cliff vs motobike
The worst thing I've ever seen is a photo on rotten.com of a motocyclist who hit something very fast. His face has opened up from the center, his top and bottom jaw each split in two and peeled backwards so that his tongue is hanging out of a hole, surrounded by what was the inside of his mouth and throat. Blood trickles from various places. What makes it truly disturbing is that not only is he still alive, but his is propped up on a hospital gurney - and his eyes are open - he's still conscious.

That small gif file is in fact more disturbing that the dead person I found. He'd jumped off a cliff outside Brighton marina and landed on the concrete road. At first I thought he might be a drunk asleep on the road, but on closer examination his feet were rotated in a way that requires breaking several other bits, and there was a lump on his forehead. By 'lump' I mean that it looked like a golf ball had been inserted under his skin - it looked like a silly cartoon picture of a lump.

I figured he was dead so I stood there wondering what to do. I took his pulse and didn't find one. After a while some builders who'd been fixing the road arrived and drove on to get help. About then he gave a massive heave and started breathing noisily. Not long after an ambulance showed up.

The once chance I get to give the kiss of life and I mis-diagnosed the guy as dead. Doh! I hope he didn't live with brain damage on account of me standing there looking at him for 2 minutes.
(steer, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 22:23, Reply)