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anon , Polina Tankilevitch / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding So, not forensics (entirely), and not me. I had a professor in college that was pursuing her doctorate while working at the Mayo Clinic.

Year after year, a man came in to be tested for a disorder/disease that [ended] his father at that very hospital. Year after year, he tested negative. But every year, he got tested in an effort to stay ahead of it. Because, genetics.

One year, he tested negative as usual, but the staff had an idea. They cracked open the archives, dug his father's file out & put it next to his. DNA wasn't even close.

Poor guy has no idea his late father was never his biological father at all. And the hospital has no right or obligation to inform him.

Final score:

180points

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XenoMurph 1 month ago

No obligation, but come on, tell the poor dude. Or refuse his money for the test at least. "We can't in all honesty take your money because there is no risk factor here. No, we can't tell you why."

126points

anon , Blue Bird / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding In doing my MSc in forensic pathology and anthropology, there is a final practical exam component. The examiner hauled in a large cardboard box. The type/size you would store documents in.

When dumped on the table, it looked like a broken plant pot. No piece was bigger than 1.5 inches diameter. He then goes "could you find all the pieces of *example of bone* and reconstruct it please?

Turns out it was a ~16 year old girl whose boyfriend had caved her head in with a stone and cut her into tiny bits before burying her in a field.

Only reason she was found was because her decomposing flesh caused the plants right hear her body to be oddly large and lush for a dry forgotten field.

Final score:

132points

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Earthquake903 Premium 1 month ago (edited)

Scumbag boyfriend. Eta: Sorry if this comment isn't venomous enough for some of you. Judging by the comments below, there are many dissatisfied comment readers. But I've gone figuratively nuclear in my comments on bad people before, like Dennis Rader, and I got mocked for it. So, it appears some comment readers just can't be satisfied.

117points

anon , Jonathan Borba / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I attended an autopsy where the subject being examined had one large kidney that extended to both sides of his body instead of having 2, one on each side of his body.

Final score:

119points

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Serial pacifist 1 month ago

Are you kidneying me?! (I’ll see myself out).

143points

anon , Donny Fuego / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I only just started here so what’s shocking to me is probably super minor but i had a decedent that died and was found with multiple bottles of isopropyl alcohol around her with straws in them. She literally was sipping isopropyl alcohol through straws. It obviously [ended] her, but i cannot get past the thought of that. How serious of an addiction do you have that doing something like that makes sense? Just the thought of doing that makes my stomach turn.

Final score:

107points

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linda collins 1 month ago

Nurse here. It is quite common for patients with a drink problem to drink the alcohol spray or gel while they are in hospital.

122points

TribbleThinking 1 month ago (edited)

You're right. I've seen a hospital where they've removed the hand sanitizers from the unmanned lobby for that reason.

23points

Avoidance_Panda 1 month ago

During COVID, our company put out alcohol hand sanitizer...every night they were ripped off the walls and taken.... Turns out the key is to switch to a non alcohol based sanitizer... Problem solved ..

19points

Otto Katz 1 month ago

During the pandemic my sister would have to hide the hand sanitizer from her son. He was buying it at cvs and drinking it. Kid's a mess still.

10points

Jaaawn 1 month ago

Yeah, alcohol hand gel was removed from UK prisons during Covid 19 as prisoners were partying on the stuff.

10points

B Lorax 1 month ago

I had an alcoholic friend who admitted that he would do that when he got really desperate. He knew it was poison but would rationalize that a sip or two wouldn't kill him. He wasn't wrong but I can see how someone might start down that slippery slope, especially if they "feel better" from the small sips. Plus people who are far gone alcoholics can lose their ability to reason completely. I know this from first hand experience with a relative.

8points

Dolly_of TheCowboy 1 month ago

Agreed. Disturbingly common these days as is people drinking hand sanitiser. Both are so readily available, and significantly cheaper than consumable alcohol, in many locations and no one bats an eye if you buy multiple bottles in a week

7points

Birgit Sommer 1 month ago

Instead of addressing the cravings, they make it worse. Same with smokers. I know people that refuse to go to a hospital because it would require quitting smoking cold turkey.

4points

ravn 1 month ago

It's like they've never heard of mouthwash...

3points

Binky Melnik 1 month ago

So you can answer this: Do people actually get a high from isopropyl alcohol? Does it have similar effects to real (drinkable) alcohol? I’m getting that it must be for them to drink it, right? (Otherwise they wouldn’t bother.)

3points

TheBlueBitterfly 1 month ago

Yep, a couple rehabs my husband went to (pre-covid) had to remove their sanitizing stations because people were filling cups with gel sanitizer. (Apparently mixing it with whatever juice they had in the cafeteria/dorm kitchens.) They thought that just bolting it down was enough to keep it from being abused.

2points

Donna Harris 1 month ago

Child of alcoholic...drunks will drink anything they can get a buzz from...mouthwash, aftershave....Pam in the can..

1point

Stinky 1 month ago

also happens in prisons......

1point

Lis - 1 month ago

Does it actually work? Like, can you get drunk of it? Or is it just people are so dependent, it is called alcohol, so let's just try it it cause it's better than water kinda thing?

0points

Kiss Army Premium 1 month ago

My sister worked that a store at the VA hospital. Some of the veteran's that lived there and did not have transport to go anywhere else would buy and drink mouthwash, cough medicine and cologne. They quit carrying so of the items and had to keep track of sales of others.

0points

PlsDo NotDelete 1 month ago

Didn't a former first lady consume rubbing alcohol?

-2points

Nicola Roberts 1 month ago

A life time ago I worked in hotel, at a holiday/seaside resort. Most of the staff were younger than 23 and partied hard. But the person who I will never forget was a Chef who needed a fix at 5am and drank a bottle of aftershave when nothing else was available.

7points

FABULOUS1 1 month ago

I recall in the US people being told to drink bleach by a certain person to get rid of covid, hope that is not the reason this happened.

6points

Otto Katz 1 month ago

Ex husband's cousin would drink anything. Shoe polish. furniture polish. I can't remember if it killed him, or he got better. When you're an addict, anything will do.

6points

Rene Thompson 1 month ago

I used to work in a chemical dependency unit attached to a hospital. I saw people drink mouthwash and suck on alcohol swabs so, unfortunately, this does not surprise me.

5points

Whitefox 1 month ago

I worked in a vet hospital that had a man who lived on site with his wife who was the weekend/ night watch type person. We had to lock the rubbing alcohol up with the class 3 narcotics because he would drink it. Even the stuff in the holder for the a**l thermometers wasn't safe! bleh..

5points

Jorie 1 month ago

My father-in-law did the same thing years and years ago. They couldn't leave the thermometers soaking in alcohol on his bedside table.

0points

Steve Hall 1 month ago

I think there are still quite a few people who do not understand that isopropyl is poison.

5points

TheBlueBitterfly 1 month ago

They understand. But an addiction makes you willing to risk anything to "not be sick" anymore. Opiate addicts know that they have no idea what is in the powder they're about to snort/inject. Could be poison, could be a stronger chemical that will kill you before you put your rig/straw down. Could be powdered foot shavings from a PedEgg callous remover. The addict just wants the withdrawal to stop by any means necessary.

12points

Robin DJW 1 month ago

Three generations on my mother's side had alcohol problems, including one brother. I feel grateful that that particular demon never visited me.

4points

Bex 1 month ago

I don't think Trump "musing" out loud to reporters if there was a way to "safely" inject bleach into a person to "cure" them of Covid helped.

3points

Mary Kelly 1 month ago

yes, that's what alcoholics sometimes do...that is why they add bittering agenct to isopropyl alcohols sold in d**g stores.

2points

Zenozenobee 1 month ago

My father had to spend 3 weeks in hospital after back surgeries that went wrong. Being an alcoholic he had the genius idea to ask his visitors to bring him after shave. An alcoholic would drink anything.

1point

Brazen 1 month ago

When I was a apartment caretaker, I went to clean a place after an eviction and I found nothing but empty orange juice containers and listerine. I couldn't fathom drinking that at all and it still makes me feel ill just thinking about it today. It makes me a sad that there are people that feel the need to feed their addictions in that manner.

1point

MoMcB 1 month ago

Once met a cousin of my ex husband. He was an alcoholic and was drinking a strange milky drink out of an irn bru bottle. It turned out to be methylated spirits mixed with irn bru.

1point

Anne Jones 1 month ago

There was a minor actress in the UK in the 1970s who drank her baby’s gripe mixture because it contained alcohol in those days.

1point

G A 1 month ago

It probably turned their stomach, too. Resulting in D E A T H.....

1point

Griffy 1 month ago

Back when I was working in a grocery store, we had a group of homeless men come in and buy the house brand mouthwash and DRINK it. Apparently the alcohol in the mouthwash turned into formeldahyde in the liver. Those guys were nuts, and not in a good way, from drinking that stuff.

0points

Shawn Barry 1 month ago

the further along we get in our addiction the more masterful we are at lying/decieving ourselves, willing to do anything to acquire what gives us the 'AH' , then we can relax.

0points

Yared Calkinnunen 1 month ago

Is there a decedent that hasn't died?

0points

Dre Mosley 1 month ago

Crazy. I remember on that show "Intervention" they had a severely alcoholic woman who would d**k from bottles of mouthwash when she couldn't get regular alcohol to drink.

0points

Cybele Spanjaard 1 month ago

Like those who drank methylated spirits in former times

0points

Anna Bella Vittoria 1 month ago

My step-grandpa was an alcoholic and he would drink his own cologne

0points

Emily Phillips 1 month ago

My neighbor recently asked me to call an ambulance for him. He said he had been drinking all day. Didn't think much about it til his girlfriend later informed me it was rubbing alcohol.

0points

Roxy222uk 1 month ago

What does "decedent" mean, please?

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Arthur White 1 month ago

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Cheyenne Larsen 1 month ago

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Doofnuts 1 month ago

So, technically, she and the goverment (laws) poisoned her.

-2points

gritwoodser , National Cancer Institute / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding My friend's wife works in one. Getting blood samples from babies that tested positive for [illegal substances] was apparently fairly common, but the most recent shocking discovery was that the building's plumbing was done in such a way that chemical disposal could back flow into the water fountain drain, and management didn't really care.

Final score:

102points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

Tell the local news, I bet they'd care

109points

InjuredAtWork , Louis Reed / unsplash (nott the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I was working in the lab late one night, well one thing led to another and we

DID THE MASH WE DID THE MONSTER MASH.

Final score:

99points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

It was a graveyard smash!

79points

cjmd3 , Raphael Nogueira / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding Years ago when I was working as a DNA analyst, our lab received a limp caesar salad from a local restaurant, take out box and all. Apparently, the guy who ordered the salad said that it was served with blood in it. The restaurant owner said not possible and that the customer must have bled in it so that he wouldn't have to pay. The customer then decided to promptly bring his salad to our lab along with his DNA sample to prove that it wasn't his. Turns out that it was and he unknowingly bled into his salad somehow.

Oh, there was also that one time a dad sent in a bunch of his daughter's soiled feminine hygiene products in to the lab to test for semen.

Most shocking thing though was the time a bunch of DNA samples came. To make a long story short: one large vehicle, lots of [illegal substances], two strung out horny couples, one condom being passed back and forth (yes...flipped inside out), and two pregnant couples uncertain about the paternity of each baby.

Final score:

99points

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Beak Hookage 1 month ago (edited)

Fathers obsessing over their daughter's sexual activities are some of the biggest sick creeps on earth. I mean really.

257points

nryporter25 , Testalize.me / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding Not a scientist, but my last job involved scientific testing equipment and sending results to the legal team of the company. Using an XRF gun I found that almost 50 percent of this large companies inventory contains above the legally allowed amount of lead, and various other harmful chemicals. (At a company whose product most people will touch on a daily basis). The legal team sure had their work cut out for them.

Final score:

91points

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Bewitched One 1 month ago

Uh what company

39points

jablair51 , Public Domain Pictures / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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18 Forensic Scientists Share What Was Their Most Shocking Finding I was working as a scanning electron microscope technician for the R&D branch of a private company when the head scientist gave me a unknown sample to cut up and investigate. There were a bunch of layers of paint on it and he wanted to know what elements were present. Most of the layers showed up as normal elements (O, Al, Cr, etc) but one layer had a peak at Pr (Praseodymium) which is so rare that I forgot that it was even an element. I thought I was going crazy but my engineer double-checked it and it was definitely there. Turns out that Praseodymium is used in certain military grade paints.

Final score:

90points

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CF 1 month ago

From wiki: "Praseodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pr and the atomic number 59. It is the third member of the lanthanide series and is considered one of the rare-earth metals. It is a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal, valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties. It is too reactive to be found in native form, and pure praseodymium metal slowly develops a green oxide coating when exposed to air."..Some uses include "yellow-orange "Praseodymium Yellow" stain for ceramics, which is a solid solution in the zircon lattice. This stain has no hint of green in it; by contrast, at sufficiently high loadings, praseodymium glass is distinctly green rather than pure yellow." Can also be used to make powerful magnets and certain types of welder's goggles.

91points