by Sky'sGoneOut » Fri 17 Nov, 2017 1:24 am
The first dead body I saw was when I was doing my paper round, there was a farm at the end of town up a really steep little road and one day I saw an upturned tractor (the big ones with a cab) and as I got closer I saw the tractor had tipped over backards and the top of the cab had sliced through the top of the guy's head. His brains were spilled out on the road. This was 1980 and after I ran back and told Peter at the shop I was given a cup of tea and sent off to school. Nobody even thought to call my Mum, there was no talk of counseling. And to be honest, as a 9 year old I never had any bad dreams or freak outs or anything else. I just seemed to take it in my stride. I was far more concerned about my Star Wars toys.
As for Sunday night, I asked three of the ghoulish onlookers what had happened and the response was different each time, one said 'boy racers', another said it was the result of a police chase, and the other said it was a taxi driver driving too fast. I can neither confirm nor deny any of these claims, all I saw was the wreckage of two cars and a very obvious human body part peeking out from a bit of plastic sheeting.
Had I been a modern day Victor Frankenstein such a find would have been quite appealing.
The first dead body I saw was when I was doing my paper round, there was a farm at the end of town up a really steep little road and one day I saw an upturned tractor (the big ones with a cab) and as I got closer I saw the tractor had tipped over backards and the top of the cab had sliced through the top of the guy's head. His brains were spilled out on the road. This was 1980 and after I ran back and told Peter at the shop I was given a cup of tea and sent off to school. Nobody even thought to call my Mum, there was no talk of counseling. And to be honest, as a 9 year old I never had any bad dreams or freak outs or anything else. I just seemed to take it in my stride. I was far more concerned about my Star Wars toys.
As for Sunday night, I asked three of the ghoulish onlookers what had happened and the response was different each time, one said 'boy racers', another said it was the result of a police chase, and the other said it was a taxi driver driving too fast. I can neither confirm nor deny any of these claims, all I saw was the wreckage of two cars and a very obvious human body part peeking out from a bit of plastic sheeting.
Had I been a modern day Victor Frankenstein such a find would have been quite appealing.