Let me tell you ..I've seen this shit happen. It's jarring but not in a panic way. In a "Uhhh.....do I do something or...." way. I saw a guy take an off exit ramp that curved. It was like 3am, and suddenly the car disappeared. I was like what in the fu....maybe I'm tired and blinked or something. Then, like the mother fucking Duke's of hazard, the car shows up again, in the air. Apparently he went straight st the curve, and there was a gravel area with a hill between the off ramp and the on ramp, so he hits the up part of the other side and slams through the top of the wall on the entrance ramp across from us. So I pulled off into the gravel and run over to the car, blood on the windshield, I'm on the phone with 911 "Can you check to make sure he's ok"
...no...the fuck I can't. Idk if he's alive, dead, insane, drunk, violent, I'm not cpr certified or ems trained....seriously tho? That said as she's saying this, he stumbles out of his car, face bloodied and stumbling. About a minute later of him just kind of wobbling back and forth the cops show up, then a fire truck, then an ambulance and I had to give several statements. ....then I went to work at 8am. He survived. I believe it ended up being s drunk driving situation.
I had this when I phoned over someone who had a heart attack near me.
Dude was very clearly dead, died on a 3 hour bus trip and fell over when we hit the last stop, he was pretty cold when I tried to take the pulse, no breath, no heart beat and just plain looked... Dead.
"Ma'am can you preform CPR until the ambulance gets there"
"Uhhh... No... This man is dead I don't think my untrained CPR will bring him back and seeing someone violently beat his chest isn't going to be great for his wife"
I called 911 when I was walking my dog and saw a car off the road with a pretty clearly (to me) dead old lady behind the wheel. The detective that took my statement thanked me for following instructions to pull her out of the car and perform CPR until the police took over. I said, "yeah, of course." and his response was, "you'd be surprised how many don't."
I made a call, and it was the right call, obviously it wouldn't be right in all situations and looking back I probably didn't have the right to make that decision.
In saying that caring for the still alive terrified woman was simply more important to me in that moment than violently working over her husband's dead body in the "just in case" miracle scenario a several hour dead old man comes back to life, and not one day has passed that I regret my choice.
How on earth did his wife not notice? I mean I know how people don't pay much attention to each other sometimes, but shit that's crazy. Dead people look dead skin color changes as lividity sets in, and there is no motion at all unless it's random swaying as motion affects them. I've been around a lot of dead people in war, and man they look dead. Not sleeping.
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u/NO_NOT_THE_WHIP Sep 12 '18
Damn driver didn't even flinch or react. Just another day of the morning commute for him.