Loads



Oh alright several.


Most of them were relatives in the funeral home laid out for the final viewing.

Other than that.

I was out cycling with a couple of mates when we stopped by the river. We were chucking stones at a bottle which was bobbing along when we were suddenly surrounded by police and firemen. A fireman hooked a 'bundle of rags' in the water and pulled it ashore. It was the body of a bloke in his 50' or 60's dressed in pajamas and a dressing gown. He looked quite peaceful, if a tad puffy from being in the water. As they pulled him up the bank, a load of water and the contents of his stomach poured out. One of the policemen threw up on the spot but us three teenagers were remarkably unaffected by it all. We later found out in the paper that the bloke had escaped from an asylum with a woman and that they both had been missing for several days - she was dragged from the river a day or so later.

I once saw a bunch of emergency crew shovelling the remains of someone into a refuse sack on the Victoria Line at Victoria tube station. There wasn't much left of the poor fucker - just a reddish-black 'jelly' substance. It looked just like the footage I'd seen of IRA bomb victims being cleared up after an explosion in Belfast.

Around the same time period, a bloke on the site I worked fell four floors off the scaffolding. I heard the shouts and looked over from the second floor where I was working to see his body, limbs at all angles, lying in a spreading pool of blood. I also saw the body of a bloke who'd been electrocuted being taken away - although he was under a blanket so I didn't see the body. I did get the aroma of grilled hotdogs as they passed me with the stretcher though.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 13:47, Reply)