- Cat Hassler
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901
In 1979 an Air New Zealand DC10 crashed into Mt Erebus, Antarctica. It was a regular sightseeing tour but the flight plan was altered the night before and the pilots weren't fully informed. All 257 on board died.
Leader of body recovery team posted:
The fact that we all spent about a week camped in polar tents amid the wreckage and dead bodies, maintaining a 24-hour work schedule says it all. We split the men into two shifts (12 hours on and 12 off), and recovered with great effort all the human remains at the site. Many bodies were trapped under tons of fuselage and wings and much physical effort was required to dig them out and extract them.
Initially, there was very little water at the site and we had only one bowl between all of us to wash our hands in before eating. The water was black. In the first days on site we did not wash plates and utensils after eating but handed them on to the next shift because we were unable to wash them. I could not eat my first meal on site because it was a meat stew. Our polar clothing became covered in black human grease (a result of burns on the bodies).
We felt relieved when the first resupply of woollen gloves arrived because ours had become saturated in human grease, however, we needed the finger movement that wool gloves afforded, i.e., writing down the details of what we saw and assigning body and grid numbers to all body parts and labelling them. All bodies and body parts were photographed in situ by U.S. Navy photographers who worked with us. Also, U.S. Navy personnel helped us to lift and pack bodies into body bags which was very exhausting work.
Later, the Skua gulls were eating the bodies in front of us, causing us much mental anguish as well as destroying the chances of identifying the corpses. We tried to shoo them away but to no avail, we then threw flares, also to no avail. Because of this we had to pick up all the bodies/parts that had been bagged and create 11 large piles of human remains around the crash site in order to bury them under snow to keep the birds off. To do this we had to scoop up the top layer of snow over the crash site and bury them, only later to uncover them when the weather cleared and the helos were able to get back on the site. It was immensely exhausting work.
After we had almost completed the mission, we were trapped by bad weather and isolated. At that point, NZPO2 and I allowed the liquor that had survived the crash to be given out and we had a party (macabre, but we had to let off steam).
We ran out of cigarettes, a catastrophe that caused all persons, civilians and Police on site, to hand in their personal supplies so we could dish them out equally and spin out the supply we had. As the weather cleared, the helos were able to get back and we then were able to hook the piles of bodies in cargo nets under the helicopters and they were taken to McMurdo. This was doubly exhausting because we also had to wind down the personnel numbers with each helo load and that left the remaining people with more work to do. It was exhausting uncovering the bodies and loading them and dangerous too as debris from the crash site was whipped up by the helo rotors. Risks were taken by all those involved in this work. The civilians from McDonnell Douglas, MOT and U.S. Navy personnel were first to leave and then the Police and DSIR followed. I am proud of my service and those of my colleagues on Mount Erebus.
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- Cat Hassler
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
A real bad engineering decision killed 114 people in Kansas City in 1981.
Wikipedia posted:
Kansas City's natural disaster response team, known as "Operation Bulldozer," was also summoned to the scene with earthmoving equipment, but was quickly sent away to make room for cranes that would lift the sections of walkway off the trapped survivors. Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City's emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area, using the hotel's taxicab driveway as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care. Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine. Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage. One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw.
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From "The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American 80s" by Paul Slansky:
9/10/1986
Director John Landis reveals the hitherto-unguessed-at depths of his immaturity when, following the hostile testimony of a witness, he blocks her exit with his outstretched legs and makes her climb over him.
5/29/1987
(He is acquitted) "My wife and I are still in a daze," exults John Landis, two days later to USA Today. "I'm having lox and bagels by the pool."
6/25/1988
John Landis invites the jury that acquitted him of involuntary manslaughter to a private screening of his new Eddie Murphy film "Coming to America". He does not offer to fly them in by helicopter.
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Jun 13, 2014 22:51
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- Cat Hassler
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Wasn't there that guy obsessed with Bjork who eventually killed himself on live video? I seem to recall him making a long series of videos that escalated until the final one where he, ya know.
I was watching a local public access TV show in the mid 90s and they played that without warning.
Weird to think that not very long ago you would never see a recording of a horrible death and now it's something you have to be wary of stumbling across.
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- Cat Hassler
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I remember this as being a super big deal when it happened:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping
A school bus full of kids gets stopped by armed kidnappers. They put everyone into a moving van buried underground planning to demand ransom.
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- Cat Hassler
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Ugh this reminds me of the grossest case I have ever done as a paramedic. Basically a tourist group from another country had a very sick grandfather with them who had actually been at a hospital in another city the same day. They self discharge against hospital advice for whatever reason and got the tour bus to my city.
So they get to the hotel and realise that grandad is actually sick, the I assume they Google nearest hospital which is only a couple of hundred metres from their hotel. So they take him there, only problem is it's a private hospital that only does day surgeries with no A&E and only one doctor on at night.
So grandad starts faecal vomiting in the car park, collapses, aspirates faecal vomit, arrests, not necessarily in that order.
We turn up and he is lying in an approx 2 metre across pool of faecal vomit. The Dr is doing CPR and each compression is causing more faecal vomit to come out of his mouth. There are 10+ family members present and watching this.
So even though this is a recent arrest with CPR started before our arrival this poor man is done. Because of protocol reasons we can't call the arrest yet, but the Dr can. So we tell the Dr they need to call it for everyone's sake (Dr's are very specialised to their field and I am not sure what this one did but it definitely wasn't one that involved frequent resus jobs). I remember pointing out that his lungs were more than likely full of his own poo poo.
Dr is determined to save this guy though and asks for our suction kit which they then don't know how to use. So we start attempting resus while touching as little of everything as possible. There was so much faecal vomit the suction began to overflow into the O2 kit. The whole thing is a huge mess and while myself and my partner stayed relatively clean the Dr and crowding family members are getting mess everywhere.
So when we have done the legally necessary amount of time we call the arrest. One of the family members freaks out and starts trying to give the grandad mouth to mouth with his airway full of faecal vomit. Another one handles it better and pats me on the shoulder to say thank you. His hand had faecal vomit all over it. Dr is freaking out over the whole thing and basically runs back into the hospital.
The smell, the family crying and screaming, the fact that this guy had been in hospital just a few hours ago, the fact the Dr on scene could of called it and avoided the whole thing.... ugh.
One thing that I still find a bit funny though is myself and my partner both just threw our uniforms in the bin before getting in the car to return to station. So the two of us are both in our underwear and on the way back we drive past a traffic crash that police were attending. So as we drive past the cops I wave to them and they just wave back and don't bat at eye at the fact that two possibly naked men are driving an ambulance around.
AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
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Don’t go chasing waterfalls
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- Cat Hassler
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That's better than my grandmother who kept thinking her son was a man she was having an affair with
My Dad stopped going to see my grandmother solo when she was going through this because she didn’t know who he was and started coming on to him
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May 18, 2014 03:02
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post. I can't imagine what she experienced.
