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re: Ever witnessed a tragic death?
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:44 pm to andouille
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:44 pm to andouille
Guy was working on the elevators of our 3-story office building. I noticed the second-floor doors were open and the caution tape was down. Saw, what I thought was hydraulic fluid dripping down and I caught some in my hand.
It was blood.
The elevator went up, with him on top and it squished him.
It was blood.
The elevator went up, with him on top and it squished him.
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Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:56 pm to br_1560
I witnessed the awful aftermath in an OSHA case where an employee got caught up in a hog skinning machine.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 2:58 pm to br_1560
I don’t know how many “tragic” ones I have witnessed but I have probably seen 100’s die in the last 23 or so years
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:30 pm to KennabraTiger
Me and my cousin went to the store to get beer and saw lights in the road and hazards going off. Drove over to check it out.
A guy was lying in the road with his head on the yellow line. Pool of blood coming out a hole in his head but he was breathing.
Girl was crumpled over in a ditch. Car upside down beat to shite. Both rolled over and ejected from no seat belt.
I went over and checked the pulse on the girl there was nothing. Her shirt was pulled up and I felt her side near her back and it was like jelly.
Ambulance got there and picked up the guy and he came to and started screaming for his gf. They had to put him in restraints. I realized who he was. It was a guy I went to HS with..
Girls parents arrived and I knew then who she was. My brother dated her and we all went to HS together. As soon as they turned her over clotted blood poured out of her mouth. Her parents went nuts holding their lifeless daughter. We left.
The guy made it but he was never the same. They were racing 2 other guys and ended up going off road, hitting a pipeline marker in a ditch, and flipping several times.
The 2 guys they raced never even stopped to check on them. Kept going.
That changed my whole perspective on life that night.
A guy was lying in the road with his head on the yellow line. Pool of blood coming out a hole in his head but he was breathing.
Girl was crumpled over in a ditch. Car upside down beat to shite. Both rolled over and ejected from no seat belt.
I went over and checked the pulse on the girl there was nothing. Her shirt was pulled up and I felt her side near her back and it was like jelly.
Ambulance got there and picked up the guy and he came to and started screaming for his gf. They had to put him in restraints. I realized who he was. It was a guy I went to HS with..
Girls parents arrived and I knew then who she was. My brother dated her and we all went to HS together. As soon as they turned her over clotted blood poured out of her mouth. Her parents went nuts holding their lifeless daughter. We left.
The guy made it but he was never the same. They were racing 2 other guys and ended up going off road, hitting a pipeline marker in a ditch, and flipping several times.
The 2 guys they raced never even stopped to check on them. Kept going.
That changed my whole perspective on life that night.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:48 pm to br_1560
Sorry to hear that you witnessed that. I have witnessed more than a few. Not something that I like to think about.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:48 pm to br_1560
Saw a guy get shot 5 time in his torso. He dropped face up, took several short breaths, eyes wide open but fixed on nothing in particular and just faded away with each breath getting shallower and shallower.
Not sure what the beef was, but the guy who shot him just casually walked back to his car and drove off.
Not sure what the beef was, but the guy who shot him just casually walked back to his car and drove off.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:50 pm to saintsfan1977
I have never witnessed someone die fortunately.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:52 pm to br_1560
I was in emergency services from 1971 to 2007. I don't even know where to start.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:56 pm to br_1560
Yes, about 20 years ago my buddy and I were heading home from a long night of playing poker. This car passes us on the freeway, he must've been going over 100 mph, when he lost control and his car ended up doing cartwheels on the fwy. It was crazy. We called 911 and went to check on him but he was done for. Very sad.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 3:59 pm to br_1560
Saw someone get crushed by a batch plant A-frame getting offloaded from a truck. Strap snapped and it slid off the opposite side of the trailer, crushed his head right under it. I was second on scene. First week on that site. That took a minute to get over, simply because I finally understood how truly dangerous our work could be if you weren't careful.
My buddy told me about his good friend in 4th ID who took shrapnel from a mortar in Sadr City and was fine on the ground, bled out on the medevac. That's a crazy story because he thought he was totally fine, next thing you know - gone.
My buddy told me about his good friend in 4th ID who took shrapnel from a mortar in Sadr City and was fine on the ground, bled out on the medevac. That's a crazy story because he thought he was totally fine, next thing you know - gone.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 4:05 pm to Rip Torner
It's worse when you love them with all your heart.
Violent? No.
Tragic and life-changing?
Yes.
Violent? No.
Tragic and life-changing?
Yes.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 4:16 pm to br_1560
I saw an 8 year old kid get pulled from a cattle pond on some family land. He had trespassed with his brothers - crawled over two separate barbed wire fences and walked past no fewer than three posted signs. My wife's aunt had let an old man across the street fish the pond in exchange for keeping an eye on the property. He had a john boat that he pulled 10+ feet up the hill, away from the pond. The three brothers found it, pulled it to the pond, then floated it out to the middle. The two older brothers knew the youngest couldn't swim, so they jumped out to swim back and leave him scared shitless. Little brother panicked, jumped out of the boat, and drowned. Older brothers dragged arse running for help, so it was hours later before the dive team was there.
Anyway, it was a terrible sight. The kid was like a spaghetti noodle.
Anyway, it was a terrible sight. The kid was like a spaghetti noodle.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 4:25 pm to Allyn McKeen
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I was in China when cars were first getting popular
How old a baw are you?
Posted on 8/18/24 at 4:33 pm to br_1560
This thread is rough. One of my bigger fears is driving along during any old yippty skippty day and rolling up on a recent car accident where I'm the first responder. Then if they're children involved.....I think even in the best circumstance, you're life isn't as enjoyable after see something like that.
I feel for firefighers. paramedics and cops who have to see that stuff routinely. those jobs would have to pay atleast 3x what they do for me to consider dealing with coming home from that day at work.
I feel for firefighers. paramedics and cops who have to see that stuff routinely. those jobs would have to pay atleast 3x what they do for me to consider dealing with coming home from that day at work.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 4:35 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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It’s scary to know how quickly your time can be up
Yep. And think about this: a mere few seconds faster or slower, earlier or later, on any number of life’s trivial matters - when you left the previous location, speeding up a little, slowing down a little, anything - literally all the difference in the world, unbeknownst to you.
This post was edited on 8/18/24 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 8/18/24 at 5:53 pm to br_1560
when I was a kid, my neighbor who was an elderly man with heart issues woke me and my brother in the middle of the night having a heart attack. as we opened the door to see who it was, he collapsed and died right there on our doorstep.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 6:02 pm to br_1560
Ugh...sorry, OP. That will stick with you, unfortunately.
A few years back I was headed southbound on a 2 lane highway. There was heavy construction on the side of the road for a few miles where they were putting in these big arse water pipes. My southbound lane was pretty empty, but the northbound lane had typical morning traffic.
Being 8ish AM, the crews were already out working. With the construction, there were many big arse dump trucks and such on the road each day. This morning, as I came up over a hill, I saw one leading the way in the northbound lane. He threw on his left blinker and started to slow down to turn into the makeshift lot.
Out of nowhere, a motorcycle a couple spots behind the truck, breaks out of the line of traffic and absolutely guns it, intent on passing the truck. He clearly didn't see the truck driver's turn signal and thought it was just a traffic slowdown.
The bike, even from my vantage point, gave the pass attempt all he had (short passing lane). The dump truck took it's left, obscuring my view of the man on the bike. I distinctly remember saying to myself, aloud, "please still be there, please still be there...", hoping to still see the bike upright when the truck completed its turn.
The truck cleared the lane and ambled into the gravel lot. There was no longer a bike in view. I get up to the scene seconds after the accident. I slowed down. The woman who had been in front of the motorcycle in the line of traffic turned across the lane to the side of the road. As I approached, I saw the man. The bike was not under him. He lay on his stomach, legs in a straddle position as if he were still on the bike, sections of his legs pointing in directions they were not supposed to point. He was motionless, frozen in time. The truck driver hopped out of his truck, phone camera in hand, quickly taking pictures of the scene, likely worried about liability. The woman from the car was kneeled beside the frozen man, sadly waving me along as she knew the man was deceased.
I drove on. I'd come to recognize the foreman for the piping job as he would be the one guy bouncing up and down the construction site as the weeks of construction wore on. I saw the moment he got the call from his crew up the road, as a panicked look struck him and he turned his head northbound to try to see what happened. As I looked in my rearview, I saw him and a couple his crewmen running toward their trucks to head to the scene.
I'm not easily rattled but this got me. I got home and explained what happened to my wife. While I couldn't truly confirm the man was dead, he was no doubt dead. The wife (no pics) called the police station the next day to confirm it was a fatality. The officer confirmed there was a fatality on the highway the morning before; a father with a wife and three small children at home.
Gone. In an instant. Trying to save seconds on his work commute. I still think about it damn near every time I pass the spot where he died. How I saw the instant his children lost a father. The instant his wife lost her husband. The instant his parents lost their child. Heavy shite.
A few years back I was headed southbound on a 2 lane highway. There was heavy construction on the side of the road for a few miles where they were putting in these big arse water pipes. My southbound lane was pretty empty, but the northbound lane had typical morning traffic.
Being 8ish AM, the crews were already out working. With the construction, there were many big arse dump trucks and such on the road each day. This morning, as I came up over a hill, I saw one leading the way in the northbound lane. He threw on his left blinker and started to slow down to turn into the makeshift lot.
Out of nowhere, a motorcycle a couple spots behind the truck, breaks out of the line of traffic and absolutely guns it, intent on passing the truck. He clearly didn't see the truck driver's turn signal and thought it was just a traffic slowdown.
The bike, even from my vantage point, gave the pass attempt all he had (short passing lane). The dump truck took it's left, obscuring my view of the man on the bike. I distinctly remember saying to myself, aloud, "please still be there, please still be there...", hoping to still see the bike upright when the truck completed its turn.
The truck cleared the lane and ambled into the gravel lot. There was no longer a bike in view. I get up to the scene seconds after the accident. I slowed down. The woman who had been in front of the motorcycle in the line of traffic turned across the lane to the side of the road. As I approached, I saw the man. The bike was not under him. He lay on his stomach, legs in a straddle position as if he were still on the bike, sections of his legs pointing in directions they were not supposed to point. He was motionless, frozen in time. The truck driver hopped out of his truck, phone camera in hand, quickly taking pictures of the scene, likely worried about liability. The woman from the car was kneeled beside the frozen man, sadly waving me along as she knew the man was deceased.
I drove on. I'd come to recognize the foreman for the piping job as he would be the one guy bouncing up and down the construction site as the weeks of construction wore on. I saw the moment he got the call from his crew up the road, as a panicked look struck him and he turned his head northbound to try to see what happened. As I looked in my rearview, I saw him and a couple his crewmen running toward their trucks to head to the scene.
I'm not easily rattled but this got me. I got home and explained what happened to my wife. While I couldn't truly confirm the man was dead, he was no doubt dead. The wife (no pics) called the police station the next day to confirm it was a fatality. The officer confirmed there was a fatality on the highway the morning before; a father with a wife and three small children at home.
Gone. In an instant. Trying to save seconds on his work commute. I still think about it damn near every time I pass the spot where he died. How I saw the instant his children lost a father. The instant his wife lost her husband. The instant his parents lost their child. Heavy shite.
This post was edited on 8/18/24 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 8/18/24 at 6:06 pm to Kracka
Mostly seen aftermaths, there was a trike wreck that sticks with me on US129 aka Dragon aka Tail of the Dragon. Trike couldn't make the turn struck a truck pulling a boat right at the hitch area. It was not pretty what was left. Nothing anyone could do except wait for the rescue teams to get up there to pick them up.
Pretty much lived up there in my free time from about 2005ish to 2012ish. Saw a lot of really bad wrecks that resulted in deaths and airflights. Surprised the only wreck I had that resulted in a hospital trip was racing a pit bike in the parking lot of the store
. Survived a lot of stupid.
Pretty much lived up there in my free time from about 2005ish to 2012ish. Saw a lot of really bad wrecks that resulted in deaths and airflights. Surprised the only wreck I had that resulted in a hospital trip was racing a pit bike in the parking lot of the store
. Survived a lot of stupid.Posted on 8/18/24 at 6:49 pm to br_1560
I've never witnessed anything personally but my older brother told me he was behind a few cars one morning trying to turn left and a car was on the highway trying turn down the same road he was on. A car came flying at 60mph+ and didn't even slow down. Plowed right in the back of the car, someone flew out and the vehicle rolled. He said the "splat" sound is something he won't ever forget.
He said the most furious thing about the entire situation is that cars were continuing to drive like nothing ever happened and actually would drive around the body. My brother and two other people are the only ones that helped.
He said the most furious thing about the entire situation is that cars were continuing to drive like nothing ever happened and actually would drive around the body. My brother and two other people are the only ones that helped.
Posted on 8/18/24 at 7:23 pm to br_1560
No but, I helped unload a drowning victim from the rescue boat in Jr High.
A local (Monroe) football coach drowned on the Ouachita river around Marion, La.
A local (Monroe) football coach drowned on the Ouachita river around Marion, La.
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