I should preface this by saying that I have nothing but the greatest respect for police officers, emergency medical technicians and firefighters. None of those, however, are jobs that I could do. I thank God that there are those who are willing and able to perform such valuable and necessary duties no matter how very unpleasant they may be at times. I have an Uncle who retired from the local fire department a few years ago. He told my Dad that shortly after he started in that position, they were called out to the scene of an accident,(well, it may not have actually been an accident but we will never know) and what he saw was horrifying and repulsive. At that location, the road forked and there was a big tree right in the middle of the fork. A car had plowed head-on into that tree at what must have been in excess of 100 MPH. He said that he just looked in the window and then he wasn't able to eat or sleep for two weeks or so. I once heard a story of how a woman and her kid had been walking down the side of a very busy highway here when they had been stricken by a vehicle which must have been traveling at a very high rate of speed. That is easy to imagine if you know how motorists tend to drive on that highway. Anyway, the kid was supposedly thrown into the air by the impact and came down on a road sign which decapitated it. Dad once told me that a man had been riding a motorcyle so fast when he lost control on a bridge here in town and that he had slid so far down the road that it had literally skinned him. A guy I went to school with had a brother who went out to go sled riding one night when there was a new snow on the ground. What he was unaware of was that at the bottom of the hill, a car had slid off the road and a truck with a winch was trying to pull it out with a steel cable which was stretched tight. Since it ws night time and so dark, he couldn't see the cable and thus didn't know to duck. He, too, was decapitated. I could go on and on and on here. If you want to read some more stuff like this, just check out some more of my submissions although the rest mostly deal with ghosts and unsolved murders. Anyway, my point is, I just don't see how anyone could go to work every day knowing that they may come across a situation like one of these? (I thank God that some can and do!) Does anyone have any imput here? Thanks in advance. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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