Morbid post alert (apologies)

[Jeremy]

Back in the mid to late 90’s, in the early days of the internet, I remember stumbling on a website that was dedicated to showing death scenes from things like industrial accidents, tree shredders, etc. Have thought about it in 3 different threads on here today.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Went to the county fair in Missouri where I grew up with my dad when I was probably 10. They had a “daredevil” scheduled to do a motorcycle jump. I put it in quotes because it wasn’t a professional. Probably just some local guy with a dirt bike.

Anyway, he’s supposed to jump over a bunch of cars and land on a flatbed trailer. Well, he came up about 5 ft short. Hit the flatbed probably going 40-50 mph right in his abdomen. There wasn’t any blood or trauma. But everyone knew that it was very bad. The medics came right away and hauled him off.

At the time, it didn’t really occur to me what I saw. It was years later before it hit me that I had watched a person die.

 

[ClonerJams]

Back in the mid to late 90’s, in the early days of the internet, I remember stumbling on a website that was dedicated to showing death scenes from things like industrial accidents, tree shredders, etc. Have thought about it in 3 different threads on here today.

You couldn't pay me enough money to watch stuff like that. Apparently there is cartel stuff out there as well that I have no desire to ever see.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Back in the mid to late 90’s, in the early days of the internet, I remember stumbling on a website that was dedicated to showing death scenes from things like industrial accidents, tree shredders, etc. Have thought about it in 3 different threads on here today.

I used to follow “Is This OSHA?” On Instagram but I had to stop. There was a video from Russia where a guy got his overalls caught in a spinning shaft that pulled him into the machine. I wish I would have never seen it.

 

[chadly82]

Performed CPR on a 80 year old neighbor when I was a teenager. He didn't make it.

Watched a guy drown in a lake.

Found a gunshot to the head suicide (yuck)

Please tell me you are an EMT or police?

 

[SaraV]

My grandmother had travelled to Australia, and she was showing our family the pictures she had taken. One she took was from one end of a high bridge, the view pointing across. She pointed to a man in the picture

"See this gentleman?"
"Yeah."
"Less than five minutes after I took this picture, he committed suicide by jumping off the bridge."

Yikes.

 

[chadly82]

My grandmother had travelled to Australia, and she was showing our family the pictures she had taken. One she took was from one end of a high bridge, the view pointing across. She pointed to a man in the picture

"See this gentleman?"
"Yeah."
"Less than five minutes after I took this picture, he committed suicide by jumping off the bridge."

Yikes.

I was working DT Des Moines at Citi Mortgage about 15 years ago when I saw someone jump off the parking garage mid day. I thought the pile in the concrete was bad, until the responders got there…turns out the man made it only because he jumped feet first. No clue whatever came of that

 

[Prone2Clone]

 

[CycloneErik]

Came home from school in 9th grade to find my cat hanging from the garage door. He'd been napping up there, and mom didn't see him when she headed to work and closed the door.

Helped someone in the old factory fish their hand out of a machine. That became an issue due to an overzealous operator failing to communicate and (the big one) management removing safety guards for faster operation. Surprisingly, the employee with the damaged hand didn't sue them.

I was part of breaking the news to a soldier at AT that his daughter was in a wreck back in the Midwest, and doctors expected her to pass while we had him on the way to the airport.

If I'm nearby, something's gonna happen, probably involving pain and death.

 

[ClonesFTW]

Back in the mid to late 90’s, in the early days of the internet, I remember stumbling on a website that was dedicated to showing death scenes from things like industrial accidents, tree shredders, etc. Have thought about it in 3 different threads on here today.

Did it start with a T?

 

[demoncore1031]

I have never seen anything too morbid myself, but I talk to coroners a lot at work and they have told me some very crazy stories.

And there is this nutjob that has been calling my work many times every night for about 4 years now. I'm way into horror movies, serial killers, heavy metal, etc... but on the morbid-o-meter this guy has me beat by a mile. I will make a thread about him once I am over this flu or whatever it is.

 

[aeroclone]

Me - don't read the thread, don't read the thread, don't read the thread.

Also me - Opens thread. Damn, I shouldn't have read the thread.

 

[Ankency]

Had a strange late afternoon. We found our neighbor dead in her backyard across our alley. It was so...strange. I haven't ever seen a dead body in the real/ongoing world. Hospitals and stuff yes. But life going on around, cars driving by and people walking dogs. It was just...so sad and surreal. It's also nearly 100 degrees and she was definitely in the sun all day from the looks of things. She had the garden hose in her hand and the backdoor was ajar and tv was on. Likely she just went out back to water plants/flowers in this drought and either had a heat stroke or heart attack on the spot. Have you ever found a person deceased before?

How old was she?

 

[Cyclone27inQC]

I was a EMT for 13 years and I witness a lot of stuff and death. Never easy, but we always had a mindset to your job for the victim and for any near by loved ones who witnessed the event.

 

[ruxCYtable]

Unfortunately I found my dad dead in his bed 10 years ago. Ironically I went over there to tell him my uncle on my mom’s side had died suddenly. That was a weird few days.

 

[burn587]

I work for a railroad, and part of my job is responding to/investigating accidents. So yeah I have seen my fair share. Some stick with you, others you don’t give a second thought after the fact.

 

[ICCYFAN]

I was a twelve year old delivering the Des Moines Tribune, an afternoon newspaper in the late 1970’s. There was an old man who lived in a tidy home down an alley at the edge of our small town - no nearby neighbors. I opened the screen door to throw in the paper and noticed three days worth laying there untouched. As I stood there considering the situation, a horrible smell wafted out. I knew he was dead but didn’t go in - rode my bike to his only known friend’s house and told him. Though I didn’t actually see him, it was still creepy for a kid…

 

[cyfanatic13]

Nothing myself but in high school I was supposed to go Des Moines on a youth group trip. For whatever reason I couldn’t go but on the way back, they drove up on a single vehicle car accident. Youth pastor and one of my best friends (still is) walked up to the car and the guy was dead. He doesn’t like talking about it so I know it kinda messed him up a little bit, just glad it wasn’t me

 

[qwerty]

I read this book 10-12 years ago. Very interesting but sad too. Two founders were from QC area.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Couple or more.

Drowning as a little kid. Hard to forget a little boys memory of a neighbor teen being pulled out of the river.

Young teen me helped the police chief climb in ("breakin") through a basement window when elderly neighbor lady didn't show up to something she was supposed to be at. She was dead in her bedroom.

Another in the Twin Cities as an adult, elderly lady pedestrian who had been hit by a car.