really yucky jobs you just had to do

[oneup]

today i had to get a dead bat out of my pool. Due to a leak in the pool and the drought, i didnt bother keeping the pool clean for the last 9 months, but spring is here and ive found the leak, so its time to get it sorted for summer. went out there today, and found a dead bat in the pool. right near the second step. its a big one too. body about the size of a smallish dog, it was semi decomposed and stunk. while getting it out my mobile phone fell in right where the bat had been. .. im looking at it wondering do i forget it or do i reach in... i reached in.. salvaged the phone. but felt so gross i washed about a dozen times....
anyone else got a grotty job story.

[Firea100]

Being a retired professional firefighter, I could go on for hours with stories of "yucky" jobs... looking for a lost head from a car accident... Going to a "welfare check" on a elderly gentleman, he had passed sitting on a kitchen chair, no a/c, 95 degree heat. He was "last known viable" 10 days prior! He was leaking all the way into the next room! 'Was just part of the job. While I'm glad to be retired, I DO miss the job and the people I worked along side.
Larry in East China Mi.

[cavie]

I bought repoed house. Found raccoon and cat in the bottom of my pool

[Papa Zook]

Being married to a menopausal women....

[Trent]

My neighbor had a very large cow fall into his pool and it swam around in there for a few hours before it was discovered. By then the water was a gorgeous dark green color that stained the sides and all the tile, including the connected spa that fed into the pool via a waterfall. After we got her out he had to drain it and scrub the walls and tile for days with muratic acid till it got clean enough to use again.

[FRR]

Being a retired professional firefighter, I could go on for hours with stories of "yucky" jobs... looking for a lost head from a car accident... Going to a "welfare check" on a elderly gentleman, he had passed sitting on a kitchen chair, no a/c, 95 degree heat. He was "last known viable" 10 days prior! He was leaking all the way into the next room! 'Was just part of the job. While I'm glad to be retired, I DO miss the job and the people I worked along side.
Larry in East China Mi.

I'm so glad there are good folks like yourself that dedicated your professional life to doing such things..Looking for a head from a car wreck would be a tough one for me, that's for sure.

[Rick Kay]

Being married to a menopausal women....

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[rhino 2]

Nam, 66/67 And that's all I'm saying about that.....

[pcombe]

Being married to a menopausal women....

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When I was a kid on the farm my cousins were all older and bigger than i was so at sheep sheering time they would hang a long wool sack from the loft arm and the shearers helper would toss it up into the bag with a pitchfork.
The SOB's would drop me into the sack and I had to keep stomping the wool down under my feet or suffocate.
When I reached the point where I could jump and get ahold of the sack rim to get out they would catch me and drop me into another one.
It was hot, hard to breath, and ticks would be crawling all over me.
my boots got a good oil treatment but the benefit didn't stop me from becoming tough enough to whip em after a few years.

[HogAir]

Being married to a menopausal women....

When my wife said, "Your should just be glad you don't have to go through it", I guess my reply of, "The HELL I didn't!!" was not the smartest thing I've ever said.


I'm getting better now...

[rwhgme]

Being married to a menopausal women....

YUP!!!

[Deweydave]

Nam, 66/67 And that's all I'm saying about that.....

Thank you for your service.

[Firea100]

I'm so glad there are good folks like yourself that dedicated your professional life to doing such things..Looking for a head from a car wreck would be a tough one for me, that's for sure.

We looked for over an hour and could not find it. Eventually, we did find it under a pole that had been pushed over in the accident.

[Trikerbobbilly]

In high school I worked on a farm to earn extra money to run around on, one of our jobs was to dispose of dead cows, sometimes the cow had been dead for a week or two, we would have to hold our breath to get a rope tied to it and often the animal would just come apart and we would have to dispose of it in pieces. In the Navy our steam turbines exhausted to a condenser that used sea water for cooling, ever so often we would have to go inside the water side and clean off the sea life that had accumulated on the tube sheet, some of this sea life had been inside the condenser for a very long time and the smell was almost overwhelming, after finishing the smell often stuck to you for a few days no matter how much you showered.

[mynameisearl]

Prepping bodies for autopsies .

[pcombe]

When my wife said, "Your should just be glad you don't have to go through it", I guess my reply of, "The HELL I didn't!!" was not the smartest thing I've ever said.


I'm getting better now...

[bongobobny]

Well, besides what 'Zook and rhino posted, reinstalling a sewer pipe that fell off on a mobile home...


In Nam at least we got to burn our $hit!

[rayster]

After 27 years as an EOD\UXO Tech, there has been a lot of grizzly work, but the worst was clearing the tanks and other vehicles, after the 1st gulf, that had been sitting in the sun for weeks with bodies still in them. There not enough soap and water to wash the smell off, or out of your nose and mouth.

[pcombe]

Well, besides what 'Zook and rhino posted, reinstalling a sewer pipe that fell off on a mobile home...


In Nam at least we got to burn our $hit!

Man I hear you on the sewer pipe replacement.
I was a water and sewer operator in a public water system for 11 years.
I recall going out in the middle of a January night at 20 below zero for a broken sewer main repair and standing in sewer water up to my ass and getting a mix of snow and dirt blown into my eyes, The only good thing I can say about it was the line was not a pressure main.
I wonder why the hell I did that sort of thing for a living?

I read about other folks removing dead and bloated farm animals and I can well remember those times also.

Did any of you have the pleasure of being sprayed by a skunk?
My dog got sprayed and jumped into my arms knocking me down when I was a kid, We both slept and ate on the screened porch for a spell.
The only good thing I recall about that was nobody was looking for me to help with chores for a while. even the pigs thought something was wrong with me but they are good at hiding their opinions!

[tom w]

After 27 years as an EOD\UXO Tech, there has been a lot of grizzly work, but the worst was clearing the tanks and other vehicles, after the 1st gulf, that had been sitting in the sun for weeks with bodies still in them. There not enough soap and water to wash the smell off, or out of your nose and mouth.

even after being an e.m.t. on a rescue squad and an e.r. nurse for many years, dealing with all kinds of really bad stuff.(drownings.....burnt bodies.... ) ,
I think you win!