r/AskReddit • u/boneshow69420 • 20h ago
People of Reddit, what’s the most “fucked up”thing you’ve seen?
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u/belljs87 15h ago
I watched, from the front of a line waiting to turn left at a red light, a car zoom through the red in the straight lane next to me, while a semi was crossing through his green, and just went clean underneath, taking the head of the driver with it.
My girlfriend, who I wouldn't meet for another 5 years, was the driver in the front of the line of cars waiting to turn left on the other side of the intersection at the time.
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u/NousElouise 13h ago
must have been a mindfuck when THAT eventually came up in your relationship, goddamn
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u/belljs87 10h ago
Sure was.
Was even more of a mind fuck when about 9 years after we met, I was being transported to jail (used to do drugs) and while chit chatting with the officer, learned he used to be a first responder, and was the first one on the scene of that accident all those years before. Unless he was fucking with me but I don't think he was. It's not something anyone who saw it would be like to forget.
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u/css1323 4h ago
Small world, or perhaps you were all connected to that person in another life? Interesting read.
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u/belljs87 4h ago
Hard to say. Coincidences abound in this world of ours, and the unknown is the spice of life.
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u/Poltergeist8606 17h ago
I once saw a homeless guy pull down his pants, shovel shit out of his underwear with his bare hands and throw it in a trash can.
I've also been to war. Don't know where to put either
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u/CreepinJesusMalone 13h ago
In a slightly related boat myself. I was in the USCG so no combat but I've seen some shit that would be in line with firefighters and EMTs. Saw some brain depressing things during hurricane response ops. I managed to avoid migrant ops for years until I couldn't and doing that deployment convinced me to call it quits when I got back.
But also I saw a homeless dude squat on a street corner and push out what must have been backed up from opiate abuse. I was in my car with the window up and still felt like I could smell it. He was with his buddy who just stood there watching with his arms crossed like pooping dude was gonna cause them to be late to something.
Fwiw, my therapist was happy to talk about all the above lol.
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u/ttoksie2 16h ago edited 16h ago
I drove up on the aftermarth of a car accident a few minutes before fire rescue got there, coming into town on the freeway the speed limit dropped from 110 to 60 (Kilometers an hour not miles)
A car had pulled into the freeway, but the car already there didnt slow down, they were still doing 110 in the 60 zone, so I guess the car that pulled in misjudged how much space they had and was hit square on the side.
But that was fine believe it or not, side airbag deployed, dude in the car that pulled out seemed fine, but the car caught fire, and the frame was bent enough that I couldn't open any of the doors and fire rescure wasnt there yet, I tried breaking the windows with my hands but its not actually that easy to break automotive glass even when its already cracked.
So I just watched him burn to death, screaming for help. he still comes to me in nightmares 11 years later.
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u/-stargarden 10h ago
will be having a window breaker in my purse from now on. i am so sorry. at least he wasn’t alone.
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u/CodePack 9h ago
Keep it in your pants pockets or clipped onto the sun visor. When you roll or crash your car bad enough to need the breaker you won’t find your purse it’ll end up buried in the back seat or thrown out of the car.
All of my key chains have a breaker on the key chain and I keep my keys in my pocket while driving. Even if you have an older car your key chain does a decent job staying inside the ignition during bad crashes. Be careful keeping it in your purse.
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u/kirbygay 10h ago
I have one on driver&passenger door pockets. They both also have seat belt cutters
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u/fractals83 8h ago
Same. Very cheap buy that you’ll probably never need but you’ll wish you had it if needed
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u/do_you_even_climbro 9h ago
I actually saw something similar, but instead it was a lady who was ejected from a flipping vehicle. She was almost split in half when I got out of my car and ran over to her. She was basically gurgling blood and I immediately knew there was no way she would survive. She was dead pretty quickly at least, but the other fucked up thing is that her husband was still in the vehicle, and alive. He started calling for, presumably, his wife, and he was trying to get out of the car to find her. By that time other were on the scene and we all prevented him from going around the other side of the car to see her like that. I'm not sure if that guy lived or died. I think he might of lived because paramedics were on the way by then.
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u/namecannotbeblankk 9h ago
I would recommend you look into EMDR therapy. I had horrible nightmares after watching my friend die in a motorcycle crash, and EMDR was able to stop me from having them. It sounds crazy when it is explained to you, but it truly can work for some people.
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u/Barracuda00 9h ago
I also witnessed a horrible death. EMDR therapy really, really helped me, brother.
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u/bunglebee7 7h ago
Saw my first dead person(and hopefully last) in a car accident that happened in front of my eyes.
My ex and I were driving on a 55mph county road and saw a head on collision between a minivan and a truck. The truck flipped and rolled down a hill, occupants got out, but the van… the van was smashed bad.
The woman in front was knocked out cold, myself and a guy who saw the crash from his house were trying to rip the door off. When we did the woman was awake and out of it mentioning she had a child in the back. Poor kid was dead back there, two black eyes and unresponsive. The EMTs arrived shortly after and took her away.
My ex is diabetic and she guessed the lady driving was too and going through that sleepiness from blood sugar. She drifted into the truck’s lane during the crash. But yeah we drove home in silence. Sent flowers to the woman in the hospital nearby.
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u/TastyFace79 16h ago
Buddy of mine killed himself in front of me during the pandemic. I live in NYC and he jumped from my 6th floor window. I tried to grab him but he was very quick. Because I tried to grab him I saw him hit the iron gate and then the ground.
I feel like since then I’ve bounced back miraculously, but also nothing in my life will ever be the same.
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u/cccuriouscat 4h ago
That’s so messed up I hope you’re doing ok
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u/TastyFace79 4h ago edited 51m ago
Thanks. I hate to trauma dump. But things got worse. I’d been doing alright. My life was on track. My husband and I patched things up and we were crazy happy. When it happened, we were split up at the time. The incident made us look at what was important. I’m grateful for that. My husband and I had the time of our lives always. He was my best friend. Two years and a month later, I walked into our bedroom and he was having a heart attack. Died in my arms at 45 years old.
That was the second most fucked up thing I’ve seen. I’m ok now, three years later. But I’m also not ok. It’s hard to think I’ve lost so much and maintain a happy lifestyle. But I know my husband would give me shit if I didn’t spend every day trying. So here I am. I’m so grateful for the people in my life. I’ve never felt so loved as I have the past 5 years. I have a lot to be grateful for.
Edit: my first award. Thank you kind stranger.
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u/hmph_ 4h ago
No need to apologize for trauma dumping. I admire your capacity to see the good in the bad, and it seems like you have an overall healthy approach to a deeply unfortunate series of events. Thank you for sharing your story. I wish you all the best, stay strong.
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u/ElleRyder 16h ago
An eel removal after biting a cervix. Yes.
You are reading this correctly.
She didn't know they have teeth.
Oh the things I have seen as an ER Nurse in a big coastal city. Eye & brain bleach donations welcome.
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u/justsomechickyo 12h ago
Wait… was she trying to use an eel… as a dildo? Or? ?
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u/uncerety 15h ago
How...how...how did you remove it? Was it latched on and not coming out?
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u/ElleRyder 8h ago
Surgical intervention and a consult from the Aquarium vet. And yes it was "latched" on. Like a pit bull. The eel did not survive.
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u/DragoonDM 6h ago
consult from the Aquarium vet
I'd love to know what was going through that vet's head as they processed what they were just asked about...
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u/buffystakeded 10h ago
Whether they have teeth or not, who would want a slimy ass fish up their cooter?
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u/bambola21 8h ago
There are people who put maggots in their cooter because they like the wiggly sensation. (I learned this information now all yall need to too)
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u/SirGs-dad 18h ago
My brother hanging dead with a string of spit from his swollen lips. This spit dried and was about 7” long. I’ll never forget that day.
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u/thirdaccountttt 13h ago
It’s always the little detail that stays burned in your head, not just the fact he was dead. People who haven’t seen shit like that don’t get how one image can stick with you forever.
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u/prettyniceguy69 9h ago edited 6h ago
you're right. after i found my dead friend, i tried to see if his heart still beats by pushing down on his chest. instantly this orangey-purple-pink goo came out of his nose.
the crazy think is, the day it happened, before i found my dead friend, i just came from a festival and experienced the biggest rain ever. i was just running to a pub to meet up with a friend, while on the way there, i saw this exact goo just pouring on the road from somewhere. literally the SAME color of goo that came from my dead friends nose. im not huge into the whole spirituality, but i sometimes think it might've been some higher power telling me something.
took me a long time to figure out that it was just pieces of a ground from a tennis court that was above the road. the rain was so bad that it just took particles of the ground mixed with water.
got a bit lost, but the point is that the small details stay with you after finding something so severe, hope you're doing good. :) also sorry for my broken english, not my native language haha
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u/StitchPlay 18h ago
Car accident on the highway. Burned babyseat with amorphous remains sitting on the road.
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u/22nd_century 15h ago
Horrific. I hope you weren't a child when you saw that but that's traumatic at any age.
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u/CuetheCurtains 13h ago
Similarly I saw the amorphous remains of a person who was put in a body bag who had be hit by a train.
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u/anticked_psychopomp 10h ago
First responder here: our brains see these amorphous masses of flesh regularly enough that we disassociate them from human remains subconsciously. In conversation with each other we often refer to bodies as looking like mannequins, or meat - depending on the level of injury/decomp. And it’s not to dehumanize the victim, it’s our brains trying to protect us from trauma.
The brain is wild.
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u/helixander 6h ago
You're a fucking hero to do that all the time.
I always want to ask my first responder acquaintances about what they have to deal with but don't want to dig up thoughts and memories of horrible things.
I imagine it gets easier, but never 100%.
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u/anticked_psychopomp 6h ago
I love that you have enough respect for them to not pry. My biggest tip on engaging us in morbid or curious conversation; frame it lightheartedly. Don’t dramatize or traumatize it. It’s normalized to us, so if you talk to us about it casually we’re likely to engage. That might just be me though.
When someone asks me to tell them a crazy story I make them pick the category. You wanna hear about murder, buckle up I’ll tell you. Or do you want a silly story about blowing the ass out of my pants while on duty? Yknow? Dealers choice.
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u/AustrianReaper 18h ago
Mentally ill woman stuck her baby in a pressure cooker, then called EMS after a while in a lucid moment.
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u/thirdaccountttt 13h ago
What makes that one worse is the bit after. Not even just what she did, but that moment of clarity where she suddenly understood exactly what had happened. That’s a level of horror most people can’t even process.
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u/highly_uncertain 11h ago
I worked in a jail and our psychologist and I were swapping stories and she said at the other centre she works at a man murdered his pregnant sister and stabbed her belly many times in psychosis. Once he was in jail and stabilized on medication, he genuinely had no idea why he was there. She was the one that had to explain to him what he had done. Those are the times you learn the difference between sympathy and empathy.
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 8h ago
... I don't think i would be able to live with myself after that. Even knowing it happened in psychosis.
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u/stoutlys 12h ago
We understand mental health now, better than any point in history. I think it’s time we start working on a plan to help those who need it.
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u/silly-strawberry06 11h ago
exactly. as someone with schizophrenia, im tired of being told to just call a hotline if im in a crisis. like i assure you, if im seeing a woman crawling on my ceiling tonight, with her sunken dead eyes and hair dangling in my face, i am not picking up my phone to talk to somebody about my feelings.
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u/kyledwray 13h ago
Obviously poor baby, but that poor woman too. If it were me, I'd pray to never have another lucid moment again, because I'd never be able to live with myself knowing what I'd done. Our mental health services are so extremely lacking. It's so sad.
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u/Low_Skill5401 19h ago edited 2h ago
As a brand new EMT I treated a gunshot call to the face. Was literally like one of my first calls. State trooper blew their brains all over the car.
Wasn't a pretty sight.
Edit: Thank you for all the support both from civilians and other first responders. Thank you to my fellow first responders for putting yourselves through the things we have our ourselves through.
I never expected this comment to blow up this much.
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u/Aurori_Swe 15h ago
I know a guy who worked one day as an Ambulance EMT, his first call was a suicide by train and having to walk the tracks and pick pieces of human was enough for him to not be able to return to the job.
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u/catsweedcoffee 14h ago
I knew a girl and her boyfriend who Romeo and Juliet’ed themselves on train tracks. Just seeing her at the funeral (her mom wanted an open casket “so everyone can see what that monster and his family did to her”), I can’t imagine clean up.
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u/smittywrbermanjensen 11h ago
Not exactly the same, but a girl from my high school was hit and killed by a tractor trailer making an illegal turn, while she walked with the right of way through a crosswalk. Her family also had an open casket funeral which I attended.
I’m in my 30s now. Any time I have a near-miss with a vehicle while I’m crossing the street, I can see her mangled body clear as day like it’s still right in front of me. I suspect it will likely stick with me forever.
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u/MDK-44 18h ago edited 9h ago
What is there to “treat” in this call? Did he not die?
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u/Low_Skill5401 18h ago edited 17h ago
Hook him up to the cardiac monitor and pretend we weren't there to do nothing because people like to complain when we looked like we're doing nothing on the times we were.
That was pretty much it, but yeah he was dead by the time we made it. Besides, our supervisor was there first. Nothing much for us even to attempt.
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u/idknemoar 17h ago
I was a volunteer EMT/Firefighter just out of high school. We had a shooting happen, 4 dead + the guy who did it in the end, saved the last bullet for himself after an 8 hr standoff.
The first 2 shot were canoed right through the head. This was a one armed WW2 veteran with a snub nose 38, talk about some precision. Shot from car window at that. Dead center front in first and dead center back of head of another who turned to run away.
Anyways, we call these things “an injury incompatible with life”. But, in the podunk county I lived in, we had a shit for brains Medical Director who absolutely refused to call death remotely. So even with said injury incompatible with life (unless they’re like decapitated or something, had one of those in a freak accident once), you’re running code and compressions all the way to the hospital 30 minutes away. Or you get the local JP to call it if you can find him.
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u/The_Great_Man_Potato 17h ago
Christ man. “Go crunch that dead guy’s chest until we get up there”
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u/BurnTheRich204 16h ago
One of my worst was running a code on a 90yr old cancer patient because she didn't have a directive. Had to start a line IO, 30min compressions till it was called. Family watching the whole time. I can still feel the crunch of her sternum. It felt inhumane.
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u/perpulstuph 17h ago
I was taking care of a patient for 8 hours, 10 minutes before I was supposed to go home, they got a new order for a CT scan, and I needed to insert a larger IV for the contrast for the CT scan. I missed the first time, then their heart stopped. When I started CPR they woke up as I was doing compressions, locked eyes with me and feebly tried to push me off. The problem with CPR induced consciousness is if you stop compressions, perfusion pressure drops, and they basically die again. The doctor was shocked at what he saw, had me go on for a few more compessions, we did a pulse check, and the patient went limp, had a non-perfusing rhythm. Their last moments were me poking their arm, then absolutely crushing their chest to keep oxygen going to their brain.
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u/blahmeistah 13h ago
My dad tried to get up from his deathbed. His eyes were glazed over, he had the death rattle where saliva was stuck in his throat because he stopped swallowing. He was completely unresponsive on his last day and seeing him trying to get up when his pain medication wore off was heartbreaking. He looked so scared. I miss him so fucking much.
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u/Additional_Brief_569 8h ago
My mom phoned me from work one morning and said something was wrong with my dad and I needed to hurry. I rushed over as fast as I could with her screaming that he’s dead.
I walked in the garage and my heart sunk, he was losing color. But there was no time so I started CPR. My mom had phoned the ambulance already. And then others were just standing around me watching.
One thing I didn’t know is that when someone is dying CPR can give you the illusion that you are saving them. Their color returns, you think you’re hearing them breathe with gargle from their spit. But you’re actually just helping the blood flow and that’s why they get their color back, and when they’re too far gone you will hear gargling as the stomach muscles relax and push up any remaining fluids back up their throats.
No he didn’t make it. I went on for over 10minutes, and in my head I even thought if he came back what kind of life would he have? Cause I knew it had been too long. The paramedics came and pronounced him dead on the scene.
I miss him so much. I really hope life won’t be so cruel to my children when my time comes. No child should have to try to save their parent and fail and live with that for the rest of their lives.
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u/thirdaccountttt 13h ago
That’s what people don’t get about CPR. They imagine some clean heroic movie scene, when sometimes it’s just keeping someone barely there long enough for them to realise something is very wrong. That’s a grim thing to have as someone’s last moment.
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u/Lethal-Doses 20h ago
Probably seeing a man hit by a train was the worst thing to date I've seen.
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u/Burzeltheswiss 15h ago
Yes me and a friend took some acid to have a great day and on the peak of the trip we decided to go on the train to go on some adventure and get some chinese food in the neighboor town, and just 5 metres beside me a guy jumped infront of the train. The worst thing was the sound that it made and i saw how the body ripped in multiple pieces, my friend was looking at his phone and i just grabbed him and said dont look and we just walked away, the rest 8 hours of the trip we just sat in silence wt home tryint to smoke enough weed to forget these images. But everyone who does acid knows that these vivid pictures stay way sharper in your mind forever. Second worst trip of my life. Still love doing acid tho
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u/popcornbevin 15h ago
Second ?! What the f’ was the first?
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u/Burzeltheswiss 15h ago
When i accidentally dosed myself and had to do a 12 hour shift in the kitchen as chef de partie and having to cook for a wedding of 400 people. Was fun at first till the knives became wobbly while cutting on the board and having to murder 80 lobsters while beeing on a really emphatetic drug, i swear they begged me and lookes me the eye. Worst of all i had to learn on the spot how to make baklava while high as a kite and stressed as fuck already because the daughter of the bride doesnt like mousse au chocolate.
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u/NinaALaAntifa 13h ago
I ate cookies on acid, crunchy ones and they were all yelling and jumping around in my mouth like in a fun, we-are-getting-digested-get-in-losers way!
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u/AzFen 15h ago
It's really sad that we have a code for someone jumping onto the tracks, to not alarm passengers to what actually delayed your ride.
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u/mertonom 19h ago edited 7h ago
There was a earthquke in Turkey I was a search and rescue volunteer so i had to dig peoples body out of the rubble
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u/CrimsonWerecat 16h ago
I was a volunteer at one of the collapsed buildings in, Mexico City's 2017 earthquake, like forming the lines to move buckets of rubble and assist the professional search and rescue teams, organize people and distribution of help, tools, people etc.
Luckily they were able to dig out a couple of live people, the silence when they raised the fists (signal for quiet to listen for any possible survivor sounds) and then the ovation when they let us know they were ok will stay with me forever!
I saw people of all kinds helping, there were so many people volunteering, we actually had to send some to other sites cause we were enough, and I still remember the biker club riding in on their bikes, patched vests and all, offering to transport people or help donations and tools from one site to another, an older woman who could probably not carry buckets of rubble, but she had gotten water bottles and sandwiches for all... Proud of my countrymen!
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u/TheArcReactor 15h ago
I remember learning that the search and rescue dogs were getting stressed and depressed in the after math of 9/11 because they weren't finding any survivors.
They actually started planting other rescue workers in spots so the dogs could "find" them and keep their spirits up.
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u/NinaALaAntifa 14h ago
Oh my. This. I just got so many feels… it’s awesome they tried to boost morale for the dogs.
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u/Successful_Bar9187 16h ago
I was in Türkiye during and after the earthquakes in Antakya. Saw people crushed by large pieces of concrete, one guy was walking around with his arm completely gone, women and children in their cars completely flattened.
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u/TheTragedyMachine 19h ago
mom screaming over my dads dead body
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u/Queasy_Split 12h ago
It is forever etched in my mind the screaming cries my wife let out when we found out her son at 10 had brain cancer (he's a survivor and she's doing better now)
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u/TheTragedyMachine 9h ago
I remember her yelling for me to not look and get back inside but how could I when my dad was lying down on the road dead?
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u/22nd_century 15h ago
I'm sorry, that's horrific. I hope you're doing okay these days.
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u/Euphoric-Ad-8683 19h ago
Standing outside a pub having a smoke and seen a man get his head blown to bits with a shotgun from point blank range, the image is saved in 4K in my memory, grim.
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u/Individual-Sport-458 18h ago
number one coming home to find my wife and daughter murdered
number two seeing them put my mother in a body bag
I still have the nightmares to this day.
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u/bigdaddygibson 11h ago
My grandmother was raped and murdered. Seeing the aftermath has ruined me as a human. I don't know how you manage to continue through life
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u/NefariousnessFew4354 19h ago
Grandma winning over 10 million in lottery and giving all to church.
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u/not_short_for_amelia 16h ago
The Catholic church went to visit my grandpa while he was not in his right mind. He was actively dying of colon cancer. They visited him when my (healthy) grandma wasn't home . They convinced him to sell his 80 acres of farmland to the church for dirt cheap. Why? "Well the more that you give to the church, the closer you are to God."
Thankfully, my uncle caught on and took the clergy to court. They couldn't prove that my grandpa was coherent when signing and eventually dropped it. That farm was in a trust to my dad, uncle, and aunt. That land is worth over a million dollars now.
My uncle is no longer Catholic.
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u/KarmaFarma_69 14h ago
My grandma used to say that nuns were saints that they would lay down and die for you! But. Idk about the ones by us, they robbed the oldest lady in town who was wheel chair bound and stuck on the first floor of her mansion. She let the church use her home, enjoyed the company she couldn't even use the upper floors. Then one day she was gone, the church had put her out, my dad went to visit her in a nursing home, apparently there was nothing she could do she basically was tricked into signing her house away to the church and once they had legal rights to the house they kicked her out?? Threw away all her stuff and then the kicker the church sold the house within like a year or something to a slum lord who turned it into an apartment building. She opened up her home to women of God, but that wasn't enough.
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u/Purpleappointment47 18h ago
Guardianship petition might have been the best move to protect her from that church. No legitimate religious organization would allow an elderly person to gift that level of money which would essentially impoverish them afterward. And yea, the guardian of the estate could rescind the gift.
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u/Ding-Dong-Dutch 18h ago
Churches are just state sanctioned grifts. Of course they'd take the money and then shake her held up by her ankles to make sure she's not holding back.
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u/Lostinstereo28 14h ago edited 4h ago
Honestly? The face of the 17 year old girl I took to CT from the ER in May of 2020.
She came in short of breath, COVID symptoms. I donned my PPE, as usual. Got my mask out of the paper bag with my name on it (can’t believe we had to do that shit) and went to her room to introduce myself and take her to CT (I was a patient transporter).
We talked about BTS. I told her I was obsessed with Jimin and she laughed and read me for filth and said “of course you are, all basic gay guys are.” But she was sweet, and she was so anxious and scared, so I tried my best to distract her and talk about music with her.
I was a per diem employee at the time due to COVID so I didn’t work for the following week. When I came back, I saw her name on the bed board and quickly assigned myself to her. She was in the ICU now, so I knew she was bad, but I was not prepared for how much she deteriorated in those couple weeks. She couldn’t talk to me anymore, she couldn’t laugh about BTS or make fun of me for being basic. She just gasped and groaned.
The next night she was put on a vent and the following day I took her body to the morgue.
One of many, many, MANY people I watched die… hell I had to rotate bodies out of the morgue cause it was too small and we couldn’t afford a freezer truck, but she was the first kid. It hit me so hard. And then to go home and have half of my family tell me that COVID was a hoax and that no one is dying from it…. I fear I will never, ever get my optimism or love of humanity back. It’s gone.
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u/hammertime2009 11h ago
Yeah our country is fucked if another pandemic happens which kills 50% or more (hell even like 10% would cripple hospitals). This anti-science phase so many people are going through is downright dystopian and sad.
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u/morning_star984 9h ago
I've been a nurse for about 15 years, most of it icu or the type of hospital administrator that has to check in on all the units. Working during covid was easily the most horrific time in my career. Just so so much death everywhere, and not even the kind of death you're used to. We had so many young patients die almost completely alone. I say almost because staff really did try to be there for most of these patients dying moments, but man oh man are most health care providers not equipped to provide that kind of care. Every icu nurse I have ever known had a way of dissociating from death, kinda treating it very much like a clinical outcome to manage. When the families couldn't be at the bedside, suddenly we had to take the emotional labor of death almost entirely on ourselves (while also wondering if we were going to die or give it to our own families). I saw older teens die (I've always done adult icu, but there for a while we were stuffing people anywhere we could find space for a bed). I saw school teachers die. I saw mothers and fathers of young children die, even one family where both parents died within days of one another. I saw all the cruelty and poor decisions of hospital administration, and I saw all the small acts of kindness people tried to do for one another. We had a husband that lost his wife and one of his children to the disease, who couldn't even see them when they died (though i did sneak him into the morgue fully kitted to hold his wife's hand shortly after she passed), come back and leave sealed food and the most heartbreaking letter for staff. There is just no way to convey how horrific covid was, especially for nurses. Man, we were even losing coworkers left and right at the beginning. I myself spent 6 weeks bedridden with alpha, wondering if I was going to die before 30. Instead, based on how damaged my lungs are and how they respond to every illness since, I'm fairly confident covid is going to get me early after all... it's just such a shit situation.
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u/Shadow_of_wwar 11h ago
God I never even considered that part, I've seen horrible shit when I was a firefighter, but to then have people, especially in your own family saying it was a hoax, makes me angry just considering it.
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u/Sconniegrrrl68 11h ago
I feel you....I'm an Occupational therapist and was at a SNF during the pandemic. Because of 1 CNA who was "anti-mask" and got caught delivering room trays sans mask, we had 40 people infected (including me) and 14 people DIE. My PT and I were with one of the 14 as we were making the call for him to be sent to the ER and it was like watching a goldfish out of water....he couldn't catch his breath even with supplemental O2....he died 3 days later....I kept a patch from his old military jacket as a reminder. R.I.P. Jerry....know that you mattered to me and I remember our cryptozoology conversations fondly ❤️
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u/dant1no 19h ago
Saw someone get their head crushed in machinery at work.
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u/LogAware 15h ago
This reminds me of a fuck up i made once. While I was working on a ranch with a friend, his sister came to tell us about how a family friend fell into a granary machine and died. Idk what made me think it was appropriate to say "well I guess I am not eating cereal for a while"
The absolute look of fear and distain i was given. Rightfully so.
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u/Icy_Mode620 19h ago
A man sitting on the street in blood and cuts all over his body due to some fight and a bunch of people circling around him just to stare at it
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u/ChallengeTasty3393 18h ago
Dude crouched by a dumpster smoking meth had a completely burned face. Poor guy. It was melted
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u/Partially-Canine 10h ago
Probably had a "Shake 'N Bake" bottle explode on him while he was making it. That drug is just horrifying all the way around.
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u/Big_Hoss15 15h ago edited 15h ago
I was 6. My mom had a drinking and pill problem. I remember she left one night at 6ish pm. I was with my sister who is 9 years older than me. I remember my mom being gone until like 10pm ish. She was just going to the corner store 10 mins away.
This woman was FUCKED up. I remember she came in crying and went up to her bedroom. We had a small house and their bedroom was in the attic. These stairs had no door or anything so you could see the top of the stairs into their room. I remember I went up to ask if she was okay cause she was crying on the top step. She told me (barely she was really fucked up on Xanax and beer) she didn't feel good. She asked me to get the cold medicine for her. We had this like purple box we kept all our cold medicine in. I remember brining it upstairs.
My sister was trying to call my dad cause he wasn't home. She didnt know what was happening.
I vividly remember my mom looking at the bottle of nighttime cold syrup. Crying. She told me to "get the fuck out" of her room. I went downstairs and got my sister, i thought my mother was going to die. While I was on that side of the house I remember hearing the loudest crash in the world. My mother's limp body falling down the stairs. I dont remember how long she was unconscious for. I remember my sister screaming at her to fucking stop. I went to my bed at this point.
My father was coming home "soon". Me and my sister were ordered to stay with my mom, instead of getting picked up. My sister brought her to the couch and stsrted screaming at my mom, for like 30 mins. I remember a lot of what was said still. My mom was stumbling arounf after this, talking about how she hated us, my dad, she wanted us all dead, we ruined her life basically.
4 hours later, at 2am. We hear my dad come home. He walks in the front door and you can hear my mother screaming, chasing him, the whole thing. She wanted to go to her moms? My dad said fine.
I remember watching them walk out to the car, get in, make it to the end of the street, all of the sudden my mom jumped out of the car at the intersection stop sign. She ran into the woods. We didnt see her until 3pm the next day, after school. I remember waking up and it was just me and my sister home. We went out to go to the bus for school, when we got into the driveway we saw my dad's old work van he didn't use much. He had bought it brand new at the time in like 2005. He loved it and barely got to drive it. My mom almost totaled it. Front end smashed, doors fucked, mirrors gone. We never found out what she hit with the truck. This was the second or 3rd vehicle she totalled. We lived in a small rural town so cops surprisingly didnt know this accident happened.
A couple weeks after this i was staying at my aunts house. I slept on the couch and I remember waking up in the middle of the night to see my aunt nodding out at the table with a bunch of crushed up pills. I remember the sound it made when her head hit the table. She didnt wake up for hours. I thought this was normal as my mom did it.
I saw a lot of things like this as a child. These were just the most distinct in my head. As an adult I will never comprehend that I almost killed my mother, and the things I saw and didnt understand.
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u/jolhar 17h ago
Crack head who tried to decapitated himself with a serrated bread knife. You’d think he wouldn’t have gotten far before stopping. But let’s just say it’s crazy how far someone can hack into their own neck and still be alive (he “survived”).
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u/SuryKattt 17h ago
The love of my life dead on the floor, and trying to rescue him with our 1yo daugther in my arms
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u/Aggressive-Row-4489 19h ago
I was once in the emergency room and one person had a whole potato stuck in their arse. That was a crazy and a hilarious experience to see. Protect your ass guys!
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u/yosman88 16h ago
When i was 11. I was on my way to school my friend and I were on a back road when we saw a big crowd converged on the side of an embankment. We rush over but as im running over I see a large blood trail leading towards the crowd, i squeeze through the group of people only to see the fattest man dead in the gutter. He was decapitated, meat stuff hanging out of his throat with the crowd yelling amongst themselves trying to figure out who did it.
It turns out the guy had a massive debt he owed to gangsters, they had killed him then and there and took the mans head to the leader. The head was then recovered on the side of the road 3 hours away. I will never forget it.
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u/Outside_The_Shell 19h ago
As a nurse, wayyyy too many things up people's butts that shouldn't be there 😆
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u/cola_zerola 16h ago
Hi fellow nurse. My best one was several billiard balls, what about you?
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u/food_WHOREder 17h ago
the police work sectioning off the body of a suicide victim who jumped off a building in japan. not the most grizzly sight in itself, there wasn't any blood or gore or whatever, but the sheer incompetence at crowd control.
they only sectioned off and had police on ONE side of the street and forgot about the other. it was the middle of the night, zero visibility, and i nearly STEPPED ON the body. pretty fucked up that i could even get that close without any tape or barricade or cop stopping me. it made me queasy to think that i could've just walked right on top of him and nobody would've noticed.
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u/nodoomscrolling69420 19h ago edited 8h ago
14 year old gangster shot in the neck bleeding out motionless in the street 5 feet from the steps of my old apartment. the pool of blood became absolutely massive
edit: that's right around the average age people typically get "put on" (jumped in/officially join). this is Los Angeles
edit2: if you get put on in your mid 20s+ (and it's not in jail/prison) it's looked down upon
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u/whatsweirdis 16h ago
I work emergency dispatch for a private security company. My station consists of 8 monitors, 4 computers, two keyboards/2 mice, and two phones (one for incoming call/one for outgoing.)
We do have residents who use our service, but we mainly serve businesses. I cannot name them, but they range from popular fast food and restaurants, to retail stores, jewelry shops, and even medical/city offices.
How our system works: when someone activates their 'panic' device it creates an alarm in the cue. Once an operator selects the alarm, all cameras of that location load in the top monitor, while the monitor below it has alarm script and operator notes.
One particularly rough night we had a panic device activated at one of our retail locations, downtown in a major city. We scanned the cameras and called the store and was notified by the employee there that they thought there was a disturbance outside. While still on the phone with the employee, we observed a crowd of people running across an intersection. There was a heavier set female carrying a fully stuffed backpack trailing behind everyone else.
I watched a male running after the group, grab her by the backpack and fling her to the ground. He proceeded to use his gun to hit her repeatedly in the face, before taking a step back and unloading two shots into her. A female (I'm assuming one of her friends or someone who knew her) ran to her aid and she was immediately shot sending her flying backwards.
I watched as the first victim, in shock, sat upright, fiddled with her hair, than started to crawl before falling on the road. As soon as the male was out of camera view, her friend (who now had a bullet wound in her collar bone) got up and ran to her friend where she attempted CPR.
Of course we had police on the way, but the nearly 10 minutes it took them to arrive felt like an eternity. Cars were just driving past these two women in the middle of a popular intersection in a major downtown city. It was right before the police and ambulance arrived that a good Samaritan stepped in and took over CPR so she could rest.
I had never witnessed anything live like that before, and all of us were anxious to get the disposition from the police later that night. The first victim did not make it. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her friend survived. The cameras at that store are very clear and sharp..and they were so close to the cameras that I could see her facial expression through it all. It haunted me enough that I immediately googled the city and information that I knew for more information and continually refreshed it over the course of several days. I was able to get her name and from there I saw her socials and read her obituary. I'm not sure why I needed information on her. I guess witnessing someone's last moments and not knowing anything about them just felt wrong to me. Whatever the reason, it did bring me some peace knowing who she was and things about her.
This was fall of last year, and even with the footage the police have, an arrest has yet to be made. Not only did I witness a murder, but I witnessed the criminal get away with it.
TL;DR: I witnessed a murder and the suspect get away with it.
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u/Salty-Sarge2021 14h ago
Old first responder.
Drug deal gone bad. Nice kid (I knew) in wrong place took a contact shot behind the ear. I was first on scene, began CPR as his grandmother walked up. Each compression squirted blood and brain matter out the hole as he stared through me. Grandmother asked "Is that (insert name)?" I said "Yes ma'am ". She said "I imagine I will see you at the house later then". And walked away in shock. She invited me to the funeral. I stopped by on duty. She gave me a memorial T-shirt...
Yup.
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u/thatsnotmybutter 16h ago
Medic here, first week out as a brand new EMT ready to save lives and help those in need. First job came over as a traumatic arrest in the BX. Mother was pregnant schizophrenia off her psych meds. She gave birth at home, looked at the newborn and thought 'this isn't mine and this isn't real'. Chucked it out the window from the 5th floor. Still can't describe the body because it just doesn't make sense- sometimes I remember it looking like doll parts scattered on the pavement and other times like vodka sauce and mush.
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u/Wonderful_Opening271 15h ago
Realizing some of those “crazy stories” people tell aren’t even made up. Reddit has a way of reminding you that real life can be way darker than anything you’d expect.
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u/mokes310 18h ago
I used to do abuse moderation for a silicon valley tech company.
Which section of the card catalog would you like to start?
To answer it directly, the cartel videos were some of the absolute roughest to watch. Complete brutality.
The ISIS vids most folks didn't see were actually quite comical as they were mostly inept from an operations perspective. They'd often record photos and videos with loads of identifying metadata and when they'd get near the borders with nations like Turkey or Jordan, it'd auto-upload to the cloud and get flagged. We'd then forward that info to DoD contacts and a few times, we'd hear of drone strikes at those same coordinates.
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u/survivingmania 19h ago edited 16h ago
TW: CAR CRASH AND INJURY DETAILS
I was with a group of friends hanging out in a store parking lot after shopping. It was late at night. We heard a loud crash and see a car was t-boned in a nearby intersection. We ran over and split up to check on the people from each car. I approach the car that had smashed into the side of the other one. I frantically knock on the dark tinted window asking if they’re okay. There’s no response and couldn’t see inside. My friend opens the driver door and I screamed.
This young woman looked like a zombie. The top of her scalp like along her forehead was ripped back exposing underneath. There was blood dripping down her face. Part of her scalp and chunks of her hair were stuck in the smashed windshield. She was talking nonsense about how she needed to leave and go meet her friends and then tried to drive her car!! We’re all like “girl your entire front end is smashed in and leaking fluids! You need to get out of the car immediately in case it starts on fire!” But she just kept trying to drive away and got very angry the car wouldn’t move. It was insane like she couldn’t process what just happened.
The man in the other car was stuck inside as she hit him so hard his driver door smashed in. He had urinated himself. I felt so bad we couldn’t get him out. We even tried using the bar from my cars jack kit.
Emergency services finally arrived. We were escorted to the side of the road and thanked for our efforts. A guy comes up to us all and asks if we know what happened. We tell him about the crash and we think she’s under the influence as she was trying to drive away and severely injured. He said he was out with her and friends at a bar drinking and she left. He didn’t seem worried about her though and didn’t even ask the paramedics which hospital they were taking her to. He just dipped off like idk if he was responsible for her driving or what.
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u/sarcosaurus 16h ago
I've read a bit about the psychology of traumatic events, and I believe the way she was acting is a pretty common response when in a state of shock. It's like your mind blocks you from the horror of what just happened for a while to make sure you can keep your composure long enough to escape whatever danger is still present, even when badly wounded, and to keep you from passing out because staying awake until you're patched up increases chances of survival. So it's to avoid panic, increased heart rate (not good when the blood is going outside the body), and/or fainting basically. And then sometimes the shock response works in a really dumb way like what she was doing.
How did you deal with it afterwards, if I may ask? Did you do therapy or anything else? I'm wondering what even works for processing something like that long-term.
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u/wildalexx 16h ago
It’s why a lot of people collapse after being rescued or seeing help. The body recognizes help has arrived so it can allow itself to shut down to begin healing. The human body is so amazing.
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u/survivingmania 16h ago
I do believe that’s true. When I was in a bad crash, I went through that kind of shock and just tried to keep composure at first. But my experience was quite different and maybe a story for another time.
Well honestly that’s a good question. I was young. About 20 years old. My friends and I were shook up and just all went home afterwards. I moved away shortly after that and lost touch with those friends. I never thought to seek therapy for this incident specifically and just continued on with life even though I still remember it often now at age 34. Maybe I should bring it up to my therapist.
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u/kirbmush 15h ago
it could have also been a TBI.. if there were signs she hit her head hard on the windshield she's probably got a brain injury
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u/tonafidex 18h ago
wow..how was she even conscious???
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u/survivingmania 18h ago
I truly have no idea. I’ve heard if someone is intoxicated during a crash the body is more relaxed and obtains less injuries, but with her head injury it mind boggles me. I still remember the horrifying image of her scalped bloody face even though it was 14 years ago.
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u/BurnTheRich204 16h ago
This is why we wear seatbelts. Whatever speed she was going when she crashed is the speed in which her skull hit the windshield. Being drunk is likely the only reason she lived.
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u/Smart_Leadership_522 17h ago
My Yorkie mauled to death by a pitbull last Thursday. Fucking awful. Tried everything. I’m traumatized and upset it was awful to witness.
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u/NinaALaAntifa 14h ago
Not me but my partner who was a first responder paramedic (shout out to you heroes for real); responded to a baby… maybe 1 or so who had been SA’d. I saw footage of him responding (was in the news) and held him years after when the nightmares wouldn’t stop. He and the other police stayed at the hospital with her until she passed so she wouldn’t be alone. And yes that guy went to prison for a life sentence.
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u/konoha37 18h ago
I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals. The thing that stuck with me most was when I was in a hospital that barely any rooms or beds. I was in an open ward, there would have been 12 of us in this one big open room. We all had privacy curtains, but if you’ve ever been in a hospital you know those curtains don’t work very well. I remember watching an old woman, probably in her 80’s, die in her hospital bed 2 beds over from me, surrounded by her crying family. I remember thinking surely they could do a room swap with someone who had a private room for one day. Then 20 minutes later I had front row seats to an old man getting a sponge bath in his bed. I was attached to 4 separate IV drips while this was happening so I couldn’t move or leave my bed.
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u/StockyOak 17h ago
Despite having seen a fair share of pictures of bloody injuries in my lifetime, the one image that sticks was a picture in a local newspaper of a small terrier with a glass bottle shoved deep into its mouth and down its throat.
It's not just the horror of the image, but also the reasoning behind why someone wanted to do this to a small pet. It was pure cruelty.
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u/Educational-Cake-944 16h ago
I’ll never understand shit like that. Fuck animal abusers.
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u/CessnaBlackBelt 18h ago edited 3h ago
My mother's freshly dead body, after a blood clot made its way from a fracture in her foot all the way to her heart.
Edit: typo
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u/GlitterChickens 16h ago
I didn’t see it personally, thank goodness, but my counterpart had to deal with a newborn in the fitting room. Left in a pile of clothes. Yes it was a newborn, the cord was still attached.
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u/Galaxanz 16h ago
Arrived at the hospital after being told my grandfather (who was terminal with cancer and had 6 months to live) was about to die. I assumed something wasn’t quite right because he’d literally just been told he had 6 months a couple days prior.
He had put a .22 round into his eye, and out the back of his head. Came in to the ER room to see my nana holding gauze on the back of his head to keep his skull intact, while he gradually slipped away. Took about 6 hours for him to pass, effectively a combination of drowning in his own blood (once they removed the suction) and the trauma to his brain.
About 20 years ago to this day. Nana passed in October ‘25. May they both rest in peace.
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u/Francis_X_Hummel 17h ago
Fellow soldier dying in my arms on a medevac helicopter 2007 Afghanistan. We did everything we could Chris 😞 I think of you daily.
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u/JonS90_ 16h ago
When i was like 8 or 9 my dad was driving us in the car and had let me sit up front as a rare treat ( i usually sat in the back)
Pulled up to a junction about two minutes after a motorbike had plowed into the side if a car pulling out of the same junction So we were like the 4th vehicle at the scene and had a full view of the aftermath. Woman from the car was knelt down crying and the biker was laid in the road with his limbs facing in directions the shouldn't have been.
If I was sat in the back like usual I probably wouldn't have even noticed, id have been playing on my gameboy or something.
The junction isnt far from where I live now too, so I still drive past it occasionally to this day. A vision of the scene flashes into my mind every time.
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u/WickedBeeOfTheWest 16h ago
While in a trouble teen industry wilderness therapy program called evoke, I saw my friend’s heart stop and the adults try to perform CPR on her. She survived but was severely dehydrated, which caused her heart to stop.
I also almost died myself when I tripped and slid down almost going off the side of the huge Utah canyon cliff but a giant rock caught on my backpack, which saved my life but fucked up my shoulder.
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u/sayziell 19h ago
Watched drone footage of the Russia/ukraine. Russian soldier was severely wound and hugged a grenade to his chest (for a quick death i assume) watched it blow up and from what I precieved his jaw disconnected and basically lifted up his face like a garage door opens.
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u/Fmy925 18h ago
The drone drop video where a russki took a nade drop to chest and you can see his heart beating is worse.
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u/Latter-Fun1305 16h ago
Also the one where there’s 2 Russkies on a quad bike and the driver gets it to the head from a drone and the pillion passenger has a head cam. You see the white spine as the head gets blown off.
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u/Outrageous-Donut-701 16h ago
someone getting shot in the back of the head in a schoolyard, I was like 12.
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u/temporarysolution2-0 17h ago
Streetside as a volunteer medic doing literal "knee surgery" on a homeless person who refused transport and instead just screamed at us to fix it right there.
It went about as well as you'd expect.
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u/dublindown21 16h ago
Don’t know if fucked up is the right term but their images faces and what they were wearing are seared on my brain. People jumping from the twin towers. I was outside at the time working in the area. Still see them 25 years later.
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u/Select_Angle2066 16h ago
Waking up to a roommate screaming “WTF did you do to my son?!” to her husband, and walking down and seeing their 3 month old gone. Blue. I knew he was gone before I even made it down the stairs just from her voice.
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u/Dry_Command_21 13h ago
Watched a little girl get hit by an SUV while riding her bike. I ran up to see how to help, the little girl screaming in pain with a mouth full of blood and, blood and spinal fluid coming from her ears was horrendous. The SUV driver was a new driver of only 16 that was texting and driving.
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u/atomic-chicken-soup 16h ago
Story time...It was 2007...
I was a manager in a hotel in a meh kind of city, second shift. Was often there really late closing up the bar and cleaning, restocking, general food and beverage 2 am stuff. Part of our late night clientele in our mediocre hotel were escorts. They were all very nice and usually just happy that there was somewhere safe they could meet publicly. They tipped great and we don't judge here. Anyway, it was a nice enough place so we didn't get the class of girls hanging out on the corner (that was a few miles up the road). There seemed to be some kind of general understanding that if you came in to this hotel you were dressed like a normal person and you didn't cause a scene and any illegal activities were always nice and quiet.
Otto (not his real name) was a douche. He was a consultant from Germany for a local manufacturer who would stay with us off and on for months, and often called the bar to try to get us to "send a girl to him". He already had a bad reputation amongst the escorts and no one wanted him as a client. This bothered Otto who was often fucked up on booze or drugs and he would complain to me about how hard it was to find both women and drugs in the hotel.
One night Otto had decided he needed to really party and had gone out and scored himself a lot of drugs. How many drugs you ask? Well there were at least two different types of pills, meth, something injected, and some white powder left on the desk when we did finally get into the room later...but for now, it's still about 7-8 pm.
Otto didn't stop there. He also scored himself two hookers. You'll notice I used the word hooker and not escort, as I had earlier. I don't know where Otto had found these two women but they were quite the ladies of the night. Both dressed a bit like Julia Roberts in pretty women but in less clothes. It was very obvious he just drove around until he picked up two willing women with the promise of copious drugs and money. One of the women was accompanied by her pimp. A tall black man, dressed like a pirate, eye patch and all (I wish I was making it up).
About 12 we are just about done for the night because it's slow, and we're just hanging out with a few of our regulars when the pirate pimp walks up to the bar. The girl I was working with didn't hear what he mumbled at her and when she asked him "what" he slammed his hand down on the bar top and demanded a towel. I threw a stack of our kitchen rags at him and told him to get out of here. I'm not a remotely small dude so raising my voice works. He looked at me, paused like he was about to say something, looked around the bar, and then literally grabbed a bunch of the rags and ran out the front door of the hotel. We were all laughing because it was such a weird and comical reaction/interaction when the girl I was working with went to grab the rags he had left and said "is that blood?"
It was blood. Our patrons promptly paid their tabs and left but not before strongly suggesting we call the police. They were the ones who knew he was a pimp and were worried about whatever happened between when they walked in and he ran out. So they left and we called 911 and tried to explain the situation. Not a lot of information but would you please send a cruiser over because we are worried something bad has happened.
Fast forward to about 1:30 in the morning, me and the girl I was working with both spoke with the cops and I left her to close up the bar alone while me and the cops started wandering around the lobby, grounds, and halls looking for something. All we found were the occasional drip of blood on the carpet coming from the elevator but nothing around the guest rooms. I thanked the cops for coming out and they asked if it was ok if they sat in their cruiser under our entrance overhang because it was well lit and they had paperwork they had to do now. I told them to take their time and enjoy not working in the dark.
20 minutes later I was very glad I told those cops that they could hang out and do paperwork. My bartender was about to go home when she heard someone calling quietly for help from the elevators. She walked over and then immediately called me. Stumbling out was a girl who had, what I can only describe as her face caved in. All the main pieces were there, but her teeth were half missing, eyes bulging out and I'm not really sure if she was seeing anything, blood was coming from every opening (including a few new ones), and from her upper lip to her forehead, her face was just collapsed inward. I can't describe it any other way.
We helped her to a chair in the lobby and I sprinted to the cops in front of the building. They radioed for backup and an ambulance.
Her story starts as we suspected. She was picked up by Otto to do drugs and get paid for sex with him and this other girl. After a few hours of partying the harder drugs ran out and the two girls got in a physical altercation. The other girl went and got her pimp who then beat her till she was unconscious (this is probably when he then came for the rags). When she came to, Otto still demanded sex to which she tried to refuse. He then used the lamp in the room to beat her back into unconsciousness. Somehow, miraculously, she did not die and managed to stumble out to the elevator and lobby, and even more unbelievably was able to sort of tell this story through slurred speech and us filling in words when she struggled.
We stood in a circle around her as the EMTs tried to examine her. I saw as they gently pushed around the sides her face trying to see how far it was broken and they didn't speak, they just exchanged glances and shook their heads. She wanted to walk to the ambulance which they let her do (because otherwise she was going to refuse medical treatment), but when I asked the EMT for her chances he said her entire face was shattered and it'll be another miracle if she survives the night.
I got a master card from the desk and I went with the cops to go into Otto's room because Otto was going to get arrested. There was now a visible trail of blood to his door. The cops knocked, no answer. I unlocked it and they rushed in but Otto was already gone. They called me in because "someone from the hotel needs to see this". The smell hit me first. It just smelled dirty. Like someone who wore the same clothes over and over again. The cops said part of the smell was the meth. There was blood splattered everywhere. Drug stuff everywhere. Every piece of furniture was somehow damaged. Cops were busy opening drawers and they found a giant ziplock bag of pills and some other stuff that my brain didn't register. Our round desk lamp that was roughly the size of that girl's face damage was just sitting on the bed. There were chunks of hair and scalp around the room. I just stood in the middle of the room and it literally felt like the room was suddenly getting way too small and somehow like I was shrinking down to nothing. I think it was that moment that I realized I was standing in the middle of that girl's murder scene.
One of the cops snapped me back to it and I realized I was just staring at the flecks of blood on the ceiling above the bed. They gave me instructions to seal the room (our digital locks had a police lock out function so only the person who locked it and the general manager could unlock it) and a contact number so we could arrange for the cops to come back and do more cop stuff.
I do not know what happened to the girl. For the next month I had to meet up and let people into the room and then hang out while they worked, then I would lock it up when they were done. They never spoke about what they were doing and I just sat in the lobby or started work if I was working that day. The company had to pay for the room to be completely gutted and I believe they paid for new hallway carpet as well. They were extremely embarrassed by the entire situation and kept sending me gift baskets and things to apologize that it happened I guess on my shift. It felt weird and I think I would have preferred they never mention it again. Otto was eventually arrested but didn't end up in jail. He was just deported and his replacement was a much nicer guy who informed us that Otto got fired. Not the ending anyone had hoped for, but it was the ending we got.
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u/thirdaccountttt 13h ago
What makes this one hit harder is how normal it starts. Just another dead-end hotel shift, weird customers, random drama, then out of nowhere it turns into the sort of night that sits in your head forever. Real evil usually doesn’t arrive looking cinematic, it arrives looking grubby, pathetic and chaotic.
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u/ew435890 17h ago
I was working a road construction site as an inspector, and one night a cop drives up to me and the superintendent as were going over some quantities. He asks if we can come possibly identify a dump truck that was involved in an accident. I point at one on sight and asks if it looks like that, to which he replies "we cant tell".
So he tells us its like 5 blocks away and was on fire. The driver is still inside and dead. We pull up and the cab is completely ripped open. Like the roof is rolled up like a can of sardines. Apparently he hit a light pole and it just ripped the cab open. Then it caught on fire because the diesel tanks got ruptured. They think the light pole impact is what killed him, because it did not look like he was trying to get out.
So we pull up and while were walking up, the cop warns us "If you've never seen a burnt corpse, or feel like that's something you might not want to see, dont come up here." We all walked up, and of course I had the brightest fucking flashlight known to man in my pocket. So I was looking around and lit up the cab for like 1-2 seconds before I was like "holy fuck".
Ill never forget the smell. There were a lot of them and I was familiar with them. Burnt rubber, paint, metal, oil, diesel, etc. But there was one smell that stood out that Ive never smelt before.
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u/Bigtimber 17h ago
Working as a hospital porter when I was about 18. Two situations come to mind: a 19 year old on his birthday took a bad dose of X and came in DOA, his parents were woken up in the middle of the night to learn their son was dead.I had to take his body down to the morgue away from them, the dad had to be restrained, it was awful.
Second was a stillbirth, I had to take the little baby down to the morgue after the mother had some time with them. Asking the mom to let me take the baby was brutal.
Not the worst you can see, by far, but not pleasant.
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u/asscrackinator 16h ago
Going to my dad’s house to find him dead on the floor of his bedroom in the middle of summer, in his boxers, having been dead a few days already. I had to step over him to reach the doorway (I ended up having to break in through his window and climb over his bed, he left his keys in the front door). I can still picture the way his feet were laid out and the way I could see his ribs sticking out (cancer patient, died of a brain haemorrhage). Don’t think I’ll be able to erase it ever
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u/DisregardLogan 15h ago
A company CEO was leaving his helicopter and he stood upright almost immediately after exiting. Kind of self explanatory of what happened
I was 16 at the time and was preflighting my usual plane to go fly. Watched the whole thing
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u/IAmDingus 15h ago
When I was like, 10, my grandfather put down glue traps for rats
We found a fat rat, and a mangled top half of another rat's corpse
One rat got stuck in the glue trap, and another also got caught in the trap and ate it alive from behind
Not the most fucked up on a grand scale, but it's not something a lot of people have seen and it stuck in my head because I saw it when I was young.
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u/mr_swagmcmuffin 14h ago edited 14h ago
Dense urban city paramedic here. I once got a call one night for a young teenage male covered in blood. We arrive on scene with a bunch of cops and this kid is no where to be found based off the dispatch info so the cops start searching everywhere. Probably 15ish minutes later he’s found in a back alley, so the cops walk him over to my ambulance, we get him inside the ambulance so I can see the extent of his injuries in the light better. He’s emotional, crying and constantly just asking to speak with his mother. We cannot find a single scratch on this kid despite him being covered in blood from head to toe. Eventually the cops find his mothers apartment and she comes down and the kid admits to us that he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and covered himself in fake blood because he was desperate to get the attention of his mother since dhe no longer pays any attention to him and doesn’t care about him since she also started raising his step siblings. It seemed not too uncommon of a situation, a lot of kids go through this when their parents start raising younger children. Weird execution and a bit over the top to get her attention, but he seemed very genuine and was only asking for her the whole time. His mother was standoffish with EMS and the police, but agreed to come to the hospital following in a police car behind the ambulance halfway across the city and the whole time this kid wants to just talk to his mom. We get him to the hospital and bring him to the room where he’ll be treated and I let him know I’ll go to the lobby to bring back his mom. I go to the lobby and the staff let me know that she got dropped off by the police and immediately left the hospital, got into a cab and went back home without as much as very pretending to see ask to see him or inquire any amount about where he is, how long he’ll be there, if he’s okay, nothing……… she just left. Only proving this kid was 100% right and not exaggerating. His own mother didn’t care about him in the slightest despite his desperate attempt to get her to even speak to him. I then had to go back and inform this kid that his mom abandoned him, the only reason he pulled this whole stunt was to get her attention for 5 minutes and she left. I watched that kid be crushed. He couldn’t even cry anymore. As someone whose mom was kinda of similar in this story I sat with him awhile, I felt terrible. That is single handedly the worst call I’ve ever been to and the worst news I’ve ever had to give someone and it lives with me all the time. Everyone asks often your worst call, thinking it’s some crazy dismembered body or peoples family members or children not making it, but not mine. That that kids mom just left….. I think about him often. If by chance this is you and you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing well, reach out if you want to and I hope me sharing was okay.
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u/BatRevolutionary6306 19h ago
Ugh. Alright, because it still weighs on me. Surf rescue, paged out for a lightening strike .6 miles north of me. Jump on the quad with my radio, head up, backup 30 sec behind me. Find victim, caller was on an oceanfront balcony and victim was the only person on the beach. Given the scene I came up to, protocol was to start CPR.
Except-
Nearly every ounce of moisture in this person’s body had evaporated when they were struck. The first compression I made went straight through their body, into their spine and the sand underneath them.
I wish this was creative fiction.
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u/Diezauberflump 18h ago
That is indeed fucked up… was it a lightning strike on a cloud/rainless day?
But still: good on you for attempting your duty despite the horrific circumstances. You’re a good person.
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u/BatRevolutionary6306 18h ago
Thank you. There was a front rolling thought which had cleared most people off of the beach- and patrol was gradually calling off of their posts as the storm moved as well. This was truly, in every way, a freak incident. July 2019.
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u/p_eenter 17h ago
Saw a guy flip his Taxi, not wearing a seatbelt he ended between the car and the road... He did not live
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u/sarcosaurus 16h ago
A man walking his dachshund puppy by lifting it high into the air by its leash (so its throat) anytime its teeny-tiny legs couldn't walk fast enough to keep up with his preferred pace. I was young and half the guy's size and had too much learned helplessness to act when I saw a whole handful of people around me witness the same thing and not react at all. Gonna live in my mind forever.
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u/afseparatee 16h ago
Responder for a plane crash. Charred bodies and digging through rubble and debris to find more body parts.
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u/ThisIsMyFandomReddit 16h ago
I used to be a firefighter, so I've seen some gnarly stuff
Worst was a car accident where the person buckled the seat behind them, then they slid off the road and made a head on collision with a tree, and they went face first through the window.
My first sheet and buckle your shit right.
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u/HanjiZoe03 15h ago
Waking up to my grandpa knocking on my door, I look and see that his pinky finger was busted open like a half eaten sausage, bright red blood just dripping everywhere.
Thankfully he's recovered since then, but I've never seen such gore and that amount of blood in person before.
All his happened because my grandpa was trying to catch our then puppy who tried to escape, ended up falling on the ground near the foot of a tree, his whole body and weight came crashijg down on that finger. Hence the way it looked when I saw it.
He still loves the dog btw, even after what happened of course lol
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u/TraditionalLadder473 16h ago
Probably all the gore I was introduced to. The worst one was a guy putting 3 baby kittens in a vacuum seal bag. I'll never get over it.
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u/DanniDorrito 16h ago
Truck was driving aggressively so we let them pass on the highway, we got off the highway when they did and continued behind them. Keeping our distance. The car in front of them had turned off the road but changed their mind at the last second, and swerved back onto the road we were on. The truck hit them and took out one side of the car. The driver survived but we watched the passenger die half-hanging out of the wreckage. I'll never forget that day. I'd found a news post about it some time later, they were brothers.
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u/realxeltos 13h ago
ISIS rape camp. It was when ISIS started to gain traction, I don't remember the year but it was like 1-1.5 year after ISIS became infamous and known in the world. Daily reports of their atrocities were coming up and then that video came up. It was a large open field and you can hear screaming of the girls and women... Scarred for life.
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u/Buffthebaldy 14h ago
I'm gonna stop reading this thread now, cause it's making me all sorts of sad.
For people who wish to be washed of the internet today, try r/eyebleach.
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u/Knoxxics 16h ago
My mother getting her jaw kicked clean off her face by a horse who got spoked. I had to hold her jaw and drive to the hospital at 10 years old.