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In reply to the discussion: Anyone here ever find a body, or know somebody who did? I mean, while they were hunting, [View all]Patiod
(11,816 posts)My dad was coming home from Casino Night at his parish at one or two in the morning, and stopped when he saw something in the road near our house. It was a guy's head. Two guys coming back from a bar had hit a small bridge, and the driver had been decapitated.
After going home and calling the police (this was before cell phones) my dad woke up my mom and asked her to pour him a glass of boubon straight up because his hands were shaking too badly to do it himself.
Also:
One of my friends was having a girl's-night-in party, and our friend Shelly showed up really late, clearly shaken. (Strangely enough, she also asked for a glass of whiskey). After downing it, she explained that she had been detained behind an accident on the Northeast extension of the PA Turnpike. She got out of her car, and checked to see if the guy in the vehicle in front off her was okay, and he wasn't. He was dead. He had been talking on the phone when it happened, and it came out in the papers the next day that the guy he was talking to heard the whole thing happen.
Shelly being the self-possessed person she was, also checked the car he had hit, and saw a large family huddled together, waiting for the police. She went back to her car and got the blankets that she always kept there, and distributed it to the family.