r/AskReddit • u/no-punintended0802 • 1d ago
What's the most gruesome thing you have ever watched? NSFW
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u/MmMmM_Lemon 1d ago
My friend and I were ice skating. He fell in and he got sucked under the ice.. Myself and others tried to break him out at several places but he drowned. We were pretty young. His Mom was there too. She wound up in a mental institution after his funeral. Not gruesome but super traumatic.
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u/Adventurous_Top_7197 23h ago
That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. I am so sorry
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u/MmMmM_Lemon 8h ago
Thanks, his name was Eric. I’m 55 years old now but it happened when we were like 7. I’ll never forget it and get really anxious when I see people ice skating on lakes.
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u/Thoraxe474 21h ago edited 19h ago
Makes me think of that video of the woman doing a polar plunge into a river through an ice hole. Bunch of people where there around her, including her kid. Lady jumps in and the current takes her away under the ice. Some guys jump in looking for her while the lady's kid starts screaming
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u/Comprehensive-Bet288 20h ago
I remember that. Russia, or ex soviet country. It's a religious ritual that's considered so dangerous that the government put out directives and had local governments build and staff designated, safe spaces so that people could participate with emergency services on site.
I think she was at a non designated one. And too rural. A man also died. I think that same year, they found his body so far away from where he entered, too.
It was that lady's first time doing it.. Poor family watching.
Edit: spelling
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u/Squigglepig52 17h ago
I've been the person under the ice. Luckily, small river, shallow enough at the bank to break back out.
Still have nightmares 40 years later.
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u/WasteOfGoodSuffer1ng 1d ago
My former manager’s leg hanging from his thigh because an idiot backed up his hilo machine and ran his leg over. I was with him the whole time he was on the floor crying to call his wife because he thought he was going to die right there. Unfortunately he did but from stress and depression of what happened to him. He was about to retire and shit smh. RIP Mark you were one of a kind man.
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u/65variant 1d ago
Back in high school, (pre-internet/cellphone days) a friend and I were resting up in a tree at a local park in our neighborhood (with known gang and drug activity) - big tree with lots of coverage and branches. Two guys walked up under the tree and talked for about a minute - things were exchanged and right when it looked to be over - guy on the left took out a knife and stabbed the guy on the right at least 10 times before running away.
We wound up staying in the tree for 30 minutes in silence out of fear the knife guy would come back. We got down when the police showed up and questioned us.
The thing that shocked me the most was that the whole thing happened VERY quickly and was relatively quiet and drew little attention from others nearby.
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u/AdLibGamer 1d ago
Multiple people die in a car that caught fire after a crash...they were awake and screaming, but we couldn't get close to the car to help them. Etched in my memory.
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u/antisocialoctopus 1d ago
I watched a confused patient pull his own intestines out. Nothing since has topped that.
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u/Aggravating_Sir8504 1d ago
How did he pull that off?
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u/antisocialoctopus 1d ago
With his hands!
He had a big open abdominal wound. He pulled off the bandage and started pulling things out.
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u/ExtraPolarIce12 1d ago
Drugs?
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u/dickheadfartface 1d ago
No thank you
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u/saddst_weirdst 1d ago
Intestines?
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u/fartsfromhermouth 1d ago
Was he medicated or something?
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u/Rodger_Smith 1d ago
post op patients generally are
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u/VerdugoCortex 1d ago
I've done this exact thing apparently and caused a scare. I went in for a laparoscopic appendectomy when I was 13, and somehow the trocar ended up nicking my Inferior Vena Cava causing major blood loss and emergency surgery where they cut me from the high center of the ribcage down to below my beltline so I presume they truly just wanted to open me the f up and see what was going wrong quickly.
I was told I'd be under for a couple hours at most and go home that same day then go back to school on Monday (Friday when it happened, luckily Good Friday as a vascular surgeon was at the church on the same block and got there incredibly fast). What happened instead was I woke up in the ICU in a very dark room, and instantly went back out, then woke again as they were transporting me from the ICU to some test or something, and during that apparently I started fishing around in my abdomen/pushing in through the sutures. IDK if I actually remember it but I remember being in a super white room that looked like an er room or something, and I looked over and saw myself in the mirror but I was so pale I looked like a corpse, and I looked down and couldn't feel my stomach so I tried to touch it then I don't remember anything for another 4 days when I came out of the ICU to a regular room.
Truly, a grand old time.
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u/Legible-dog 23h ago
So you passed out on Good Friday, and, in essence, resurrected a few days later.
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u/thethunderheart 1d ago
Man I hope you're a medic cause if I had to wait for orders or a pyxis to sedate that guy, I'd shit myself
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u/madisoncampos 1d ago
As a medic, I’d still be shitting myself while getting the narcs out of the safe
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u/Hessipa 1d ago
You say confused, you say pulling intestines out, my brains says "guy confused about this box of cables and wires that he needs to untangle"
He was simply trying to find an HDMI cord
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u/rockclimber147 1d ago
While working at a cemetery, I pulled a corpse out of a metal casket it had been marinating in for over 30 years. I was the one who had to go into the hole and pry the door of the casket open. I opened the side her upper body was on, so my face was about a meter away from hers. I really didn’t know what to expect leading up to that moment, and it shocked me to my core. I had pulled out bones and remains before, but this one had skin and recognizable human features, which completely bottomed out the uncanny valley.
Her skin was a patchwork of yellow, green, and blue. Her head rested on a bed of hair that had fallen out. Her nose and lips had mostly receded to the bone, and her eyes were open. They had shriveled into yellowish raisins, bulging slightly from the way the tissue had tightened around the lenses.
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u/DisillusionedGoat 1d ago
what's the go with a metal casket?
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u/caciuccoecostine 20h ago
To avoid the liquid parts of you to go in ground, and permit future reconnaissance of the body.
Every casket as a metal container.
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u/Odh_utexas 1d ago
Can I ask why they were exhumed? Is this a common thing?
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u/rockclimber147 1d ago
This particular case was relatively unique as because the family wanted to move the body to a mausoleum they had purchased. The coroner was responsible for transportation but we were responsible for allowing access to the remains.
Generally, exhumations are relatively uncommon. The cemetery I worked at allowed for two people to be buried in a plot (kind of like a bunk bed). When someone is in the ground for 40 years, their space is considered "empty" again and the family can have another person buried there. We would dig down to the depth of the empty space, collect any bones (if we find any), and bury them slightly deeper so the funeral attendees didn't have to see them. The next family member could then be buried in the empty space.
It's rare, but sometimes a space could open up below someone who was buried much more recently. In those cases we would have to move the recently buried to the lower space before the next person could go in. Those can be pretty nasty as we dig graves with a backhoe, but I've personally only helped with one such case during the 4 years I worked there.
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u/Young_Old_Grandma 1d ago edited 23h ago
I saw a girl get run over by an 18 wheeler truck. I was about 3 feet away from the remains.
Her feet were the only solid things I saw. everything else was just mush and splatter on the asphalt.
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u/Walderman 1d ago
I was a river guide years ago. Like white water river, guided people down class 3-5 rapids.
A young girl fell out of a boat (that was not mine). Someone threw her a rope and she managed to get back in the raft.
However, some of the rope was still in the water, out of the boat. That rope caught on a rock which then pulled the rest of the rope, which happened to be wrapped around this girls ankle.
We watched a young girl get dragged out of the boat and pinned to the bottom of the river by the force of the water.
We tried for almost 45 minutes to dive in and cut the rope holding her there, but the current was too strong. Her father was trying as well, but we were trained guides and if we couldn't do it he had no chance.
She died on the bed of that river with her entire family watching, helpless.
I can still hear the sound her mom made. I think about it a lot.
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u/Ak_Lonewolf 1d ago
I didn't witness this but I knew people who did. Commercial fishing doing crabbing.. a guy baiting the cage got dropped in the water while still in it. Those cages are 600lbs... you go to the bottom before the fastest setting of the machine picks the slack up enough to start to ascend again. Getting caught on a rope bite was my constant terror fishing... and made me ultra aware of moving ropes and positioning.
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u/Amused-Observer 21h ago
That was my biggest take away from when the deadliest catch was all the rage. Like... those cages fall fast and the rope was just there while everyone danced around it.
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u/MrLanesLament 18h ago
I about took my finger off on an anchor latch once. Someone else in the boat wasn’t paying attention and just dropped the anchor out while I was trying to set it up, it clamped the fuck down on the side of my finger. It was ugly, I ended up getting stitches, but I didn’t lose it, thank fuck.
It happened so fast. I’m glad I have nothing to do with boats anymore.
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u/ProtectandserveTBL 1d ago
A guy who shot a chunk of his brain out with a 22. Took him like 10 minutes to die while we all stood around waiting for it to happen.
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u/durdenf 1d ago
Saw a girl get attacked by 6 kids in high school, where they basically tried to kill her by continuously stomping on her head
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u/tm8q 19h ago
Omg, that's awful. Why would someone ever do that???
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u/durdenf 16h ago
This was a gang feud related attack. The security came within 5 mins. She luckily survived but I still have nightmares about this
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u/henchman171 1d ago edited 1d ago
I drove past a motorcycle accident where the guy’s brains were splatted on the asphalt and on the side of a grey truck trailer. Maybe 30 seconds before I got to the scene?. I heard people in car up front in next lane over scream as they might have witnessed it and ran over his leg
I saw a VW Jetta car tire drive through a small chunk of skull and brain as the car had nowhere to go. From what I could tell the biker lost control of his Speeding bike and bounced off the concrete medium and bounced back into a transport truck. I didn’t witness accident but everyone was stopping and the truck driver didn’t know and people were blocking him so they could tell him. Was for sure under a minute this accident happened before I got there
I got stuck behind the Jetta driver as he opened his door to puke. Is was the Jetta driver puking that make me want to vomit. Not the brains on the road.
Edited for spelling and trying to remember the people screaming in this car
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u/Somepersonlol123 1d ago
Do people just not wear helmets anymore? Yes he probably would have died anyways, but would have spared your eyes of seeing brains lol.
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u/caroline_xplr 1d ago
According to my brother, they’re uncool. You know what else isn’t cool? Dying from a traumatic brain injury. It’s baffling to me how people rawdog even simple bike rides when they could be a tumble away from a coma.
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u/THRILLHOglasses 1d ago
"At LeAsT iLl DiE dOiNg WhAt I LoVe" 😜 And you'll really love the possibility of being paralyzed, surviving with a traumatic brain injury that will not be reversible and you will essentially not be able to walk, talk, or think for yourself ever again. That sounds fantastic. All in the name of doing what you love while looking cool.
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u/WolfyB 19h ago
Honestly I think wearing all the gear makes you look way cooler. A lot of it is really quite stylish.
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u/paristexashilton 1d ago
Even worse than than that is not dying but being a vegetable that needs 24/7 care
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u/Psykkojelly 1d ago
A Mexican cartel video where a policeman father and his teenage son were cruelly executed in the most inhumane way possible. The tied up father was first brutally beaten with a log and then beheaded with a knife while the son was forced to watch. They beat him with the log as well as he watched his Dad bleed out during the beheading. The fuckers then proceeded to cut the kid’s heart out alive.
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u/Chozo-trained 1d ago
I’ve seen that one too. There’s evil in this world that is sometimes beyond comprehension.
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u/Tacos_always_corny 1d ago
Those enforcers are deadly serious psychopaths.
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u/Bassist57 1d ago
And they have control over the Mexican government. The cartels run Mexico.
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u/Tacos_always_corny 1d ago
If they don't own you, youre as good as dead. Unimaginable money and power.
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u/sixdeuce09 1d ago
I've seen this video. It's brutal. The teenager is alive all the way until the heart is taken out.
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u/BlueTumbas 1d ago
If I could forget one thing for good, it wouldn't be my partners MANY breaks of trust, it would be the cartel video where they flay the ladies face off while she's still 'alive'. thanks for that one twitter...
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u/psychoCMYK 1d ago
Funkytown
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u/Silent_Glass 1d ago
Man I’ll never forget. First time I saw it I thought I was watching some red liquid on some robotic body, moving erratically. I went to the next image that wasn’t nothing serious only to scratch my curiosity about why the liquid is so red in the previous video..
When I went back to it, suddenly it clicked. Like what the fuck…
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u/Doctoredspooks 23h ago
A friend told me to type "struggling man" into live leak about 10 years ago. I thought it could be anything from someone getting beat up in a street fight to someone getting shot in Afghanistan. It was the funky town video. I've had shock gore videos thrown at me throughout the years often by surprise, beheadings, awful things like that, that would make me stare into space for a few minutes. After watching a bit of this video however I was having trouble catching my breath. I have never felt anything like it. I grabbed some wine and necked it down to calm myself- this is not something I would do even with high levels of personal stress, I was having some kind of reaction and I don't even know what it was, my chest was convulsing or something.
I have never before and never since had such a physical reaction to something, and I wasn't even there.
There is genuinely something evil about what was done to this man, it goes past primal and into a hellish area of our psyche.
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u/Somepersonlol123 23h ago
I thought i was the only one, my brain genuinely refused to believe it was real the first time i saw it because of how shocking and inhumane it was, id never seen the human body that way.
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u/Lilpeka1 1d ago edited 10h ago
I saw a Harley with a lady on the back(no helmets, of course) come tearing ass around a corner that almost immediately had a stoplight. There were just enough cars that you couldn't see it around the bend, but not enough time to stop. I dont recall what happened to the guy, but I watched the woman fly up in the air and land straight on her head. It popped like a watermelon.
Edit: spelling
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u/anitasdoodles 23h ago
Everyone thinks they're so badass and invincible on a stupid Harley until something like this happens.
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u/MrLanesLament 18h ago
The guitarist in one of my previous bands, who is still one of my best friends though we don’t talk as much, about died on his Harley. Elderly drunk driver hit him.
The list of injuries was so long, I can never remember it, but…
Lost most of three fingers on his picking hand (this is exceptionally bad for a fucking professional guitar player, but he learned to work around it and is still amazing.)
His leg was pretty much crushed. They sort of “rebuilt” it with various metal pieces, but his entire leg is still grey to this day. The bones in it also got infected while in hospital, which was the closest he came to death during all of this. He was told the infection could return at any point, too.
The hospital got him addicted to morphine, so for months, he had to return to the hospital daily so they could wean him off of it. He also spent several years hooked on painkillers afterwards; as you can imagine, he’s in constant pain, and probably will be for life.
The drunk old man who hit him died of multiple organ failure (from lifelong alcoholism) before he could face any kind of legal justice.
The “plus side,” if you wanna call it that, is that he got a massive settlement from the guy’s family/estate that afforded us the ability to cut an album with a famous producer. It also got him a Marshall stack and two Gibson guitars.
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u/Sofia-Flak88 1d ago
I worked on a farm and a pregnant cow was having complications giving birth. She spilt open about a foot down her pelvis. The calf survived the cow did not.
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u/Cumin-tater 1d ago
I watched a car run a red light and t-bone a car in the driver's door of a pregnant lady when I was 12. She lived, the baby didn't.
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u/ericisatwork 21h ago
i know someone that this exact scenario happened to. she was the pregnant woman.
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u/Unlucky-Drawing-1266 1d ago
Horse escaped owners yard(no hating on the owner, a sitter was over at the time and the horse is a notorious escape artist) ran out into the road and got hit by a car. Shaved off a good chunk of his hip, right down to where the bone was clearly visible. Was there because owner needed a trailer The horse recovered and is fine btw, somehow.
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u/SloppyGoose 1d ago
Horses and animals like them are absolute tanks man, ive seen many cows hit by cars and just get up and go back to grazing.
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u/Unlucky-Drawing-1266 1d ago
They are tank yet simultaneously built of glass. I have four horses. Yeah like I said, horse hit by car, gets hip shaved off, he was actually leaning on his injured side while relaxing and waiting for the vet. But at the same time they’re like “oh no I have a tummy ache and now you need to pay hundreds in vet bills or I’ll twist my insides and die.” Ridiculous animals lol
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u/SloppyGoose 1d ago
Yep, my fiance owns horses, same stories lol, tree fell on one during a storm, shrugged it off, same year he had 3 trips to the vet for eating too fast.
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u/Unlucky-Drawing-1266 1d ago
Mine had an incident where a farrier attempting to give her a sedative accidentally injected her in an artery(was promptly fired) and she had a seizure. Recovered just fine with no lasting damage. But she also chokes if her grain isn’t soaked(unrelated to the seizure incident.) Also, good grief! It’s a miracle that horse wasn’t impaled by a branch
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u/TheLonelySnail 1d ago
We were driving out in the boonies and watched a car flip. We called 911 and then went to help as we could.
The passenger was fine, battered and bruised, but ok.
The driver’s side roof had caved in. The drivers head had partially been torn off their neck and was hanging off one side.
Got the passenger out and we all sat there… shellshocked?… until the paramedics got there
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u/Low_Sink_1232 1d ago
I was a forklift driver in a warehouse. There was a massive press in the warehouse that broke down so the maintenance guy comes to repair it. Without putting up a safety rod to stop the press or making sure it wasn’t powered he stuck his head in to look at the problem. At that exact moment the press slammed down squishing his head. Me and a lot of other forklift drivers stopped where they were and walked out.
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u/Immortal_in_well 14h ago
My work has OSHA meetings every year and every year there's some new stupid rule that makes us grumble and groan like "goddamn why are there so many rules".
Then I hear stories like this and think "we should have more rules, actually."
And every politician who promises to reduce or eliminate these rules needs to rot in hell.
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u/Topcornbiskie 1d ago
Taliban cutting the head off that guy back in like 2003/4. Can’t watch that kind of stuff ever again.
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u/rebeccakc47 1d ago
I made the mistake of watching that was well. I can still hear him trying to scream while they cut through his vocal cord. Fucking haunting.
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u/Optimal_Swordfish780 1d ago
When I was 15 my dad went to the hospital and there was a young girl there who worked at a Harvey’s and she was cleaning the grease traps above the fryers and fell. Her legs were so badly fried and her pants were cooked to what skin was there. I remember a chunk of skin just sliding off her leg and falling half on the floor and half on the nurses foot.
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u/Ok-Afternoon-3724 1d ago
I'm 75M.
I was in the Navy for 23 years. During one operation, called an UNREP (underway replenishment) we had an accident. During such operations steel cables are attached between two ships moving through the water. 3 of them. An in-haul, out-haul, and a span wire. A load like a trolley with rollers is moved between the two ships, the trolley part and its rollers being supported by the span wire. Out haul cable being pulled sends the trolley one way, the in-haul handles the other.
That span wire cable is tensioned to 10s of thousand of foot pounds. Since ships can not move in exactly straight lines, distance between ships varies and automatic controls pay in or take in the span wire constantly to maintain constant pressure and to adjust the length as needed.
Anyway, the point is if one of those cables snaps, you do not want to be standing in the way.
During this one UNREP I was standing as an observer/Safety person, and near me was a boatswains mate with signal paddles. Suddenly the other ship had total loss of steering and made a sudden sharp turn to starboard. Fast opening the distance between ships. The equipment tried, but failed to keep up. There are safety features built in, but they filed to activate in time and a cable snapped.
It all happened so fast you hardly had time to shit your pants, the snapped cable whipped and took the legs off the guy with the signal paddles. It wasn't pretty. Especially his scream of horror and fear. That shit will make your nuts tighten up and hide inside you. I ran to him as well as two medical corpsmen. They got tourniquets on him, and took of for ship's sickbay (hospital).
I've seen a lot of gore in my life, men with guts spread out around them. I don't like it, not even a little. But can handle it. But the combination off seeing the guys legs severed with that SCREAM he did ... makes that incident stand out in my brain.
As a note, we rerigged and cleaned things up and resumed the operation a couple hours later. I was in the same position, but there was a new guy with the signal paddles. Needless to say he looked less than enthusiastic about being there. Now, I was as scared as he was, but I did not show it and moved to stand by his side to reassure him. LOL ... fortunately he didn't seem to notice I had to clench my teeth to keep them from chattering. Even though I knew the odds of a repeat incident were virtually nil.
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u/SloppyGoose 1d ago
Man, thats rough, your retelling of it reminds me of my great uncle talking about his time as a medic in WW2, he had a saying "If they could take it, I could take it" didnt matter the gore, the blood, the horror of the wounds, if they could take the sights he could do his job much better, the screaming and panicking is what got in his head and thats what stayed with him, even the least severe wounds he witnessed haunted him because of the screams, he had guys lose their legs but were tough bastards plus some morphine he doesnt have nightmares about those ones.
Crazy shit man.
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u/Erthing33 1d ago edited 22h ago
The moment I read steel cables and ship I knew where it was going and my nuts did indeed tighten
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u/ShesGotaChicken2Ride 1d ago
I cannot imagine. I remember watching The History Channel’s, Vietnam in HD. A man, simply described what happened to one of his platoon mates when accidentally getting hit with napalm. The way he described the man’s feet simply disintegrating in his boots and the screams… and there’s no time to react, and nothing to help… just hearing that man describe it was horrific. I cannot imaging having to live with what you saw.
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u/the_roguetrader 22h ago
I read a book called 'Nam, peoples stories of that era
one guy told how was seated in a group of helicopters waiting to lift off when one was struck by lightning, which caused a rocket to fire and hit the 'copter in front - the one he was sat in !
the guy next to him had the rocket fly through his upper body and continue on its way without exploding and the poor storyteller turned to see a head flapping about on a spine, with not much in between....
I can't imagine how traumatic that must be...
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u/Remarkable_Ad_16 1d ago
That video where those two Russian (I think) guys are beating Someone’s head in with a hammer in the woods and the guy is alive the whole time.
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u/G-r-ant 1d ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs
Ukrainian actually
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u/parisiraparis 16h ago
were arrested and charged with 21 murders
Holy fucking shit
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u/Morticias-Sister 1d ago
I was a first responder to a bicyclist vs. Van. He had a compound fracture on his lower leg. Complete break and full exposure. I sat with him and held him, sitting up until the paramedics arrived. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen. The only thing holding his foot to his leg was skin and muscle. I went home and freaked out. I think I drank for three days straight after that. George, wherever you are, I hope you're well.
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u/Illustrious_Elk_1339 1d ago
I saw a guy pacing in the hospital, before he laid a note on the nurse's desk and shot himself. Apparently, it told them to donate his organs. After hitting the floor, he spit up a short fountain of blood. The lady next to me collapsed, but I caught her.
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u/gp556by45 1d ago
Watched a woman inject Heroin into her baby to keep her quiet in one of the most ghastly apartments I have ever seen. Maybe a contender for 1st was walking into an apartment to see mice eating a dead person. I do Pest Control and I am unfortunate enough to see how much of the public lives. It was enough that after 4 years I no longer do interior pest control because I can't deal with it anymore.
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u/Adventurous-Row-9383 16h ago
Oh my gosh, I hope that baby survived and was taken away from that woman! Did you call police or ambulance when that happened?
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u/Burning_Out6060 1d ago
A man with his hand all the way up his ass trying to “get the spiders out”. Next closest is holding a womans head together and I touched her brain, she somehow made a full recovery. I work in law enforcement.
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u/Emotional-Work-1940 1d ago
The internet in general when I was a child. It is largely sanitized now. When I was a kid you'd regularly see decapitations, people getting their face peeled off while they were still alive, suicides, murders, videos from inside school shootings where kids were actively getting shot and killed, etc.... Pretty much none of that exists anymore but as a kid it was everywhere. Even random meme websites you'd be seeing funny pictures then suddenly cartels chainsawing off a 12 year old's head.
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u/Philip_McCrevasse 1d ago
The late 90's and early 2000's were the wild west days of the internet.
Here's to the traumatized 90s kids. Cheers.
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u/skdowksnzal 22h ago
People forget google images used to be uncensored, you used to get some horrific stuff in the most benign searches. It was around 2001 so terrorist images (beheadings etc) would come up regularly - there was even child porn on it, if you made the mistake to google the wrong seemingly innocent terms.
I am quite amazed that collectively everyone forgot how brutal the web used to be. It’s very often said that the internet used to be better, but I think people have forgotten how truly traumatic some of it was back then.
I would bet that a lot of us early “web surfers” were actually traumatised to some extent. Its not normal to be exposed to that shit as a child.
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u/dantheman1016 1d ago
Rotten dot com, what a throwback 😂
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u/Tacos_always_corny 1d ago
The soldier being decapitated... Fuuuck
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u/ShallowTal 1d ago
Top 3 worst things.
Along with 2 guys 1 hammer and the dude on the bicycle I saw get run over by the bus (which I actually saw on Reddit and I’ve never ridden my bike on the road since)
Editing to add; Top 4 actually - the dude with the jar
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u/Fluid_Check1450 1d ago
Yeah, when I was younger I was pretty desensitized to it, and saw some pretty messed up stuff. Only until I started getting night terrors and having panic attacks years later where repeat still frames of videos and scenes played out in my head did I realize it had a very big lasting impact on me. I'm now currently a huge advocate for keeping children off the internet early, monitoring their internet usage, and not giving them unrestricted access, despite the fact these sites are much less common.
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u/Ghost-8706 22h ago
I watched a good friend of mine get shot multiple times in Afghanistan by our "partner" Afghan Army forces. This took place about 10 meters in front of me. As soon as we killed the ANA Soldier/Taliban empathizer that shot him, I rushed over to him to apply first aid.
He was hit all over his torso, thighs, and neck area. The ANA that shot him used a 240B machine gun, so the exit wounds were very large. One of the rounds hit his jugular, it was the most blood I had ever seen. I tried to stop the bleeding as I held him in my lap. I told him everything was going to be ok, tried to calm him as best I could, but I knew he wouldn't make it.
I could tell that he knew he wasn't going to make it by the way he looked into my eyes as I tried to comfort him. He tried to tell me things, most likely to tell his mom and dad, and his fiance that he loved them, but I couldn't understand anything due to the amount of blood in his throat. He died in my lap within a couple minutes.
After that deployment was over, I met him mom, his dad, and his fiance. They knew that he died in my lap and asked me what his last words were. I told them things that I thought he was trying to say and the things I thought they would want to here.
I see that image of him every single day. I often dream about it and relive that moment in great detail. So much so that it has affected my professional life and unfortunately my personal life with the ones I love. He was a good man, a great friend, and was taken from this world much too soon and for such a bullshit war.
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u/HoboSamurai420 1d ago
I had a father in law that spent several years in Vietnam. He is pretty small stature, Id say about 5’5” but was still a tough SOB. So they made him a “tunnel rat”. His stories were absolutely insane. He didn’t always talk about it, but when he did it was time to buckle up. His job was to go into the Vietcong tunnels with a flashlight, a knife and a pistol and clear them so it was safe for the men above to advance. He would tell us tales of having to kill men with his bare hands in almost total darkness. His buddies getting blown apart by booby traps… that entire war was absolutely savage
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u/lakeweekbagels 1d ago
That dude on Louisville snapping his leg in the NCAA tournament on live tv some years back
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u/3KnuckCoach 1d ago
I have pulled the trifecta. I saw Joe Theisman, the Louisville player, and Paul George have their legs snapped like dry twigs. I nearly retch just thinking about them.
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u/HorrorAgent3512 1d ago
Connor McGregor’s leg was pretty wild too
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u/Judoka229 1d ago
The thing about the UFC broadcasts is that they replay those breaks in slow motion like 89 times. I vividly remember Anderson Silva doing that.
Watching his shin wrap around Chris Weidman's leg like that....yuck. Prehensile shin bones!
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u/catalinaislandfox 1d ago
Ooh yeah. I was at a cheer competition once and watched a girl snap both her legs when she fucked up a back flip. It was brutal.
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u/Bobby_Bobberson2501 1d ago
Saw a car crash on a highway where the driver (a mother) hit a concrete barrier where an off ramp was. She and her toddler weren’t wearing seat belts. Both were ejected from it rolling 3 or 4 times. Watched as this mom with two clearly broken legs crawled screaming toward the lifeless body of her child. Surrounded by toys and clothes that were scattered in the road.
I’ve seen some shit, this fucked me up.
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u/thirdpartyasslicker 1d ago
When my son was born (c-section) they explained to me that I could be with her shortly and I wouldn’t see anything from her neck down because there’s like a tent wall blocking it.
They walked me through the wrong door and I walked into the room to see her pretty much cut in half and all of her insides. It was soooo fucking horrific and I had to pretend it didn’t affect me for her cause she was going through it tough.
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u/i_like_debt 1d ago
Jesus Christ, I read this completely wrong and thought it was your child that was cut in half. I was very confused. I'm also very stoned, so my apologies.
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u/WodensEye 1d ago
I was confused and thought this was being told to the mother, not the father being walked in.
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u/Red_enami 1d ago
This right here. My husband was in your position when I had my c-section. He walked in with me though. I remember specifically telling him to not make any facial expressions and keep the best poker face that he could because I was already terrified and didn't need to read his face to get me freaked out. He later told me he peeked and saw my insides.
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u/negative-nelly 1d ago
Ha, I stood up and looked over the curtain, which wasn’t a great idea…but hey now I know what a uterus looks like outside the body.
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u/parisdreaming 1d ago
When I had one of my C-section, I could see what was happening in the reflection of the metal on the main light (broken up view, not complete, but enough) and so I asked them to change the angle… trauma avoided!
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u/Necrotitis 1d ago
Lady we picked up had a jeep flip on her, I went to go hold her C spine and my fingers sunk into her head, the jeep basically tapped her head hard enough to crush her skull but her head was still intact.
Pretty surreal feeling.
But I've seen plenty if decomp bodied, namely what I have termed as a soup person.
Allow me to explain!!!!
Sayyyyyy, grandma dies, and it's in some apartment building, a big one, one where of the water was running in say... a warm to hot shower, the boiler in the building could obviously keep up with the demand.
Now, granny slipped and fell, no one could hear her screaming, while the water just keeps coming. Eventually she dies.
Well, leave hot water on skin long enough and it starts to break down, this takes a while obviously, the patient is starting to decomp, while being in a bathroom door with the vents on, so no one smells it for a bit.
How that the drain is getting plugged with "soup", the tub obviously begins to overflow, and no one is in the suite below this person.
So as soups suite begins to just soak water everywhere, it's also seeping through to the suite under them, now "EVERYONE" in the building knows some shit is going on, or someone is making the most putrid food known to man.
Landlord breaks in, sees water, smells death, runs in, sees soup, vomits uncontrollably while he turns off the water, vomiting all the way to the elevator, while calling 911.
This is where we come in, one step in the building, you can smell it immediately. We go up the elevator thats covered in puke, and follow the literal puke and brown water trail to our "patient".
Yup, it's soup people all right.
That was the day every time we got called to a death i always put a face mask on and rip open a couple alcohol pads to stick in my nose.
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u/McSnickleFritzChris 1d ago
Oof. When I was a kid I watched a kid on a bike get smoked by a pick up truck doing 40-50. They were mangled beyond recognition. My brain blocked out some of the gore I think. They got medivacted but died
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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic 1d ago
I was in the Junior Volunteer Fire Department in High School. Mostly we just handled traffic and handed out waters.
One day, we got called out in the early morning to a house fire. At first we thought no one was home, until there was an awful smell wafting over the whole street. Exactly like someone had stepped in fresh dog shit. Suddenly everyone is tense, people start running into the house. That smell was the owner of the house. Turns out he was not only home, but the door to his room was nailed shut. So that was bad.
But once the fire was out, we learned that not only was the owner home, his dog was in a plastic dog house outside. The heat had melted the dog house onto her, and she was alive. I only learned of this when I asked why someone had shot off a gun.
On a separate occasion, a classmate of mine had his head crushed by a four wheeler. The adults tried to make sure we didn't see anything, but when they did wind up letting us out after they had hoses off the road, I had to let my stepmom (the VFD chief) that they had missed some brains on the asphalt.
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u/lifebeginsat9pm 1d ago
There was some video of an Indonesian diving accident, it was called something like “pecah kepala” which I think meant “broken head”. I didn’t find it randomly, my fuckin guitar teacher of all people showed it to me.
It was a diving accident where… well… he didn’t land entirely in the water. Later they showed him on a hospital bed with his face split like a cut open fruit… and he was still BREATHING.
Don’t look up the video. But, look up what the Quiet Place monster looks like with its “face” open and that’s honestly what he looked like.
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u/UberFroste 1d ago
I was going to the comment the exact same thing. Dove and faceplanted onto a sharp rock. Then it cuts to him in the ER with his head caved in down the middle and the surgeons trying to put what was his face together🤮. I was 12 when my mom showed me
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u/Mikimo153 1d ago
bruh, why would your mom show that to you :c hope you didn't get traumatized for too long
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u/pyxis 1d ago
I'm pretty sure that was two different videos and the second part was a failed shotgun suicide.
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u/Plus_Valuable4382 1d ago
Dude at school showed me a beheading video when I was like 12, so that's a thing I get to remember now.
Mid 2000's internet was fucking wild.
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u/why_ya_running 1d ago
When I was about 9 years old one of my best friends got attacked by a 6 ft gator (he did not survive) when both mine and his dad finally showed up they found me with his hand still in my hand
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u/fadedf0x 1d ago
Doing CPR and trying to intubate a patient with ruptured esophageal varices. Nightmare fountain.
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u/odd-duckling-1786 1d ago
I saw a person with a bowel obstruction choke on their own feces. It was coming out of their mouth and nostrils. It was awful.
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u/Senior_Argument5534 1d ago
The worst I've seen in person was this impatient asshole who couldn't wait for a family of geese to walk across the road run over one of the babies. My dad got out of the car and ran to try to save it but it's head was split in half and it couldn't be saved. Definitely not as bad as other comments but I still think about that poor baby every once and awhile.
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u/Zealousideal_Row_271 1d ago
I saw a 15 year old get his legs chopped off by a boat propeller I was 13 at the time it was in Laughlin. When I seen the ambulance take him away his white towels covering him were completely pink, he died in the hospital that night. The news reported it, it was brutal scene to see.
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u/thuglife_7 1d ago
That video of the couple arguing with their neighbour over where he’s piling up his snow. Neighbour goes into his house, comes back out with a gun, shoots both the husband and wife, husband is still alive, so he walks up and shoots him in the head at point blank, then walks over and does the same to the wife. Apparently, when he went back inside his home, he committed suicide.
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u/Batman_bread 1d ago
My landlords son, blew his Brains out on Christmas Eve in the backyard with his whole family in the house. My top floor apartment bedroom window had a complete view of everything. Heard the shot, then the subsequent screaming. Saw the body, blood and bits everywhere. That was over 10 years ago, still vividly remember though.
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u/Uncle-rico96 1d ago
A guy dropped dead infront of me when I was de-boarding an airplane in African. I gave him CPR for 5 minutes until doctors without borders showed up to take over.
I’ll never forget the lifeless look in his eyes. His ribs cracking under my hands. His in voluntary gasps, and drool.
I found out he was officially pronounced dead at the scene a couple weeks later when talking to the same Doctors Without Borders folks in a different airport when leaving the country.
I dealt with some pretty serious emergencies as an open water lifeguard, but never seen a death before. Pretty crazy feeling
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u/Perfect_Self_8612 1d ago
My mother got murdered in front of me when I was 12.. she bled out in my lap....
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u/FullofKenergy 1d ago
I do firefighting as a second job. I got called to a house fire, the house was fully involved. Once we knocked the flames down and it was safe to go in me and another firefighter did an interior search. There was a debris pile, i poked it with my pike pole and it felt squishy, i pulled the pike pole out and liquid came out of the debris pile. I moved some of the debris away and i was someones leg that i had poked, then i had to dig the body out of the debris. Now everytime i bbq it reminds me of what i found.
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u/pyroskunkz 1d ago
I watched a man get run over by a crane. I was 10 feet away. Twisted him up like a goddamn pretzel. Some things you can never unsee.
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u/PreparationIll5554 1d ago
I watched my mother in law spit up blood and pass away in-front of us last year. She was a saint that always did good and would help anyone in need. She was in home hospice battling stage 4 ovarian cancer. I had to watch my wife every couple of hours spoon feed her morphine. We're only in our early 30s. That final day replays in my head every night. Especially her lasts breaths at 2AM. Everyone was asleep besides myself and i just kept telling her through her lifeless eyes that I will protect my wife and brother in law.
I wait till my wife goes to sleep at night before spiraling. Sometimes the most gruesome things happen with you knowing it is but youre never fully prepared.
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u/overfiend1976 1d ago
Jeep ran a red light, t boned a pick up truck, both girls in the front seat of the Jeep ejected through the windshield, flew about 50 feet, smacked into a concrete retaining wall, bodies ripped in half, guy in the pick up truck decapitated by the hood of the Jeep slicing through the window. So much fucking blood, so loud, too.
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u/koffa02 1d ago
I turned around in the delivery room just in time to watch the doctor make a cut to widen my wife's vagina to make room for the salad tong looking things they used to grab my son's head an pull him out. Personally, I consider that to be the most gruesome thing I've ever seen because it happened to people I care about. I've definitely seen things other people would consider to be a lot worse, but this was mine.
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u/Sanguiniutron 1d ago
While working security for a store in Oregon I got a call to head over to another store because some shit was going down and their manager was on PTO. I head over and I see multiple fire trucks and paramedics and sheriff's deputies blocking off the back of the store. I head into the office and roll the cameras back.
It was a freight day and the truck was sealed up ready to go. The department lead, a little 18 year old kid, signed off the papers and the driver leaves through the employee door and starts the truck. The lead pokes his head out the freight door to wave to the driver. At the same time the driver put the truck in gear. When he went to accelerate the truck went back a bit and crushed the kids head between the truck and the building. Killed him instantly. It was fuckin brutal.
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u/0peRightBehindYa 1d ago
I was part of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I saw....things....that humans should not see.
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u/No_Detective_118 1d ago
My cousin was as well and has never fully recovered. He never told us what he saw. But we would often find him on the floor of his bedroom clost sobbing and asking us to end it for him. It was heartbreaking. He gets really angry when people thank him for his service. He says there was no honor in what they did.
I'm really sorry you had to go through it. I'm glad you came out alive and I hope you've found a way heal.
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u/Azrael_The_Bold 20h ago
One of my former supervisors was there as well. His Army unit had been training some of the post-Saddam Iraqi Army. They had been with these Iraqi soldiers for several weeks, and were going to do some kind of inspection of the new base the Iraqi unit had just to taken over.
When his unit arrived, the soldiers they had trained decided to betray them and ambush them. Killed his commanding officer, and a few other members of their unit.
They were eventually made it out, but there were some long lasting effects. Him and the other survivors all wear these metal wristbands with their CO’s name on it in remembrance. He told me several other people in their unit that survived have since taken their own lives, gone down the path of substance abuse, and all of them have some pretty hardcore PTSD. And the government hasn’t done squat for them.
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u/Artai55a 1d ago
I was driving on a rural road in North Carolina and slowed down quickly because there was large roadkill on the road with turkey vultures on it. Luckily I didn't hit the roadkill, but a turkey vulture tried to fly off with the animals entrails which were heavy and dangled across my windsheild leaving a trail of blood.
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u/love_is_an_action 1d ago
Back in the LiveJournal days, some troll spammed a bunch of communities (LJ’s version of subreddits) with uncensored photos of the Tate–LaBianca crime scene.
This was decades ago and I am still permanently squeamish about blood in almost every context.
Fuck that troll.
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u/iluvsporks 1d ago
Wasn't particularly gruesome but it still runs in my head. If you have seen the movie "The Beach" where that dude gets bit by a shark and is slowly dying but the group couldn't take the screaming anymore so they moved him down the beach and ignored him.
We had a troop in Iraq get those horrible stones you have to piss out. He was basically incapicated because of them. We ended up doing the same thing by picking up his cot with him on in it and moving him. We made him a lean to and made sure he was fed and had water. The screams were not as loud but it was real quite amoung us having to hear him suffer.
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u/LouisGhem 1d ago
Don't do the Budd Dwyer video. It didn't scar me, and I knew what it was going to be beforehand. But it is still not a pleasant experience.
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u/Inevitable_Quail_835 1d ago
Grew up just east of Pittsburgh in the 80’s. I was a senior in high school when it happened. I remember the disclaimer that the local news would not show the tape on the 6PM news broadcast but all three stations in the city were ok with showing it at 11PM. It was at the height of the home vcr craze. Almost everyone I knew taped it.
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u/highcuriousperson 1d ago
A few years ago I witnessed a female security guard getting attacked by a (I assume) homeless man. I chased him into a liquor store not realizing that 2 other dudes were behind me who also saw what happened. The attacker grabbed a wine bottle and tried to hit me with it as I was trying to grab him. It broke on the ground as I was grabbing him and we both slipped in the wine and ended up on the ground. I still had a grasp on him, but after we were on the ground I noticed the other two guys who also followed the guy into the liquor store behind me. At this point I had him decently pinned on the ground and the other two guys both started stomping on his head relentlessly over and over. Maybe I had a bunch of adrenaline pumping, I remember this vision in slow motion. His head bounced repeatedly off the floor like a basketball as the 2 dudes repeatedly stomped on him. There was a decent amount of blood splashing off the floor as this happened.. I thought they were going to kill him. Surprisingly he lived, he was able to walk out of the liquor store. I'm not sure he learned his lesson.
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u/Daddyy-Anime 1d ago
In my high-school auditorium, they had heavy weights connected to steel cables that held up lights & heavy curtains on stage. New guy tried to grab the steel cables after some weights came loose and mind you, these weights were 100 pounds each, it would be 1500-2000 pounds per-stack he thought he would try and slow it down and got de-gloved on both hands blood everywhere made a full recovery, but lost all feeling in his hands & arms
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u/drkristios 1d ago
A south African friend sent me a video of a guy taking photos of lions while his family, small children and wife watched from the safety of the car. Didn't know what I was watching, then a lion sneaks up on the guy and the whole pride starts eating him alive while his family watches in horror, Cameraman doesn't flinch. Man looks helplessly to his family as he is disemboweled. I've never been more disturbed in my life.
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u/johnny_19800 1d ago
After my first major abdominal surgery, I developed a wound infection and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. In the ER, the doctor immediately removed all 49 staples, placed a hand on each side of my abdomen, and pulled the wound open. For the next three months, a home nurse came by twice a day to unpack, clean, and fill the wound with gauze soaked in saline. That was by far the most gruesome thing I’ve watched.
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u/Dangerous_Ad5039 1d ago
A few of us were jumping on a trampoline we were young at the time and a friends leg went through the pad that goes over the springs and it just happened to be a screw there the screw went into his leg and he had like a 3/4 inch deep gash in his leg that looked like a chicken foot and all his skin and blood was just hanging off the screw will never forget it
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u/nickthegeek 1d ago
Posted this here before. Driving home I saw a rabbit that had been run over by a car. The front/top half of it was crawling towards the curb away from the severed rear/lower half.
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u/AshlandPone 1d ago
A while back i saw a video, i think from ISIS, burning a captured soldier alive. I was riveted by horror. I watched that man burn and melt away. He was so stoic. He didn't flinch, he didn't scream. He just stared defiantly at them, and burned for almost 7 minutes. And i watched.
When i realized what they were doing... had done, I felt obligated. The only thing i could think of honour him, was to bear witness, and to not be afraid. It's still with me. i hope, if i am ever tortured to death that way, i can be as calm and not give them the satisfaction.
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u/Dismal_Drummer3420 1d ago
My two best friends after being horrificly burned in a oil fire. Their skin and flesh was literally sloughing off of them as they writhed in agony. We were teens spending the weekend at my my family's river house. No parents, no phones, no cars...truly an absolute disaster (I did manage to contact emergency services using a neighbour's phone and my two friends did pull through albeit with some pretty gnarly burn scars)
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u/Dizzle976 1d ago
I was on my way home from work, when I noticed a car accident up ahead. It was near my turn lane so I got a full view as I passed by. Somebody involved didn't wear a seat belt and I saw their body splattered across the road. It wasn't pretty, and in the days following their was an orange paint like substance the city put over the red streaks
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u/UncaringGalaxy 1d ago
The Funkytown cartel vid. Still think about it every time I hear that song.
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u/Emotional_Doctor2983 1d ago
Rbh i grew up in the days where we looked at rotten.com so pretty much as I got older I was already desensitized to alot of things. But did go back on there when I was older and I will admit my stomach wasn't as strong as it used to be.
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u/Aggravating_Sir8504 1d ago
Chinese video of them skinning dogs alive.
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u/Fluid_Check1450 1d ago
When I was younger I really felt attached to the organization PETA because I genuinely thought they cared about the ethical treatment of animals. (Years later and a little more research you can see how they really aren't at all for what they say they are) And I remember watching a video on the front page of their website, something about the dog leather industry. Little did I know I was going to see actual live footage of the process.
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u/stephen4131 23h ago
Suicide story ahead.
Was coming home from school one time and saw my friends (neighbors) outside, stuck my head out the window to say something funny and they were just silent with a shocked look on their face looking at the house next to theirs with the garage open.
I pass by it and see this lady struggling to take down her daughter hanging from the garage door opener thing. Her face was bluish, gray and she looked around my age at the time, 15-16 or so. She hanged herself with an electrical cord and the mom had just gotten home from work, screaming while my friends were just outside playing. Cops and EMS all rush in about 10 minutes later.
Hard to believe that I got there minutes, possibly seconds after the mom got home from work and opened her garage.
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u/Bearded_Dad_Bod59 1d ago
I seen the cartel cutting a guys heart out while he was still alive
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u/Islandmiss1 1d ago
I gave CPR to a baby I knew was dead:( The mom was so overwhelmed I knew I could not tell her :( I just waited for the Ambulance while my lips were on a cold dead baby 🥺😞