The most disturbing thing youve seen/experienced

[Nyaricus]

I find people messing with nails disturbing...

That just reminded me of a story my cousin told me a few years ago now.

He was walking to class (highschool) and was just about to turn a corner when this terrible scream came from around it, and a ways up the hallway.

Turns out, this girl had flipped out at something and slapped her hand hard against a locker - which had, stuck in it's doorjam, a pen(cil?) sticking out. With the help of a teacher, she slid her (now) blood-covered hand off of the pen(cil?) and was then rushed to the emergency room to get herself stiched up and whatnot.

He said that scream had terrifyed him - it sounded like someone was dying

 

[Mark Hope]

That just reminded me of a story my cousin told me a few years ago now.

He was walking to class (highschool) and was just about to turn a corner when this terrible scream came from around it, and a ways up the hallway.

Turns out, this girl had flipped out at something and slapped her hand hard against a locker - which had, stuck in it's doorjam, a pen(cil?) sticking out. With the help of a teacher, she slid her (now) blood-covered hand off of the pen(cil?) and was then rushed to the emergency room to get herself stiched up and whatnot.

He said that scream had terrifyed him - it sounded like someone was dying

An awful story from a friend of mine, which happened to a family he knew:
The family were at home together one day, a normal weekend like any other. The mother of the family tripped and fell while carrying a pen, which in a freak of fate, impaled her through the corner of her eyesocket and killed her instantly. The pen went in so deep that the family had no idea what had happened. From their perspective, she had just fallen forwards and died for no obvious reason. It wasn't until the emergency services arrived that the end of the pen was spotted, just visible in the corner of her eye. To make it worse, the police initially found it so hard to believe that such a fluke could happen that the family were under investigation for murder for the period immediately after her death, before it was decided that it was just an accident after all. Of course, when a strange death happens in the family, the police are required to consider all of the options, and it's far from unheard of for a family member to be responsible. But I wouldn't have wished such a deranged scenario on anyone.

 

[sckeener]

Very few things disturb me. I can be shocked easily, but for something to disturb me, it has to be something I dwell on for awhile.

Somethings that I have been told should disturb me, but don't are

-digging up the dead body of my mom's ex-boyfriend that cheated on her w/11 other women & giving her an STD after he was missing for 2 weeks. Since I went to the police the next day, that was the longest night of my life. I've been told I should find it disturbing the fact that she was such a nice person, that she was my mom, that she was someone I knew so well could do something like that.....but I don't. I guess I saw shades of gray back then.
-my mom sleeping with my 1 month older best friend, age 15.
-watching my ex-wife's parents die of colon cancer

Some things that do disturb me are
-visiting my parents in prison (something about walking into a place where you can't get out easily)
-my dad conviced of a crime I believe him to be innocent of...he'll be 88 when he is free again. Despite both my parents being lawyers, I learned more from my parents cases than any they tried. If you ever get accused, go for broke. With conviction rates in the upper 90% across the country (USA), that is the only chance you have. Appeals are for errors in law, so realistically you only have one shot at your defense.
-my great bunny massacre. driving 10 mph across west texas in a fog extremely thick
-overhearing my ex-wife in the bedroom with another guy.

The most disturbing thing i have seen is going out on a blind date to find my date (to my shock and utter disgust) was my mom

lol. I am surprised that didn't happen to me. My mother use to keep the same age regardless of how old I got on the BBS curcuit. It did suprise me when she became friends with a girl online who I had a one night swinging relationship with.

*nods* That's how I first found out about my mom and stepfather. I was ca. 11 at the time.

Don't nobody lock their doors these days?

sometimes the locks don't work anyway....

Just so no one thinks I'm a saint and my ex-wife is bad for sleeping with another guy while I was in the house, my wife walked in on me with another woman. The door had been locked. I resisted the urge to try the door when my ex-wife was cheating though I stayed awake all night. The sounds were bad enough. I didn't need images.

 

[Nyaricus]

An awful story from a friend of mine, which happened to a family he knew:
The family were at home together one day, a normal weekend like any other. The mother of the family tripped and fell while carrying a pen, which in a freak of fate, impaled her through the corner of her eyesocket and killed her instantly. The pen went in so deep that the family had no idea what had happened. From their perspective, she had just fallen forwards and died for no obvious reason. It wasn't until the emergency services arrived that the end of the pen was spotted, just visible in the corner of her eye. To make it worse, the police initially found it so hard to believe that such a fluke could happen that the family were under investigation for murder for the period immediately after her death, before it was decided that it was just an accident after all. Of course, when a strange death happens in the family, the police are required to consider all of the options, and it's far from unheard of for a family member to be responsible. But I wouldn't have wished such a deranged scenario on anyone.

Wow, dude, that's just messed up. Holy cow. I could imagine being suspected of my own parents death

 

[Tewligan]

There's a term for that. What is it called? Tamponade(sp)?

That sounds like the worst drink ever.

 

[BOZ]

where's that vomit smiley when you need it?

 

[Mark Hope]

Wow, dude, that's just messed up. Holy cow. I could imagine being suspected of my own parents death

Yeah, it's not the most gruesome or disturbing thing I've ever encountered or anything. It's just that it's so bizarre that makes it stick in my mind.

 

[Ferret]

That just reminded me of a story my cousin told me a few years ago now.

He was walking to class (highschool) and was just about to turn a corner when this terrible scream came from around it, and a ways up the hallway.

Turns out, this girl had flipped out at something and slapped her hand hard against a locker - which had, stuck in it's doorjam, a pen(cil?) sticking out. With the help of a teacher, she slid her (now) blood-covered hand off of the pen(cil?) and was then rushed to the emergency room to get herself stiched up and whatnot.

He said that scream had terrifyed him - it sounded like someone was dying

See thats quite disturbing but it doesn't pair up with nails....

I friend of mine once heard a kid scream after getting run into by a car, I be that was disturbing. The kid ended up fine by the way.

 

[Darkness]

(By the way, I've now seen tubgirl. As expected, like other shock pictures, it doesn't go on my list.)

It's really interesting that this sort of thing doesn't bother me at all, in the slightest. Most shock pictures don't, not even goatse. Pictures of actual suffering tweak me out, but you can be gross to high heaven and I just yawn and click through. I watch other people cringe and gag at stuff like that, and it's just as mysterious to me as watching people freak out over a 5 mm long spider.

Same here. I found that I can eat without any problem while looking at pictures that turn many people's stomachs. It's part of the reason why I'm extra-careful when pointing others toward such things. Spiders, I don't mind, either.

Now, actual suffering, on the other hand... Watching that kind of thing might well frustrate me, depending on severity.

 

[Darkness]

The mother of the family tripped and fell while carrying a pen, which in a freak of fate, impaled her through the corner of her eyesocket and killed her instantly. ... To make it worse, the police initially found it so hard to believe that such a fluke could happen that the family were under investigation for murder for the period immediately after her death, before it was decided that it was just an accident after all.

Now that's harsh. Speaking of fatal freak accidents, here's one I read about in the newspaper a few years ago: Some guy here in Vienna, who really loved cats, supposedly tripped over his cat, fell, and broke his neck.