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Kali

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1. When my Grandfather was about 5 years old
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 01:43 PM
Oct 2013

he was finally allowed to go out on a round-up with the grown men. He got sent to make a small circle along the railroad tracks. He came upon the somewhat bloated body of a hobo that had fallen off the train (or been thrown). He rode home as fast as he could go, got in trouble for running the horse towards the barn and getting it too hot.

He would tell this story kind of laughing but clearly reliving the absolute horror of a little boy finding a freaking dead guy out in the middle of nowhere all by himself. Add to it the degree of decomposition. ewww

The closest I have ever came was finding out after the fact that some crazy fucks had tossed a body into a ditch near the end of our road. After driving out here with it from freaking Illinois. In the summer.

On a related note I have had some photos of a dead bull decomposing published in book.

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When my Grandfather was about 5 years old Kali Oct 2013 #1
I have a photo of a bovine skull, curing in the sun. Ptah Oct 2013 #19
I had to chuckle at you calling that one "fresh" Kali Oct 2013 #23
I hope you will take this as a helpful tip from a city-dweller. Ptah Oct 2013 #25
A friend of mine and I found a dead guy in an attic... Tom_Foolery Oct 2013 #2
Well it depends on what your definition of "find" is... bluesbassman Oct 2013 #3
... petronius Oct 2013 #17
fellow MLT student was doing 5 am phlebotomy rounds in the ICU magical thyme Oct 2013 #4
Mighty close ... Myrina Oct 2013 #5
Buddy of mine from high school found a dead body while out deer hunting with his son. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #6
Only when I'm cleaning out my basement. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #7
Yes a friend of mine and another guy were rabbit hunting B Calm Oct 2013 #8
Haven't you seen me on Discovery ID? RiffRandell Oct 2013 #9
Might as well delete this... Silent3 Oct 2013 #10
The closest I've come to that was while swimming at a lake when I was a kid... Silent3 Oct 2013 #11
I was a desk clerk at a hotel. A guy claiming to be an author... NightWatcher Oct 2013 #12
My dad came across a head in the middle of the road Patiod Oct 2013 #13
No, but the bound & burned body of frogmarch Oct 2013 #14
While I was swimming in the water of Miami Beach RebelOne Oct 2013 #15
you win geardaddy Oct 2013 #22
+2 nomorenomore08 Oct 2013 #31
When I was working on the railroad (no joke)... MicaelS Oct 2013 #16
My brother was walking in the woods by his house. LeftofObama Oct 2013 #18
A close buddy of mine found an elderly man one winter... Earth_First Oct 2013 #20
i did blueknight Oct 2013 #21
Found a deceased man in the basement of a Veteran's hospital some years back... Contrary1 Oct 2013 #24
I was hiking in Hawaii one time BlueStreak Oct 2013 #26
Found a body in Harlem Boom Sound 416 Oct 2013 #27
Didn't anybody tell you to use blanks in that scene? BlueStreak Oct 2013 #28
Lol...blame props! Boom Sound 416 Oct 2013 #29
I once had a job on top of a moutain. As I was about to hike applegrove Oct 2013 #30
I found 12 bodies down in a basement once Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #32
Mortimer Brewster, I presume? pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #33
I was "Chonny's" sidekick, Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #34
About 5 or 6 years ago, Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2013 #35
only time I found one was when I was looking for one littlewolf Nov 2013 #36
Torso in a suitcase Populist_Prole Nov 2013 #37
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