Welcome to Mayhem Anymore with your host, Doctor Kendall Crown.

So today's episode is first day.

So everybody asked first days, right, we all have a first day of work, first day of school, et cetera, et cetera.

So today I'm going to talk about one of my first days in my career.

So I was on my last rotation medical school.

I was one month away from graduating, and the rotation I had chosen to take was in forensic pathology, which was what I wanted to do as a career.

I arrived at the medical Examiner's office, walked through the front doors, and I was met by the entire staff, the medical examiners, the death investigators, the clerks, everybody.

They gave me a little cubicle in the death investigator's office where I could put all my stuff.

So I set up and I got ready for my day.

About midday, a call came in and it was a possible homicide.

The chief of death investigator, Bill says to me, Hey, let's check this one out.

You're coming with me.

I was super excited.

I get to go to a homicide scene on my very first day of my medical school rotation.

This is super cool.

So we head out and we go to this apartment complex for the death that occurred.

So this rotation was in my hometown.

I had grown up there and lived there for close to twenty eight years.

So this was their apartment complex.

I had driven past hundreds of times over the years, just kind of nondescriptve was on this way to an old arcade I used to go to play video games and playpool at when I was in high school and college.

So we get there and the homicide detective's already been there and they were waiting for us.

They were waiting in the dead guy's kitchen, and so when we walk in, they're sitting in the kitchen and they've made sandwiches from the dead guy's refrigerator and they're sitting there eating him.

And they said to Bill, They go, hey, Bill, is it an homicide.

This is some stupid pervert.

Go check him out.

And so we head on down the hallway to the dead guy's room and when we get in there, there's pouring all over the bed.

Now, this is the day, is before the internet, so it's paper porn.

Nothing on the computer, no cell phones back then, just paper porn.

Dead guy's in his closet and he's hanged.

So at this point I had read about hangings before this day.

Hangings are usually, you know, guy hag from a ceiling.

He can be suspended, he can be sitting down, it can be a number of things, but he's just kind of hanged.

But this one was different, So how is it different?

So he's hanged with a white nylon rope.

It's about his neck, tied with a hangman's noose with thirteen coils.

But then he's also completely naked.

He has clothes pins on his nipples and a whiffleball bat jammed up his butt.

He's leaning against this large blue plastic barrel.

Also, the rope itself had an intricate mechanism associated with it.

The rope went up to the ceiling through an islet, then over a beam that then went to another islet that was attached to the wall that then attached to the side of the barrel that he was sitting against.

The piece attached to the barrel had kind of an intricate failsafe mechanism or a tripwire mechanism that was attached to the side of the barrel.

So essentially it was an escape mechanism.

One thing to note also is the beam itself had multiple grooves on it from the rope, so he had done this a number of times before and been successful.

His fail safe mechanism was if he passed out, he'd fall off the barrel.

It would trip the fail safe and cause the roupe to become loose and completely fall off, causing the tension to be released from the dead guy's neck and his blood flow and his oxygen would be restored and he wouldn't die.

But on this day, instead of falling off the barrel, he kind of leaned back onto the barrel, so the fail safe never fired and he died.

He didn't expect to end up dead.

So I'm looking at this, I'm just overwhelmed.

There's porn, there's a naked guy, there's a whiffleball back, there's all this stuff going on.

It's just sensory overwhelming to me.

Never seen anything like this before, totally.

He didn't understand it's a hanging, but what's going on?

So I said to Bill, Uh, what's going on?

Bill?

And Bill nonchalantly says to me, Oh, this is just auerotic asphixia.

At that point, I had never heard of erotica sixia before, and I just was like, auterotic.

What he goes auterotic asphixia.

What they're doing is there, I'm masturbating, and they hang themselves because they think the decreased oxygen to their brain will increase the pleasure, and so sometimes when they're doing it, they accidentally end up dying.

So I'm standing there just kind of overwhelmed taking this all in.

I didn't even know what questions to ask at this point because this is just totally confusing.

So the homicide detectives come down the hallway and they go, hey, Bill, who's the new guy.

Who's the rookie?

And Bill says, oh, this is Kendall Crowns.

He's our medical student who's rotating him with us this month.

And the detectives say, okay, have the new guy cut him down.

Have the rookie cut him down.

And Bill goes, hey, that's a great idea.

He pulls a pocket knife out of his pocket and he hands it to me and he goes cut him down Kendall.

And I'm like, yeah, all right, I'll do that.

This is cool.

I'm doing forensics, you know.

So I crawl up on this barrel.

I'm standing on it.

Barrel's about four foot off the ground.

I grab hold of that rope with one hand and I start cutting with my other.

I am not the strongest person in the world, and there is no way, even on a good day, I could hold one hundred and eighty pound naked guy with one hand.

But I'll continue.

So I'm cutting, I'm cutting, I'm cutting, and I'm getting through this rope.

I'm getting close to the end, and in my peripheral vision, I noticed the homicide's detectives are stepping backwards and they're kind of laughing, and Bill's stepping backwards.

He's kind of laughing.

I mean, they all know what's going to happen.

Of course, you know what's going to happen at this point.

I didn't.

For whatever reason that day, I was so laser focused on this rope and I couldn't even think of what was going to happen once I got to the end.

So I keep cutting, and I get to the end.

I cut through that rope and all of a sudden, bam, I'm holding one hundred and eighty pound naked guy with one hand on a wabbly barrel and one hundred and eighty pound naked guy falls to the ground like a sack of potatoes, and I come falling right on top of him.

My land on him with my elbow, right into his abdomen.

So if I'm hitting him with's my elbow and his abdomen, you know where the rest of me is in relation to the rest of him.

So ew.

But anyway, my elbow digs into his abdomen and creates pressure, and that pressure that's created forces that whiffleball bat out of his button across the room.

I roll off of him and I jumped to my feet and I'm like, oh, I'm okay, I'm okay.

No one cared if I was okay at that point because they were all too busy laughing.

They were bent over laughing so hard.

So once everybody calmed down, we got out a body bag and we rolled him into the body bag and Bill said to me, yeah, you're picking that bat up.

Buddy handed me a pair of gloves, thankfully, and I walked over and I picked up that bat and I threw it in the body bag.

We zipped him up.

Homicide detectives left probably tell everybody about what happened about the stupid medical student, and we waited for body transport.

Body transport showed up, they picked up the body, Bill told him the story.

They all got a good laugh, head back to the medical examiner's office, and the dead guy was later autopsyed.

He was found his cause of death was hanging man or death was accent and we'll go into why that is on another episode.

But anyway, and then that day came to an end.

So at the end of the goal, I learned a very important lesson.

I can't hold one hundred and eighty pound naked guy while balancing on a barrel.

Never have done it again in the rest of my career.

Very important lesson.

I always look back on it, and I always think, thank goodness of internet and self phones weren't around back then, because if they had been, I would have been a viral sensation that probably would still be going on for the next one hundred years.

So that brings us to the end of the episode.

I hope you learned something.

I hope you were entertained until the next time.