I had just moved to Capitol Hill when Catherine Fuller was brutally murdered near 8th and H street NE. A horrific crime and one that made national news.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/1985-dc-murder-convictions-will-stand-judge-rules/2012/08/06/9ebf106a-dfc8-11e1-8fc5-a7dcf1fc161d_story.html

Anonymous wrote:FYI, PP there are some men who specifically jerk off where they can be seen. I have had several clients over the years who seek out school buses to jerk off in view of kids. They used to be more difficult to catch before every kid had a cell phone camera though.

I hope you are an attorney and not a lotion manufacturer.

I was once working in a facility for the mentally ill, and I was walking into work one day and one of the patients sitting in the waiting area had no nose. She just had 1 (not 2 nostrils) dime-sized hole in the middle of her face. In addition, her eyes were bandaged. Her mouth was also very strange but I can't recall how. Basically, her face was disfigured in a way I had never seen before, not on television or in a horror movie or anything, and certainly not in real life.

I don't know how bad it sounds but something about this just terrified me. At first, I just looked at her and walked by and didn't even process what I had seen for a few seconds, it was just that strange. Then I was just so freaked out I didn't ask anybody what was going on with that lady.

To this day I have no idea what was going on, and what caused that woman's disfigurement.

My friend is a DC firefighter and she always said she has seen a lot so one day I asked her what the worst thing she ever saw? She told me one day they got a call that some kids were home alone and when they got there, it was 3 kids under 12years and one was in a diaper. She said it looked like they had been there for a few days because they haven't bathed and the baby's diaper was sooo full it looked liked it hadn't been changed in days and it was falling off but the worst thing was she said they we so hungry that they were eating a raw chicken that they got from the refrigerator. I have children and the thought of those babies being so hungry that they had to eat a raw chicken saddens me and even though I never saw it for myself, I painted a mental picture that I have Never gotton out of my head

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Anonymous wrote:I was in Paris recently and saw a woman begging who was holding a child of 2. The child sat on her lap so listlessly and sadly that I wanted to grab her and just run. I can't imagine what her life has been like thus far.

They're gypsies. Scammers. All over Europe and now in NoVa too. But for a long time this has been very commonplace in European cities. Don't let this weigh you down; she probably has much more money than you ever will.

Oh, is that who they are. I've seen the women with toddlers in strollers or young children in downtown DC and recently in the suburbs near Target. They hand out a written note to a passing stranger. I stood near one of these women once to see what the note said. They say that they or their husband have lost their jobs and want $20!!!

Anonymous wrote:I have a few.

The first one that jumps out in my memory is the set up at an emergency medical area on September 11 in NYC. It was in a studio of some sort and IV bags were taped to lighting poles and desks, tables set up as gurneys. Looked like a movie version of an urban MASH unit. Scariest part is that very few casualties came there because most either walked away or died.

Second one that comes to mind: the blood on the carpet in my mom's room from my stepdad's suicide. And days later after that was cleaned up, realizing that there was still blood between the little lines on the speaker area on his desk phone. I wish they'd just thrown away everything in that room.

Third: working as a nursing student in an ICU -- saw an old man with a leg wound infested with maggots. Flesh was rotten (and smelled like it) and maggots swarmed out when bandages were removed.

Sounds like something in a developing country.

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Anonymous wrote:The scene in American History X when he puts the guys face on the curb and stomps on it. I can envision that crunch.

This is the one I could never get out of my head.

I still remember that scene, too, and it's been 13+ years.

The most disturbing flashing I ever saw (and there have been lots) was at Port Authority. The man was older - maybe about 60 - pale, powdery, with short grey hair, worn clothes, sort of lumpen and moon-faced and with the most vacant expression. He was just standing there, still, not making eye contact, staring straight ahead. He looked so strange, even before I looked down and noticed his sad, limp, greyish penis and scrotum hanging out of his zipper.

Being 11 years old and seeing my brother in his casket. I can't get the vision out of my head of how white his skin was. I remember touching his chest and asking my dad why it was rock hard while he cried uncontrollably.

FYI, PP there are some men who specifically jerk off where they can be seen. I have had several clients over the years who seek out school buses to jerk off in view of kids. They used to be more difficult to catch before every kid had a cell phone camera though.

Anonymous wrote:I was riding in a car going down a 4-lane highway in St. Louis. I happened to look over/out my window into the car next to us and saw a guy naked from the waist down, jerking off while driving 65+ mph on the highway.

I told my friend to move far away from him...JIC.

This just brought back a memory for me. I remember being in 7th or 8th grade and driving home from a lacrosse game on a yellow school bus and looking out the window and seeing a guy jerking off in his car below us. He was fully clothed, but his penis was sticking out of his zipper. I had never seen a penis before and was shocked and turned away. It was so nasty. I never told my teammates either.

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Anonymous wrote:Not something that I witnessed or had any connection to, but I am haunted by the murder of the Harvey family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_family_murder

I just can't imagine what they went through, and although I'm not practicing any religion, this makes me hope that there is a heaven and that this family is there and are able to do all that they did not get a chance to do here on earth.

And the scumbags that did this are nothing more than trash, and it scares me that there are people like that.

Um, there were some other people killed too, just not as white as the Harveys.

Yes, but weren't they in some way acquainted with the killers (or their female sidekick)? Parents of, etc...?

The Harveys were totally random, sick and there were two little girls involved... over what, a stolen TV or something?

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Anonymous wrote:Not something that I witnessed or had any connection to, but I am haunted by the murder of the Harvey family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_family_murder

I just can't imagine what they went through, and although I'm not practicing any religion, this makes me hope that there is a heaven and that this family is there and are able to do all that they did not get a chance to do here on earth.

And the scumbags that did this are nothing more than trash, and it scares me that there are people like that.

Um, there were some other people killed too, just not as white as the Harveys.

Yes, but weren't they in some way acquainted with the killers (or their female sidekick)? Parents of, etc...?

Anonymous wrote:Not something that I witnessed or had any connection to, but I am haunted by the murder of the Harvey family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_family_murder

I just can't imagine what they went through, and although I'm not practicing any religion, this makes me hope that there is a heaven and that this family is there and are able to do all that they did not get a chance to do here on earth.

And the scumbags that did this are nothing more than trash, and it scares me that there are people like that.

Um, there were some other people killed too, just not as white as the Harveys.

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Anonymous wrote:Surveillance video of that little girl in China being run over.

Saw it here first. Though people said not to watch it. When the Mom finds her and tries to stand her up-- horrific.

For that matter, the video of those two women crossing at a crosswalk in DC at night and getting mowed down by a Metro bus -- stuck.in.my.head.

Yes. I remember watching that over and over. Unable to comprehend it!

I remember that too. Awful.