“Saw what was left of a motorcyclist after a car pulled out in front him.
Imagine taking a pencil and dragging it across concrete until it was worn down and gone.”
I watched a complete stranger get cut in half by a train
I honestly didnt have time to react.
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I witnessed two people getting hit by a train.
One pretty much exploded, the other was cut in half.
The amtrak hit the horn and the brakes, but was too close to do any good.
He is the one that pretty much disappeared, she got swept under the wheels and was bisected.
It happened in February, and the town spent all night cleaning up all the red and pink snow.
I volunteer at a homeless charity, and their building is right next to the tracks.
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The other day, there was a train that had stopped at 855.
I watched at least 5 people climb under the train to get to 900 breakfast.
I discovered a dead woman floating in the water
I found a dead snorkeler while on vacation in Hawaii.
She looked like she was snorkeling but I thought she looked a little off.
I kept watching her and her snorkel went under water and she had no reaction.
So I walked over to her and shook her shoulder with no reaction.
When I pulled off her mask her face was completely blue/grey.
It was very obvious she was dead.
The sad part was if she was with somebody they had not noticed she was missing.
saccybee
3.
Not my favorite day.
Judoka229
4.
When we finished up we were walking back up the hill to the church where our meeting was.
We walked past the parking lot and I glanced to my left and saw something odd on the pavement.
I said something like whats that?
Somebody dumped something over there.
It was already dark out so we couldnt quite see it.
We detoured and walked towards it to investigate.
When we got within 10 feet or so we saw it was a body.
All three of us instinctively took off running.
I made it into the meeting room first, out of breath from the sprint.
I coughed out, THERES A huf hufDEAD BODYhuf huf IN THE PARKING LOT!
The scoutmaster said, Yeah right, H.I.
because I was known as kind of the class clown.
Then my two buddies ran in behind me and confirmed the story.
911 was called, police and ambulances came out, I remember lots of flashing lights and sad faces.
We never did find out what happened to the guy.
HI-McDunnough
5.
I found a motorcyclist whose body was completely mutilated
Found the singer of my band dead.
That was the worst one Ive come across.
Pulled some bodies from some nasty car crashes too.
Saw a guy get told to bite a curb, he died.
Saw what was left of a motorcyclist after a car pulled out in front him.
Imagine taking a pencil and dragging it across concrete until it was worn down and gone.
That was the guys head.
Had to unplug my father from life support and watch him take his final breaths.
Ive seen more than my fair share of death.
peewinkle
6.
It was early AM, and her dog took off sniffing towards a line of trees.
We followed, and the dog had found a homeless man that had been stabbed sometime overnight.
It wasnt very gory, but the skin color and open eyes have been hard to forget.
We just called the cops and stuck around until they came.
After the shooting stopped I went outside and saw a man face down on the sidewalk.
Hard to tell where the bullets hit him but there was a ton of blood.
The fire station was only 4 buildings away so they came over and checked his pulse.
He was very very dead.
I didnt go back in for my food, went home, and got sick.
Really lucky no bullets went thru the window.
Welcometochicago8
7.
Looked for hours, found him at daybreak in a broken bloody heap, bike in pieces.
It was the single worst experience of my life.
TerrorGatorRex
8.
A man inside of the psych unit hung himself
Former corrections officer on the emergency squad.
My first dead man was when we got called to an emergency in the prison psych unit.
I ran in and saw a nurse and an officer standing at a prisoner door.
I looked inside and the prisoner was hanging off his door handle.
I had to push him into the corner to get in.
He was already cold when I got there, but I pulled him out and started CPR.
The other officer did the compressions and I did the ventilations.
Of course we heard cracking and crunching while the officer was doing compressions.
Right after I readjusted his neck, his stomach contents came up, into my mouth.
We didnt have CPR masks back then.
I started puking, and swept the mouth and tried again.
Real health care showed up and relieved us.
Even after I cleaned myself up, I puked and dry heaved the rest of the day.
I knew I shouldnt have started.
His eyes were open.
They looked five miles deep.
I had seen this look years before when my father-in-law died.
Its a seminal moment and I felt the same with this prisoner.
I knew we probably wouldnt get him back, but I had to try.
I have watched more than a few people die in my years, and it seems somehow easier now.
I dont know if its because Im older, or because Ive dealt with it before.
benzethonium
9.
One of the finance managers noticed something weird floating in the pond.
It was way bigger than random garbage.
Reaction was an odd mix of detachment mixed with empathy.
I really felt bad for the guy, because it looked like it wasnt even foul play.
The guy somehow fell in the pond and died, alone.
mechapoitier
10.
We rode to work in the morning and he complained of feeling unwell and very tired.
It was about 1530 and a hot summer day.
The sun was shining on the front of the building.
He stepped out of the car and opened the truck.
I was standing beside him.
He seemed to pass out or faint.
I grabbed him and we steadied him.
He said he was fine.
He took a step and went down again.
I grabbed him and pulled him into the shade.
Put some underneath his head and told someone to call emergency services.
His breathing was shallow and I couldnt find a radial pulse so I checked his neck.
His skin was clammy.
His speech was slowing and I couldnt tell what he was saying.
The ambulance came and picked him up.
I was last person he spoke to.
They took him off life support the next day after his family got a chance to see him.
He died of a massive internal hemorrhage from liver disease that he had been diagnosed with the previous week.
zamascipio
11.
Apparently he had wandered out in the middle of the night and had been missing for several days.
It was pretty shocking to see.
My friend ran to his house and got his mom, and then his mom took us all inside.
christmasbell
12.
I turned on y headlamp and low and behold, a human body.
He got stuck in a 2 foot crawl space in 4.7 ft of water.
Poor guy didnt stand a chance.
NoMansPies
13.
Way too much blood.
One person was standing next to him, no cops or ambulance.
Apparently guy was leaning on the balcony on the third floor in the early morning.
Railing gave way and he fell and then the rest of the railing fell on top of him.
No one found him until a little later, I guess.
Was quite an introduction to my new town.
Still think about it from time to time.
I think I should talk with someone about it.
Leaderkam
14.
I used to work in the front office of a medical clinic and it had been a slow day.
Nope, inside was a Ziploc baggie with a fetus in it.
The guys girlfriend had miscarried and they had called earlier for help.
Gotta fucking warn people so they know what theyre expecting.
I just sat there and cried for a while.
Still remember it and think about it sometimes.
CennaX1215
15.
I watched a man jump to his death
I saw a jumper in downtown Toronto.
He was lying in a parking lot below a 30 story building.
danrwalker
16.
Yeah, I was one of those.
I was walking on a pretty popular track early morning with my dog.
Thatd be totally crazy, haha.
Everything was in slow motion.
I remember feeling extremely calm, but at the same time my heart was just pumping like crazy.
I had an extreme fear that she mightve only just done it because she didnt look decomposed.
Id actually seen dead bodies before after living through a natural disaster.
Theres a way dead people look that is just so… unnatural, for lack of a better word.
Its almost like you’re free to sense it before youve even confirmed it.
She didnt look like that yet.
I dont know how to describe how I felt.
It was very instinctual.
My brain immediately was like, Okay, you found adead body.
Now you call the police.
And you stay calm.
And you tell them what they want to know.
And you do what they say.
And you pat your dog for comfort.
Ill never forget the way my senses were heightened, as well.
I kept looking around, up, down, over my shoulder.
I felt like I could hear everything in the forest.
Shed obviously committed suicide but the wrongness of the situation made me feel like I was in danger.
Like, Hey, having a good morning, officer?
One of them stayed, and the other walked back with me.
The walk back was super weird.
Everyone was very sweet and kind to me.
I had a few nightmares in the following weeks, but no lasting effect otherwise.
do__you__concur
17.
Assuming it was a homeless person just taking a nap as I was near a park.
(Outside of the park a bit where it was more brushy and not managed).
I made a mental note of it though.
I walked up to him with a stick and poked him a little and he didnt move.
I met the cops near the location and guided them in.
They put on gloves and checked his pulse and they said, Yep, hes dead.
They took my report.
Guy was a homeless man the cops were familiar with.
MasterProtoge
18.
I ran over since I had CPR training when I was a lifeguard.
Found the ladys husband in the garage sitting in his car.
He had shot himself in the chest with a .22 handgun, a suicide.
Some 20 year old HVAC guy was working next door and got there the same time I did.
After about 40 seconds I knew he was gone.
He was cold enough and the blood had already flowed down to his lower extremities.
Cops arrived and then paramedics who immediately declared him dead.
Apparently they said he was a really nice guy, hard worker.
They said they could frequently hear his wife yelling at him.
Apparently the adult son was completely fried from drugs and had stolen from the family before.
After paramedics got there i was a bit shook up for a while.
Very detached like he really wasnt interested in what was happening.
Neighbor was right, his brain was fried.
WeylandExec
19.
His eyes looked like a dead animals eyes
It was very gross.
Had to grab his hair and pull his head back to see if he was still alive.
The paramedics worked on him for almost a half hour but he was so dead already.
safetyalwaysoff5000
20.
I loved the man, but when I found his body I was happy he had finally gone.
2sassi4u
21.
There is really nothing you could do but your best.
The strangest part was just driving away when myjobwas done.
charlie_boo
22.
Finally the ambulance arrived and also some detectives to question me.
We were so close and her behaviour the day before and the morning of were just weird.
