Tuesday, October 2, 2012

I hate cockroaches!!!

So, this one call I went on was a coroners call to a second floor apartment.  We never get any information concerning a coroners call before we arrive at the scene so that means it could be anything from an old cancer patient who's family just called 911 instead of their hospice facility, a suicide, car accident, murder... just about anything.  We arrived at this normal looking apartment complex.  No different than any other middle class apartments in any given city to find cops standing outside the apartment.  Remember the decomp before... cops standing outside isn't a good sign.  Well, as we were imagining the worst decomp possible in the apartment we turn the corner and look into the open door only to see the deceased man laying straight on the floor in front of us in his living room.  Yeah, the apartment was littered with trash, books and papers scattered about but he appeared as if he hadn't been there too long.  The coroner gave us a menacing smile and we knew something was up.  He was going back to the coroners office we were told so we went downstairs and grabbed our equipment to move the body.  Just as we stepped in my foot hit a stack of papers and a swarm of cockroaches scattered from beneath!  The coroner failed to mention that the apartment was infested.  As we moved stacks of books and papers to get to the body the roaches scattered across the floor, up the walls and trying to go up our legs.  There is nothing worse than bugs that move fast and want to crawl up your legs.  We danced to keep our feet moving as we maneuvered the body into the body bag and zipped him up to carry downstairs.  No matter how far away you get from the room, the rest of the day, you feel as if you have bugs crawling across your legs or up your back.  Use bug guard people!

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