[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Pretty Gross (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/3/2006 12:58:09 AM EDT
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I just wanted to share my experience that I had with everyone. It's pretty insane. Well, I was at the local grocery store and as I was walking in, I smelled something pretty gross. I've never smelled anything like it, and the only car around was a van (Late-ish at night). There was some liquid below the van that I couldn't see clearly. I didn't think anything of it.. all cars leak something or another and it was dark. I went in and just mentioned it to the manager, that there was an extremely, horribly gross smell coming from what I think may have been an abandoned van. She said she thinks she knows what it is, and she called the police. Turns out, it was a body that was left in a van all day, and roasted in the heat (It's Arizona) and exploded. The liquid below the van was.. you guessed it.. blood and body-goo. So, the police came and did their stuff (man oh man do I feel sorry for them). Then the baggers put cat litter all over the 'seepage' and.. that's all I saw, then I just left after I got my shit. Aint it gross? 
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I had one one time that the body was at the point it was about to pop. We wanted to stand outside and put a round in it or poke him with a pointy object to make it go, so it wouldn't happen while we were in the room. Guy had died in a Lay-Z-Boy chair and it sucked having to retreive his wallet from his back pocket. He had been there for probably 3 or 4 days in the Florida summer heat. In addition to being a bloated 200lb zit, the body had turned to a lovely shade of black, plum and mottled blue in some places, and was various shades of taupe in others. Discovered by the cable guy when he came by to shut off the service fir non-payment. Luckly he did not burst while I or the paramedics were in the room. The body removal service guy was very gentle when he showed up, he got the guy into the pouch before it happend. |
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I would recommend using the respirator anyway. A lot of the gaseous products of decomposition are highly toxic. We wouldn't want YOU to be the next DRT! 
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Indoors yes, outside it's okay. It's fun to watch the rookies vomit. 
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I won't go that far. I have just been to a couple fires that had bodies in them, and that was the prevalent odor from them. It was a rather sickening smell really, not like the Honey Baked Store at all. The Sergeant that was the arson investigator is the one who pointed out the ham part of the smell among the other charred smells. He was just able to put a label on the odor that was correct. |
Well, they don't exactly "Explode" like say..... a Glock  heheThey do sorta bust open with a *POP* and then there's the whole oozing thing. Sorta like an extra greasy sausage frying on a too hot grill....... Ohh..... almost forgot, the sausages with the cheese in em, that's important for the ooze.  |
They don't call it long pig for nuthin ! 
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never smelt decomposed peoples but how is it different from.. say.. decomposed rat, bear, cat, pig, cow etc etc? seems like flesh is flesh and the ability to distinguish rotting person from rotting hog would not be possible unless perhaps you are a bloodhound. |
Um??? No! My car, truck, and bike no leaky... And the smell? Never smelt decomp but after ARDOC posted the story on vaginal warts yesterday I had the itchy feeling the weird smells at work are not what I think they are 
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ANNNNND HOWWWW!!!!! My best friend and I stumbled upon a dead transient in the desert outside of Apache Jct., AZ back in the early eighties......we knew what it was before we even saw him. Pretty friggin nasty.....still makes me kind of gaggy to think about it..... We call that smell, "The PEW!!!" |
| Years ago, we used to have 2 cats (but now have only one). One of them died outside and was missing for 3 days under some bushes before we found him and the horrible smell. Guess who got to remove him? I used a shovel to remove him from the bushes. Oh my fucking god the smell!! I almost puked. He was all bloated and nasty. My mother held the trash bag and was crying the whole time. We threw him in the trash and that was the end of it. No idea how he died. Maybe anti freeze or something. |
Glad I could help!  I doubt that guy has been in the van just one day. Probably several days. We had one guy shoot himself in the head in front of the police station. The meter maids kept giving him tickets for expired parking. It has snowed right after he did it so the car was covered with snow. So finally they call the wrecker to tow the car and when the driver looks inside, one dead guy frozen solid. The coroner was mightly glad for refrigeration from mother nature. |
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Roast ham, No way with the assoicated wood/plastics no you get that wiff of roast meat but it is too sweet smelling with the arcid plastics that turn your stomach. As a old Medic I can ride down the street with the windows down and smell that smell from 2-3 blocks away, even if it is in a closed house. In the winter it takes longer but carries further. In the summer it is faster even with the A/C on. I can smell a human rotting even in areas that animals are rotting in the sun in 90+ weather. They get the point of dripping (oozing) I can smell them from many blocks away if the wind is right. You want gross? Imagine going to a house in the summer, 100 degree days no A/C . Body down for at least 7 days, rupture from body gases you have to use sheets to wrap around the body to pick it up, because if you grab the skin/flesh it comes off in your hands. But that is minor the floor is alive with roaches and ants, who are comming out of every body orifice. This one I type about ( and Is not the only one I have seen) was female who was naked. All the happy places that you think about have roaches and ants crawling out and over them. The roaches have the Aques major from the eyes pulled out and the ants are feeding over the left overs. You bag the poor soul and transport to the mourge, as you are leaving you see Old M.E. officers and Old crime scene techs. vomiting. You get to the mourge and you and you partner are standing naked on a city street beating your clothes on the side of the ambulance beacuse of the bugs. The M.E. refuses the body into the building. You end up assiting with the post mortum in the parking lot. Dressed in tyveks and every time you move you think it is another bug. This kind of stuff screws with your brain for a long time. |
??!!!???!! Dude, that's pretty gross. Like, f---ing disgusting.   
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I think you hit pretty much everything, but it's not just summer. The elderly shut-ins that pass in the middle of winter with the heat cranked up and some little yip dog running loose, tearing into EVERYTHING, because master has been dead for a week and no one ever checks on them or stops by. |