Academy starts next month in the Midwest and im working at our property and evidence building until then. They have us doing break down and ive never smelled anything so foul in my life going through these folks clothes/backpacks. New found respect for how you guys put up with it.
New found respect for the smell officers have to endure
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You think that’s bad? You can never unsmell a decomp.
Our jail has a huge vacuum sealer. They seal that stuff up, and they say it has cut way down on the smell.
I wish we could do that to folks we put in our cars.
Imagine what these corrections deputies got to do digging in shitty assholes
Wait until you smell that body that’s been dead for weeks during the hot summer months and their cats/dogs have been trapped inside with them shitting and pissing all over the place 🤮
There are no good smells in law enforcement. You’ll smell plenty cat piss, BO, stale alcohol, dead bodies, and just about everything else out there. You’ll expect things to smell like shit and get to the point where you ask people to step outside to talk because 9x out of ten their place will smell like some combination of piss, sweat, booze, cigarette smoke, etc etc.
I know some have had worse but my worst was a hotel, for a week, heat on about 78. Big black lady heart attack, fell face down on bed. We flipped her and her eyelids stuck to the sheet.
My sweet summer child, you have not yet begun to smell…
Oh, the smells you will smell.
You’ll smell things that cannot be unsmelled. Things that give you PTSmellD.
Worked with a guy who was actually born with no sense of smell. He was the luckiest SOB when it came to the horrid smells encountered out there. Lol
I had a guy who died in the shower. 5 days ago. The shower was still on and hot (very nice high rise apartment building). The air was filled and the walls were coated in a layer of decomp steam. He was on the 38th floor and had started leaking into lower floors.
Decomps are pretty bad but the worst most gag inducing thing I’ve ever smelled was a female prisoner being booked. Try not to think about where the smell originated.
If and when you get your first really good decomp don’t hold your breath, because when you finally take that deep breath in when you can’t hold it anymore it’s like tasting the air. Mine was dead roughly a month and we found them at the end of August. Nice open back glass door, window open upstairs, when I finally made it to that room with the window I took in a big deep breath, and realized two openings in a house create it’s own little draft that marinades the air as it moves through the house. And they’re naked, why are they always naked?
I had a death the other day. Typical dope den single wide. Dude died laying on a space heater. His face had melted and schlicked off. If he sat another day he would’ve popped
NAC, but I’ve found on my last deployments that a bit of Vicks vapor rub under the nose really cuts the smell of burn pit down.
Yeah a rotting corpse full of maggots is one you’ll never forget. Or the burned to a crisp one as well.
Here’s a tip I got from the coroners body retrieval crew: when you get off scrub down your whole body with lemon juice. Get lemons and cut them in half. Scrub head to toe, especially all areas with hair or body hair. Decomp gases cling to your hair. Wait 3-5 minutes and take a shower. Repeat a second time. When you dry clean your uniform, tell the dry cleaner what happened. They have deodorant they can add to remove the smell as well.
I’ve had dozens of dead body calls in a 25 year career and this method works.
Jail catalog sucks. The USMC made farm animals smell like paco raban ads. Remember perfume isn’t to announce your arrival.
Maybe 20 years ago we had a body found in the woods. Middle of a hot humid summer and death was by shotgun. One week later the body was found. One of our Departments police chaplains was doing a ride along with a patrol unit. Got within 30-40 feet of the body and started hurling. Maybe more from the sight vs smell but both were bad.