The image of Han Solo slicing open a Taun-Taun with a light-saber poped into my head after that, Mary.
Dougie:
Your comments couldn’t possibly offend me as much as my mother does.
Stoid
I am #1. Everyone else is #2 or lower.
When I was 14, I was in the den upstairs when I heard a scratching sound from the linen closet in the hall. I opened the door, saw nothing, left the door open, and continued doing homework in the den. I went downstairs, came back up, and heard scratching behind the couch, which was a few inches away from the wall. I looked behind it and saw this insect. It looked like a fly, or maybe a locust, but iit was roughly the size of a soccer ball. I kid you not. Calmly (I was 14, you see, and too cool to be scared by anything), I went downstairs, fetched my mom, and brought her to the den, where it had taken residence on the light fixture. I don’t remember how she got rid of it, but somehow she did, without losing her cool either. Bruhhhh…
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
MaryAnn: How did the guy who punctured the horse react?
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I saw that on a caught on tape thing Adam and I can understrand why. The movie of the guy holding the wound and seeing it spray with the beat of his heart with such clarity since you could see it strike the white ice. Chilling to say the least. I hear it some of the kids in the audience cannot watch hockey games anymore.
Stoid you win, the tale alone make me want to go to therapy. Having it in r/l scares the shit out of me
Heath:
What’s r/l?
And here’s another one, less likely to cause everyone to invite me into therapy…
Many years ago, my mother’s house seemed to have mice. Something rodent-like, it was eating anything that was out on the counter at night.
So we set a mousetrap. Except, it wasn’t a mouse, it was a rat. You know that rats are considerably bigger than mice, and the traps aresized accordingly.
Well, the mouse trap did not kill the rat, but it certainly did some damage. From my bedroom down the hallI heard the trap snap shut and came to investigate. I heard a weird squeaking, and discovered a rat stumbling around the breakfast room with its brain popped out of its eye socket!! Ah GROSS!
I knew the kindest thing would be to kill it, FAST, but I just couldn’t do it. I had to call the neighbor guy next door to come and get it and take it outside and finish it off. It took me hours to get to sleep; I kept hearing that twisted squealing.
I am #1. Everyone else is #2 or lower.
Along the lines of the punctured horse story…
During the fall one year we had a horse die, it was old so nothing spectacular about it, we took it over in the woods and buried it in a small depression. Fast forward to mid-winter during a January thaw with some snow left on the ground. We are driving around the woods with the tractor hauling out trees to cut up for firewood and suddenly the tractor sinks into mud up to the rear axle and there’s a real nice stench going. Yep, forgot about the old dead horse there. Lots of fun spending a half hour or so pulling on one tractor with another in a pit full a decayed horse and mud.
One thing I saw in person, and two on film:
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In my 9th grade shop class, a senior named Paul Klco was working as the teacher’s aide. One day, someone got a piece of wood caught in between the blade and the guide on the table saw. Paul went over to the still-running saw, attempted to push the stuck piece out with a piece of scrap wood, and promptly lost his index finger on the saw blade, down to the second knuckle. I saw it hit the floor. One of the other students, Scott Ullman, fainted.
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The Bud Dwyer suicide, which was televised in Pennsylvania at a press conference following his conviction for corruption. What a chilling piece of tape. One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.
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(Prefaced by the fact that I watch a lot of splatter movies and have never been made ill.) In the movie “The Doom Generation,” Jonathan Schaech is watching his two partners have sex in the bathtub. He sticks his hand, which is covered in blood after a convenience store shooting, into his pants and masturbates. He then pulls his hand out, looks at it, and licks a big chunk of blood mixed with semen off of his hand. I retched big-time at that.
I’ve got two, but after reading the rest of these, I don’t think it’ll win any prizes.
- Working in ICU in the Navy hospital in Okinawa; came in to pick up my pay check at the Unit. Hey, the lights just dimmed and came back on. No biggie, we thought, old hospital etc. Came in that night to work, opened the sliding door separating the unit from the rest of the hospital and this powerful stench came over me. What is that smell? Remember the lights dimming. A Navy electrician was working at the main panel, gave himself a little spark with a tool or something and proceeded to back into the main panel. ZZZZZZZZtttt. Fried himself. Current went in his hand and came out his foot. Burned flesh all over the place. Had only been in the unit about 4 hours, could hardly get him intubated he was so swollen, had already made cuts on his arms, legs and chest to allow fluid to escape. We medivac’d him to Guam but he died when the plane touched down on Guam. 3rd degree burns all over the place (90%???)
- My cat had an abcess break over night and leave a little pile of blood and chunky pus on the kitchen floor. Urp! #1 Didn’t make me gross out but #2 did!
PL, truly I think your movie story wins. Is this the same guy who played in “That thing you do?”. Just the thought is grossing me out.
OK, about ten years ago during the big Leona Helmsley tax scandal, one of the New York stations showed vacation film of Harry and Leona Helmsley IN BATHING SUITS.
That image is still burned in my mind.
Somewhat along those lines…
last summer the White House spinmeisters floated the pictures of Bill and Hillary in bathing suits, making nice to eachother…gross!
Bill looks like a beached whale, and Hillary has the most repulsive set of “thunder thighs” I’ve ever seen
(drumroll)…heatherlee’s webpage…
(hysterical laughter) oh, someone help me…I have finally cracked…(giggling helplessly…)
What’s so gross about Heather’s webpage?
Brian O’Neill
CMC International Records
rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html
ICQ 35294890
AIM Scrabble1
Yahoo Messenger Brian_ONeill
its a joke man…go to the pit… 
Hardly as gut-wrenching as many of the others here, but…
I was working in the Third World and an important community leader was coming to my house one night for a meeting. I asked my cook to make a rabbit. I’m veg, myself, but it’s only proper to serve meat to an important guest there. The cook went out and killed the rabbit and cleaned it outside and then brought it in. Shortly, she called me into the kitchen to show me the rabbit’s thigh, which was throbbing. It nearly made me puke. I have a hard enough time just thinking about animal=food, but to see one on a platter, ready to go into the pan, yet still moving----Ahhhhhh!
My vote for best story so far goes to ConMan. That must have been horrifying.
“I think it would be a great idea” Mohandas Ghandi’s answer when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Ah! A joke! Well, all I can say is those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…
These pictures were only B&W, but I’m thankful for that.
I saw the coroner’s autopsy pictures of a guy who was (mostly) eaten after climbing in the polar bear cage at the Toledo zoo. I bet it’s pretty tough to do an autopsy on 1/4 of a body, although I think the cause of death should be obvious.
Polar bear leftovers!
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce
Without a doubt, the grossest thing in the entire world to look at is a queen termite. Bulging, pus-yellow with black dots on the side… PUKE-O-RAMA
2nd grossest thing I’ve ever seen was a maggot-ridden piece of beef.
Most common question I ask: “What?”
Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?”
Two things - a dead cat covered in maggots and a program on TV about the way animals get treated around the world. The worst was in Thailand where this guy picked up a cat by the neck with a forked stick and lowers it into boiling water, strips off the skin and throws the skinned cat into a reservoir or water. Bubbles are coming out of its mouth. It was so real, but what really shocked me was the utter carelessness of the guy, and not just because it was a cat. I would feel the same about a rabbit. I eat steak but I think I’d still feel something for those poor cows.
pldennison: The Bud Dwyer suicide
The MPEG of which can be found here.