What is the worst sound you ever heard?

GunMaster357 · 01-24-2011, 10:10 AM

I imagine we all have experienced some situation where there was a sound that could give us some nightmares.

Shawnee123 · 01-24-2011, 10:14 AM

The screaming of one of the guys whose brother and friend were hit by a car right in front of our house, as they were riding bicycles to the country store, when I was about 10 or 11? The friend died. We knew the guys, and he came screaming into our house "I've got to call my mom I've got to call my mom."

The worst thing I've ever heard.

glatt · 01-24-2011, 10:24 AM

That sounds pretty bad. I can only imagine.

The neighborhood gang played in the street in front of our house all the time. I was in the backyard when I heard screeching brakes one day. The entire neighborhood ran out to see what happened and watched a poor dog die in the middle of the street. He was yelping and lying on his side with his legs running in the air and a pool of blood forming underneath him.

Then when he was still, his owner picked him up by the collar and carried his limp body behind their house.

I'm sure the driver felt like an ass with 20 people standing there staring at him.

That was pretty bad, but was probably nothing compared to what you heard. I can only imagine.

GunMaster357 · 01-24-2011, 10:33 AM

I don't know how the guys I was asked to help with their computer problems came by that recording. They were an insvestigation team.

During the whole time I was in their lab, they decomposed the sound at various speeds. It was the impact on a concrete slab of a 20-stories jumper. They were trying to determine if he jumped by himself or had a bit of help. The worst thing was probably the comments. Nothing funny, just clinical, describing each piece of sound : ankles, knees, hips, etc... breaking one after another...

As long as you don't know what it is, a sound is just that, a sound. When you know...

Undertoad · 01-24-2011, 10:44 AM

Before my dog Bean died, he had a few seizures, and he would make this terrible blood-curdling howl with all his breath.

Pico and ME · 01-24-2011, 11:22 AM

Other people up chucking...especially my brother - he sounds like he is fighting to keep his stomach from going inside out.

Oh and a baby screeching.

Big Sarge · 01-24-2011, 11:56 AM

The screams of a family trapped in an SUV as they were burned alive

plthijinx · 01-24-2011, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Sarge

The screams of a family trapped in an SUV as they were burned alive

that's horrible! i bet you have a lot of examples from your line of work.

edit: forgot to say, a child screaming that got hurt on a go-kart at work.

Pico and ME · 01-24-2011, 11:58 AM

Oh God.

monster · 01-24-2011, 12:23 PM

And here's another thread I'd like to put on ignore.

Bullitt · 01-24-2011, 02:46 PM

I heard a wild animal getting mauled to death in the middle of the night out in Wyoming. Just a horrific screaming/yelping/moaning noise echoing off the hills.

HungLikeJesus · 01-24-2011, 03:27 PM

The hiss of a cockroach climbing into my ear.

Cloud · 01-24-2011, 08:06 PM

pigs being butchered--those suckers are loud.

Griff · 01-25-2011, 05:25 AM

I'm with Cloud. Worst sound ever.

Yznhymr · 01-26-2011, 12:48 PM

Nagging wife kills me every time. It's just too horrible to talk about. No, seriously, the worst sound for me is the sound of a loved one crying. Not the fake crying children are good at, I'm talking the heart wrenching, soul moving cry of someone in pain that you can't do anything about.

01-24-2011, 10:10 AM	#1
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	What is the worst sound you ever heard? I imagine we all have experienced some situation where there was a sound that could give us some nightmares. __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

01-24-2011, 10:14 AM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	The screaming of one of the guys whose brother and friend were hit by a car right in front of our house, as they were riding bicycles to the country store, when I was about 10 or 11? The friend died. We knew the guys, and he came screaming into our house "I've got to call my mom I've got to call my mom." The worst thing I've ever heard. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-24-2011, 10:33 AM	#4
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	I don't know how the guys I was asked to help with their computer problems came by that recording. They were an insvestigation team. During the whole time I was in their lab, they decomposed the sound at various speeds. It was the impact on a concrete slab of a 20-stories jumper. They were trying to determine if he jumped by himself or had a bit of help. The worst thing was probably the comments. Nothing funny, just clinical, describing each piece of sound : ankles, knees, hips, etc... breaking one after another... As long as you don't know what it is, a sound is just that, a sound. When you know... __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

01-24-2011, 11:56 AM	#7
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	The screams of a family trapped in an SUV as they were burned alive __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

01-24-2011, 12:23 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	And here's another thread I'd like to put on ignore. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-24-2011, 10:24 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That sounds pretty bad. I can only imagine. The neighborhood gang played in the street in front of our house all the time. I was in the backyard when I heard screeching brakes one day. The entire neighborhood ran out to see what happened and watched a poor dog die in the middle of the street. He was yelping and lying on his side with his legs running in the air and a pool of blood forming underneath him. Then when he was still, his owner picked him up by the collar and carried his limp body behind their house. I'm sure the driver felt like an ass with 20 people standing there staring at him. That was pretty bad, but was probably nothing compared to what you heard. I can only imagine.

01-24-2011, 10:44 AM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Before my dog Bean died, he had a few seizures, and he would make this terrible blood-curdling howl with all his breath.

01-24-2011, 11:22 AM	#6
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Other people up chucking...especially my brother - he sounds like he is fighting to keep his stomach from going inside out. Oh and a baby screeching.

01-24-2011, 11:58 AM	#9
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Oh God.

01-24-2011, 02:46 PM	#11
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	I heard a wild animal getting mauled to death in the middle of the night out in Wyoming. Just a horrific screaming/yelping/moaning noise echoing off the hills. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

01-24-2011, 03:27 PM	#12
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	The hiss of a cockroach climbing into my ear. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-24-2011, 08:06 PM	#13
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	pigs being butchered--those suckers are loud. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

01-25-2011, 05:25 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I'm with Cloud. Worst sound ever. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-26-2011, 12:48 PM	#15
Yznhymr the crowd goes wild! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 663	Nagging wife kills me every time. It's just too horrible to talk about. No, seriously, the worst sound for me is the sound of a loved one crying. Not the fake crying children are good at, I'm talking the heart wrenching, soul moving cry of someone in pain that you can't do anything about. __________________ "The pride system tends to intensify the self-hate against which it is supposed to be a defense, since any failure to live up to one's tyrannical shoulds or of the world to honor one's claims leads to feelings of worthlessness." Bernard J. Paris, Ph.D.

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