The most disturbing thing youve seen/experienced

[dragonhead]

lol, that didn't creep me out, but it gave me my laugh for the day

It was disturbing because she was using one of those sites, and lied about who she was and what she looks like. In hindsight, its hilarious, but at the time, it was creepy. It is now a story that gets brought up every christmas at our house.

 

[ken-ichi]

Mine was driving back from the library where I worked towards the highschool at around 4 pm. A teenager jaywalked right out in front of the van two cars in front of me. The sight of the blood pool spreading towards the curb is still pretty vivid.

 

[Darkness]

i have no desire to watch anyone die for real, even on film. i've never had a desire to watch faces of death either.

Yeah, I'm not interested in that kind of thing, either.

However, I'm very interested in military history. Because of this, I've still seen quite a few people die for real on film. Most were in documentaries about wars and other violent times of the 20th century (and generally B/W); the others were in the news (ISTR to have seen the execution of the Romanian dictator and his wife, for example).
Then again, I suppose some of those shown to be shot in the documentaries were only wounded rather than killed.

 

[BOZ]

true, true...

i'm not saying i've never seen anyone die on film, or that i wouldn't do so. generally, if i do, it's because the deaths are part of an event and not the event themselves. i mean, i wouldn't think to myself, "hey, i wonder what it looked like when someone got their head chopped off" and proceed to act on that curiousity, but if i was watching some sort of documentary and someone got decapitated, i would be disturbed by that but probably not enough to stop watching or anything.

 

[Vargo]

I was a witness to this accident:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/284037_bus06ww.html

Ignore the comment about a pre-accident scuffle, it's just attention seekers making up stuff for the press. I saw the whole thing from before the accident (noticed the bicyclist wobbling, saw her get bumped) and stuck around afterwards to help Metro and the police. I'm doing relatively well now myself, haven't had any nightmares for about a week and a half. I heard (but not confirmed - I asked a bus driver about her yesterday) that the bus driver is still under psychiatric observation at this point.

There were two horrific elements to it - the sheer amount of unluckiness that was involved in the accident (the timing was just so - a second earlier or later and she would have lived) and the aftermath of the accident - the tires went directly over her body and head, leaving only her arms and legs untouched. I actually went and checked to see if she was still alive, but it was obvious there was nothing left that one could call a living human.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the damage was so extensive they weren't even sure if it was a woman who had died the morning after the accident. Found out that piece of information when a officer called me up and was asking if I was certain it was a woman who had fallen under the bus, several people said it had been a man.

 

[caudor]

i have no desire to watch anyone die for real, even on film. i've never had a desire to watch faces of death either.

Just to clarify...I did not desire to watch him get killed when I watched the Nick Berg video (I know that sounds crazy). What I wanted to do was to see the terrorists; I was in disbelief that someone in the real world could be so vile. I still have this strange sense of denial that something like that really happened in the real world.

I didn't make it through the whole thing either. As soon as I saw the knife come out and I heard screaming and saw him get pushed over, I left the computer and went to the bathroom and literally started crying. I wished I would have clicked it off before I left because i could hear the noise coming from my room. It was the first time I felt physically ill from hearing something.

Now days I don't even watch rated R movies; I'm like hyper sensitive to violence.

By the way, I remember reading somewhere that Faces of Death was faked, although I don't remember where I read that...it just stuck with me after I read about it. I've never seen the movie, but I've heard of it. I wouldn't want to watch it even if it was fake.

 

[BOZ]

human beings have an amazing capacity for cruelty. i guess things have changed, at least in the minds of some people in some parts of the world. it used to be commonplace that executions and torture and the like were not only tolerated, but encouraged basically everywhere in the world. just watch the end of braveheart, for example.

 

[Harmon]

Never did I go to see a death or a dead body, but when you are the only person present, and someone is clearly dying, I felt compelled to do what I could to help them, whether it was encouragement, kindness, or what have you. It was hard to do, esp at the age I was doing it (mid to late teens), and it has screwed me up, but it was my sacrifice to those that needed the help.

One thing I saw that comes to mind all to often-
Back in the mid eighties no one took car seats, or seat belts really serious.

I was directing traffic for an accident- the CHP was just arriving, both accident victims were okay, but they were blocking two lanes one north and one south bound. Part of one of the still functioning north bound lanes was blocked so I was trying to keep the rubber neckers moving.

This little girl, about two or three was in the back of a station wagon, playing with dolls and things (the back was made up like a play pen), her Dad driving slow rubber necking as they went past, he slowed a little and the car behind him bumped his bumper. The girl (looking right into my eyes) lost her balance and fell forehead first into the tail gate of the car she was in. She bounced back, her eyes wide, and very white, her forehead looked like a baseball was just under the skin.

The two drivers stopped right there, neither knew what had just happened. Dad was looking at his car when I slammed into the other driver- whom was approuching dear old Dad with a "hay, I'm sorry, was there any damage," kinda look.

"You killed her- did you get a good look at the F-ing accident?" I was out of my mind.

When the CHP tossed me down I was looking at the Dad holding his daughter in his arms, balling, the EMTs showing up for the other accident were there, but she was gone.

I have hated rubber neckers sense. It was perhaps one of the saddest things I have ever seen. There was no reason for her to die, it was just morbid people wanting to see the worst day of someone else's life.

Take care all. Have a good weekend.

 

[BOZ]

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=174439

 

[Darkness]

i'm not saying i've never seen anyone die on film, or that i wouldn't do so. generally, if i do, it's because the deaths are part of an event and not the event themselves.

Yeah, I figured as much. (And it's generally true for me as well.)