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otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

When I first got back from Korea, I found a job teaching. There's no money in teaching. So I had to get a second job during the summer. I became a security guard.

I worked for a hotel in New Orleans East called the Family Inn. They should have called it the Dysfunctional Family Inn. It was a hotel where the local working girls from the local strip joints--the Oynx and the Sugar Shack--would take their johns.

We actually had two pimps running girls out of the hotel. They drove Jaguars.

One night, I was told to knock on their door and request payment. Seems they weren't caught up on their bills. Yeah. Makes sense. For seven dollars an hour what I really want to do is knock on the door of two large black pimps and call them deadbeats.

But I did it anyway. No answer. The person at the desk gave me their room key. I opened the door.

And I'm not kidding. I pissed my pants. Two guys were laying face down on the floor. They had their hands tied behind their backs. There was blood all over the place.

I ran back the front desk and explained that I had to call the cops.

"How do you know they are dead?"

"How do I know? Their brains are plastered against the wall."

And do you know the funniest part? It took the cops over five hours to show up. I guess they had other fish to fry.

Violence is ugly.

I quit that job.

sock · Joined: 07 Oct 2006

I agree, violence is ugly.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Yes, in India on the Ganges amongst others. I also used to work in a CofE nursing home when I was fresh out of highschool. They are not pleasant.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

That's gotta be harsh. Do you have PTSD?
I saw lots of Delta Bravo's (dead bodies) during Desert Storm in Iraq.
But I kind of expected that going in.

contrarian · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: Nearly in NK

About 3 years ago I was crossing under the wide street that goes by Seoul Station. I was going to a motel. I went up the east side and saw a guy sitting there. Went to the motel, came out and went back to Seoul Station, the guy was sitting there. One the way back to the motel the guy was still there. Very still. So I put my finger on the carotid artery - no pulse and he was cold.

The poor son of a gun was dead. I went into the little store, waved my hands and pointed at the guy and said police. I waited for them and when they came they tried to run me off. One of the cops had pretty good English and I said I was the one that found him and it was very sad.

The cops became most friendly and were a little embarrased that a WayGuk had seen it. What the heck it could happen anywhere.

There was a worse one when I was young. In 1967 I spent some time with the Israeli Army. We checked out an Egyptian tank that had been brought in from the Sinai. Just a little hole on the side. Inside 4 bodies that had been slow cooking for about three weeks. I puked for a good 10 minutes then worked on cleaning it out.

I don't ever want to see anything like that again. I would kill to avoid the smell.

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

sorry--pcbang delay there, my whole point was to just say 'yes' and walk off sadly into the night. Accidentally submitted the same dumb ost three times...how embarassing!
Blew that one, didn't I?

J.B. Clamence · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I guess that proves the old adage: "Pimpin' ain't easy."

thebum · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Location: North Korea

once i was doing a girl who was completely motionless and silent the whole time (talk about boring!). she was so still i thought she was dead. fortunately, she wasn't.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I was with someone as they lost their life.

I was on a bus and the man in the row next to me collapsed. I was checking him out and getting him into the recovery position when he stopped breathing, and despite administering CPR he died.

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

Q: How many VietNam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: You don't know cause YOU WEREN"T THERE, MAAAN!!!!

sorry. very bad taste on my part. dead people bum me out you see.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I've seen plenty of dead bodies, but it was mostly at funerals or scientific specimens.

I still remember walking down the hall at my dad's university when I was a kid. I was 4 or 5 years old. There were jars filled with all kinds of cool stuff (chimpanzees, seahorses, human fetuses (can't have those on display anymore)). I was pretty proud of myself the first time I walked, not run, down that hall. I knew right then and there that I wanted to study science, which I did.

In any case, my dad used to be on the board of directors of a few hospitals, so sometimes he'd bring me along when he went to have a chat with the pathologist. They guy would pull out some pretty interesting tissue samples for me (a softball sized tumor taken out of some ladies colon, the charcoal coloured lungs of a smoker, etc).