What is the most disturbing thing you have witnessed?

wiseoldelf34 · 28-09-2014 10:04PM

joe stodge wrote: »

I was working in the UCD science block on the refurb of the cafe there, I think it's called elements.
Came back to work after a long weekend and found a lad about 18 hanging in the utility tunnels under the block.

Turned out he'd crashed the fathers car on the Friday evening and being uninsured this was his way out of trouble.

poor lad :-(

Daveysil15 · 28-09-2014 10:06PM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

That brings back memory's for me as a child when at my nan and grandads farm if there was ever any pups from the several sheep dogs they would gather them all up and put in a bucket, fill it with water, then put a board over bucket and slab,

I still to this day wonder what the hell went through all their minds letting kids watch crying as they went about this .

Yeah I was only a kid myself at the time. It took so long for the poor little bugger to die too.

OneArt · 28-09-2014 10:16PM

Got off the train in some Godforsaken German city because I had to teach at a company there. The main train station looked like it was falling to pieces and there was a horrible stink in the underground. Thought where the hell have I come to? I go outside and the city is dull and grey, it's early in the morning and I'm not in the mood for this nonsense. Just as I look across the street, I see a shabby woman bending down. I thought she must be trying to pick something up... No, she's happily doing a poo right there on the footpath with people walking past her.

Okay, not the most disturbing thing I've seen but certainly not a good Monday morning.

beks101 · 28-09-2014 10:29PM

I saw a man fall as he was getting off a subway train, got his legs trapped in the 'gap' between the train and the platform and the train take off at high-speed, severing his legs as it moved.

I watched all of this in horror from the train on the other side of the platform. Was living in Canada at the time and managed to subsequently track him down to a hospital downtown. Couldn't find out exactly how it panned out as they don't release that information to just anyone, but I suspect things didn't work out so well for him.

One of those things you can't unsee.

Bassfish · 28-09-2014 10:29PM

Working as a child protection social worker, called to Crumlin children's hospital, the burns unit. An 8 year old girl whose family were from Saudi Arabia was admitted with severe burns to her arm. Turns out the eight year old child 'gravely insulted' her father by cursing while the wife was making dinner. There was a pot of beans on the hob, he held her arm out straight and poured the saucepan full of beans over the child's arm. The doctors were taking off the bandages while I was there and I could actually make out the shape of the individual beans that stuck to her skin. The child was taken into care and I met the father several times afterwards and he was totally unrepentant. Said the little slut deserved it! I should have got a medal for exercising the restraint it took not to break the bastard's nose.
Ya that's one experience that has crept I to my dreams a few times!

Afroshack · 28-09-2014 10:48PM

Bassfish wrote: »

Working as a child protection social worker, called to Crumlin children's hospital, the burns unit. An 8 year old girl whose family were from Saudi Arabia was admitted with severe burns to her arm. Turns out the eight year old child 'gravely insulted' her father by cursing while the wife was making dinner. There was a pot of beans on the hob, he held her arm out straight and poured the saucepan full of beans over the child's arm. The doctors were taking off the bandages while I was there and I could actually make out the shape of the individual beans that stuck to her skin. The child was taken into care and I met the father several times afterwards and he was totally unrepentant. Said the little slut deserved it! I should have got a medal for exercising the restraint it took not to break the bastard's nose.
Ya that's one experience that has crept I to my dreams a few times!

Please tell me he was prosecuted??

thrashmetalfan · 28-09-2014 10:50PM

two people having sex in a nightclub in Leitrim. he was fairly drunk and she just sat on him and rode him like a horse. everyone was looking, when I say everyone I mean lots of lads were looking, girls were disgusted with the whole ordeal. I had a sneaky peek myself!!

shanec1928 · 28-09-2014 10:53PM

Witteneds a murder when I was 10 or 11 even made it on to crime call. Person was shot at point blank range. Always rember the blood bubbling out of the wound.

endacl · 28-09-2014 10:55PM

Afroshack wrote: »

Please tell me he was prosecuted??

Please tell me the 'child protection social worker' isn't divulging confidential case material on an online forum, where it might, if the right person read it, identify the parties concerned.

Or possibly they're making it up.

The former would be about as unprofessional as one might get in the field. The latter would be weird. Very weird.

shanec1928 · 28-09-2014 11:02PM

_Brian wrote: »

When I was a kid I spent a good bit of time out in the truck with my dad.

We were in a sawmill in Leitrim one day and a young lad sawed his arm off, the amount of blood was unreal, panic and screaming, this was in the 70's beefier many folks had much first aid training and there were no mobile phones either.

That reminds me of back in woodwork when the teacher took part of his finger off with the big electric plane. Boold everywhere.
Or a time some idiot tought it was funny to wave a chisel at people's face only to catch someone just above the eye.

correa cristobal · 28-09-2014 11:07PM

Some pretty disturbing things here! In my country I worked as a journalist in a newspaper, and although I was a sportswriter I'd always hear about what the journalist covering the "events" section would have to report on and man there was some macabre shyte almost on a daily basis. Personally though, I'd have to say a gun to my chest and a family member being shot in the chest (he's ok thankfully) would be the worse.

mardybumbum · 28-09-2014 11:15PM

endacl wrote: »

Please tell me the 'child protection social worker' isn't divulging confidential case material on an online forum, where it might, if the right person read it, identify the parties concerned.

Or possibly they're making it up.

The former would be about as unprofessional as one might get in the field. The latter would be weird. Very weird.

Yes, god forbid the man might identify himself as the perpetrator......just incase he forgot.

padd b1975 · 28-09-2014 11:25PM

Budd Dwyer committing suicide, not at first hand obviously. It's on YouTube, I would not advise anyone to watch it.

stoeger · 28-09-2014 11:26PM

Was working in a steel yard and the bosses 14 year old son pulled one of his fingers off in one of the machines he took off the glove and ran to his dad crying . I found his finger in the glove the worst part was his dad made him holed his hand out the window so he would not get blood all over his new car

lukesmom · 28-09-2014 11:27PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Budd Dwyer committing suicide, not at first hand obviously. It's on YouTube, I would not advise anyone to watch it.

So why did you watch it???

padd b1975 · 28-09-2014 11:33PM

lukesmom wrote: »

So why did you watch it???

I didn't expect it to be so graphic, I still can't believe the camera stayed filming.

I actually found it while browsing corrupt politicians.

thrashmetalfan · 28-09-2014 11:49PM

I remember watching archive footage of the Bradford city stadium fire. it was part of a fire safety course I was doing for work at the time. will never forget it seeing actual people on fire like that. I hope people reading this wont look it up online you would be doing a disservice to the people who died in that disaster by watching the footage like it was some form of grim entertainment.

correa cristobal · 28-09-2014 11:52PM

thrashmetalfan wrote: »

I remember watching archive footage of the Bradford city stadium fire. it was part of a fire safety course I was doing for work at the time. will never forget it seeing actual people on fire like that. I hope people reading this wont look it up online you would be doing a disservice to the people who died in that disaster by watching the footage like it was some form of grim entertainment.

There's so many sadistic people out there tho. That's why there's so much bizarre shyte around :S

thrashmetalfan · 28-09-2014 11:57PM

correa cristobal wrote: »

There's so many sadistic people out there tho. That's why there's so much bizarre shyte around :S

its the same with the budd dwyer footage. I just read about what happened on Wikipedia and that was enough for me.

the_monkey · 29-09-2014 12:06AM

youtube! wrote: »

I was doing a bit of maintenance work in Pats hospital many years ago and didn't realise the room I was working in was actually right beside the room they used for electric shock treatment, I heard a kind of a tortured mumble and looked through these glass doors to see a woman's head violently shake as she tried to scream, her mouth had something in it to stop the noise but I still heard it. Also was working in the same hospital a few weeks later and had to replace some filters in an air con unit, I walked in to find it was in the mortuary...body on slab, covered up thankfully.

And some people think Medicine is a science ...

corsav6 · 29-09-2014 12:15AM

shanec1928 wrote: »

That reminds me of back in woodwork when the teacher took part of his finger off with the big electric plane. Boold everywhere.
Or a time some idiot tought it was funny to wave a chisel at people's face only to catch someone just above the eye.

Exact same thing happened my woodwork teacher, chopped the top off and calmly wrapped it up and told everyone he'd be taking the rest of the day off.

Tarzana · 29-09-2014 12:31AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Budd Dwyer committing suicide, not at first hand obviously. It's on YouTube, I would not advise anyone to watch it.

It's so awful. I really didn't expect there to be SO much blood.

DoctorStrange · 29-09-2014 12:31AM

corsav6 wrote: »

Exact same thing happened my woodwork teacher, chopped the top off and calmly wrapped it up and told everyone he'd be taking the rest of the day off.

Mine too! Was it a teacher from Donegal in a city centre school?

Tarzana · 29-09-2014 12:33AM

thrashmetalfan wrote: »

I remember watching archive footage of the Bradford city stadium fire. it was part of a fire safety course I was doing for work at the time. will never forget it seeing actual people on fire like that. I hope people reading this wont look it up online you would be doing a disservice to the people who died in that disaster by watching the footage like it was some form of grim entertainment.

I am so glad there was no barrier around the perimeter as was common at the time. I know too many people still died but it would have been worse if there was a barrier as many escaped by running out on to the pitch. The worst thing is the man running out on the pitch, engulfed in flames.

On a similar subject, seeing a Youtube video of the The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island chilled me to my bones.

corsav6 · 29-09-2014 12:46AM

DoctorStrange wrote: »

Mine too! Was it a teacher from Donegal in a city centre school?

No, a school in Castlebar. I'd say around 15 years ago, maybe a little longer.
I seen a cow stuck in a ditch years ago who had pushed her arse outside her body where she had been struggling to climb over for hours.
Seen a guy bite his bottom lip off in a bike accident years ago.

x Purple Pawprints x · 29-09-2014 12:55AM

Once had to scan two dead German Shepherds for microchips to find their owners. They weren't chipped. A farmer had shot them because they had attacked his sheep (legally he can). They were already stiff in the van. He grabbed one by its leg to move it and the leg snapped. I'll never forget how they looked and the sound of the bone snapping.

Another time I saw a cat with an open wound infested with maggots.

I could go on. I work in a vet clinic, so I've seen some awful stuff.

Tarzana · 29-09-2014 01:33AM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I saw a dog been drowned in a bucket after he got hit by a car.

We had a kitten get hit by a car and not die instantly when I was young. We called the vet to have him put down. The local vet wouldn't have been able to come out for many hours (there was just the one in my local town) so we called my uncle who has a shotgun...

Esel · 29-09-2014 02:37AM

John Doe1 wrote: »

What is the most disturbing thing you have witnessed?

Serious replies please

OPs with no statement/opinion, especially when they merely say 'Serious replies please' (sic).

Serious reply. You are welcome (sic).

Esel · 29-09-2014 02:41AM

Macavity. wrote: »

Have seen watched countless beheading/execution videos on the Internet. Dagestan massacres, hammer video, many cartel videos, the various terrorist videos etc etc. I find that they have little effect on me emotionally...

FYP, and get a life.

osarusan · 29-09-2014 02:44AM

Esel wrote: »

FYP, and get a life.

In After Hours at 2.41am making pedantic posts and looking for grammar errors....who needs to get a life?

What is the most disturbing thing you have witnessed?

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