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09-24-2014, 12:35 PM
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Re: Two Serious Traffic Accidents, One Victim Unidentifiable
The majority of my medical tenure was as a veterinary assistant then as a senior medical technician for a research farm. I was part of many necropsy teams over the years and the smell was always the worst to contend with especially cows, like the worst fart you could imagine that would not dissipate.
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09-24-2014, 01:45 PM
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Re: Two Serious Traffic Accidents, One Victim Unidentifiable
A long long time ago there was a private plane (two guys) vs commercial jetliner (180+ passangers & crew) midair crash in my agency's jurisdiction. I had a take home car and lived within a few miles of the two crash sites. When I arrived on scene at the passenger jet crash it was surreal. There were bodies, partial bodies, goo piles of bodies, parts of bodies, and complete seemingly untouched bodies. The smell on that hot late summer day was overwhelming...jet fuel, bodies, burning bodies, house fires, chemical smells, and fear. I could recognize the dead body smells and burned body smells, but you could smell the fear...it was palpable and like a fog over the crash site. It looked like someone had blown up a butcher shop...parts and organs everywhere. The jet had almost hit the ground like a lawndart so there really wasn't much in the way of plane parts...there was just a big hole where once there was a family house and small twisted aluminum scraps and scraps of what looked like hamburger and roast. It was the most overwhelming scene I saw in thirty years as a cop. The smells, the absent looks of the local residents, the confused and sad looks on the cops and firefighters...it stayed with me a long time. They were finding pieces of humans for weeks after and hundreds of yards away from the crash site. I remember one thing above the rest...something that haunted me for a long long time. I saw a set of two passenger seats sitting on the ground just like they would be in a plane. Sitting in those two seats were a fully dressed fairly attractive adult woman and a fully dressed young girl (under ten years old). They were just sitting in those seats without a scratch or obvious injury. Their clothes were intact and they were both just sitting there with their eyes wide open in a look of obvious/terror. They were still gripping the arm rests and other than their pale and waxy skin tone, they looked like they could just stand up and walk away. What I couldn't see at first was that the attractive woman had the back of her head and brain missing. No real blood, just a hole with a clean cut skull. The young girl had basically crapped her entire guts out and was sitting in what was very recently inside her stomach and chest cavity. The smell was odd and seemed to just hang in the air. It took me a long time to get over that scene. It seems lately that everyone wants to ridicule law enforcement...but the business isn't really about what you see on these crappy out of focus videos...it's about public service and helping your community. I saw what I saw that day many years ago in a vain attempt to help people...we didn't know at the time that no one had survived. We spend hours looking and hoping and dealing with what we were seeing looking for someone that might be still alive and in need of help. There were a lot of hugs that day...both between ourselves and with residents in the neighborhood. Police do so much more in a community than just arrest bad guys and violate citizen's rights...we are the first line of help and assistance available in most communities. People naturally think of firefighters as the helpers, but in most cases, it's the police that get to the scene first. I wish this younger generation would stop bashing law enforcement and look at all the good that the police do in a community. Sure you'll probably need to dig around for examples...but that's just because cops don't usually talk or advertise about the kind things they do.
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09-24-2014, 03:24 PM
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Re: Two Serious Traffic Accidents, One Victim Unidentifiable
Yeah, 2 different accidents, about a mile away from each other and almost at the same time... The guy was thrown to the other side of the guardrail, and probably hit by some other cars/trucks before someone noticed that was a corpse
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09-24-2014, 06:15 PM
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Re: Two Serious Traffic Accidents, One Victim Unidentifiable
That was a very moving experience you've shared, I truly appreciate you taking the time to post your horrifying ordeal. What you witnessed is a sight we can only imagine via accident aftermaths on here but you had the absolute reality of it - you were there. The story about the woman and girl in the seat really moved me Law enforcement abuse is only spouted from people who don't have a fucking clue of what you do, see and cope with, sorry for swearing, it just makes me angry! Plus these days it's trendy for liberals and kids to bleat abuse towards them. |