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<blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 3849599" data-attributes="member: 45773"><p>I still see faces and hear sounds and even smell things. It's weird.</p><p></p><p>For some reason one of my most haunting memories is of a guy that did the running-car-in-the-closed-garage suicide thing. He'd been in there for a couple of days when we found him on a welfare check.</p><p></p><p>At some point he obviously changed his mind but it was too late. He made it as far as the door that led into the house. He was laying face down against the lower portion of the door with his arm outstretched and his hand about 6" below the doorknob. I still feel really bad for that guy and that was nearly 30 years ago. And I don't know why but I see that image and can't shake it for hours most of the time. I don't know why that particular incident bothered me so much because I had far worse experiences...</p><p></p><p>...like the Columbine shootings. I was only there for the immediate aftermath because I'd worked a night shift the night before. I'd just got home (I lived about 45 mins away up in the mountains) and was getting ready for bed when my SWAT pager went off. I grabbed all my crap and ran out the door. I couldn't get anywhere close to the school because parents of students had left cars in the road when they couldn't get to the school to find their kids and traffic was just a mess. I wound up parking my truck and running about 1.5 miles to the school with just my duty belt and rifle. I wound up just helping clear the school. As you can imagine it was pretty awful. We didn't have any officers to work the street in the city so when I left there I went and worked two back-to-back patrol shifts...the swing shift and my regular graveyard shift. I didn't get home till about 9:30 the next morning. Then I didn't sleep at all even though I was exhausted and went back to work that night. If finally hit me about half way thru that shift. I had to go back to the PD and take a nap for about an hour. Didn't really matter because it was just eerily quiet in the city for about a week after the incident.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OK Corgi Rancher, post: 3849599, member: 45773"] I still see faces and hear sounds and even smell things. It's weird. For some reason one of my most haunting memories is of a guy that did the running-car-in-the-closed-garage suicide thing. He'd been in there for a couple of days when we found him on a welfare check. At some point he obviously changed his mind but it was too late. He made it as far as the door that led into the house. He was laying face down against the lower portion of the door with his arm outstretched and his hand about 6" below the doorknob. I still feel really bad for that guy and that was nearly 30 years ago. And I don't know why but I see that image and can't shake it for hours most of the time. I don't know why that particular incident bothered me so much because I had far worse experiences... ...like the Columbine shootings. I was only there for the immediate aftermath because I'd worked a night shift the night before. I'd just got home (I lived about 45 mins away up in the mountains) and was getting ready for bed when my SWAT pager went off. I grabbed all my crap and ran out the door. I couldn't get anywhere close to the school because parents of students had left cars in the road when they couldn't get to the school to find their kids and traffic was just a mess. I wound up parking my truck and running about 1.5 miles to the school with just my duty belt and rifle. I wound up just helping clear the school. As you can imagine it was pretty awful. We didn't have any officers to work the street in the city so when I left there I went and worked two back-to-back patrol shifts...the swing shift and my regular graveyard shift. I didn't get home till about 9:30 the next morning. Then I didn't sleep at all even though I was exhausted and went back to work that night. If finally hit me about half way thru that shift. I had to go back to the PD and take a nap for about an hour. Didn't really matter because it was just eerily quiet in the city for about a week after the incident. [/QUOTE]
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