A handful of coffee grounds in a frying pan on the stove will help kill the odor in a home. I found a couple that had crashed and dies in a plane crash 10 days prior in July in Idaho. There was no amount of coffee that would help with that.

Ever have to do the dead-body two step? In my former life ( a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), I had to investigate quite a few dead bodies/decomps where the flies and creepy crawlies were so bad that you took 2 steps and stomped your feet to shake the bugs off your pants.

Never fun getting the call of a "possible " dead body. Slather the Vicks vapor rub under your nose and get ready to go shower afterwards.

I found a girl that had been missing for about a month in a drift pile in the Missouri River. I looked over in the drift and somthing looked dead then I realized it had bedazzled back pockets and a flannel shirt . It was at a creek mouth where three counties came together . I had to give a statement to all three sheriffs departments and the state highway patrol eaven thou they new she drowned because several people had watched her get washed away . It was a long day and way beyond my threshold for dealing with LE Some of them cant help but ask routine questions in an accusatory manner .

I was there at the flight 800 recovery, Coast Guard dock piled high with bodies, more in the boat house as a temporary morgue, had to go look for any other floating "parts" and bag them...
Talk about an experience.

And if your wondering, everybody that gets sucked out of a plane at altitude come down naked, laced up shoes, belts, neck ties, all gone. Kind of amazing.

Spooky deal

Mother in laws cooking has done a many in

Used to be a volunteer fireman. Been in on several. Had one hit by train parts for about 1/2 mile. Another crawling down a highway. Bad.
What super sucks is when you know or are related to the dead person. Had one of those to. That one sticks with a guy.

Amen. Had a fatal car crash where the deceased was a 19 year old that I held when she was a week old. Family friends since I was about 8 or 9. That was the toughest death notification that I ever had to make.

I could try volunteering to fight fires, but I couldn’t deal with going to accidents and seeing dead folks. Especially if it involved children. God bless those that do. Thankful for em, that’s just not for me.

Never had to do notifications. Don’t know if I have the stones for that. I ain’t afraid of much but that scares me.

32 years in policing, 22 as a front line supervisor. Seen it all a hundred times over. As the Sarg you attend every one. But I'd rather deal with 500 more then notify another parent of the tragic death of their kid.

Lol, That's a good'un!

Not a death but a a good friend of mine was thrown trough the front window of his work truck in an accident the fire department was called in and his dad responded to the call not knowing it was him, his dad said that was a rough one, but like I said fortunately he is still a live and ok.

Another member on here and I were crappie fishing one spring on the lake where I live. As I was motoring to a new spot I noticed something odd sticking out of the water. I cruised up to it and saw that it was the heel of a chest wader size 12. I thought maybe the waders had fallen off one of the boats that installs docks and lifts so I pulled on them to get them out of the water. Seemed awfully heavy and then the body that was in them emerged. It was so stiff that I just hooked one leg over my gunnel and trolled up to the nearest dock and my friend called law enforcement. It was apparent that he had been putting in his dock since his stuff was on the dock and the end section was not completely in.
We were afraid that his family was in the house there and I really did not want to confront them with their loved one hanging over the side of my boat by one leg.
Turned out he was 60 years old and lived alone and must have had some medical issue that put him under the water. The autopsy ruled that he had drowned however but I don't know how he could have without something like a stroke to put him there since the water by the dock was about 3 feet deep with a solid bottom.
The first one to respond was a conservation officer and the first thing he saw was a body hanging on my boat and when he walked to the end of the dock with me behind him the dock collapsed and I grabbed him around the waist to keep him from falling in. Wow, you should have felt him react to that since my arms were around him right where he was wearing his holstered gun. Talk about tense!

I was on the vol. fire dept when I was in H.S. - when I was a junior the set of twins in our class got into a car wreck and one of them died. That was one of the hardest things that I had to witness. She sat right in front of me in my Algebra class -- I failed that term. By the way there were 34 kids in my graduating class.

Thankful I've never had anything like that happen to me. Years ago my father ran over three boys sleeping on the railroad tracks. He was the conductor on the train. They came around a bend at night and saw them on the tracks but you can't stop a train at will. There was early speculation the boys had been placed there dead but it turned out they were very much alive at the time they were hit. Shook him up pretty good.

Thats Crazy MnMan

diabetes can make you strip also. found my first father in law several times by following the trail of clothes, glasses, teeth.

You mean all those girls at the Sweetwater have diabetes?
Geeze they looked pretty healthy to me.