The Most Disturbing Thing You've Ever Seen In Person

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What's the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in person (not on some sick website or TV).

Mine... I used to hang out at this bar when I was in Germany that turned out to be a little rough. I saw some guy take a glass and hit another guy in the neck with it. I just saw beer and glass go everywhere. A minute later the flood lights came on & the guy was standing there swaying, holding his neck while blood was spurting out. The tables around him were covered in blood and everyone's beer near him was red. A second later his eyes rolled back in his head and he fell over. Don't know what happened to him, I split.

A week later I saw the bar tender (originally from ireland) take a guy in a running headlock and ram him head first into a concrete wall, stomped on him while he was down and say, "Now stay out 'cha stoopid focker."

[IPrayForSound]

Lesse....I saw this dumbass miniature straight-edge guy (if anyone here was familiar with the Clifton sXe kids a few years ago, you've seen him) beat the shit out of some guy outside of Bogart's. First, he pushed the guy into one of his buddies, who got pissed off and pushed him back. Then, when the guy ran into the midget, he got hit. While he was on the ground with blood gushing from his nose and forehead, the wee li'l drug-free dude did a couple of feint kicks at him before connecting his boot with the dude's head. Turns out the dude deserved it, because after all, he HAD been drinking during the show. :rolleyes:

Then there was the time I was driving to Clifty Falls with some friends and some horses started fucking on the side of the road. :eek:

[butter_of_69]

After my wife had her last baby, by C-section, they sat her uterus on her chest for a bit to allow it to contract before they put it back in.

Good times.

[cuddlyevil]

Was stuck in the passenger side of a friend's car and we were trapped in stop and go traffic on 75 for about 12 miles, once we got up to where the cause was, we saw why. Someone struck a deer in the middle lane and pretty much inviscerated it. I got a full view of the fresh kill, liver, heart, stomach, lungs--pretty much if it was in the torso I saw it...

[Stine]

Originally posted by butter_of_69
After my wife had her last baby, by C-section, they sat her uterus on her chest for a bit to allow it to contract before they put it back in.

Good times.

Yyyeaaahahhhh - this one is what made me twitch. Especially since I have one...

goo.

[redbobsled]

Once at a Lazy concert at Sudsy's, I saw some drunk guy just suddenly charge the stage in the middle of a song and tackle Steve, the singer. They proceeded to roll about, kicking people near the stage and obliterating everything on the stage. In retrospect it's not that disturbing, but in the moment, I was very disturbed. My friends were making fun of me for being so disturbed by it....

Also, I observed neurosurgery once. That was pretty cool, but others might find it disturbing. Being right over the shoulder of the surgeon and peering into some guy's exposed brain was pretty nifty.

[Stine]

This isn't a 'gross' story but disturbed me... saw one of the Gazelle's final shows upstairs at York St. Cafe - really nice place - and as always, someone got out of control. The lead singer and I believe it was a member of Thee Shams got way out of control and started breaking tables and a beautiful glass-paned armiore [sp?]... the novelty of the typical fighting wore off when really nice furniture at a cool place is destroyed...

[2ptSteve]

Playing in a soccer game a couple of years ago I witnessed a teammate break his leg...a double fracture, both the tibia and the fibula broken...it was also an open break, when the paramedics cut away his sock bone was poking through the skin. I think the most disturbing thing was his scream, even if you didn't see it clearly, when he started screaming you knew exactly what happened.

[bluewilco]

Most of mine involve car accidents that I wasn't a part of, but were still pretty gruesome.

I witnessed a guy somehow lose control of his vehicle in a park area, and hit a tree head on. I got out of my car to check on him, and it was not the prettiest thing I've seen. Hopefully, he survived, so that was an upside.

Once, on my way back from Texas, I was driving on US 50 in Illinois, when I saw a car trying to pass another one up ahead of me, but he didn't see a semi coming in the lane ahead...I'll leave it at that. Now that was a gruesome sight. I can't even describe how mangled the car was.

[cuddlyevil]

got one to go along with bw's semi story. my sis was driving home to nashvegas from cleveland and was passing through part of louisville i think. up ahead of her she saw a pick-up truck come fluing off an on-ramp, go straight across the 3 or 4 lanes of roadway (heading north), go airborne at the median and crash head on into the retaining wall on the other side of the southbound lanes. Three cars stopped to help, my sister was the last to pull over as she was the furthest away but as she went to get out the first person who got to the driver's side of the car, looked at my sister and waved her off--apparently, the driver of the truck wasn't wearing a seatbelt, wasn't pretty...

[Infusion Broth]

Well, I haven't seen too many greusome sights in my life, but a few personal ones might qualify.

There was a time when i was younger when I was "playing" with some grass trimming ecquipment and cut an artery in my ankle. By the time I got to the porch, blood was squirting out of my ankle every time my heart beat. My sister came out of the house and looked at the blood squirting out of me and looked at the blood all over the porch and fainted.

Or the time when my best friend accidently shot me in the neck with an arrow. I didn't even know it was still stuck in there as I was running over to him and him running away from me until I looked down and saw the arrow hanging out of me. Not hardly any blood at all with that one, but you could spread the hole open and see all kinds of neat stuff going on in my neck.

There was also the burn accident, where I was carrying a whole coffie can of gasoline past a small burning stump when the fumes ignited and splashed the whole can all ofer me and I was engulfed in flames. I tried the stop drop and roll technique but I was so soaked with gasoline I had to actually grab my burning shirt with my hands and rip it off. Then, I stood up and looked down and saw a bunch of flesh hanging off of my chest with areas still burning. A little superman slide in the grass took care of that. The worst sight was a few hours later in the hospital when the flesh that I did have left had orange fluid filled blisters the size of golf balls and some bigger hanging off of my body.

I could go on but I think those were some of the most greusome. Hope you enjoy!

[Kwyjibo]

Originally posted by Infusion Broth
Or the time when my best friend accidently shot me in the neck with an arrow. I didn't even know it was still stuck in there as I was running over to him and him running away from me until I looked down and saw the arrow hanging out of me. Not hardly any blood at all with that one, but you could spread the hole open and see all kinds of neat stuff going on in my neck.

I'm probably going straight to hell but this one made me laugh out loud. Sorry man, but the mental image is pretty comical, you've got to admit.

Oh, and you have to be the unluckiest bastard I've ever heard of.

[Infusion Broth]

"unlucky bastard" Yeah, that pretty much sums up my life. I've always had that reputation of being accident prone.

The ER is like a second home to me.

Maybe I'll post some more unfortunate accidents from my past sometime.

It wouldn't be worth it if people didn't get a laugh out of it, right!:D

[deime]

My brother used to be EMT at University of Kentucky hospital, he told me about a guy who tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head, but he lived.

There's a reason why I don't work in medicine

When I was five I was riding my cousin's bike, took a sharp turn & then fell into a pile of bricks (next door neighbors were paving their driveway with bricks) well I still have a huge scar on my forehead (25 yeas later) & can't stand the site of blood.

[RichmondVA]

Taiwan is one of those crazy traffic countries where five cars drive in a lane meant for three while families on mopeds weave around without helmets. So I'm taking a taxi ride and I'm just chilling in the back seat when the driver says, "Hey look at that! (translated)" And angles the car over. I look out the window and its a family of three-- mother, father and little girl lying on the road thrown many feet from their smashed moped with their brains leaking out of their heads.

It was upsetting enough to actually see that. But the driver not only pulling over for a better look but also excitedly sharing his discovery with his passenger was worse.

I have a neighbor who works in the ER. He's a neurosurgeon and apparently quite a hotshot. The people I know at the hospital all say this guy is going to be quite famous one day. A few months ago, a guy beat up his girlfriend and his young daughter with a bat. The daughter died. It was all over the news. He was the attending surgeon and described to me in great detail what happened. It was odd because he was clearly saddened and upset by it, yet you could tell a part of him was deeply fascinated. I guess they have to be that way.

So anyway after being "entertained" by the physical ER side of things, I go to eat lunch the next day. The guy I'm eating with is maybe the best trial attorney I know and is also considered an up and comer by the local papers. He was the prosecutor assigned to the case. So now I get to hear all the disturbing social aspects of it. And it was the same thing. My friend was upset but some part of his mind was totally excited and going, "oooh, yeah! Open-and-shut case. I can't wait to nail this guy." And again, if he weren't that way, he'd be a lousy attorney.

[Phreon]

Several years back I worked on the 13th floor of Carew tower. Some of my coworkers told me a lady had jumped and was on the roof area below us.

I didn't believe them, popped the window open and looked down. What I saw was a torso (no legs), a severed arm, a twisted arm and smashed head, surrounded by various entrails slowly oozing fat on the hot, black roof surface.

She apparently paid her $2.50 and took a header off the observation deck. What I didn't know at the time was that the wind had pushed her back into the building on the way down and she hit a ledge a few floors up from my office. If I had looked up, I would have seen her legs still hanging there.

Various people I ran into (who workied in the law office above us) during the course of my business day said there were bits and pieces of her stuck to the windows.

A company called "Aftermath" was hired to clean up the mess she made, for even after the coroner took her remains away, there where still bits of her scattered all over the building.

I didn't sleep at all that night and didn't eat anything for a couple of days.

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[redbobsled]

Originally posted by Phreon

A company called "Aftermath" was hired to clean up the mess she made, for even after the coroner took her remains away, there where still bits of her scattered all over the building.

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While the whole story was certainly disturbing, this bit got to me the most. How does one decide to go to work for such a company???? What else do they clean up?

[IPrayForSound]

There are companies like that all over. The clean up crime scenes and suicides after the police have gathered all their evidence.

[redbobsled]

Originally posted by IPrayForSound
There are companies like that all over. The clean up crime scenes and suicides after the police have gathered all their evidence.

Apparently so...I found this on their website.

http://www.aftermathinc.com/apparel.htm

WTF??? This is pretty disturbing in itself. who would want an aftermath inc. t-shirt?

[IPrayForSound]

I so want that long-sleeved shirt.

[whitegirl]

hmmm.... I'm having trouble thinking about the most gruesome thing I've seen....

My old boss told me he saw a car accident once in Oakley where a lady had been decapitated... her head was sitting on the seat next to her, still blinking.

Other than that... I think the most disturbing images I have come from my dreams... running over rotting bodies in a car on 75, my own tendon outside the bottom of my foot just dangling.... I count these cuz my dreams are pretty damn realistic, never really realize I'm dreaming til I wake up.

oh yeah.... that, and video of liposuction. NASTY... that big straw getting pushed in and out.... /shudder

[The Sheck]

In the summers I used to work for a community ed. program (kind of like Latchkey) but essentially it was babysitting run by the school district.

It was the last week of summer before school started up, and the program was at a park for the day to have an end of the year picnic. When it was time for lunch, the kids came running over...except for one. He was hobbling towards us, holding his crotch, which was all bloody...

Apparently, what had happened was he was sitting on top of a chain-link fence and when he heard it was time for lunch, he excitedly jumped down...but caught his scrotum on the chain-link and ripped it open.

How'd you like to have been the teacher who had to push his balls back in until the paramedics showed up? Needless to say, no one wanted Swedish Meatballs for lunch that day.

[whitegirl]

speaking of penises (peni?): I had a friend in high school who did something strange when he was in kindergarden. He went to use the potty and realized he still had a red pencil in his hand. He looked down at his penis and said to himself "I wonder if this will fit in the hole?"

It did, somewhat... it ended up getting stuck and he had to go to the doctor. That's what he says anyhow.

[yoshomon]

Ok, I can't think of a really gruesome one yet, but I am always disturbed when I see the little kids on leashes. It just creeps me out to see parents walking their children like dogs.

Oh yes, I have seen a videoclip of someone shooting themself in the head. It was a real suicide movie that some girl had made and that my 'friend' had gotten a hold of (internet?). This 'friend' was a pretty messed up guy to say the least.

Pictures of diseased genitalia too.

[MissKitty]

When I was nine years old I climbed a chain-link fence that had the pointy ends facing up. Somehow I slipped and the pointy end jabbed into my ankle and I flipped upside down, dangling on the fence. My friend Gina saw the blood gushing out of my leg and fainted. Her brother James pulled me off the fence and ran for help, whilst I held my hand over the wound. I still have a scar from it.

My Dad saw a car accident on his way to Tennessee several years ago. He said the driver just lost control somehow and flipped over several times before landing in a ditch. Dad jumped out of his car and ran to see if he could help. The driver was badly injured--Dad said the man couldn't speak, he just "kept pleading with his eyes." The woman next to him was minutes from death--Dad said he could hear the blood gurgling deep inside her and he knew she was a goner. A trucker had also stopped and radioed for help, and by that time other passersby had also stopped. Dad said he was horrified that someone reached in the backseat of the smashed car and took a gun out of it, and then just took off.

Dad had nightmares for weeks afterward.

[DogStarMan]

Back in '90, some friends and I went to Middletown's "All American Weekend". While walking home from it, we heard a scuffle and turned around to watch to rednecks fighting. One guy had been tackled from behind and was lying prone on the asphalt while the guy on his back had him by the hair on the back of his head and was repeatedly smashing his face into the ground....sounded like a paper bag full of raw chicken hitting the pavement. I remember standing there watching in shock and then turning to one of my buddies, who just shrugged and non-chalantly lit a cigarette.

I'll have to agree with Butter though, childbirth is simultaneously the most beautiful and the most grotesque thing you will ever witness.

[El_Dude-arino]

Me and my two buddies were driving home one night to Clifton @Feb96. We got stopped by the light at the corner of Clifton and Ludlow (heading towards campus). We were the first car in our lane stopped. A guy starts to cross the street while we are stopped (right in front of our headlights). We all get a good look at him. He was in his 50's probably and had a slight limp. His head was down and we all thought he looked a little drunk (it was about midnight).

The radio was playing Alice in Chains "Heaven Besides You" at the time. The guy cleared the front of our car and when he got onto the other half of the street (we were all focusing on him because he just looked different or something), we saw the headlights of an oncoming car barrelling down on him.

He had about 1 second to see the headlights and freeze. The car drilled him going about 30-35 mph. The car had begun to brake about 15 feet before hitting him. He hit and his body began a flip that was broken by the windshield. The car slammed to a stop and he was flung forward and rolled about 25 feet.

My friends are I were in total shock and our world just froze. I ran out of the car and into Skyline, they were already calling 911. I remember hearing the guy make these crazy gasping noises before dying.

It isn't fun to relive but sometimes I think it is necessary. It keeps things in perspective in some wierd way for me and my pals. The worst thing I ever saw.

[Darth Sandmich!]

Worse thing I personally have seen was when I saw some hillbillies in KY try to make an off ramp on 75 when they were already past it. Their truck hit the dirt and rolled three or four times. My last image was a limp arm (from a no doubt unbuckled passenger) falling out of the open window of the truck. I was going too fast to stop and examine the carnage, but I did call 911 from the next ramp.

The worst thing I've opted not to see was an industrial accident at where I work. There was a huge oven which wasn't venting properly and was full of explosive gas. The instant the shop floor dude shut the huge doors the gas exploded and the doors blew open (but not off). The dude got an exposed fracture in his arm, but an engineer who was walking by to check on the work wound up getting an impromptu lobotomy and both his eyes blown out of their sockets for his troubles. Cleanup was handled by my coworkers who were unfortunate to find themselves on the 'safety committee'; I elected not to get in the way.

[Kwyjibo]

This thread has taken a nasty turn....

[classicgrrl]

y'all this is sick. I'm going to have nightmeres....aint a readin no mo...

[AmericanScience]

most disturbing thing i've personally seen:
a semi driving towards us head-on, finally hitting us when we were each at about 45mph. don't remember much for 3 days after that, but i remember the event, or just prior. lots of noise.

most disturbing thing i didn't see:
a co-lifeguard sarah driving her and three friends driving on a country state route (as all the roads are near our hometown). they see some strange lights off in the distance, and really it's a semi that's stopped perpendicular to the road, and just in front of them. they drive under it, removing the roof from the car and about 1" from the top of her head. she dies that night or the next day, the rest of the girls in the car live.

most disturbing thing i didn't see that is cheerier:
jon (i think) that works with my good pal brad ate three chipotle burritos in one lunch. this is the same office that did the milk-gallon challenge and have photo proof of it's failure (in their case).

good times,
B

[DefyGravity]

I saw Micheal Jackson in person once... does that count?

:eek:

[postfeminist]

wow, i can't believe i just read all that shit.

nastiest thing i ever said follows the mention of liposuction.

when i was 19, i had a breast reduction surgery. i was a 42E and they took me down to a 38B. Not a big deal...5.5 hour surgery, was in and out of consciousness for a few days after...

This was not gross; it was about three years later that i was flipping through the channels on TV and noticed a surgery show on the learning channel. i started watching, not sure why, because i didn't know what it was.

i watched until the point that i was nauseated enough to vomit.

[lawdog]

Originally posted by DogStarMan
some friends and I went to Middletown's "All American Weekend". While walking home from it, we heard a scuffle and turned around to watch to rednecks fighting.

What could be more "All American" than that?

[DogStarMan]

Originally posted by lawdog
What could be more "All American" than that?
Heh...no shit :D Definitely "All Middletonian" if nothing else.

[redbobsled]

While we're bumping....

Might as well bump something gross and disturbing, yet oddly fascinating. I just had "fun" re-reading this thread.

Here's another one. Not super disturbing and not gross.

Within 10 minutes of setting foot in Paris last year, I was leaving a Metro station when I was almost completely knocked over by some Paris Metro police. Right in front of me, they tackled this pickpocket to the ground and proceeded to beat him in plain sight of everyone around. They don't mess around there.

[miloguidosmom]

Watching my dad die. Over ten years ago and it is still very vivid. He had hepatitis and Aids, and one night the blood vessels in his esophagus ruptured. He managed to get to the phone (he lived alone), which was at the other end of the house and call his brother who lived next door. The ambulance came, and they called for AirCare, but they had to turn back when they iced up. So he was taken to the nearest hospital.

When I got there, I was met with really hostile stares from his brothers and sisters (long story short on that front...we don't get along. At all.). That was pretty disturbing, but expected.

When I was taken in to see him -- that was disturbing. Blood ALL over the place, dripping onto the floor, big beakers sitting around just full of blood, and they were just pumping it into him as fast as possible, but they couldn't get it to clot and because of problems with the roads (icy) it was hard to get more blood products to the hospital (but realistically it wouldn't have made much difference...and I knew it at the time). But what was the worst was he was just oozing blood from everywhere, practically right through his skin...it was flowing freely from tiny little scrapes. I'll never forget the smell either. They had done a procedure to try to repair the ruptures in his esophagus, but it all it seemed to be doing was making him miserable. He was just writhing in agony.

He had a stroke within a couple of hours. Although they got his body "running" again, it was clear he was essentially dead. I asked that they not disconnect life support until my brother was able to arrive (he had a longer drive), and that was pretty much it.

We could have used that Aftermath company to clean up though...there were huge pools of blood throughout the house, and some of the blood actually dripped through the floor into the basement.

[REMgirl]

That's terribly sad, Miloguidosmom.

The worst thing I ever saw (and heard) was on New Year's Eve several years ago in my old neighborhood. A woman who had two young daughters doused herself with gasoline, ran screaming out into the yard, and set herself on fire. She ran for a while before someone tackled her and rolled her around.

I saw her when she was burning and it was the worst thing I ever saw. But the screams. Well, I can still hear those.

She actually lived for a few days, but died in a coma, which was probably for the best.