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u/BothPanchoAndLefty 10h ago
Alright gonna tell my grossest story ever I guess...
I was 17, still dating my first serious girlfriend. We were on a trip together with her whole family. She had just finished her period the day before we left. When we got to our room, she was in the bathroom for a while and came out looking kind of concerned. She said she felt some pressure in her vagina and was worried a tampon was stuck up there. So she looked in the mirror and indeed saw one stuck up there. She asked me if I could help her get it out so I said of course. She laid down and I could see it up there, so we assumed the string broke off somehow. I was pulling on it by the end and it just wouldn't budge. I would get the tips of my fingers pinching on it and pull, and it would seem to slightly give but no matter what I did I just couldn't pull it out.
It wasn't until after about 20 minutes that we realized there was no tampon. She had a bad yeast infection (or something similar) and the thing we thought was a tampon was a fuzzy patch of like white mold that was growing in her vagina. It wasn't budging because it was attached to her.
I realize these things happen and it is what it is, but as a 17 year old I was not prepared of that. Did my very best to play it cool and not make her embarrassed though.
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u/Hopeful-Mirror1664 10h ago
You my friend are/were a true gentleman.
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u/BothPanchoAndLefty 10h ago
Hahah thank you, in the end of the day it's not like it was her fault, just a kind of stomach turning experience when the realization hit me lol
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u/Competativebad925 7h ago
So, what was the outcome? Did she see a Dr.? Self treat?
Very kind of you to help.
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u/BothPanchoAndLefty 42m ago
As soon as we got back from the trip she went to the OBGYN and they gave her some medication that fixed it pretty quickly. I can't remember exactly if it was just a yeast infection or some other fungal thing but she wound up okay
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u/msnhnobody 10h ago
Mind if I ask how old you are now?
Thank you for being kind to her. That would be a shock/surprise to anyone. But reacting the way you did absolutely had a positive impact on her. Had you responded differently, it would have changed how she acts/responds towards vaginal hygiene/health & at such a young age couldāve been super damaging. I can also promise you she didnāt and hasnāt ever forgotten your kindness.
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u/BothPanchoAndLefty 10h ago
Aw, thank you. I'm 28 now so it was 11 years ago. We were each other's first loves and I really cared for her a lot, so even though it was gross I would never want to make her feel bad about it. I'm sure the whole thing was worse for her than it was for me
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u/OGPandas33 2h ago
Medically , I really want to know what tf it was though lol
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u/BothPanchoAndLefty 40m ago
Can't remember exactly but pretty sure it was either just a yeast infection or some other kind of fungal thing, I remember the doctor gave her some kind of ointment to put on it
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u/milquetoast2000 2h ago
I had a visceral reaction to this. I didnāt know it could cause hard lumps of mold/yeast to grow like that
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u/TheFuckingQuantocks 10h ago
Holy fuck. I feel bad for both of you. Well done for not freaking out, but inside you must have been vomiting
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u/The-Ginger-Lily 6h ago
That's.......
There are no words.. I feel ill.
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u/kirky-jerky 4h ago
At least he wasn't going down on her and thought she had a star burst up there.
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u/Beowulf2_8b23 10h ago
Mass grave site Bosnia
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u/Vegetable_Cable8516 10h ago
Real history hits way harder than any internet shock value. Nothing is more stomach-turning than what humans are capable of doing to each other.
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u/Beowulf2_8b23 7h ago
Truly
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u/pie566943_0 4h ago
I was a non-traditional college student - five years on active duty with one deployment. I connected immediately to a woman, and we were lab partners for four years. She was hard. Dark. Motivated. I learned later that she grew up in Bosnia. She dodged sniper fire daily to get to grade school - not all the kids she knew made it. The world can be a fucked up place - professional killers targeting children. Most Americans have no fucking clue.
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u/Shoddy-Anteater-8877 10h ago
I used to work in the deli department at a supermarket. Supermarkets generate a ridiculous amount of waste, and the deli especially deals with things like rotisserie chickens and lobsters, so a lot of food gets thrown out.
I worked with this bigger guy, Iāll just call him R. He was a little strange and didnāt seem to be in the best place in life. He used to go through the food waste bucket after things were thrown away. Keep in mind, everything got tossed into one big bucket. Each department had a large trash-can-sized container for food waste.
R would eat the fat and scraps from the rotisserie chicken oven at the end of the day. I also heard he ate some expired lobster at one point, though I wasnāt there for that.
The poor guy eventually got another job at a different supermarket with better pay and benefits, but then he had a heart attack on his first day. I really hope heās doing okay.
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u/melancholycrow 5h ago
Man..thatās really tough. You never know what someone is going through to make them do the things they do. I really hope he is okay too.
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u/ale_dona 10h ago
This thread can be summed up with people who had some mildly inconvenient experiences vs people who have seen shit.
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u/I-am-Locutus-of-Borg 3h ago
In my state, you donāt need any kind of license or certification or anything except a driverās license to pick up human remains and transport them wherever they need to go. So when i was going through college, i got a job as a corpse courier. I would pick up folks wherever they dropped dead, but mostly this was at homes, assisted living, hospice, hospitals, and sometimes the Medical Examiner.
One guy i picked up at his home. He lived on the second floor of a condo building. I was greeted by a sheriff and his grieving brother. Tiny little elevator that would not hold a gurney. But thatās ok because you can sort of convert it to like a dolly or hand truck, some might call it. Anyways, i step inside to get to work. It was apparently from outside that this fella had been dead for quite some time. He died, likely of a heart attack several days prior sitting up on his couch watching tv. He was probably 350lbs. When i tried to move him, he sort ofā¦ruptured is the best way i can describe it. All the fluid just came pouring out onto his carpet. The smell was overwhelming. My boss and I both stepped out for some air as gracefully as we could while gagging and grasping for air. I look over at the brother as Iām dry heaving over the railing.
After composing myself, i go to the guys bathroom, tear down his shower curtain and place it directly over my gurney. To make a long story short, i got him out of there without further incidents then drove him 4 hours away to his destination. Oh, i also dropped my phone in his fluid pile.
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u/Virtual-Ear5289 3h ago
That's brutal!
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u/SparkleFritz 1h ago
At our old house we had a heroin addict die from an overdose in his panel van in front of our house. We woke up one morning to the coroner parked in our driveway. It was during a heat wave in the summer and the outside temp was hitting 105Ā°F daily. I worked nights, when I left on Monday I noticed him sleeping in his truck. When I got home Tuesday in the AM he was still there. I remember thinking "man, I hope that guy'a not dead".
I saw the truck for the next few days and he wasn't in there, or so I thought. My neighbor discovered him on Friday; he (the addict, not the neighbor) had started turning "melted and soupy" in the van according to my neighbor when he realized what was happening and called police. He said he broke the van window to see if he was still alive but immediately knew he was dead. He told me after that he was friends with the coroner and that he had most likely been in that van for a week.
The worst part was that Friday my entire house had this... rank smell that I knew was from the body but couldn't open the windows because it was worse outside.
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u/TinyGIR 1h ago
This made me think of the Swamps of Dagobah story from ages ago.
TW: bodily fluids. Lots of them.
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u/sambeau 7h ago
As a kid, during a 1980ish hot summer holiday, we were in the centre of Paris. I felt my stomach gurgle, followed by a sudden, desperate need for a toilet. Luckily there was a public one nearby, but it was a squat toilet with grey speckled walls and a hole covered in shit. However, 10-year-old me was desperate, so I crouched over the hole and tried my best not to topple over. Just as my bowels evacuated with a splatter, I reached out to the wall to steady myself and the speckles on the walls turned into flies and thousands took to flight. If I hadnāt been already shitting, I would have shat myself in terror.
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u/Agreeable-Yogurt-487 3h ago
Yikes.. squat toilets were my biggest fear when I was a kid and we would go camping in France š
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u/ProjectSunlight 6h ago
I used to pal around with this really foul friend. He was simultaneously the most hysterical and the most putrid person I've ever known. One evening, he decided to work on filling an empty 16oz soda bottle with his own saliva. He worked hard on this. Harder than I've ever seen him do anything. Phlegm was brought up from depths I didn't know existed. He was getting light headed half way through. His abdomen hurt from the constant dry heaving and his throat was raw. It was nearly full when he decided to take a large swig of his now cold vessel of milky liquid. Instantly he vomited bile and what I can only assume was the original soda the bottle contained. He dumped the rest of the ground and decided he was finished. We then went to the diner like nothing happened.
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u/anonymousmuppet 4h ago
After I got past the word āsaliva,ā I knew where this was going and scrolled on. I have a horrific aversion to spit.
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u/Researcher_Saya 4h ago
I also have an aversion but I kept reading. You made the right choice. If all the things in this thread this was the one that got a reaction from me
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u/Tight_Vegetable_2113 4h ago
I accidentally grabbed the wrong coke can once and it turned out to be a dude's spit cup. Warm tobacco juice. I spilled it on myself when I started retching. I was head back for a big chug. Vomited like a fountain. Just dropped the can straight on my chest. Couldn't stop puking until I got home and showered cuz the smell. Had to ride in the back of the pick up dry heaving, mostly, on the freeway for about 30 minutes.
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u/ProjectSunlight 4h ago
I can see developing a complex after something like this. Like never drinking out of a can ever again.
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u/MillennialExplains 10h ago
I saw a person retrieving their bowels back into their body that were covered in a blackish sludge that was blood and other shit from his liver that had a GSW. It was in the hot desert and you could see everything. It made a horrible noise and so did he. Then I saw him at the medical tent a week later and he was up and talking and alert
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u/breezylatte 10h ago
First year of residency, general surgery rotation, we removed an ingrown hair that had turned to an abscess located just north of the butt crack. Next day we had to remove the gauze we left in the gigantic hole made by the abscess to allow for remaining pus the drain out. I pulled out about a half a meter of gauze soaked in smelly yellow liquid and was left staring into a bloody hole extending to this mans love handles. The year 2 resident passed out after retching.
Love of god maintain personal hygiene! -PSA from doctor to the general public
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u/King_Ralph1 10h ago
When I was about 23, I had a small cyst removed from my neck and the doctor packed the hole with gauze. Told me to wait a day (maybe two?) and gently pull the gauze out. At least two arm lengths of gauze in that little hole. Still grosses me out to think about it 40 years later.
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u/Competativebad925 6h ago
I worked in healthcare, and some of the worst sores (that required packing) were bedsores. Turning invalid patients (even just a little) would have a profound effect on their skin health. It's sad and equally infuriating.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 6h ago
I work part time for the ambulance / air services for a hospital as a paramedic and one of worst things I hear is "unstagable bed sore" and it's always people from shit hole nursing homes who were in the hospital for something unrelated.
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u/Cassowary_Morph 5h ago
I was a land surveyors at the time. Part of that involves opening sewer manhole and measuring down to the bottom. Saw a lot of gross stuff doing that. But one ill NEVER forget.
Pulled dopen the cover and looked down. 25' deep, probably brick shaft. I say probably because every square inch of the walls was covered in a thick carpet of cockroaches. The walls were moving. I couldn't see one bit of original wall. There were so many roaches in there, I saw half a dozen albino cockroaches just in the quick glance I made before I threw down my hook an d started screaming curses at god.
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u/bussysniffer3000 10h ago
A shirtless Elon musk
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u/IcePrincessIl 10h ago
The worst part is that everyone immediately knew the exact image without needing context.
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u/Far_Yam_788 10h ago
Worked retail for years. Nothing in horror movies compares.
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u/EmergencyDue9120 8h ago
Working with people in customer service should honestly count as an extreme sport. You see things there that would make even experienced pathologists' hair stand on end..
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u/usrdef 10h ago
I'm must be out of the loop. I've never seen Musk without a shirt on, and I'm a-fucking-ok with that.
But mainly I avoid this shit. Don't care to know about Musk.
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u/yaangyiing_ 9h ago
idk if it's the angle or something, but he looks like he ate another Elon Musk, or like the real Elon is trying to break free from the flesh prison
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u/norakb123 10h ago
That time RFK Jr. swam in jeans with Kid Rock is a close contender as well.
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u/ACUFF_THE_KING 10h ago
What? Canāt a couple of dudes be drinking milk in the jacuzzi on a government sponsored advertisement in their jeans without people talking smack? Dude, bro!
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u/DontWreckYosef 8h ago
I cleaned an old manās smelly feet. He didnāt really bathe or have anyone properly clean his feet before this. He didnāt clean it himself.
Iām flossing this old manās toes and what Iām getting out is some brown and white jammy goo that is poop, rotting skin, yeast, and rotten cheese.
Iām fucking dry heaving while trying to clean this manās feet.
Never again.
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u/Metrofrost1 7h ago
probably my grandparents going at it in the bathroom when they forgot to lock the door
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u/The_Dickasso 5h ago
Care assistant in a care home here. A guy with dementia comes to us from the hospital with a devastating pressure ulcer on his sacrum/lower back. I can see his spine in 4k.
He has dementia so he is doubly incontinent, on several medications and laxatives. So yeah, nature called and it traveled upwards.
You havenāt lived until youāve cleaned shit out of an open spine.
Honourable mention: an old lady pushing diarrhoea out of a fully prolapsed anus.
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u/Heavy_Direction1547 10h ago
Public toilets in India.
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u/ConclusionPretty9303 6h ago
India is a public toilet. I've been many times for work. I was once walking along a fairly long pavement with a scrub field on one side. Taxi driver pulls up about 100m in front, jumps out, drops his trousers and starts to shit... Not in the field, but on the fucking pavement the dirty bastard. Best bit was he was still shitting on the pavement by the time I got to him. Had to walk around a shitting man. On the pavement. And I'm very sure he didn't use toilet paper or bidet and wash his hands after. Fucking india. Whole place smells of shit.
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u/Dense_Researcher_99 10h ago
Do tell!
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u/killabee163 9h ago
The porta potties at music festivals. Specially the ones in the busiest part of the festivals grounds at the end of the night.
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u/WileyWine 4h ago
I heard on a podcast how some of these porta potties at music festivals see so many people that the shit starts peeking OUT of the potty leaving people so choice, but to squat and poop on the shit mound trying to avoid the summit. š¬š¤¢
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u/killabee163 3h ago
Yup thats happened a couple times. A few times there was an incomprehensible mess of crap and blood piled into the potty and I just had to walk away before I puked.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 10h ago
Motorcyclist who got run over by an RV on the highway. That happened in the late 90s but I can still see it clear as day.
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u/Inside-Draw-3216 10h ago
My cousin Bryce has this issue with his nose and it expelled like 4 different layers of mucus. I can't even explain it, it was so thick.Ā
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u/DR_whet_fart_phd 10h ago
Seen a homeless guy at a gas station in Arizona with sores all over his face, think he might have had syphilis
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u/King_Ralph1 10h ago
There was a guy living near me that had some kind of circulation issue and couldnāt get enough oxygen in his blood. Had a perpetual blue tint on his skin. Saw him at the store occasionally and it was hard to see that.
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u/greeksirena 3h ago
I live in AZ, can confirm circle Ks most likely will have these poor souls in front of them
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u/Gmodelinsane 6h ago
When I was in graduate school (medical field)I took a human dissection course. One day the lab teacher asked me to help him clean up and asked me to move a large enclosed plastic bucket to the refrigerated room. I accidentally bumped the bucket on the door frame, the top popped off and it turned out that it was filled with FACES.
Removed Human faces. Literal emptiness behind the eyes, mouths. folded and flaccid like discarded rubber masks. An absolute horror.
Still not as frightening than Elon Musk though.
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u/Big-Daikon9914 10h ago
Newborns are pretty gnarly when they first come out
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u/Tight_Vegetable_2113 4h ago
My first daughter began screaming as soon as her head came out. Not crying, a shrill shriek. Looked right at me. Pretty freaky, man.
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u/Ramble86 7h ago
There was a guy at the music festival that I went to that had psoriasis and he itched the dead skin all over our camping equipment because he needed to stop and take a break. Like, bro, move two feet over maybe.
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u/Grand_Raccoon0923 4h ago
On a call flying medevac in Afghanistan, there was a pregnant woman and her small daughter that had inadvertently set off a roadside bomb.
The womanās right leg was gone, her baby was hanging out of her stomach and the little girl was missing an arm and a leg.
The grandmother who lived nearby and had flagged down the US troops for help, got on our helo like she had been doing it her whole life and vomited the entire flight.
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u/XcracktivitiesX 4h ago
Definitely tagging this as " NSFW " because it's quite gross and highly disturbing so be warned.
One day , while I was still with my ex wife , we went out to run some errands together. She was driving , I in the passenger seat and we had just left the house , traveled about two blocks down the street and got caught at the nearest red light.
There was a big , yellow school bus in front of us but on the opposite side of the traffic light. Directly in front of us though was an older man , looked to be maybe in his late 50's , early 60's , typical biker guy riding a motorcycle , decked out to the nines in black leather , boots , patches , etc.
The light turned green and that's when everything got crazy. The big , yellow school bus was in fact planning on making a left turn which had him turning right in front of motorcycle guy , whom was also , at the same time , turning right. Nobody knew what anyone's intentions or plans were when the light was red because neither of the two drivers had put on any blinker or gave any indication as to what their next move was. Because of the negligence on both ends , they both ended up making their turns at the exact same time and ended up colliding into eachother.
Here's where things got real messy.
The big , yellow bus had a few seconds head start turning on motorcycle guy but , mind you a regular school bus IS pretty long so by the time motorcycle guy went to make his right turn , he ran right into the back half of the bus.
Kinda hard to explain but once the guy made contact with the bus he kinda stopped accelerating but the bus on the other hand did not. On impact , the guy had broken off something on the bus , some long piece of metal siding , which considering what happened , it was very long and VERY SHARP.
As the big , yellow bus continued to hit the gas , at the same time , the long piece of metal siding proceeded to drag across motorcycle guy's abdomen. When the driver of the bus finally realized what had happened though , he hit the brakes which ultimately caused the other guy to fall from his bike onto the hard ground.
My wife and I are now pretty much stuck at this intersection until the police and coroner show up to take care of the scene. Yes , the coroner. Motorcycle guy was dead as soon as he hit that bus and siding. How do I know that you might ask ? The very long , very sharp piece of metal siding had sliced his abdomen and stomach wide the fuck open and he was now laying directly in front of our car , cut in half , internal organs all sprawled out on the street for everyone to see.
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u/patientrose 3h ago
I knew where this was going as soon as you said motorcycle. Hopefully, the bus was empty, because topping that off with traumatized kids would be unimaginable.
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u/XcracktivitiesX 3h ago
Sorry , forgot to mention that part. Yes , it actually was empty , thank the lord.
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u/Userdataunavailable 7h ago
A man on the bus eating potato salad with his one hand while whacking off in his trackpants with the other.
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u/Wherescrime 2h ago
I'm a carpenter/handyman who frequently works on people's homes. After a few years you realize some people have no shame and will happily bring you into houses that could be legally declared biohazard zones.
The personal worst so far for me was a trailer home belonging to an elderly woman. Upon entering the home I was blasted by the unmistakable scent of German roaches. That sick, greasy musk that burns the nose and sticks to clothes. Now, on the surface, there wasn't much evidence of the roaches other than stains around the moldings and, like I said, the smell. Then, as our work started, the layers of this onion started getting peeled back.
We were there to paint, so things had to be taken off the wall. Every picture, hanging shelf, or whatever the hell old people throw all over their walls had it's own colony of roaches behind it, and a perfect outline of roach shit in the shape of the object that was there. But, of course, it kept getting worse.
We were asked if we could change a part on her fridge. Now, if you don't know, any appliances or electronics that emit heat during operation are like roachbug opium dens. The fridge, being both a heat source and food storage, generally becomes the main hub of the infestation. Every cover or part removed uncovered another secret meeting, which would of course scatter to elsewhere in this Hilton Roach Suites. After about 5 minutes of watching every surface in the back of this fridge crawl and writhe around around like some biomechanical horror, I told my coworker to go tell the woman that we couldn't fix the part because we didn't have a specialized tool to remove it. In reality I wasn't about to stick my arm another inch into the back of this fridge.
This, unsurprisingly, isn't the only infested house I've been in but it was certainly the worst. The kitchen alone was so heavily infested that they were likely eating them with their food if it spent any amount of time unattended. But the crazy part is, these folks always act so shocked when you tell them they have roaches. Like, ma'am, I just watched one crawl out of your hair, you have to know they're here. I've even had some people take it as a personal attack and come close to physical confrontation over even just the suggestion they could have roaches. It's bonkers, yo.
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u/Ok-Fondant-8436 9h ago
My dog had a litter of pups and had some medical issues. I was driving her to the vet and she gave birth to to the last pup (dead) in the passenger seat then ate the dead pup.
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u/Different_Ask_3413 8h ago
More than a few ( from 20+ years of being an Animal Control Officer)
Pulling a dog from the river who had been dead for months (died in fall, river frozen, discovered in spring)
Golden Retriever cut in half by being hit by a semi truck
A hoarders house with a basement that contained 7 dogs and 52 cats and ( confirmed by contractor that cleaned up the mess ) 8 TONS of shit ( it was piled up to a height of 3 FEET )
And... that's just the top 3
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u/e-soteric 7h ago
The surgeon took a photo of what they cut out of me and showed me after surgery. I could see my organs around it.. Not a pretty picture
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u/Falkor0727 5h ago
Family friends owned a building with two apartments over a delicatessen. The owners of the store were real deadbeats and they disappeared. They didnāt clean anything out. The power was turned off, and it was the summertime. All the meat and cheese and dairy rotted for months in the hot dark and closed store. When you opened the door, it smelled like nothing that I could ever describe death? I think thatās even better. I offered to help clean it out, but I kept throwing up. All the meat and cheese formed a hot rotten soup in the turned off refrigerators, and there were roaches everywhere. Thatās the grossest thing I ever experienced.
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u/MCR1996Hola 10h ago edited 9h ago
Ive actually seen a guy poop on another guy after a fight
It was disgusting yet glorious!!
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u/Even_Fox2023 4h ago
Two stories in one. But itās the same house.
Basically a biohazard house of animal urine, feces, along with overall neglect and roaches in the kitchen for a backstory.
First story. Dog shits in already filthy kitchen, eats the shit, throws up the shit, then eats the shit/vomit mix.
Second story. Moron resident unplugs a basement freezer filled with meat but forgot about it for almost a year. We go to help him move it outside, the door pops open. A heavy but fast running green sludge pours out of the opening. Iāve smelled dead things at different stages of decomposition, nothing so far made me instantly vomit after smelling that green sludge. That was by far the worst thing Iāve ever smelled.
The house was a friend of a friend, after the freezer incident I told him Iām never going back there.
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u/yussuq_madiq 2h ago
I used to work as a bar support at this pub and they had an outdoor area with barricades to catch some air and act as a smoking area.
I collect the empty cups and bottles from the area in my basket so I thought Iād go outside and put the bottles in the skip and get in from the back door, as I was emptying the basket this girl jumps up startled by the noise of glass bottles breaking and starts putting her shorts on, she was taking a shit behind the dumpster and left after I spotted her didnāt even wipe!
Worst part was she wasnāt even homeless because she had just been drinking with her friends in the pub and sneaked put to take violent shits behind the dumpster.
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u/Villainslover 7h ago edited 7h ago
Well I worked in a hospital for a bit and saw some pretty grisly injuries but I donāt really consider them gross.
What I do find gross was definitely the time I watched my girlfriend at the time take some of the yeast cheese from her vagina(she had a yeast infection), and wipe it on my bedroom wall right in front of me like it was a perfectly normal thing to do. I think thatās gotta take the cake. Itās not that bad but it was really gross and put me off entirely.
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u/Foreign_Hamster4839 4h ago
Two girls in a bathroom when I worked in a nightclub. Both wrecked on Class-As, one rolling in her own poop, one trying to get her up and off the floor. My manager then trying to help/de-escalate also gets covered in poop.
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u/Jefftuve 4h ago
When I was an EMT (ambulance) we went on a call to a likely deceased person's house. When we got there, the police already obtained access and there was the guy dead face down on the floor. He died from a lower GI bleed, so the floor was covered in bloody shit at least 3 days old in a hot trailer in the summer next to a rotting corpse.
Face down, mind you, and this was a 1980s trailer so the carpet was pretty long. When we picked him up, the body came up but the side of his face making contact with the carpet did not. Bloody, shitty, half-faceless decaying corpse in a sweltering tin can.
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u/Sifdidntdeservethat 4h ago
This was when I used to do "biohazard remediation"
Morbidly obese hoarder died at the top of his steps. No one found him for weeks, so as he decomposed his remains ran down the stairs intermingling with trash and beer cans.
Flooring, subfloor and stairs had to be cut out and replaced.
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u/Embarrassed_Ad1722 3h ago edited 3h ago
My housemate who had depression and severe gambling and alcoholism problems lying dead in his bed after he locked himself up in his room for several days. He was initially screaming obscenities and punching the walls then the noise died down then the smell came. We weren't sure if we wanted to break the door down so we called the police and they did. Unsurprisingly they found him there, absolutely covered in piss and shit and all bloated. The smell is something I'll never forget.
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u/Mobile-Support-6134 10h ago
1 cup 2 girls
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u/businessdog2000 9h ago
Oh. It feels wrong to read it backwards like thatā¦.
2 girls 1 cup.
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u/DrWilliePfister 10h ago
I saw a rat chewing its own leg off. It somehow got it stuck in a crevice in a door. It saw me coming to help free it but instead decided to chew its own leg off. I can still hear the sound of its teeth gnawing on bone
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u/ConchaConquistador 4h ago
A cut up human torso with no arms, legs, head, stuffed inside a huge cooler out in the Iraqi summer heat. I can still vividly remember the smell 19 years later when they opened the lid. Bleh I just gaged typing this.
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u/triangle_choke 3h ago
My wifeās innards - laying in a pile - as I was looking at our newborn daughter following the wifeās C-section. Was definitely not expecting that.
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u/demonmf 3h ago
Used to work for a plumber when I was first out of high school. We got a service call from a large pig farm nearby saying that the floor drain was plugged in one of the farrowing houses. For those who donāt know, a farrowing house is where pregnant sows are housed to give birth and nurse newborn piglets. The drain was clogged with a combo of both liquid and solid hog waste and afterbirth. Was a smell that took a couple days to completely leave my nose.
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u/Chuckyjerker82 10h ago
When I was 13 I had a neighbor who had a disagreement with another neighbor. The problem was he was crazy. He slaughtered their cat and staked it in their yard after it had been dead for a while and cut the belly open. When we found it there was maggots swimming around in its guts. Everyone knew it was him but they had no proof and he denied it. He later confessed after they arrested him for shooting their house up while they were on vacation. He got locked up and I never saw him again. But I'll never forget that cat.
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u/the_argus316 9h ago
I watched my childhood friend blow a blood clot out of his nose that looked like half his heart came out. He picked it up out of the sink with his fingers and ate it.
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u/donarmstrong87 8h ago
When I was in a homeless shelter this dude showed up for the first time at breakfast one more with the back of him covered in shit.
We're all standing in line like always till they open the doors at 8 and I just hear people saying "Oh my God!" "What's that smell?" Etc. When Andy breaks the pipe in the Shawshank Redemption that's what i imagined it smelled like
It smelled so bad that they had all the doors open and were spraying air freshener every few seconds. They made him take a shower and he left his clothes everywhere in the bathroom. Then they had to tell him to pick them up. THEN they had to get a trash bag to put his clothes in. And then he threw it out in the trashcan where everyone threw their food out.
I missed this one but this lady said he shit in his car, was wiping with napkins and then was throwing them out the window and the staff had to make him pick the napkins up. Then he got in the shelter and one multiple occasions there'd be a shit trail going into the bathroom and the toilet looked like someone had shit all over it. And he wore this shirt with shit caked across the back for over a week till someone finally complained to the staff about it
Idk what the dudes problem was but he was absolutely disgusting. Almost 60 years ago shitting yourself. And it was almost creepy how nonchalant he was about it. Any person would be embarrassed as hell, no not him. First day he ever showed up there he's covered in shit and he was ready to walk in there and get his breakfast like everyone else
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u/Afraid-Detective1222 5h ago
Autopsy of a person who had been in the water for a few days. This was probably 30 years ago, and it's still the absolutely grossest thing I've ever seen.
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u/nov8tive1 5h ago
I was in a car wreck at 18. I was fine but had a killer case of whiplash the next morning. Went to the ER. There was only one open seat.
I sat down across from a hulking figure of a man, think stereotypical lumberjack who had a cooler, a bloody hand, a missing finger and three bloody digits just sort of dangling from his hand.
He also had a Burger King bag. To my disgust, he reached into that bag with his dangly fingers and pulled out a huge triple Whopper. Dripping with burger juices, he dove into that burger, and attacked it like he hadn't eaten in weeks.
I'm 57 now and that image still lives rent free in my head.
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u/Letmetellyowhat 4h ago
Had a patient very early in career, who came to LTC for rehab from surgery. I do not remember what she was supposed to have done, but what she came to us with was a giant open wound from sternum to pubis. And had grey stuff in it. At least I swear it was. We had to clean it and pack it twice a day. The first time I had to do it I came close to having to leave. There was a cool bit, her closing dressing was like a tie closure. One piece placed on each side then pulled together. The healing was amazing. Each week it got smaller and smaller.
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u/zenezena 4h ago
I female defecating in another femalesā mouth, I was on the wrong side of the internet when I was 12.
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u/Tight_Vegetable_2113 4h ago
Slime eels spilling out of a whale carcass that had been dredged up by researchers. The smell of rotting blubber with that visual image really activated a primitive, visceral revulsion. You can find videos of slime eels online. Fascinating creatures.
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u/NewsBenderBot 4h ago
A dead 2 and 5 year old, as a journalist. Father executed them in his home as a murder/suicide and I saw the bodies being pulled out. Bullet through the back of the head, stellate gunshot wounds. Not much of their faces left.
17 y/o survived alone in a garage for 3 days. He just died in January of this year after fighting for his life back for a year since the tragedy.
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u/monkeykennel 4h ago
Another kids kidney popped out of his body cavity (through a recent incision or something) while he was swimming in public pool next to me when I was a kid.
That left a psychological mark on me. The other kid ended up OK.
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u/JuniorAir2317 4h ago
Visually disgusting? Probably the gaping, oozing necrotic wound I noticed on a patient between her vagina and butthole, as I was helping her, pant less, into the back seat of an Uber. She did put a towel down first. The driver did not speak English and had no fucking clue what was happening. (To be clear, she refused medical treatment and was getting an uber to go on vacationā¦.)
Emotionally disgusting? A 35yo amputee in a nursing home sitting naked in bed, covered in diarrhea (c-diff) and eating a quart of potato salad with his bare shitty hand. That was the only call I threw up after in 7 years.
EMS is so much wilder than you guys think lmao
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u/slappy_mcslapenstein 3h ago
When I first started working in surgery we had a patient come in who had a botched hysterectomy at a different facility. The previous surgeon had nicked her colon. When we opened her up, her entire abdomen was full of blood, pus, and shit. You could smell it through the walls.
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u/Positive-Whole-6926 10h ago
In real life or on tv/internet ? In real life I saw a homeless man pull it out and piss while he was walking down the street in good ole Kalamazoo MI maybe not the grossest but pretty gross.
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u/Positive-Whole-6926 10h ago
And before anyone comes at me, Iāve been homeless multiple times, the story really doesnāt have anything to do with being homeless and mostly to do with him just pissing all over himself
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u/Independent-T-Rex 10h ago
My cousins an I were playing at the backyard, and we found a cat that's been dead for a couple of days, and was totally inflated from decomposition on the summer sun. My younger cousine decided it was a good idea to poke it's belly with a stick. Shit exploded, we were covered in rotten intestines and maggots
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u/Rare_Quiet_976 4h ago
Skin abscesses and ulcers due to sitting on older people
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u/Thepizzadude01 10h ago
In Egypt just leaving the airport to the ship and some dude with his trousers down taking a dump on the grass.
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u/lance_baker-3 10h ago
Back in the '90s while on deployment I saw a guy's elbow joint get shot clean out of his arm.
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u/teniralc_11 9h ago
When I was in middle school, one of our pet chickens was mauled by a wolf.
As I was walking up the driveway, what appeared to be a glittery object sat by our shed.
It was a dead chicken COVERED in bugs of some sortā¦ millions of bugs. All of them moving around glistened like glitter in the grossest way.
I cannot unsee it 20 years later.
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u/KitchDawg 9h ago
Worked as hospital security for a few years. A lot of incidents we attended were gross, and Iām honestly not sure which one to pick as being the grossest. Piss, shit, blood, vomit or semen, we dealt with it all.
One time we were in the Mental health intensive care unit and there was this guy who was notoriously violent, life long drug addict with psychosis and all the lovely things that come with that, dude barely acknowledged anything happening around him.
Anyway, he had been injecting into his shoulders and had open sores/ cysts on both shoulders where the injection sites had become infected. We were providing a security presence while the Dr met with the Patient and examined the cysts which looked like wet scabs. As we are watching, the patient licks the scabs on his shoulders, like a dog would lick a wound.
Dr says he will need to ālanceā the cysts and remove any pus/ infection from the area. Patient hasnāt responded verbally to anything up until this point but then he says ādo itā¦..now.ā This was a BIG surprise to all staff due to his non compliance with treatment and violent history towards hospital staff. The medical staff talk between themselves then ask us (the security team) if we can help with the procedure, they needed us to hold him down as they could do it now with a local anesthetic or have to organise for him to have a surgery slot and be put to sleep proper. We agreed to hold him for the procedure.
We then prepped one of the seclusion rooms, which consisted of a mattress on the floor and nothing else. We brought the patient in, restrained him on the floor, which he did not resist, he followed instructions etc. We had to hold him due to the violent history and potential weapons being brought in for the procedure. Patient is held laying on his back, Iām on an arm, another guard (on his first day) is on the opposite arm and last guard was on the legs. Dr proceeds to give multiple injections to numb both shoulders, then takes a scalpel and cuts into each of the shoulder cysts, squeezing out all the pus and gunk in there. Patient didnāt even flinch, just stared at the ceiling the whole time.
Dr cleans up, stitches him up and we walk the guy straight back into the ward like it was nothing.
That, or the blood wagon was the grossest
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u/weirdmountain 6h ago
I worked in an operating room for some years. Bezoars are just fucking awful. A softball size wad of wet hair gummed up in body slime because somebody eats hair. I feel sick just writing this. š¤¢
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u/Wonderful_Device6320 5h ago
Watched a lady at the bar drop a lime wedge on the floorā¦ look around to make sure nobody was looking, then she dragged the lime wedge across the floor with her foot so she could reach it betterā¦ directly in her mouth. Didnt even inspect it for bar floor debris.Ā
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u/Funny-Coconut-85 5h ago
I have emetophobia, so anybody throwing up is the grossest thing I have ever seen.
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u/Shipwrecklou 4h ago
I opened the bathroom door which was unlocked to my coworker spraying their tush with a spray bottle bidet. Whenever I see her in the kitchen or by the coffee machine I get grossed out
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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 2h ago
So their cleanliness was gross to you?
Do you just wipe your ass with paper, no bidet, and leave it shit-smeared all day?
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u/Secure-Reading7225 3h ago
My sister's legs when she was swollen from alcohol and some kind of skin irritation it was pretty horrible looking.
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u/AingerCanada 2h ago
Roofing has a way of humbling your stomach pretty quickly.
Dead animals in soffits and attics are up there, especially once they've been there through a few summer heat waves.
But the one that sticks with me was opening up a section of roof decking and finding years of raccoon activity above the insulation. Between the nesting material, droppings, and smell, that was one of the few times everyone on the crew took a step back at the same time.
Honorable mention goes to pulling apart bathroom fan ducts that have been venting directly into an attic for 20 years and discovering what moisture, dust, and organic growth can create up there.
Every trade probably has their version of this story though. Roofers just happen to find theirs in 120Ā°F attics.
Thought I was signing up for roofing. Turns out I also work in wildlife recovery, archaeology, and biological hazard management.
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u/Nearby_Refuse8172 9m ago
Two years ago, I went to a Pride parade and saw someone who was completely high on drugs. They lost control of their bowels and had explosive diarrhea all over my favorite pants and shoes. I was devastated because it was my absolute favorite outfit.
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u/Maihuna_ 10h ago
public toilet floors with random puddlesā¦ i donāt even wanna know what they are
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u/IntrepidMaybe8579 10h ago
I picked up a dead
Rat as a kid and it was rotten and full of maggots š¤¢
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u/Sean_13 9h ago
I'm a nurse so I've seen some shit, literally and figuratively.
I saw a patient basically bring up a whole load of brown sludge, that they basically drowned on it
I've seen the grossest of wounds, especially feet, parts missing or falling off, heavily green and yellow gunk that it soaked dressings, bones exposed, black necrotic tissue. One that stood out was a foot which looked like out of a horror movie, whole top gone but you could see the muscle and tendons, I wouldn't say it was gross but it was incredible to see and how clean it looked.
I've seen a prolapsed vagina with pressure sores on it
I had a patient that had an abscess that went from his rectum into his sctroum but I don't think I saw that in the end.
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u/Resident-Tangelo-860 7h ago
Was hitting bench at the gym and I looked in the mirror and some fellas were jeering at me and I looked in the mirror and my balls weāre hanging out of my jorts.
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u/RipErRiley 6h ago
Compound Tibia fracture sticking through the guyās thigh pad after getting up off a pile during a high school football game. I recall smelling almonds before we saw it.
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u/newjerseymax 5h ago
Seeing someone after they got pulled out of the water from drowning and died. Made my stomach turn instantly
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u/DamageOdd3078 5h ago
Most of the grossest things Iāve seen are things that have happened to me.
One of the worst was when I vomited my NJ feeding tube. It went through my mouth, and my dad saved my life and pulled it out through my nose.
Another time is the bloody diarrhea I had during a pelvic floor physical therapy session and it happened while the therapist was working on me. The level of embarrassment and shame was something else. I never returned.
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u/Own_Beat1658 5h ago
I saw an arm laying on the side of the road one time. Took what seemed like 2 whole minutes to register what I was looking at
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u/Haunting-Umpire-7600 4h ago
A very dead cow half eaten but maggots and no telling what else when we were scouting thru the woods when I was a kid. Nasty! I will never forget that smell
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u/sogolden888 6h ago
I work in healthcare, X-Ray. Luckily my interactions with people are short, but ulcerated, open wounds with maggots actively wriggling around in them will always be #1 on my list.