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Patiod

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13. My dad came across a head in the middle of the road
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 03:03 PM
Oct 2013

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.

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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