re: What Is The Worst Scene You Ever Witnessed In Person?

Back in about the Mid Nineties, On a rainy day a guy skidded out losing control of his Van..Two girls walking on the sidewalk tried to avoid getting hit by the Van. One of the girls didn't make it (She was about 14 y/o)..well she was pinned to one of our Line poles by the Van. EMS, police,and Fire Dept. could not do anything because above the child was a Transformer broke free from its bracket on the pole and was dangling from its secondary wire making it unsafe for them to assist the girl (she was dead already). I took off my jacket and covered the childs face as we got a Derrick truck positioned to get hold of the transformer. As it turns out the girls were skipping school that day, and the girl that was killed was the daughter of one of the responding Police officers...Very sad situation that I'll never forget..Unfortunately I have a few more tales to tell.

Saw an excursion roll several times after a tire blew out and people being tossed as it rolled.

At 15, I found my grandmother stuck to her kitchen floor due to blood drying after a fall. Her eyes staring at me when I walked in will forever be etched in my memory.

Living in Monroe, 1995, maybe 1996. Hail storm came through. State Farm had a "triage" type adjusting unit in an old warehouse. I was standing there with the adjuster looking at my truck when a guy on the roof checking it for hail damage stepped on a panel that gave way. Heard him hit a steel rafter, looked up, watched him hit the concrete floor 20 feet from me. Nobody in that place moved.

I jumped over, blood was pooling around his head. Called 911 on my Nextel cell. Nobody else moved. Most went back to looking at the vehicles that were there for hail damage.

ran out to North 4th street to flag down the ambulance. Nobody else in the building even responded. Saw in the paper the next day he was in his early 20's, finishing up a post-graduate degree, working the storm for some extra cash.

Went to the funeral. Saw his dad, told him I was there called 911 and his son didn't feel anything it all happened so fast. I started crying, he hugged me until I stopped. He never knew who I was.

Almost 20 years later and I'm wiping tears from my eyes right now. The lack of any reaction by the people in that building to a young man falling 30 feet and lying in a pool of his own blood ended any sympathy, empathy, or caring for my fellow man. People are garbage as the default until they prove otherwise.

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I seen the inside of an abandoned house, in the middle of the day (it was obvious people were staying in it at night). The floor was covered with needles, broken glass pipes, etc, but the saddest part of it all was the dirty diapers.

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ADA compliant crack house? This a true story?

The Port potty in centennial park in Nashville

Watched a coal truck smash into a 2 door car. It pretty much flattened it. Bad, bad wreck. Came to find out a mother and child died in the wreck. Really stuck with me for a while. Just awful.

Running over a young mans head laying face down on the railroad tracks. He opened his eyes just before he went under our locomotive. Still see it in my head often.

Kid in high school woodworking class tried to clean sawdust off the wood planer it spit his hand out like hamburger meat....
Saw dumb azz carpenter filet his calf with skill saw... another took his thumb off using table saw we put it in cup of ice drove to ER they reattached it....

That I've lived through? Hurricane Charley.

That I've seen? Back at State we had a suicide at Suttle Hall. He did it Friday and the roommate discovered it Sunday night. It was so bad that they took the stretcher down all the way from the top floor instead of getting in the elevator. Meanwhile a bunch of degenerates decided during the tinde the body was coming down that it was a good time to blast music, dance on the balconies, and hell back and forth. 2 guys in my suite took part and I never spoke another word to either one. I was also hall president so I had the "fun" job of directing those shaken up to the counselors who got there just after the body was loaded into the ambulance.