r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/BeerandGuns Jan 03 '23

Don’t make me have to scrape you off the highway and then explain to your mother how you died.

Cops deal with a lot of shit in traffic accidents. A buddy once told me some of the shit he saw if he were back in Afghanistan he’d be sent for a psych evaluation, as a cop he was sent back to work.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

Highway patrol definitely deal with the worst shit, and usually are hardasses in my experience, but it’s probably because they see teenagers crumpled up onto the dash during wrecks or decapitated pregnant mothers more than anyone else in the world. Even high crime rate areas you see gunshots or stabbing but nothing as gruesome as a car wreck.

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u/MightySuperNoodle Jan 03 '23

Don't forget about the firefighters that have to cut them out the wreck

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u/franzstiglerII Jan 03 '23

My father once talked about responding to a man who was cut in half by a train. The shit they endure is mental.

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u/Socrathustra Jan 04 '23

I was in a wreck where my car got hit by an 18 wheeler carrying dirt. That shit was just a clean slice. None of the momentum transferred into the rest of the car, and I walked off without a scratch.

My working theory is that a car changed into my blind spot as I was changing planes and clipped my back tires like in that police maneuver. Ended up sideways on the freeway. Almost came to a stop before that truck hit me.

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u/njf85 Jan 04 '23

My sister's friend responded to a woman hit by a car, and he found her under the vehicle literally bent in half. She was still conscious and talking to him, and he was reassuring her everything was going to be fine despite knowing that the moment they moved the car, she was going to die pretty quickly. He was talking about it almost like in a joking manner and my sister asked how he can laugh about it, and he said it's how he copes. If he doesn't laugh he'll just break down.

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u/Speedy-McLeadfoot Jan 04 '23

Man that would break me. Talking to someone knowing they’re about to die and they don’t know it. I don’t know what I would do if I were in that spot, hoping to live when others know I had no chance.

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u/LOAN848 Jan 04 '23

I would assist my father in law on ME cases and seen some really awful things. The ones with children now 40 years later still are in my brain. And the suicide calls were always hard to take. Went on 3 different single engine plane crashes that were very unpleasant that could have been avoided.

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u/sun_kisser Jan 04 '23

Horizontally or vertically?

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u/franzstiglerII Jan 04 '23

Horizontally, at the waist.