[quote=Jamie ]I was going to add something very similar on the dead pet thread but reckoned it might upset a few folk.
Pets > People.
Exactly!
mattjg, having made "one last visit" to my grandfather I completely agree.
This is kind of turning into the "is there anyone famous on here" thread, in a different way...
dont know the thread but it's not "my story is more harrowing than your story" willy-waving if thats what you mean? Coppers tend to try out-do each other with war stories but thats not the intention of posting on here, just letting the OP know they are far from alone, and that its normal to have any one of a number of reactions.
The lorry driver-drink driving?
Last week there was a Cops' show where a professional truck driver was pulled for using his mobile then was found to be 3times the limit.
Ok, my story...
A few years ago I was with some friends and family at eh Ledgowan Lodge in Achnasheen for new year. We did the whole ceilidh/the bells thing and toddled off to bed very late. Got up in the morning to find an old dear had snuffed it in the hotel reception area. We did the CPR thing and called the emergency services, who had to send an air ambulance on account of the snowy roads. The police arrived and one kindly officer suggested to my 13-year old daughter that she should stay in her room until matters had been taken care of. Given that her favourite TV shows were the various CSI spin-offs, she had, up until then, been describing in great detail what changes the corpse was going through internally....
Oh - ever tried getting an undertaker on New Years morning in the Highlands?
I work in intensive care. I see dead bodies all the time.
It used to be fairly routine in Lagos, mostly in the mornings. They were either juju victims who had been dropped off a bridge and would be smashed up and scattered all over the road or flat as a carpet from being run over so many times or they would be pedestrians who had been hit while dashing across - I've seen a woman dressed in nice Traditional and a man in a suit. Nobody goes near the bodies so they lie there until the big black morgue van gets a battery and gets started up. What's really upsetting is the thought that there are probably kids at home waiting for a Mummy or Daddy who never comes home. Nowadays every time I see anything vaguely brown and body-shaped by the road I always cringe.
I work in intensive care. I see dead bodies all the time.
I'm stalking, Crikey. Ditto.
I work in intensive care. I see dead bodies all the time.
You really should work harder. 😉
crikey - MemberI work in intensive care. I see dead bodies all the time.
You are Haley Joel Osment and I claim my £5
Laat one was my brother who died in a fall in Baku, took him 2-3 weeks to get back to nz. He wasnt looking his best. Not an image I want to recall too often.
Used to work in the Pest control industry and we had contracts with the Co-op funeral parlours.
Remember going to one in bristol and was quite used to seeing the elderly laid out ready but this day had a baby/toddler laid out in a crib ,that was the only time I have had to have a moment whilst seeing the deceased.
Been unfortunate to see a few too many corpses in my time.
The memory is always there in the back of my mind, in H. D.
As for the rubber necking thing, my sister in law was killed in a rta at 16 year old .
Needless to say I dont have to ask the missus look the other way :(.
Viewing the deceased in a parlour of repose, has never given me any comfort .
[i]hora - Member
The guy explains what happened in the text under the clip. The trucks were stationery.[/i][b]He went for that slender gap and at any stage one could.. have moved.[/b]
No he didn't! He didn't spot the slowing traffic and the stationary trucks until it was too late, he couldn't shed enough speed, and chose the lesser of two unappetizing possibilities and tried to go between them rather than slamming directly into the back of them.
His problem was in focusing solely on the road 10ft in front of him when doing 70mph. This isn't a rare occurrence and it seems to be becoming more common on today's crowded roads.
Unovolo maggots etc up noses/ears/fumigation?
Unovolo maggots etc up noses/ears/fumigation?
😐
My Mum was stood at the bus stop with an old lady who she used to bump into at said bus stop occasionally. Old lady see's bus approacing on the other side & dashes across to the other stop...
She didn't die instantly, but went soon afterwards. My Mum was very upset, & some kind soul took her in for a cuppa etc, but what shocked her most was the rsole from a few doors away, on invalidity benefit running down the road with his video camera...
When did common decency & respect become banished.
I see dead bodies all the time through work, you get used to it. One hospital I worked in only had the mortuary staffed certain times of the day - bodies dont bother me in the slightest however it did used to give you the willies slightly going down to a deserted mortuary to get a body out of the fridges when you need to see them after death for certification!
40 mpg I got caught in the ensuing jam. Not a nice thing to have seen.
Not a great area to be on two wheels lately.
Try not to dwell on it.
Coppers tend to try out-do each other with war stories but thats not the intention of posting on here, just letting the OP know they are far from alone, and that its normal to have any one of a number of reactions.
This. 🙂
Used to work in the mortuary and do black van pickups - seen too many - and some very messy ones
Its only the shell thats left so not bothered by it.
We live, we die - it happens to us all.
Ive lost close family too young and it hurts but we cant all live to a ripe old age.
Its all part of life
unovolo maggots etc up noses/ears/fumigation?
Quite the contrary all the funeral places I ever went to were immaculate and pest free,its more a case of prevention is better than cure.
I see dead bodies most mornings, but they're normally small mammals dropped off by our cats....
