hand basically sank into his arm, i bout lost my chunks. The other 4 thought it was the greatest thing ever.
So i thought "well...i gotta get him in" so i went to try again...same thing happened to his leg. the Coxn finally goes "Ronnin....we're messin with you...sit down, we'll wait for the local PD to get out here, then, you're buyin us beers!"
So i felt the nastiest thing of my life, and had to buy 2 cases of beer.....whatta day.
Have other "nasty" stories, and 1 from a buddy- will share later!
Gotta love being the new man on deck. Did they send you after the flight line as well? ;)
You're allowed to have a life, you know. I read it in a manual somewhere. - Eugene Matuzak - Timecop
When I was in 4th grade I saw a 747 nosedive into my back yard. It's about 1000 yards from the house, but still my back yard. My dad was one of the first people there. No survivors, all 132 people. I never saw the crash site up close, but the wind changed and I did smell the burning fuel and bodies. Flight 427, September 8, 1994. I'll never forget it.