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First was a guy who tried to auger a motorcycle through both back doors of a Ford station wagon in 1965. Bike ran a red light at high speed and t-boned the Ford. Decapitated him. Many more in service and on the job. None pleasant.

I earned a bachelor’s degree in Biological Anthropology in college. By far, the most interesting course I took was Forensics. For the final, I had to visit the State Crime Lab and sit in on and observe two separate autopsies, start to finish. That was the first time I was up close and personal with a corpse.

I think the first I saw - I would have been a kid at the time.- was a motorcyclist whose face collected the corner of the tray on a flat bed truck. I saw it happen, and he didn't even seem to hit it hard. He had a black helmet with a dark-tinted visor, and there was a bit of a white mark on the visor where he hit. Otherwise you'd never have known what happened, but he was floppy dead before he hit the ground, poor bloke.

I've seen a few since. One in particular sticks out, and that was a bloke who had just shot a bunch of people at a shopping mall and then, running out of ideas, blew his own brains out, quite literally, with an SKS. He was left out uncovered while the scene was secured and investigation commenced, and I spent a while there nearby, overlooking his corpse and talking to a bloke who'd witnessed the final moments.The main thing that sticks out is that seeing this bloke's corpse didn't bother me a bit. I did feel for the poor innocents he'd killed though.

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Bout 20 years ago, coming home with the old lady and kids in the truck at sunset. Guy was driving a go cart down the highway with no lights, buddy of mine’s pregnant daughter hit him head on in a little Toyota or Nissan car. The highway had just been paved, guy was decapitated, lll never forget how all that blood looked on that new pavement…

have seen a lot of things being a military Medic, worse I ever had to take care of was a trooper who got ran over by an M60 Tank out at Yakima Firing Range....looked like a big version of a squirrel getting ran over by a Mack Truck....at least I didn't have to clean the body fragments out of the tank treads.

First dead body I can recall at the moment, I was 12 and the family was on vacation on the Continent, 1964, my dad was stationed in England.

We were in Italy on the AutoStrada, so sort of Alpha Sports Car convertible passed our Squareback doing well over a 100 miles an hour.

young couple about 20 something, 4 or 5 car lengths in front of us in the left lane, guys not paying attention, clips part of the median which wasn't taken care of or mowed. Car immediately flips upside down.. the blonde's in the right front seat, has her head taken off... her head went bouncing and into the ditch or weeds on the right side of the freeway.... car skids upside down, leaving a bloody trail.

Dad stopped, and got out and called me, being the oldest, to come with him...other cars stopped but we were the first and the only ones who had witnessed it.... my dad sent me to look for the woman's head in the weeds....I was 12, guess that is where I learned to go into a mechanical mode and have no emotions whatsoever...

Have an aversion to convertibles ever since....