The most disturbing thing youve seen/experienced

[Nalfeshnee]

well the title says it all. it could be a film, a scene in real life, a picture anything.

Id love to answer this question, but i get disturbed by so many things i could not honestly answer. Though i think the internet and many shock websites are the source of most of my disgust (even though i sometimes actively look for them)

I hope no one gets offended by anything that is said here, bucause i can imagine some things being a touchy-subject

 

[KenM]

The most disturbing thing I have experenced was getting banned from ENworld for expressing my opinion I did not attack anyone on here, but I guess if your opinion is not popular, you get banned. So much for free speech.

 

[Harmon]

The first thing that came to mind was the nightmare that woke me this morning. Back when I was about sixteen or so I lived on highway 101 and Moro Road in Prundedale, CA. The area was given the prestige’s title of Blood Alley three of the four years I lived there. We went to accidents as a sort of first responder- telling the 911 operator what was needed so they could get a jump on the ambulance, and fire and keep traffic flowing to get those vehicles on scene.

There were a lot of accidents that were bloody, and some I have blocked from memory, while some I can’t seem to get away from.

I ran down the driveway across the street. On the south bound right shoulder was a car, hit on the left side (came on the highway into fast moving traffic to slow?), the door gone, cars going by a slowly, bits of debris in the lanes, and a man between the north and south bound. I dodged through traffic wishing that my cordless phone had some distance on it (back then they would only reach to the base at a distance of about thirty feet). I saw that he had something laying on and beside his belly- large spaghetti (?).

I stopped some ten feet away. He woke after how long I had been staring. He started screaming when he saw what was hanging from his body, and trying to put them back inside.

I turned and jogged back to range for the cordless, hearing him scream for help. It was one of the few times I wanted a gun while doing that very “job” so that I could help him.

Normally when people were hurt I would sit with them, tell them they would be alright, give them my shirt as a pressure bandage, and try to keep their feet up (an EMT had told me to do that much), but this guy I could not. After I hung up the phone I checked his car- there were no passengers. Ignition off. The other car checked- everyone was seat belted and there was a couple bumps and stuff but they were okay.

CHP was there, and EMS there too. I looked at the EMTs- whom I knew, and saw that look (“god, I wish I could help this guy- someone get me a gun.”). The EMTs told him he would be okay, and gave him a shot- mid scream he faded and was unconscious or dead. If they did end him he was better off.

That is the one that comes to mind but only because it woke me this morning. Mind you that that was twenty odd years ago.

 

[loki44]

The most disturbing thing I have experenced was getting banned from ENworld

Wow, you must lead a charmed or extremely sheltered life if that's the worst. Be thankful.

 

[Nyaricus]

The most disturbing thing I've ever experienced was seeing my mother dying in hospital. She had a rare (and whoa do I mean rare) disease named schleroderma (or somesuch) which (1) causes the skin on the outside of your body to harder up like callous (sp?) and then (2) causes the insides of your body to harden up like a callous. It was lucky (well, in a way - how is dying lucky, right?) that she ended up getting very sick very fast due to other ailments affecting her, and she passed away within a couple or a few weeks of contracting this second set of problems. It was moreso disturbing becasue I was only 11 at the time, and didn't really understand what was happening. But I knew something, deep inside of me, was really, really bothered by that whole situation.

As for this:

The most disturbing thing I have experenced was getting banned from ENworld for expressing my opinion I did not attack anyone on here, but I guess if your opinion is not popular, you get banned. So much for free speech.

See, here's the thing: there's no such thing as free speech on a forum; you must comply with the guidelines you agreed to when signing up, and frankly your messages are the cause for a great deal of grief here on the boards, thus coming at odds with those terms, not to mention the actual people (well, the mods and/or admins) that have to deal with 3 billion *alert* messages they get from one of your threads. So give it up already; whining about it on a thread not intended to be about your bias of "geeks vs jocks" is not helping your situation or your angle, and will only serve to get you permanently banned from the boards.

 

[werk]

Ignoring KenM, I have also seen some nasty stuff. A couple of car crashes were particularly graphic. I used to live in Indiana, way out in the country, corn country, and the roads are pretty flat and strait, so it's easy to have someone going WAY too fast. That didn't seem so shocking to me at the time, having grown up on a farm, I was used to seeing the inside of animals, blood, gore, etc.

I also used to be an athletic trainer, and saw a track coach with a javelin run through his leg, pinned him to the ground. I've seen, cleaned, and stapled shut many a gaping wound, along with tons of broken bones and joints, including compound. I've observed a bunch of orthopedic surgery, which can be pretty brutal. I used to be a lifeguard and have had to perform CPR on obviously dead people because it was procedure. I used to be a rescue scuba diver...until I found someone.

Of all those, I'd say the worst or most traumatic was the CPR and scuba recovery, they still seem fresh in my memory. I'm not really bothered by any of it in my daily life in any way. I don't freak out in an emergency, but I think that comes from the training more than previous experiences.

 

[Piratecat]

So much for free speech.

Ken, as we discussed -- if you have a problem with site moderation, discuss it with us privately via email. Don't bitch about it in public. This is a long-time rule. I guarantee that doing otherwise will be exceptionally counter-productive.

There's no right to free speech here, and we never claim there is. We're all here at Morrus's, Henry's, and my forbearance, because we're all guests in Morrus's digital home. We can't be everywhere at once, so moderators act for us when needed. We try to be as consistent and even-handed as possible; we'd much rather have people self-edit themselves so that problems never even appear.

We don't have a lot of rules here; no politics, no religion, nothing that would offend our grandmas, and you follow moderator instructions when they give them. That doesn't happen too often, but there's almost no better way to get suspended or banned than purposefully ignoring a moderator. This is true even if you don't agree with that they've asked you to do.

Anyways, all further discussion on this issue should take place via email (all mod email addresses are available in a sticky thread in Meta) or in the Meta forum. Sorry for hijacking.

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The REAL reason I swung by the thread was remind folks that the most disturbing thing you've seen might not be appropriate to discuss here. Use good judgment, as you have been already.

 

[Kurashu]

Mother freaking snakes on a mother freaking plane.

If I didn't laugh, I think I would have gnawed my hands off.

 

[KenM]

I take it back, the most distrubing thing I have seen was my own Mom on crack and trying to hit me up for money.

 

[Ranger REG]

well the title says it all. it could be a film, a scene in real life, a picture anything.

Id love to answer this question, but i get disturbed by so many things i could not honestly answer. Though i think the internet and many shock websites are the source of most of my disgust (even though i sometimes actively look for them)

The most disturbing thing I've seen was my uncle suffering from lung cancer after years of smoking. He died a few months later.

To this day, I cannot see the need nor want to have cigarettes in one's lives. Besides, I have my own hereditary health problem to deal with.