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re: Ever witnessed a tragic death?
Posted on 8/18/24 at 10:03 am to br_1560
Posted on 8/18/24 at 10:03 am to br_1560
25 years ago, and it’s still crystal clear in my mind. We were on the interstate in Michigan. A Camry ahead of us had someone climbing up to the front passenger seat from the back. The driver drifted off the road and overcorrected, causing the car to start flipping in front of our eyes. Both driver & passenger were ejected. Seeing the guy land on his head was awful. He was bleeding from his ears.
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Posted on 8/18/24 at 10:49 am to br_1560
Yes, it was bad enough I don't want to talk about it.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 10:56 am to br_1560
Found my next door neighbor with a bullet through his head…
Suicide
Suicide
Posted on 8/18/24 at 11:22 am to br_1560
We were sitting at an upstairs bar in Galveston, TX one night around 1am. The street closest to the bar T’s so you can only go left or right. If you go straight, you go directly into the ocean and don’t pass GO.
Well, this Tacoma pulls up to the light and sits at the light through 2-3 light cycles. Then, the next time it turns green, he guns it and goes directly into the drink. Everyone ran to him but he had already drowned. His passenger survived thankfully. Sad situation and he was drunk as heck.
Well, this Tacoma pulls up to the light and sits at the light through 2-3 light cycles. Then, the next time it turns green, he guns it and goes directly into the drink. Everyone ran to him but he had already drowned. His passenger survived thankfully. Sad situation and he was drunk as heck.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 11:31 am to Pepe Lepew
This seems like a good place to ask this.
Recently drove up on a very fresh head on collision. One driver wasn't buckled, and by the time I got the door open and airbags cut out the way it was apparent he didn't have much time left. Bleeding from the ears, struggling to breathe, unconscious. A lady who used to be a nurse showed up as i was getting ready to pull him out and she stopped me and told me not to do that, because his neck was likely broken.
So, I didn't do anything except talk to the guy. He came back briefly, and he died in the car a couple minutes later, and police/EMS were a few minutes later than that.
Question is, why not move him? It was very apparent to me that he was going to be dead before the first responders arrived. I still feel bad for not trying something. I realize it would have most likely been futile, I have no clue what to do, but doing nothing except watching him die sucked. Not my finest hour.
Recently drove up on a very fresh head on collision. One driver wasn't buckled, and by the time I got the door open and airbags cut out the way it was apparent he didn't have much time left. Bleeding from the ears, struggling to breathe, unconscious. A lady who used to be a nurse showed up as i was getting ready to pull him out and she stopped me and told me not to do that, because his neck was likely broken.
So, I didn't do anything except talk to the guy. He came back briefly, and he died in the car a couple minutes later, and police/EMS were a few minutes later than that.
Question is, why not move him? It was very apparent to me that he was going to be dead before the first responders arrived. I still feel bad for not trying something. I realize it would have most likely been futile, I have no clue what to do, but doing nothing except watching him die sucked. Not my finest hour.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 11:32 am to br_1560
I ran(jumped) over a fat arse, he was definitely 350, after he was hit from the other side of the highway (crossing the highway illegally on a bike with a crosswalk 100 yards away) but it wasn’t tragic at all.
I found out two weeks later he was a released convicted murderer.
I slept great that knowing I helped the local community be rid of that pos.
I found out two weeks later he was a released convicted murderer.
I slept great that knowing I helped the local community be rid of that pos.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 11:35 am to br_1560
A bunch. I was in law enforcement for 30 years (just retired this month). Saw people get shot, traffic accidents, drownings in pools, suicides, etc.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 11:39 am to br_1560
Some guy ran across hwy 98 near Destin. He got hit. They placed a sheet over him. Happened last year.
*didn't witness it.
*didn't witness it.
This post was edited on 8/18/24 at 11:41 am
Posted on 8/18/24 at 12:06 pm to CocomoLSU
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What happened? (If you can speak about it) Dod he hit something or lose control and flip it?
He jumped it off of a terrace in a soybean field that was waiting to be planted. I think disc had made a perfect ramp in the bend of the terrace and it launched the four wheeler (and him) about 20 feet in the air. The four wheeler rolled back in the air and landed on him when he came back to earth. Crushed both of his lungs and his head. Lots of blood.
I have a dream about it around once a month for the last 39 years.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 12:08 pm to br_1560
Twice. I saw a guy get his head blown off when I was maybe 11-12. Also saw a pedestrian get hit by a vehicle going about 40 mph right in front of me.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 12:30 pm to br_1560
When I was in high school...drove my mom to Texas for my sister's graduation. As I approached the Texas state line on I-20, I saw an 18 wheeler up ahead and a guy putting out those triangle cones around the truck. I could see a guy under the back left side of the truck I figured was working on it. As I got closer, I noticed shoes on the shoulder to my right, and a red streak on the ground. When I got up to the truck, I saw that the guy I thought was working was missing his lower half. As I drove up, I saw his lower half under another wheel of the truck. I was mortified. We pulled in the state line rest stop, and a church bus pulled up. I will never forget multiple kids getting off the bus and throwing up in the grass. I had never seen anything like that in my life...and don't want to again. (Turns out, the dude was crazy and was running out on the interstate to try to flag down cars to give him a ride....)
Posted on 8/18/24 at 1:05 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I know how you feel. I was on the way early one morning (5:30am)to help set up a hospitality area at a charity golf tournament. I was driving down a two lane back road and was only passing a vehicle going the opposite direction about every mile or so. I saw headlights come around a curve about 1/4 mile in front of me and then they disappeared and all I saw was sparks like a firecracker show. I slowed down because I thought the car had passed an intersection and gotten t-boned. As I got to where all the dust was still in the air. I crossed over the road with my truck and used my headlights to assess the scene. As I approached, I saw a crushed 4 runner layed upside down on the side of the road and another blazer about 60 feet away with the roof crushed in.
I initially thought it was two cars with one or more passengers in each. I got of my car with a lump in my throat knowing I was the only person there in the dead of morning. I called 911 and gave them my location kept her on the phone as I walked to the crushed upside down 4 runner first and got down to shine my phone flashlight into the vehicle. Didn’t see anybody anywhere inside or within 30 feet outside. I walked over to the Blazer with the crushed roof and didn’t see anyone. Inside or outside. I told the 911 woman I needed to stay with me as I walked the area. About 50 ft up the road , I saw a body laying belly and face down. He was unconscious and bleeding from the ears and nose. The breathing was laborious and sounded like involuntary gasps. His legs were still attached but bent in directions legs are supposed to bend.
I didn’t know what to do, the lady told me not to try to move him after I gave her the play by play of his condition. I just sat there and waited for 10 minutes before the 1st cop arrived. Put my hand on his shoulder and tried to talk to him so if he could hear and know he wasn’t alone and that help was on the way. The 1st paramedics got there a few minutes later and then lifeflight a couple minutes after that. I asked one of the 1st paramedics after life flight arrived if he thought the guy had a chance to make it and he just nodded his head negative.
Long story short. Only the 4 Runner had a driver. At around 6:00am a man that lived 1/4 mile down the road walked to the scene. He owned the little body shop that was beside where the Blazer with the crushed roof was sitting. He said that the Blazer was his and was just parked there. Apparently, the guy driving the 4 Runner went off the road and started rolling and rolled over the top of his Blazer and came to rest about 20 yards beyond.
One thing that really sticks with me is that not one person(and there were probably 10 vehicles that slowed down and looked at the scene before that 1st cop got there) stopped to help. One guy even asked what had happened and I told him it had just happened and I was the 1st one on the scene and needed help. He drove off.
I initially thought it was two cars with one or more passengers in each. I got of my car with a lump in my throat knowing I was the only person there in the dead of morning. I called 911 and gave them my location kept her on the phone as I walked to the crushed upside down 4 runner first and got down to shine my phone flashlight into the vehicle. Didn’t see anybody anywhere inside or within 30 feet outside. I walked over to the Blazer with the crushed roof and didn’t see anyone. Inside or outside. I told the 911 woman I needed to stay with me as I walked the area. About 50 ft up the road , I saw a body laying belly and face down. He was unconscious and bleeding from the ears and nose. The breathing was laborious and sounded like involuntary gasps. His legs were still attached but bent in directions legs are supposed to bend.
I didn’t know what to do, the lady told me not to try to move him after I gave her the play by play of his condition. I just sat there and waited for 10 minutes before the 1st cop arrived. Put my hand on his shoulder and tried to talk to him so if he could hear and know he wasn’t alone and that help was on the way. The 1st paramedics got there a few minutes later and then lifeflight a couple minutes after that. I asked one of the 1st paramedics after life flight arrived if he thought the guy had a chance to make it and he just nodded his head negative.
Long story short. Only the 4 Runner had a driver. At around 6:00am a man that lived 1/4 mile down the road walked to the scene. He owned the little body shop that was beside where the Blazer with the crushed roof was sitting. He said that the Blazer was his and was just parked there. Apparently, the guy driving the 4 Runner went off the road and started rolling and rolled over the top of his Blazer and came to rest about 20 yards beyond.
One thing that really sticks with me is that not one person(and there were probably 10 vehicles that slowed down and looked at the scene before that 1st cop got there) stopped to help. One guy even asked what had happened and I told him it had just happened and I was the 1st one on the scene and needed help. He drove off.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 1:13 pm to JackieTreehorn
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Back in the 90’s we watched a guy jump off the roof of the oxygen zone hotel in PCB aiming for the pool. He missed. It was awful.
That guy was likely dead the second he jumped, even if he hit the pool
Posted on 8/18/24 at 1:20 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Back in college we were getting pizza next to Dublins in Tigerland. I was inside with my friends, girlfriend was in the car. We hear a shot and run out. This girl parked next to us apparently had a falling out with her boyfriend and took a bunch of drugs. She was alone in her car, looked at my girlfriend in the eyes and then shot herself in the heart. My buddy had just gotten back from Iraq and tried to save her to no avail. The cops came and we stood there for 3 hours while this poor girl laid there with no covers or anything dead. I will never forget my buddy going from drunk to war mode and trying to save her. And I’ll never forget her body lying there for hours. Was horrible.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 1:31 pm to br_1560
The feel-good OT thread of the day here. Yet I keep coming back.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 1:56 pm to go_tigres
quote:I would put a bullet into my heart. I could not and would not want to carry on for even 24 hours thereafter.
It was a family and the dad was driving. His wife and 3 kids all died and he was mostly uninjured.
First and last time I fell asleep in a car as a passenger was on the way back home from Gulf Shores. I heard my MiL scream and woke up looking out the window to the scene of a brand new suburban whose tire had a catastrophic blow out and they hit an overpass piling at 80 mph. The mother was hunched over the steering wheel dead. 4 children died in that wreck. I still think about it today.
My wife was an ER nurse and saw alot of gnarly stuff, but the only time I ever saw her bring it home with her was when it involved children. On one particular occasion a 5 year old girl had gotten a hold of her napping father's 9mm and shot herself in the forehead. They tried their best, but she didn't make it. Took her a little while to get over that one.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:02 pm to MyRockstarComplex
Glad that I have never had to witness anything like the stories in this thread. Life is fragile. Live in the moment and be grateful.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:15 pm to mudshuvl05
I was driving through town when I was in college near dusk on a fall day. I heard the car coming the other way on a two-lane road squeal her brakes, a sound immediately followed by a loud thug. I then saw the body of a man silhouetted against the sky as he flew across the road in front of me before hitting a telephone pole to the right of my car. The collision must have launched him 20 feet into the air, and he was no small man.
I ran over to him. He looked bad, blood seeping out from eyes, ears, nose and mouth. He made raspy, low, groaning sounds, but was otherwise unresponsive. The coed who hit him was hysterical. She hadn't seen him in the dim light, and he stepped out in front of her car.
I stayed and helped direct traffic until the police and EMTs took him away. I asked one of them if he was going to make it and he said he'd probably be gone by the time they got him to the hospital.
The police said he was mentally challenged and was prone to drink.
I ran over to him. He looked bad, blood seeping out from eyes, ears, nose and mouth. He made raspy, low, groaning sounds, but was otherwise unresponsive. The coed who hit him was hysterical. She hadn't seen him in the dim light, and he stepped out in front of her car.
I stayed and helped direct traffic until the police and EMTs took him away. I asked one of them if he was going to make it and he said he'd probably be gone by the time they got him to the hospital.
The police said he was mentally challenged and was prone to drink.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:33 pm to SpotCheckBilly
I spent 30 years in a high risk industry, saw more than I want of mangled and decaying bodies, at least it was never children. I don't understand how EMT's and ER people can deal with the images of what they see on a daily basis.
God bless them
God bless them
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:43 pm to br_1560
I saw a bullfighter killed in the ring in Pamplona in 2001. I bull gored him, and he pass later that day.
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