tragedy/shocker
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- PonyBoy
what's the biggest tragedy / shocking moment you've been a part of... and I'm talking locally - not a world wide thing that effected everyone like 9-11.
I was just thinking about all the shit that goes on in this world - immediatly in our own towns... we're pretty resiliant creatures.
The most memomarble moment was when I was working (at this strip mall in a small sign shop on the second level) and all these cop cars come blaring - cops running in on the first level from all directions to arrest the 72 yr/old music teacher (who'd sit and chat over a cigarette or during a mutual break outdoors).
The guy had molested and sodomized well into 30+ people at his little music studio over the past 40 years.
It's freaky - I worked above him for 2 years... talked to him (and all the other tenants did too) like we were a small community.
- Crouwel0
sick. i have had multiple experiences.
one of the scariest was when i woke up (when i lived in the center of my hometown when i was about 12 or so) and there was police all over the place. the blocked the road crossing my street and there was military police and all kinds of special cars turning up. Turned out that just a few hundred feet away from where i live they found the head of a woman in apublic trashcan..
my father was a press photographer and he was right on the scene... weeks later when the man was caught they reconstructed the killing (it turned out to be his wife) at his home with him there. no press was allowed but my dad bribed someone in the house on the other side to take pics from there.
the most shocking thing was, he lived just two streets away from where i lived before. so i had this crazy feeling this man was always close to me in a way. really scared the fuck out of me in hindsight.
he chopped his wife in pieces and had hidden the other bodyparts right under the stairs with some cement in his home.
sick story huh?
- Crouwel0
lol
- brandelec0
when i was nine, i was in la during the rodney king riots, drove by looters and burning 7-11s
- tank0
crouwel and rand..steve jobs...we've got some famous people on here...grrrrrreat.
- Crouwel0
when i was nine, i was in la during the rodney king riots, drove by looters and burning 7-11s
brandelec
(Jul 7 05, 13:54)my sister was traveling there when the riots started, she was planning to visit Hollywood and LA but had to cancel and went to Vegas..
- jDs0
When I was 12, a friend who I played in summer leauge hockey with was abducted at gunpoint. I was with him at our hockey pictures the day before. We were both goaltenders, and had played on a few teams together and became friends. We had spent a lot of time on the ice together, but not much else. I was terrified for a long time. He was never found.
- sherman0
When I was 12, a friend who I played in summer leauge hockey with was abducted at gunpoint. I was with him at our hockey pictures the day before. We were both goaltenders, and had played on a few teams together and became friends. We had spent a lot of time on the ice together, but not much else. I was terrified for a long time. He was never found.
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jDs
(Jul 7 05, 13:59)Dude thats terrible!!
- k770
damn jDs.
- k770
it's not the most shocking of my life. but,
after 9/11 i was in london. on the night that that the UK and USA started bombing afghaniston it was my 1st night in London. i watched all the bombing in the bar of a hostel, had a couple of beers. was tired, and went to bed.
at 3 am or something i heard a loud RRRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG...
i thought it was an iar raid. i've never got dressed so fast. turns out, it was just a hoax fire alarm. someone was smoking in the halls or something.
but man, my heart was beating fast! i've nver got dressed so fast!
- mattyd0
when i was 9 i found my best friend's (at the time) grandfather died in their backyard. he was in his 80's and he was on a wooden ladder painting the second floor of their house. he had a heart attack on the ladder and the forceful shaking broke one of the wooden steps on the latter and he fell two stories onto the concrete slab walkway in their yard.
i was driving my bike through and just saw him lying on the ground on his side. i didnt know he was dead, so i pushed him onto his back. turns out his skull was split from the impact and when i moved him, the insides of his head came spilling out.
still have that image burned into my brain.
- mg330
I can't recall anything at the moment, guess I've been safe. But I hate sitting here trying to remember the worst things that have happened around me in life.
- Crouwel0
jesus christ these are horrible experiences.
- GeorgiePorgie0
a few years back in vegas i was playing blackjack at luxor at about 5am and i heard a loud slap a few yards away.
someone had lost everything and jumped to their death. a few people walked over and security rushed in but for the most part no one seemed to care. maybe a handful of people got their things and left. i gathered my chips and haven't gambled since. vegas keeps it on the downlow but it happens often at the luxor.
- |oo|0
when I was a firefighter and i did cpr for the first time on this old lady we actually resusitated her, unfortunately her family didn't want her brought back(because she was very old and just gone throught the same thing a week prior). I felt really bad about it and the other firefighters gave me a hard time about it telling me that the family was going to go after me.
I learned to always have a 'do not resusitate' order handy if you don't want to be brought back.
- GeorgiePorgie0
when i was 6 my buddies mom took us out to mcdonalds or something cause his dad was acting crazy and she wanted us out of the house. (years later we learned he was drunk and on coke).
when we came home hours later and opened the front door there he was laying at the bottom of the steps. he had passed out/had a fit at the top of the stairs and fell down the flight breaking his neck.
there were a few holes in the wall and a railing or two was broken where he tried to hold on.
until i was 23 and was dating my friends older cousin did she tell me how he really died. his mom told us he slipped on the steps and fell, when really he o'd on coke and had a fit on the steps.
sad. i never told my friend the truth.
- tank0
i met crouwel,how is that for an horrible experience...
i keed
i keed
- PonyBoy0
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|oo|
horrible spot to be in. You did the right thing in my opinion though - you don't just sit there and let someone die when it's your job to save lives...
... if you had had the form etc.. that'd maybe be a diff. story. But I hold you in the highest of respect for trying to keep Grandma's switch on. cheers!
- ethios0
damn, these are terrible
- |oo|0
thanks ponyboy. the law says if you call 911 the person has to be resusitated if possible. Just sucked because while we brought her back it wasn't the right thing for her or her family. Her ribs were still broken from the week before's CPR.