Most disturbing thing you've ever seen in real life?

[Leonardo Huizar]

*DEEP BREATH*

Last summer it had become a very hot experience for me especially at work, so for the hotter period of August all i did was drink cold gatorades, sodas, and juices. Around this time also i had a urinary tract infection and this hill of flesh was growing on the inside of my thigh.

Apparently i had been diabetic for a long time and i blew a +400 on blood sugar [avg is 100] and going through diabetic kido assidosis OR 'Diabetic shock'.

Several of the side effects i experience besides pissing every 20 minutes, dehydration, vomiting every time i ate, burning stomach pains & loss of sleep, dizziness, blurry vision, and the point im trying to make CONSTIPATION

WHY Constipation, well...

Around the 4th day of my hospital stay i was still a little dizzy and ive been really having the need to go, but i struggled and couldn't and just ended hurting because it felt like my exit was pinched open

5th day morning... I fight and i fight until finally i force it out but it was the most horrific thing i have ever experienced. It felt like i gave birth without pain killers. I look back and its literally the size of a human fore arm, and it was dark colored, and covered with blood that trailed from the toilet all the way to under my thighs

Then the next time i had to go the stool softener kicked in and i left a trail from the hospital bed to the toilet and it wasnt blood this time.

 

[TehCookie]

Living animals with rotten flesh and maggots. That is sick and disgusting and any owner who lets their pet get infected in maggots needs to face some animal abuse charges. I've seen my dad die of cancer, my brother attempt suicide by cutting, but maggots is still the worst. It's like a moving corpse just waiting til time runs out.

Having spent a good portion of my childhood on a medium sized sheep farm, i can attest to the fact that this is very disturbing indeed.

I agree with your comment about pets, but just so you are aware (if you aren't already) a sheep becoming fly blown can happen so fast that it is almost impossible to catch every potential case in amongst thousands of sheep. It can literally happen within hours especially in lambing season.

It is horrible, disturbing and depressing, and unfortunately very rarely treatable. It more often than not ends in the poor animal being destroyed.

If you catch it early enough it is treatable, you just have to spend hours picking out maggots and cutting off the dead flesh. I work at a vets office which is where I see all the cases, and taking care of one or two pets is completely different from a farm full of sheep.

Very true, very true. Out of curiosity, whereabouts are you geographically? I'm in australia, and our summers are notorious breeding grounds for this type of thing >< The only thing i really don't miss about farm life really.

I'm in Michigan, USA so it's not a very common problem since our summers are short.

 

[Jacco]

Other than that, WTC Coverage, and less tragic but still disturbing, I watched my Stepdad skin rabbits, well not just skin them, but hang up a live rabbit by it's feet,smack it with a 2x4, drain it, and proceed to skin it. As soon as the skin came off I was out.
And my family was standing around as if it was entertainment. I understand that it was for food, and if forced I could probably butcher an animal, but I was 9 or 10 at the time and I was very VERY squeamish(still am). No it didn't make me a vegetarian. I still enjoy my tasty, tasty animal murder.

THere are better ways to kill animals for food than that. If he didn't know what he was doing, it could be considered abuse. If he did, then it was probably quick but still needlessly brutal.

 

[mechashiva77]

Objectively the WTC attacks. Though when I was little I didn't think anything of it. The thoughts that were running through my head were "Yay we get to go out of school early! That's a weird movie mommy's watching."

 

[Kindastrange]

Well, I work in a hospital, so I've seen my fair share of... things. I've seen the disfigured, the dying, and the dead.

But, I think the most horrible encounter I ever had was with an old woman, who was bed-ridden, and flat-out asking me to kill her.

I mean, violence is one thing, but having someone, let alone someone you don't even know, asking you to take their life? It was just... I'm not sure how to describe it. Unnerving, I guess.

Ah man,i'm studying to get my bachelor in nursing. Did a lot of internships already. So indeed, the dead, dying, witnessing someone die. All had those. I also had someone ask me for the end, ask i say. . . .More like flat out crying and begging.

For me the worst one was well not exactly disturbing but more gut wrenching/emotion tearing incident. On the department where i was an intern we had a girl 19 years old. This girl came to our hospital to have her lower left leg removed. This was due to somekind of growth/tumor. Pretty bad having to work with a 19 year old girl getting through the notion of losing her leg. But afterwards, after the operation and additional checks, there were more tumors. I saw the pictures, she had a tumorthe size of my fist in her liver and a small tumor on her ovaries. Her prognosis was bad, really bad 15% survivability rate bad.
I was there when her family just found out, mother, sisters everyone torn up. Crying etc. She was so goddamn strong. She told her family "it's ok, it'll be oke. We're gonna make this one way or another". . . . But the here is the punch line. I was there when she caved in. When she lost it. Man that was so bad. . . . me and my collegue just sat there and stayed with her on her room. We were there for her, most beutiful thing i have done to day for one of my patients, but also the hardest goddamn thing.

This was in 2008, she probably dead by now. Due to my personal life being a chaos i never found out. 19 years old, beutiful and smart as hell. . . . Such a shame.

Sorry for the wall of text, but couldn't tell it another way.

 

[Not Matt]

I saw a man die from a heartattack (or that's what I think it was)on an open street in egypt.
People tried to help but it didn't work and he died right there.
I have actually been trying to suppress that memory.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

A video of myself passing out. I reckon that qualifies as real life because I lived it first and that was pretty disturbing in it's own right.

It seems weak compared to some of the other stuff on here, but watching yourself go pale, start choking and go limp as a boned fish all of a sudden is freaky as all hell.

 

[Slitzkin]

Seeing ny grandfather die from an epileptic fit/heart failure which was brought on by heart disease.

Oh, and that happened on my 14th birthday. Yay...

 

[Screamarie]

Well...let's see...when I was 15 my mother, brother, and I celebrated my 16th birthday about 2,3 weeks early because my brother was going to move back to California. Later that day my mother told my step-dad about how she and I planned to go stay with my brother for a couple of days in California. I'm not really sure what went through his head after that, but he got upset about it and decided he HAD to have his handgun. He got the gun and started tearing up his and my mother's bedroom trying to find the safety key, which small miracles, he didn't find. Even though he couldn't find it though he took it with him into the living room and sat in his recliner with the gun on the arm of his chair. The night ended with calling the police and my brother had to take me to stay with him and a friend of his.

Yeah...that wasn't...fun times...

 

[Bertylicious]

Well...let's see...when I was 15 my mother, brother, and I celebrated my 16th birthday about 2,3 weeks early because my brother was going to move back to California. Later that day my mother told my step-dad about how she and I planned to go stay with my brother for a couple of days in California. I'm not really sure what went through his head after that, but he got upset about it and decided he HAD to have his handgun. He got the gun and started tearing up his and my mother's bedroom trying to find the safety key, which small miracles, he didn't find. Even though he couldn't find it though he took it with him into the living room and sat in his recliner with the gun on the arm of his chair. The night ended with calling the police and my brother had to take me to stay with him and a friend of his.

Yeah...that wasn't...fun times...

Far out. Did he have a history of strange behaviour or was it totally out of the blue?

 

[Angie7F]

I was in the earthwuake in japan in 2011. So, seeing a huge convention center shudder in a large earthquake, and then having the concrete around you start spurting water and liquefying was the most disturbing thing.
Luckily I did not experience the tsunami.

 

[Screamarie]

Well...let's see...when I was 15 my mother, brother, and I celebrated my 16th birthday about 2,3 weeks early because my brother was going to move back to California. Later that day my mother told my step-dad about how she and I planned to go stay with my brother for a couple of days in California. I'm not really sure what went through his head after that, but he got upset about it and decided he HAD to have his handgun. He got the gun and started tearing up his and my mother's bedroom trying to find the safety key, which small miracles, he didn't find. Even though he couldn't find it though he took it with him into the living room and sat in his recliner with the gun on the arm of his chair. The night ended with calling the police and my brother had to take me to stay with him and a friend of his.

Yeah...that wasn't...fun times...

Far out. Did he have a history of strange behaviour or was it totally out of the blue?

Well he's always been controlling and very "my way or the highway", easily angered, and verbally and emotionally abusive. But neither me or my mother saw anything like that coming. We knew he'd be angry that we were going to California, but not like that. I think he might have gotten it into his head that my brother was going to kill him (even though my brother wasn't there at the time) and my mother and I were going to run off to California with my brother....he's always been paranoid.

But just off the wall behavior like that, that was out of the blue and...yeah I haven't forgiven him for it.

 

[The Funslinger]

A video of myself passing out. I reckon that qualifies as real life because I lived it first and that was pretty disturbing in it's own right.

It seems weak compared to some of the other stuff on here, but watching yourself go pale, start choking and go limp as a boned fish all of a sudden is freaky as all hell.

I didn't see it, as nobody filmed it but that happened to me during a bout of alcohol poisoning.

Probably the most disturbing was watching blood spurting out of my leg when I was stabbed. Or the bone of my finger during a knife accident.

Other than that, when I was 16, I was walking home from school, going along the bridge and two guys from my year were throwing stones at the ducks. One gets a fairly large rock and lets it fall. It cracked one right on the head. It was just sat in the water, twitching with its head on a freaky angle. I went apeshit on the guy.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Probably many years back when I was younger, I came off my bike while riding down a very steep hill at high speed. Smashed up my face, but the worst part was my broken wrist. A bone in my wrist was actually sticking up out of the flesh. Obviously I wasn't feeling any pain at all at the time, and so being my idiotic self, I actually touched it a little. Pretty sick shit now I think about it.

 

[Roggen Bread]

Hospital memories... during my time in the ER I have seen some wicked shit.

But I think the most disturbing thing was a man, suffering from really bad dementia who had his leg ROTTEN to the bone. I could see his tendon.
The smell of it...

We couldn't even tell if he was feeling any of this.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

The worst thing I've seen personally was a ferret crossing the road towards us. It stopped when it realised we were there and stayed in the road long enough to get run over by a car.

The audible crack as its bones were crushed instantly was possibly the worst sound I've ever heard.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Similar to the OP's, I once saw a couple of very intoxicated and possibly drugged up men 'fighting' at night in the city. Basically one of them was so far gone that he attacked the other in a wild frenzy of punches, while the other guy who seemed a lot more conscious merely shrugged him off and threw his attacker's face into the pavement. The guy just laid there face down for what seemed like forever until he eventually got up, leaving a nice bloodstain where his face had rested.

I guess I'm pretty lucky that this is pretty much the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life, never had any violence directed at me.

 

[imagremlin]

I was attacked by a violent mob once. Well, not just me, a group of peaceful protesters I was part of.

Venezuela, 2004, the president recall referendum had finished and some of us were unhappy. We suspected fraud. A group of about 20 people were protesting peacefully in a town square. I can vouch, there were no weapons and we were not violent. Then a group of Hugo Chavez supporters showed up. They were very well organised with trucks, motorcycles and even an helicopter to coordinate. These are covert, government supported shock groups to keep the population shut.

They surrounded us, and shortly after glass bottles were flying in our direction. Then comes the image I will never forget. Three of them got off their motorcycles and walked towards us with the attitude of "I'm going to kill you and there's nothing you can do about it". They were yelling "WE OWN THIS COUNTRY NOW". I can't really put words to the image, other than what I saw in their eyes was not human.

Guns came out, shots were fired, not warning shots. We all ran, I hid behind a column listening to the gunfire as people ran in terror around me. I saw another protester go by with a blood soaked flag.

Two were wounded that day, one was killed; could have been me. A few days later Chavez publicly praised the gunners on TV.

Yeah, that's the kind of country Venezuela became under Chavez. I left the place within a year, never to return.

Somewhat graphic images of the incident here:
http://twittervenezuela.co/forum/topics/en-memoria-de-maritza-ron-de

There used to be a gallery of photographs where you could see me, running for my life. It's down now.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I saw someone get stabbed to death when I was 12. Then when I was 14 I interrupted a very brutal rape.
They both haunt me and I'm not sure which one disturbed me the most.