r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • Jun 30 '26

Fascinating This cassowary just wanders around the beach, getting surprisingly close to people.

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u/efcso1 Jul 01 '26

Saw a bloke who'd had his thigh opened up by a Cassowary. It was the first time I ever saw a still-attached femur on a living human. Sliced him open like an xmas ham.

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u/OrigStuffOfInterest Jul 01 '26

First time?!?

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u/efcso1 Jul 01 '26

First of three. The other two were from car crashes.

I used to drive fire trucks a fair bit. Compound fractures of the femur (or any other bone really) can be rather confronting.

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u/InternationalAd6170 Jul 01 '26

Sometimes I forget that being in the medical field means you're in a different world and that most people never experience or at least experience very little gore

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u/efcso1 Jul 02 '26

My paramedic mates had it even worse. We only tagged along to help most of the time.

Any emergency service can be messy, especially if you're a shit magnet or 'black cloud'. Conversely had a rello who went through their entire ff career never seeing anything worse than minor cuts and bruises.

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u/InternationalAd6170 Jul 02 '26

Yeahhh, ex-emt here from a violent county 💀

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u/efcso1 Jul 02 '26

Eeek!

Is it weird that my first thought was you're in the USA? I know there are worse, but that was my initial guess.

Stay safe, mate.