Do you know what a silaige (sp?) chopper is?  It looks like a grain wagon that gravity feeds green corn plants into a chopper. the chopped up green corn stalks are used as cattle feed.
 I was helping a farmer make this feed when the chopper got clogged. the farmer jumped up into the wagon and started kicking the clog loose.  

The did come loose and his right leg went into the chopper  half way up  to his hip.   I was ok pulling him out and getting into the pickup. I lost it after I got him to the emergency room.
 I got the exprience of dealing with my  left foot  being cut in half by a  Brushhog mower.  That 2 miles between me and a phone was a bitch.

  The worst has to be watching my mother violantly convulse for three days after a massive  stroke.   I cried in joy when she finally passed away.

Stateside: We were driving home from work one afternoon in Idaho and a JetRanger pilot decided to make a low 180. He caught thetip of the main rotor in the dirt and the ship end-o'd three times.

The roll cage on a Jet Ranger is behind the pilot. He smacked the ground everytime the ship end-o'd. He was pretty much pulp when we got to him.

The guy in the back, who had been shooting coyotes, lived but was pretty busted up. All the coyotes were dead.

Non-Stateside: I ain't going there.  

My father die of a massive heart attack when I was twelve.

Suicide by shotgun in the mouth, nothing but a torso with a lower jaw.  Everything else was everywhere else.

TC, motorcycle at highspeed t bones a Camry, motorcycle penetrated the drivers door, driver killed, rider and passenger thrown about 50 feet down the road, no helmets, dead.  Never did find his other shoe.

Old guy dead of a heart attack on his living room floor, no one in the apartment building bothered to report the smell, until he leaked through the ceiling into the apartment below.  Been dead for 2 months by the date of the newspaper in his hand. $10,00 grand in cash and porn, porn, and more porn in the apartment. Mailman had been litterly packing the mail box for 2 months, he was trying to jamb more in while we are scene waiting for detectives.  Dumb ass.

Suicide by gunshot wound to chest, USAF inteligence guy, apartment knee deep in trash and boxes of panty hose.  SKS, AR15, illegal Sten kit, AK 47 kits, computer parts, Glock .40 (suicide weapon), SW custom shop .45, could only count up to the 50 ammo cans full, loose ammo, gun parts in kitchen drawers, medicine cabinet, behind books.  Porn, porn and more porn.  Makes me wonder about some ARFCOMers.  AFOSI, FBI, ATF were in there for days.

Shall I go on?

BBossman

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Quoted: Quoted: I wouldn't know where to begin... +1 Dead infants, decapitations, burn victims, floaters.   For the worst, ask a firefighter... NorCalous

I was a volunteer fireman/paramedic for several years back in the 70's and your right!!! I don't even want to remember most of the stuff I saw over that time period....

Worst for me....

One was a really nice old guy named Amos who used to walk around in our neighborhood. He was the grandfather of a girl who was in my class in school. He suffered from dementia in his old age, but held it together most of the time. He used to say funny oldtime saying like "See ya later alligator, afterwhile crocodile...".

We lived a half a block from the train tracks and one afternoon we were sitting on the front porch hanging out during the summer break between my junior and senior year. A train came through and as soon as it passed the crossing on one block we heard it slam its breaks and start screeching to a halt. We knew it had hit something so we jumped up and ran around the corner to see Amos wishboned from his crotch to his armpit with his entrails all over the place. Apparently his cane had gotten stuck in between the ties and rail and he just mentally lapsed out or didn't hear or didn't register the train was coming.

He was quivering and whimpering. He bled out in a few seconds. I stood there with him and watched his soul leave his eyes. The engineer was freaking out and I tried to calm him down. I kept my head on straight, but when I saw Amos' wife wandering down the sidewalk towards the tracks from a couple of blocks away, I sent one of the people who had started to gather down to stop her, which they did. That was completely and totally heartbreaking because they had been married for like 65 years.

The worst part was after school started that year, the grandaughter pressed me to tell her about the incident. I refused except to tell her that he died pretty quickly. She got angry and still to this day will not speak to me for essentially trying to protect her. She wanted graphic details and I flat refused.

I've had other 'gory' things but I handle that kind of situational stress and guts really pretty well.

But, Amos' death bothers me still to this day because I knew him and because of the issue with his grandaughter.

worst for me

after Handgun Control switched to the Brady Org,
my TRT group encountered Sarah Brady drunk
in the passenger seat of her gold minivan
on the exit ramp of the Reagan Center.

She attempted to debate us
while having her driver block the exit ramp.

Quoted: Quoted:And to think there are those that condone drunk driving Really? I haven't met too many people who say drunk driving is ok.

For real, some are even on this board.  Or maybe I should say they downplay it.

I spent 20 years in the Army and have seen some shit, but even though I didn't wittness it personally I did watch it live and it still bothers me, thats people jumping from the World trade center windows, and then the buildings comming down. It's a day I will never forget.

I haven't seen anything like a lot of you all, but I know what I'm going to do right now................
.........call someone I love and tell them so.

AB

Quoted: Really? I haven't met too many people who say drunk driving is ok.

Driving drunk is okay.

When I was a little kid, my family and I were going to a ball game when we say a high rise completely engulfed in flames. You could feel the heat from the expressway.

Pentagon 9/11 and the 2 weeks that followed......

Watched a guy get both hands smashed repeatedly with a ball preen hammer..

I was'nt there but any video of 9-11 really gets to me

All of this make me shiver at what our troops are seeing and experiencing.  I've seen some nasty shit but I have never been to war.

I've seen some really graphic video's but, I've never been to war.

I've survived three armed robberies but I can only imagine or try to imagine what it must be like to be shot at.

Twice in my life I have intentionally pointed a gun at another person but I have never actually pulled the trigger.

I was teaching a lady how to shoot and when she was ready to shoot her first live round she tucked the gun under her chin and pulled the trigger.

I was covered in bone, brain, and blood.

I've seen all types of car accidents, but that was the only time I threw up.

Av.

Quoted: ezsixonezero

Was that the accident at MSU?

Quoted: my sister-in-law without her makeup on

ROFL!!!

Satan
Dont' ask.

Motorcycle accident.

A guy was going to fast on his crotch rocket and lost it. He slid off the bike and hit a sign post at his left shoulder.

They found half of his torso on one side of the road, and the rest of him in a drainage pipe under a little bridge closeby.

It was mother's day.

The kick in the nuts is that his momma wanted to see his body. Now lots of people say that they want to see a dead loved one's body, but in reality they do NOT need to see that often. After much negotiation the mother finally consented to just let her pastor go and ID the victim for the mother. He said he had seen a lot of stuff, so he would be fine.

They took him to the morgue and showed him what was left of sonny boy. I wasn't in there, but I saw them carry the pastor out and get him on a gourney. He dang near had a heart attack after they pulled the sheet back.

The people who have probably seen the most crap are cops, nurses, and people who work for Mortuary Affairs in the military.

I have only seen terrible things on tv, but I want to tag this for later to read yer horror stories.

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Dead girl in a car accident.

Enough to say that you're a moron for not wearing a seatbelt, and that a good 9 volt is only $4, keep track of your smoke detector.

I was at Glamis for President's day, 2002, and saw a guyget killed and his wife get scalped in a sandrail. The guy was DOA, she lived. They were down Oldsmobile hill, when some drunken idiot decided to ride a wheelie up the hill. He couldn't see the rail coming down, since he was pointed skyward, and went right over the top of 'em. The rollbar broke off, and the aluminum floor pan acted as a guillotine. It cut the male passengers throat from ear to ear, and all the way back to his spinal cord. The female passenger must have ducked her head, because she was literally scalped by the floor pan.

It was a terrible sight, blood everywhere, one dead body, and one (luckily) in shock female. There was two or three EMT's on scene within a few minutes, and the Sheriff rolled up shortly after them. The whole thing was traumatizing, but the part that bothered me most was the people shoving the EMT's out of the way to get pics and videos of the bodies. Vultures.

I've seen worse, but that one sticks in my mind the most.

I work at a Maximun Security Prison.  In Feb of 2000 we had one of our inmates died of a heart attack.  The problem was that this inmate weighed 634lbs.  It took 10 of us to pick this dead Child Molester up and put him into the Hearse/Van.  We then took him to a local Hospital for autopsy.  Since Chester the Molester had to go up on the table all by himself (Naked and without the old fire hose we cut into straps to hoist his dead ass)  it took 12 of us to move him onto the table.

After his Autopsy was complete we returned to transfer him to a local Funeral Home.  The smell in the Morgue cannot be described.  They had sewn the Y style cut into his Chest/Abdomen closed with what appeared to be Butchers Twine and it was pulling apart.  There was blood and chunks of fat everywhere.

One young kid who worked with us who about 20 noticed a red bag sticking out of Uncle Pervy's fat chest asked what that was.  The best friend that I have made in 9yrs. of working in this place replied "You ever help your Mother clean that Thanksgiving Turkey, That's that bag of Jiblet's!" I thought the youngster was gonna puke right there.

The worst part came later that evening when my buddy who had made that comment came over for dinner.  I had cooked some rare filet's on the grill and while we were eating dinner and talking about the day's events I looked over at my Girlfriend who is now my Wife,  She had this piece of blood red meat on her fork with her mouth hanging open just looking at it.  She then said "I'm not hungry anymore" cleared her dishes and went and puked.  

I still think of this turd every time I cook a good Steak!

A drunk driver nearly sideswiped me. Then rolled his truck in front of me 3 times. He was partially ejected and when the truck came to a rest his head was pinned between the cab of the truck and the concrete curb. The words "popped like a zit" were used by the state patrol.

Rookie year, domestic dispute. Wife locked herself in the bedroom, hubby came in with a Wingmaster and shot her in the head from about 7 feet while she was lying on the bed. 3 foot diameter blood and tissue pattern on the wall behind her.

Edited to add, Close second place: A fellow who cut down a 30" diameter elm tree using a chainsaw and tripped while trying to get out of the way when the tree fell the wrong direction. I learned the definition of "Palpable Skull Fracture".

Rosie o' donnel!

A man decapitated with a claw hammer.

Some things I learned on this thread. #1 I live a sheltered Life #2 Wear seat belt always #3 Prey I do not live around any of you guys. Danger follows you, Its like final destination

Quoted: Quoted: I wouldn't know where to begin... +1 Dead infants, decapitations, burn victims, floaters.   For the worst, ask a firefighter... NorCalous

Ain't that the truth.

Quoted: I wouldn't know where to begin...

Nor would I want to.

Contrary to popular belief, some things need to stay locked away forever.

NYC, 6 years old and my mom was bringing me home from kindergarten.
It was raining pretty hard and I saw a middle aged man get smoked by a city bus on Allen Street, I don't know if it was suicide or brain fart. His body got rolled up under the bus like a piece of bread dough and spat out the back all bloody.
I remember seeing a large pool of blood forming but also getting thinned by the rainfall. My mom got me out of there fast but the blood stain was still there the next day.
I didn't talk to my mom about it till I was in my late teens.

Volunteer Fire here also.


It has just made me thankful for every second that my family and friends are alive and healthy.

The remains of a guy (passanger) and a girl (driver) that plowed into the back of a parked semi on the NYS thruway. I was the third car to stop. The state police later reported that they estimated the speed to be over 90mph when they impacted and thought it was a suicide. The car was low enough that it slid under the trailer and the back bumper acted as a guillotine. I watched one body do it's death throws and decided that I was of no use.

I worked as a rescue tech for the local fire dept. for four years but never saw anything that compared to that.

Quoted: I was teaching a lady how to shoot and when she was ready to shoot her first live round she tucked the gun under her chin and pulled the trigger. I was covered in bone, brain, and blood. I've seen all types of car accidents, but that was the only time I threw up. Av.

Oh my Lord...

ive seen a lot of things in 10 yrs of EMS, but one that bothered more than any other was an 18 yo kid that ran off the road and hit a tree.  he couldnt get out and the car caught fire and burned out before fire and ems arrived on scene.  he was still alive and conscious, he had full thickness burns on over 95% of his body, bone showing inseveral places.  the only part of him not burned was his genital region due to him urinating himself.  he didnt die until about 12 hours later.

Quoted: I wouldn't know where to begin...

+1

Quoted: Quoted: Doing chest compressions on a 70 year old women in cardiac arrest who was pissing and puking herself while spasming like a fish out of water. The paramedics got her back with the defib though, she walked out of the hospital. Does CPR help with shockable rhythms?

Support circulation and breathing if pulseless/apneic until current can be applied or brain=mush.  

Quoted: www.foxnews.com/images/151309/0_21_moore_michael.jpg

Yes very funny.

If anyone wants to back up a bit and read what I and others have seen they can.  There's nothing funny about any of it.

I as many here have been quite fortunate in that I/we have never been to a war or gone to war or lived in a war zone.  As a matter of fact it is rather funny to me how the phrase "war zone" is bantied about among those of us who have never been to war including our domestic media.

Another thing I have observed is a lack of current or former soldiers in this thread describing what they have seen.

I am a hunter so I know what bullets do to animals in real life.  I haven't ever hunted with grenades or RPG's so I can only imagine.  In my imaginations I can understand why there are not an abundance of former and current soldiers typing out graphic descriptions of what they have personally experienced.

I, as fortunate as I have been, have seen some pretty gruesome stuff but it does not compare to the ghastly reality of living in an area like Kosovo or Afganistan or indeed the grisly reality of being a soldier stationed on one of these areas.

Some of the more heralded/controvertial movies or our time have gone to great lengths to illustrate to us exaclty how horrible war is but regardless of how shocked you or I may think we are buy watching the simulated carnage in a war movie I and you are still unable to concieve what it is actually like to be there.

As in, I watched the un-named soldier in Saving Private Ryan on the beach whose arm had been blown off, in a state of shock he walked back and picked up what was left of his arm.  But I can't imagine being that person or the medic that he walked up to (assuming he lived long enough) to ask for help.

This appears to have been shot off, can you fix it?

But then I digress.  I would have to say that the most horrifying thing I have ever seen is humanities ability to be inhumane to man.

It makes me very tired.  Tonight on the local news there is a story about a full term infant female baby that was found quite dead in a Porta-Potty at a Construction Site and another 13 month old girl that died from a cocaine overdose in a country where abortion is legal.  It is no wonder that I have no problem with legal abortion.  It is rather preferable to the above.

Then it was recently discovered that an endangered Mexican Gray Wolf was killed and there is a $10,000 reward for information on who killed the Wolf.

Oddly enough, no one is offering any kind of reward for information about the woman who threw her newborn baby into the porta-pottie at the construction site.  Apparently the NRA and PETA are busy with other issues.

Quoted: Quoted: I was teaching a lady how to shoot and when she was ready to shoot her first live round she tucked the gun under her chin and pulled the trigger. I was covered in bone, brain, and blood. I've seen all types of car accidents, but that was the only time I threw up. Av. Oh my Lord...

+1 !   That's friggen harsh    Talk about mental scars..... Jeez

In my line of work, I have seen more than my share of mutilated, burned, rotted, ect. bodies.
And have worked on my share of live patients with pieces missing, ect.
For some reason...I have responded to an unusually high number of suicides by gunshot, often arriving while the body was still in an agonal state...to pronounce them dead because they are not viable.
The only one that ever really stuck out though...was a 2 year old girl who I found strapped into a car seat, in the back seat of her (drunk) fathers' car...That had been T-boned exactly on the door she was sitting next to.
The police officers who had beaten us to the scene were all seriously distraught, and white as ghosts when we pulled up...one of them said to me, as I walked past him "I think the baby is dead", and then I believe he went to the side of the road, and vomited.
I went to the car, and shined my light into the back seat.
There was severe intrusion to that car door, and the little girls' body was completely intact, except for her head....
All of the flesh was peeled from her head...all the way around...folded down past the level of her chin, leaving an almost completely bare skull...which was also severely fractured, with exposed brain matter.
The little girl happened to be black, which made the color of her skull and facial bones stand out against her dark skin.

I have seen many scenes that were much more gory that this one...but, it kinda stood out.

Quoted: Watched a guy get both hands smashed repeatedly with a ball preen hammer..

Why?  What was that all about?