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lastat06513

I had been working part time as a security guard at an apartment complex for the past 3 weeks.

There has been alot of drama in the past 2 days...

Yesterday (my birthday, in fact) an 87-year-old man out open his screen and took a dive from his apartment on the 7th Floor...fortunate for me, it didn't happen on my shift.

Today a security guard from the first shift noticed some newspapers building up outside a tenant's apartment and a strong oder of rotten fish. But it came at the end of his shift and I was the one who looked into it. I got the apartment master key.

When I entered the apartment, I encountered my first cadaver.
The man, in his 60's, had died in his sleep while in a chair listening to the radio (it was still on).
But what was grusome was that he was 5 days "fresh"
I had seen stuff like that on the net, but seeing it for the first time up close got to me.

And THE SMELL!!!!!
I finished work an hour and a half after and I still have that oder in my nostrils, I mean, it is difficult to forget it.

The police and the coroner came and examined the body and released the body to the family, who in turned released the body to the funeral home to be prepared for immediate burial (since the cause of death was deemed natural, the coroner decided an autopsy was not necessary)

I won't forget today

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

This is in Korea?

wowser!

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

Did they perform any special ceremony in the room?

eg in laos monks will arrive soon after to bless the place where a death happened.

They must have some unique tradition or superstition here...

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

You got hired in Korea to be a security guard in an apartment complex?
Are you Korean, half-Korean? So your main job is obviously as an EFL teacher if you're hanging out here then. What a horrible find. 5 days "fresh" !! Ha, aha!

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Check Lastat's location, people, and note that this is in the OT Forum.

Rolling Eyes

lastat06513 · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:26 am Post subject:

Wow!
People still think of me as being in Korea....
Well, I will be there soon enough (either next December, 2007 or Janaury,2008).

But this happened on the job here in CT.
This is one of only a handful of states where a security guard needs a security guard license and can make onward up to $20 an hour (I myself am making about $15 an hour as an unarmed guard)

In Korea?
Forget it! The highest pay would only be about 11,000 won an hour and thats for armed guard (with a pepper spray gun)

I still get shivers thinking about it......

lastat06513 · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

T.a.S.

It comes to show you that some people tend to forget most of what they learned AFTER college......

Sad......

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Have you served in the military, lastat? In my experience (my friend would be on call 24h a day when he was an IBM technician, so I ended up going to banks a lot while hanging out with him, sometimes while he was giving me a drive to the army base), many security guards in Canada have served in the military or are also in the reserves.

My father would be the one that they'd send in burnt out houses to retrieve the dead bodies when he was a volunteer fireman (it was a long time ago, so I'd guess that would explain the lack of consideration for investigative techniques). The chief figured he'd have the stomach for it since my father was a biologist. Once, he had to pull out 4 dead bodies out of a house on Christmas eve. It totally ruined his Christmas dinner because the roast turkey reminded him of the bodies.

rawiri · Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

Why do you post about stuff like that. I mean, yeah this is the off topic forum but there should still be some vague connection to korea within the posting. Unless of course you are face to face friends with a lot of posters on this board and this is a way to let everyone know what you are up to. Otherwise it's like otis and his truck driving stories.

Weird.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

lastat06513 · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

I was in the national guard and Army during peacetime (1994 to 2000) before being called back into service again this past October.

I was involved in the search mission in JeongDongJin for the N.Korean submariners and I was on the DMZ during the 1997 shootout.
But I can honestly say that during my 5 and half years prior, I had never seen a dead person until yesterday.

And yes, I know quite a few posters here, some of whom I have met in person and talked to on the phone.
I try to keep in touch with them by using this forum and most importantly, it is a way for non-Americans to get a glimpse into what kind of stuff a person might be up against working in the US in a non-teaching job.

For example, today there was a kitchen fire in one of the apartments in the complex. We called the FD and we, as security personnel, had to clear the firelanes and block the elevator for the fierfighters to use.
What was supposed to be a smooth procedure quickly became FUBAR'ed as a crowd of about 60 to 70 tenants started yelling, swearing and threatening the security guards (including myself) and the fire fighters until I threatened that if the situation didn't calm down soon, the police would have to be called in for crowd control (trust me, it was THAT BAD!). They should have known better as to leave a building that could have caught fire at any moment.

Sometimes, it makes me think that after all the complaining people do about things and people in Korea, sometimes we have to take a good look at ourselves...

seoulsista · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

What town is this in?