Hopefully this was obvious from context, but I want to clarify…if these sties still exist, don’t visit them. Just don’t.
Can you spoiler what it is? I’ve heard about it for years but don’t want to go looking for it.
Most upsetting thing I ever came across was something I had to look at professionally - I was working as a junior lawyer on a case where a partner at my firm had been hired by a family intent on influencing a coroner’s jury to make certain recommendations arising from a horrible industrial accident.
What happened was this: someone drove into a construction site by accident; a supervisor, who was busy helping a dement mixer back into position, turned towards the intriusive car, to direct her to leave the way she came; the driver of the cement mixer, losing sight of the supervisor, mistakenly kept backing up … and ran over him.
He was squeezed like a tube of toothpaste - his guts came fountaining out of his mouth, to splash across the road in front of the lady’s car - eventually, his skull was popped - one photo showed an eyeball and a bit of brain, some distance away.
The driver, who saw this death right in front of her, was so traumatized she spent some weeks in a mental hospital.
[The purpose of the family was to attempt to get the coroner’s jury to recommend changes in equipment to make such accidents less likely, rather than simply chalking it all up to human error. It was a long time ago, can’t remember what came of it].
Which begs the question: WHY did all of you watch those decapitation videos? It’s not like they spontaneously popped up on your computers. What were you expecting?
Why did I click that? WhydidIclickthat?? :eek:
Seriously, that’s horrific. Sounds like something Chuck Palahniuk would write a story about.
I think if I’d been you, that would have been the end of my law career–or at least I’d have switched to a specialization that had zero chance of my ever having to watch something like that again…
Someone above commented about how YouTube was chock-full of reaction videos to this.
Well, once upon a time there were a whole bunch of reaction videos to something apparently titled “I love the fishes cause they are so delicious”. I got curious, asked about it here but no one had seen it, got more curious. Bad idea.
For me it’s this photo of a 14-year old girl. There’s nothing horrifying or disturbing about the photo if you’re not aware of the backstory. But once you are it will haunt you forever.
Here’s the backstory and a picture of the photographer.
If I could erase this from my memory I’d do it in an instant.
The poor girl looked absolutely terrified. And the story explains exactly why.
The photo that really saddened and horrified me is the one that was found that might be the missing Tara Calico (plus a young boy).
Background here:
It might not be her, but it’s a haunting photo, so beware.
The 2 that come immediately to mind for me:
I was working in a rattle-trap factory that cut corners on safety. It was almost an every night occurance that someone was taken to the ER with a rivot in their hand or some such. They had removed a safety shield on a high speed conveyor belt for some reason or another. A woman had her hair pulled back in a pony tail and leaned over; her hair fell over her shoulder and into the conveyor. It literally scalped her. She came down the asile screaming, her bare skull shining, her face looking like it was melting because there was nothing to hold it up. I still see her in my nightmares.
The other, the stable I was boarding my horse at was owned by a veterinarian. On Thanksgiving 1978, he askex me if I could help him with something. A Thoroughbred filly had been brought in for treatment of tetnus and was convulsing. It was cold but sweat was running off her like a waterfall. Her convulsions would draw her head and neck back to the point her heat almost touched her back. The owner refused to allow him to euthanize her because there was a small chance of recovery, and the insurance wouldn’t pay for her if he did.
I had to hold her head down while he gave her an injection. A $10 tetnus shot would have saved her from that horrible death, but the owner was too goddamned cheap. Doc and I spent the night with her so she wouldn’t die alone. I will never forget it.
Unfortunately.
I think I’m going to say this thread. Thanks, people.
Thanks twickster. Again, I apologize to anybody who was traumatized or disturbed by my description. I don’t want to be the cause of somebody else’s “wish you hadn’t read/seen that” memories.
Malthus’ spoiler reminds me of something I witnessed first-hand. The fact that I didn’t think about it sooner means that my brain has finally accepted it as less traumatic. I’ve described this in two other threads, and won’t describe it again here. It involves a young bicyclist and an 18-wheeler.
I knew what picture you were talking about…and, yeah, it’s…yeah.
Do you know or remember what eventually happened to her?
saw video of an autopsy
had an alien in it
saw a horrible movie
Auntie Mame
the movie Crash, very disturbing.
She was airlifted to a trauma center in Louisville KY. It was all kept very hush-hush and I was laid off from the job a few days later. I never heard if she survived.
Which one - the one about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes, or the one featuring a lot of Los Angelenos not being nice to each other? I saw the latter only, and found IT disturbing enough.
That’s the one I thought of.
I don’t actively look for shocking pictures but since I’ve always been interested in weird / bizarre / scary stories, I’ve stumbled upon pictures of disfigured people several times. All of these are difficult to look at but her burns were beyond horrific. I have no idea how she survived whatever did that to her and I don’t want to know.