I still don't think it's the police or EMTs that remove the pants in most of these pictures. Someone obviously dead...why proceed to strip them? The coroner is hopefully trained enough to identify their sex ;)
Speaking of inept coroners...anyone remember the story of the two college girls whose identities were mixed after a car accident? The coroner didn't identify them properly...for five weeks people thought Whitney Cerak was dead, and Laura Van Ryn was alive in the hospital. Then, during recovery, "Laura" started acting strange...so out of curiosity a nurse had her write her name. She wrote "Whitney." Laura's sister started putting pieces together, and looked back at the memorial CD someone gave her with Whitney's photo on the front. She recognized the incisors instantly, and realized Whitney was alive. Horrifying story. They were students at Taylor University in Upland, IN...it was so disturbing to me...just a few miles away stood their rival school, my school. Just two months earlier I had been in a large van sponsored by my school on that exact highway, just like the accident that happened.
Yeah so that's my story :)
I think i heard that somewhere too. that would suck to think that your friend is recovering only to find out shes been dead the whole time. ugh what a mess