mossyhorn Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 well i just got ou of a long hot bath....after what happened to me no more then 2 hours ago i really needed it. i was under a woman house changing her cable splitter out when my foot sunk in the mud. a smell rose from the mud that would turn the stomache of the baddest man around. thats when it hit me i was deep in the poo. turns out she had a broken pippe and instead of going to the septic tank everything been going under the house. I start to leave and drop my tools in the puddle "o" poo and water splashes in my face. I have been so close to throwing up but feel better now. This adventure made me want to ask you guys what is the nastiest thing that has ever happened to you at work? This by far takes the "post digestion" cake for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Oh man, that stinks!!!! :eek: Trying to think of some stuff that's happened to me at work. Nothing in particular comes into mind. I've had lots of big splashes of transmission fluid, oil and antifreeze drench me! That can be pretty nasty. I've had a few customers come in complaining that their blower motor doesn't work or is making weird noises or blowing stinky air out of the vents, pull out the fan motor and find a mouse that went for a good spin cycle in the fan motor, die and rot. Man those things stink! Other than that, haven't had anything REALLY gross happen to me at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Well....I DO work at a hospital! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiedog Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 This adventure made me want to ask you guys what is the nastiest thing that has ever happened to you at work? Well, didn't happen to me but I saw it and it was bad enough. Several years ago they were changing the metal on the roof of our building. One of the worker took a step back and there was nothing there:eek:. He fell around 16' straight down and landed on his head. You paint the rest of that picture:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Picture a 40 foot boat with 256 people on it, and no septic system. Gag, hated boarding Haitian boats. Floating bodies are nasty too. Got a call once for a "floater" (gross I know, but a way to desensitize the horror I guess) floating down at the public pier in Erie when I was stationed there. We buzzed down there and some fireman were trying to hoist the body up the pier using ropes and boat hook, needless to say, the one dude was horrible with the boat hook and just made a bigger mess. Our engineer got really upset and reached down into the water and just manhandled the body into our boat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 probably stuffing a prolapsed uterus back into a holstein cow after calving, it like trying to stuff a medicine ball into an opening the size of a football while the animal is pushing back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrswtnhunt Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Well....I DO work at a hospital! I work at a nursing home. I deal with lots of human body waste products........I will not go into detail but lets say it is gross:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 I was raised on a farm ,, you figure it out .. :o;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Well, when i was a college student, during the summer i worked for the local parks maintenance department. We did a lot of nasty clean ups after festivals and so on, but the nastiest thing i have ever done was done on a voluntary basis for cash money... It happened to be the summer of 2001, and i was a young 21 year old pup hungry for cash. We were in the process of killing off our local lake due to an overpopulation of carp. We had dumpsters at multiple locations around the lake, and one of them happened to be across the parking lot from the maintenance shop. We had been pulling dead carp out of the lake for the past week and filling dumpsters with them. Some dumpsters sat around for no more than one day, others, like the one across from the shop, had been there all week, roasting in the 95 degree heat, filled three quarters of the way up with carp which had, by then, gone through several stages of decomposition. It was loaded with magets, flies, and who knows what else. So we got started talking, and cash started flying, and once we got to $100 a minute, i couldn't resist...i couldn't pass it up...i figured 5 minutes for $500 bucks, i could do it, i had to do it...and after a quick debate in my head, i volunteered myself to get in the dumpster and sit for as long as i could. Its amazing how easy it is to devise your own home made HAZMAT suit with all the random crap laying around a maintenance shop. I was pretty much covered from head to toe with 55 gallon garbage bags, a helmet, safety goggles, hip waders, a dust mask and whatever else i could find. I really didn't know how bad it was until i opened the lid of the dumpster and the stench of the past weeks kill made its way through my sinus cavity and into my brain....I took one last breath of good clean fresh air (not knowing if it would be my last) and entered the dumpster like a fat kid jumping into a pool of jelly beans... They closed the lid quickly behind me...i held my breath for as long as i could, maybe a minute and a half before i actually got to taste the fumes...about thirty seconds later i erupted from the dumptser screaming and closely resembling PIGPEN from Charlie Brown. It was definitely a life changing experience, and by far the nastiest thing i have ever done in my life... I did walk away with $200 cash though...and if someone asked me to do it again, i would gladly decline the offer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I'm a a nursing student so....I think you get the hint,lol...not much to say there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Be sure to take a vitamin and eat a good meal. If you start feeling ill see a doctor quick. Who knows what germs have been festering under that house all this time. I remember when my dad got really sick just changing out a toilet. Seriously....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 human debris is nothing to scoff at. watch your health. any problems, go to a doctor. i've gutte 50-65 animals each year in the past, but nothing as bad as that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun-101 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 you got me mossy... i got nothing that bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Yeah thats a pretty crappy thing to be in:D Its one thing when it is your own, but someone else's poo? The worst stink, I ever was in... We were rodding a manhole duct in Manhattan,NYC and the rod came out very muddy. The conduit needs to be clean so the fiber optic cable we were pulling does not become damaged. Rodding is pushing a fiberglass rod through a conduit, get the rod, tie a rope to it, place a ball and brush on it and pull the rope through the pipe and use the rope to pull the cable. We didn't have the ball n brush:rolleyes: A rodder is like a electric snake for the toilet, but it is mounted on a truck. I was in the manhole on the other end. Unbeknown to me, the crew on the other end removed the rod and tried to blow out the obstruction with a air compressor. 90lbs of air sent into the conduit without checking if anyone was still in the hole:rolleyes::eek:. Out came the nastiest liquid,gravel and crud I have ever smelled... and I have worked in pollution plants. I came out of the hole like the creature from the black lagoon stinking to high heaven! I chased after the guy that did it:mad::mad:, then I realized how lucky I was that I didn't get hurt, just very dirty and smelly. I broke out laughing and the crew broke out their camera phones:mad:. My foreman went to a store and bought me sweatpants, T shirt and flipflops, drove me to my car and sent me home for the day with pay. Luckily it was June and warm out. I made it a point to never work with that guy again. I cheated injury and maybe death. I used Sport Wash to clean up with and it worked great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doe-ee Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Reminds me of a time years ago when Steve came home from hunting, smelling so bad I made him take his clothes off outside before he came in. Seems he was walking across a field and when he came to a ditch filled with liquid manure, he lost his footing and well you guessed it, he fell in sideways. He was soaked from head to foot, but he saved his gun from the same fate.:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierbuck Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Death scenes, dismemberment and autopsies, I guess. Last week It was a young lady who voluntarily put a load of 7 1/2 shot through her soft palette. Recently deceased is usually not too bad, but this one poor guy...I'll spare you the details. The ick factor really doesn't bother me, I am lucky to be wired like that. HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossyhorn Posted January 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Be sure to take a vitamin and eat a good meal. If you start feeling ill see a doctor quick. Who knows what germs have been festering under that house all this time. I remember when my dad got really sick just changing out a toilet. Seriously....... Oh yeah....the first thing i thought of when i splashed was i was going to get so sick...i didnt even really talk to the woman, just sign here please and by the way you have a pipe leak under your house....then straight home where i took a very hot bath. i felt as if i couldnt get clean enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldksnarc Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 25+ years ago we responded to a dead body. When we got there it was a mobile home., No A/C. August. Died on the crapper. Lived by himself and had been there for about a week. Flies. Maggots. Needless to say VERY odiferous. Back then I used to help the mortuary load and remove bodies. But, when limbs started coming off when we tried to move him the odor got even worse - if that was possible. Mentholatum in the nose didn't help. I still smell it when I think of it. Since then I let the mortuary people do their job and I do mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I would have to change jobs right there.... Wow, thats nasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Haven't had anything "nasty" happen to me, but I seen something happen to my dad that was pretty gross. I bought a mobile home a few years back and dad came over to help hook up the drainage/sewer pipes underneath the house. He was underneath the drain to one of the toilets and popped the cap off and out came this nasty, very fowl smelling, yellowish liquid that hit him square in the face and in the mouth. Seems one of the movers decided to take a "break" at one point in time inside that bathroom, smelled and looked to be at least a couple weeks old. It was mid-July, temps in the upper 80's lower 90's, humidity was a killer. Needless to say, he QUICKLY removed himself from under the house, ran next door to the house I was moving out of, washed his face and burnt off to his house to take a shower. Don't think I've ever seen him move that fast!! I CAREFULLY finished the work by myself that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Mossy if that happened to me I'd need a new job I couldn't handle it. I can do anything but poo. Nasty! I've never really had anything real nasty happen to me yet and hope I never do. Most nasty thing I ever smelled was when the sump pump quit working and it was backing up into the basement now that was pretty nasty we pumped all kinds of nasty stuff for the whole day out. Me and dad had a hard time at first with that but really we got use to the smell. Can't say thats something I could deal with daily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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