Is it just me, or is this thread a tiny bit more voyeuristic than usual.
So far, with one exception, it's kind of violence porn.
Or, maybe I'm just being a prude.
There is something in what you say, and no, it is not just you being a prude; the grotesque and horribly compulsive nature of witnessed violence makes it both compelling and strangely shameful to watch.
I heard a Justin Bieber song on the radio once.
Brilliant.
i've seen plenty being a paramedic in san diego county, ca.
worst was a black female in her 30's we think, hit on the freeway by a Denali driving around 80mph. i can say more, but don't wanna gross out.
Ouch. Yes, I'd imagine you have seen much, and that is a challenging, difficult, stressful but yet strangely rewarding line of work you are in. Well done.
Others on this forum have served, for example, in the military, and I expect they, too, have witnessed things they would rather not have seen, cannot quite forget, but, perhaps, would prefer to.
To the OP: the second part of your thread title is quite enough - and has drawn responses. I cannot imagine - even with the comfortable cloaking device of anonymity afforded by the internet and our extensive variety of nomes des plumes - many responding to the first part of your thread title.
For my part, because of one of my jobs - when I am seconded by my Foreign Ministry to the EU or OSCE - I travel to strange - and sometimes, war torn - parts of the world to officially observe elections and, occasionally, observe international peace agreements & treaties - I have seen things.
However, even before that, for a middle class female academic, who reads books and wears glasses, I have seen some strange and deeply disturbing things: I have witnessed at least two murders in broad daylight in two different European capitals in two different years; I saw to my stupefied disbelief a toddler falling to what was her death from a balcony several floors up (I was on the street and was the one who phoned emergency services), and also happened on the the aftermath of a drowning by suicide (again, was the person who phoned emergency services). Each of these events happened in broad daylight, and, my initial thought every time was that I really could not believe that I was seeing what I actually was seeing. But I was.
