Morbid post alert (apologies)
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Holy crap, this thread is giving me ptsd. I have lead a very sheltered existence.
I never actually saw the body, but I saw the aftermath and watched my mother cleanup the murder site of her mother, my grandmother, who had been stabbed to death by her son, my uncle who lived with my grandma.
Not death, but last year at the first FB game an older dude was walking up the stairs between Section 4 and 5. He started stumbling and slowly went to the ground, then got back up and kept walking. Collapsed near the handicap seats. Two ladies came out of the stands and started doing CPR. The EMT's came and he eventually sat up. But they carted him off.
He ended up coming back to a game later in the season, seemingly okay. Everyone applauded for him.
The scariest part was his wife was just sitting in the stands, unaware of what was happening to him 100 ft away.
He ended up coming back to a game later in the season, seemingly okay. Everyone applauded for him.
The scariest part was his wife was just sitting in the stands, unaware of what was happening to him 100 ft away.
I am 30 and I struggle to get up and down JTS stairs....
I was walking past Cy's Roost one day circa 1984 or so and cops were around a Jeep out front, putting up tape. Jeep had lots of parking tickets on window. Illinois plates as I recall. There was an awful stench in the air. Turns out, the vehicle owner had gotten drunk and decided to sleep it off in back of Jeep, apparently choked on vomit and died. It was days before he was found, because the plastic fabric windows were scratched/clouded, couldn't see in. Thousands of students unknowingly walked right past the corpse. Anyone else remember that?
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No but I know former EMTs and have heard stories.
That's all I really want to say about that
Since everyone has all these experiences and I don't recall finding a dead body, it makes me wonder if I am suppressing a memory of something.
Worked with a guy who was in this industry. Cleaned up the theater after that ******* in Aurora shot it up. He said the weirdest part wasn't all the gore, it was how they had to control disposal of everything they removed. Not due to biohazard concerns, but because people would try and scavenge "memorabilia" - yeah some people are ******* weird.
Closest I have come to anything like that was seeing a neighbor a few houses down be carried out in a body bag. Assume it was a heart attack in his sleep or something. We didn't hear any of the initial response but it was a Saturday morning and I went out front to play with the kids and a cop was sitting out front of their house, a little later an ambulance came and then a fire truck which was just manpower to help carry the body bag out.
When I was at ISU I worked at a golf course during the summer for some of my time. My first summer working there I was heading out to hole 3 pretty early to do some maintenance work behind the green. On my way out there I saw a golf cart in the middle of the fairway but didn't see anyone golfing. As I got closer I saw a old man face down next to the cart. I panicked a bit but got the courage to feel if he was breathing. He was pretty cold so I think he had been laying out there for a bit. We called 911 and they came to obviously pronounce him dead. The guy was one of the many old guys that golfed every day by themselves in the morning. I was 20 at the time, still remember that scene like it was yesterday. Made me really sad although he got to go out doing what he loved.
Our season tickets are top row of the stadium. We’re in our 60’s and neither of us have any trouble with them but I do try not to drink so much that I have to use the restroom and do it again.
Many people in their 20’s even struggle with them though. It’s a bit scary.
My ex-GF once dated a guy that was found dead hanging from a tree (noose) in a state park.. It was determined that he died from auto erotic asphyxiation. Yeesh.
Mother was in home hospice. Her time was close. I tried to stay awake all night with her one night. Fell asleep. Woke up to her death rattles as she passed. Funeral home came to pick her up. Closed the body bag right in front of all of us. That messed me up for a long time.
Ahh, the Deases brothers. I remember the hubbub about that case.
18-Year-Old Guilty in Killing Woman Who was Decapitated
NEVADA, Iowa (AP) _ A man accused of strangling and decapitating his brother's girlfriend was convicted of murder Friday after witnesses described the 18-year-old defendant singing rap songs about the killing. Ruben Deases was found guilty in the May 28 murder of Jennifer Ann Gardner, 20...
Did not find an actual dead body, but did come close. I was working out a few years ago and while switching to a different machine, I noticed an old guy sweating profusely with his head down on the leg lift machine. As I got closer I noticed he wasn't breathing. I ran down to the front desk to get someone up there who was qualified for the defibrillator, while another person performed CPR.
The ambulance was there pretty quick, as the fire dept. is only half a mile away. Not sure how long the guy was in that state though. There were only 4 of us, including him working out at the time and no one was actually facing him. He wasn't on that machine 20 minutes before when I went to the bench press.
We cleared the room, but later heard that the guy never did regain consciousness and passed away the next day. Honestly, not something I ever want to experience again. I felt really strange for a couple of weeks after that, wondering if my timing was a little different, would I have been able to do something to save him. Or, if it would have been at a peak time, someone else would have seen. Just very strange to know someone was dying 15 feet from you, out in the open and you had no idea.
The ambulance was there pretty quick, as the fire dept. is only half a mile away. Not sure how long the guy was in that state though. There were only 4 of us, including him working out at the time and no one was actually facing him. He wasn't on that machine 20 minutes before when I went to the bench press.
We cleared the room, but later heard that the guy never did regain consciousness and passed away the next day. Honestly, not something I ever want to experience again. I felt really strange for a couple of weeks after that, wondering if my timing was a little different, would I have been able to do something to save him. Or, if it would have been at a peak time, someone else would have seen. Just very strange to know someone was dying 15 feet from you, out in the open and you had no idea.