#RandomThoughts #RealLifeStruggles #TVvsReality
Have you ever found yourself watching a crime thriller and thinking, “Getting rid of a dead body is not as easy as it seems like it is in the movies or on TV”? 💭💀 Well, you’re not alone! In reality, disposing of a deceased body is a harrowing and complex task that involves far more than what Hollywood portrays. Let’s delve into the real challenges faced when dealing with such a grim situation and why it’s a far cry from the silver screen.
The Shock Factor: Dealing with the Unthinkable
When faced with the grim reality of a dead body, the shock and emotional upheaval can be overwhelming. Unlike in movies where characters swiftly clean up the scene and move on with their lives, in real life, the psychological trauma and distress can linger for a long time. The emotional toll of such a situation is often overlooked in cinematic portrayals.
The Practical Challenges: Logistics and Legalities
In movies, characters seem to dispose of bodies effortlessly, whether by burying them in the woods or dumping them in a remote location. However, in reality, the logistics of moving a deceased body discreetly and without detection are immensely challenging. From avoiding detection by law enforcement to navigating legal ramifications, such as forensic evidence and investigations, the process is far from simple.
The Moral Dilemma: Facing the Consequences
In movies, characters often get away with heinous crimes without facing any real consequences. However, in real life, the moral dilemma of disposing of a dead body can weigh heavily on an individual. The guilt and ethical considerations can haunt a person indefinitely, making it impossible to simply brush off the act as portrayed on screen.
Real-Life Example:
Imagine finding yourself in a situation where you come across a deceased body and are unsure of what to do next. The fear, uncertainty, and moral quandary you’d face in that moment are far from the glamorized versions seen in movies or on TV. The gravity of the situation and the repercussions of your actions would be all too real and overwhelming.
In conclusion, getting rid of a dead body is a grim and daunting task that bears little resemblance to its Hollywood portrayal. The shock factor, practical challenges, and moral dilemmas faced in such a situation make it a harrowing experience that cannot be simplified or glamorized. The next time you watch a crime thriller and see a character effortlessly disposing of a body, remember that reality is far more complex and emotionally taxing. 💔💀 #StayReal #LifeIsNotAMovie
Uhhhhhh….*dials 911*….please elaborate
Go on …FBI is listening.
Like Nicky said, “you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with the package in your trunk”
Says you, I live next to an alligator farm.
Shower thought or personal experience?
Pig Farm. Bricktop vouches for it.
Coach: You ate her?
Wayne: Yeah, we ate her.
J.D.: Alive.
Coach: My hat goes off to you. You boys are smart; that’s the perfect crime.
What was the hardest part?
Umm should I phone the FBI now?.….
Is this a shower thought after a murder? Are you washing the blood off while you type?
Yeah, strangely I like to entertain this thought sometimes, like how would you get rid of a body if you had time but limited resources and there was a high chance someone will come along looking for evidence. It’s like a challenge, I guess.
Well.
Getting rid of something, and getting rid of something so that it’s never found by anyone ever again, and getting rid of something in a fashion that makes it impossible to tie you to the thing or event are all different things.😋
Nonetheless, if movies and TV make dead body riddance seem like anything, I’d say it makes it appear more difficult than easy, as most bodies shown on screen, you know, have actually been found. 🤷♂️
But we all know that disposing of a corpse itself is not the main issue for the perpetrator, it’s avoiding consequences, legal or otherwise.
So I’m inclined to agree with the gist of your statement by sheer guesstimation😊👍
Next time you think of murdering someone, plant a tree. If your soil is anything like mine, you’ll quickly realize that there is no way in hell you want to do this down 6 feet. And you will have planted a tree and helped the planet (I don’t want to think critically about that in context, no)
Are you speaking from experience?
“As soon as you have a body, that’s when the homework starts.” -Henry Zebrowski
It doesn’t seem that easy in movies or tv either. They always get caught because they’re awful at hiding bodies.
All you need is a half dozen hungry hogs , or a boat and some bricks, the ocean is massive
Any show that shows a body getting buried is obviously written by someone who has never had to dig a hole especially if near a tree. Roots and rocks are insanely difficult to get through with a shovel unless you have DAYS to do it. This is why they always talk about bodies found in shallow graves IRL.
There are more abandoned mineshafts in the woods in my area than you can count….
Fun fact .. a body sinking deep in the ocean/sea is like they never existed
Yeah; tell me about it.
This is why i don’t go around killing people. I’m just too lazy
Particularly since this is ‘showerthoughts’, immediately I’m thinking of the scene in ‘La Femme Nikita’ near the end of the movie where a ‘fixer’ kind of dude is instructing her to melt a body in a bathtub with a bottle of acid or something. It might be the single dumbest attempt at hiding a body I’ve ever seen in a film, at least with the technique they were using, I seem to recall it was so sloppy they’d be melting their hands off in real life.
My buddies talked about this over a camp fire one night, we went through all the possibilities and what was best. Our conclusion was dumping the body in shark infested waters was probably the best. Burying or doing anything to the body would be a bad idea.
Yeah, it’s a pain moving a few bags of concrete let alone a body. And that’s just moving it, not hiding or disposing it.
It looked pretty hard in breaking bad
Depends on the year in which the film or show is set.
The hardest part of getting rid of a dead body is the prep work. That is to say, most folks don’t bother with it, and now they got a big problem.
Location is one of the biggest factors. Wheres the body? At your home? In someone else’s home? A public place? Middle of the forest? Unless premeditated, most folks don’t find dead bodies to the place they need to be stashed.
Then there’s the clean up. This already depends on how the body died in the first place. Choking on some food is easy enough to clean, barely anything at all. But some bloody stabbing, shooting, or other mess that leaves stains around? Now you have to clean up the place and the corpse.
Transportation is an issue too. Unless the corpse belongs to a child, most adult bodies are pretty heavy, more so when they aren’t doing anything to support themselves. Cuz they’re deadweight and all. You have to get them to point A to B, possibly C, without getting spotted. And only when you’re trying to hide a body do you realize most bags and containers _do not_ fit an adult body. Suit cases, trash bags, rugs, those things just don’t hide a human body very well (not to mention doing a poor job makes a mess, see point two).
And finally there’s the disposal. A lot of folks joke about feeding corpses to pigs and while animals but most folks don’t live near farms, let alone own one to have their livestock dispose of things. Some even think they can bury a hole for the corpse but anyone who’s ever had to make a garden would know even just tilling a 10×10 area for surface level planting is an all afternoon affair, let alone a hole deeper enough to hide a body that won’t get dug up or washed away by the rain. And for folks thinking they can just dismember the body, remember point two and three: you still have to clean up and you still have to move the body parts. At best you do the dismembering at the disposal site, but that relies on you being prepared to do this at all, going back to point 0: Prep Work.
Ultimately the best way to get rid of a body is to not have a body to get rid of. Don’t go killing folks, don’t go getting yourself into a situation where you have a dead body. If all else fails, remember point zero: be prepared first. Do t be caught slacking because you didn’t think you’d have to handle a corpse.
Op thinks while washing off the blood
A lot of dead weight if you ask me.
Also. Digging a hole is 5x harder than you think. Average person would give up after 10 minutes.
Dunno a guy I used to work with had a brilliant idea that is so dumb it’s perfect. Take the body to a graveyard where there is a freshly dug grave dig down another 3 feet toss the body in, cover it and when the body intended to be buried there is buried it covers your body.
Getting rid of it is easy. Not getting caught is the hard part.
Who doesn’t keep an HDPE barrel full of hydrofluoric acid for such an occasion?
What a casual way of asking for very suspicious information
I raise hogs. Even the DNA comes out totally changed!
Funnily enough this was stated in the news just last week regarding the primary school teacher Fiona Beal who murdered and buried her partner. A quote from her diary reads….
“Hiding a body was bad. Moving a body is much more difficult than it looks on TV.”
Pigs leave DNA on their snouts.
Burying it leaves bones to be found.
Other than that, you could drop it in the ocean in international waters, but then you’d need a good alibi to be out there in the first place.
Not that I’d know anything about that…
It’s also harder to kill someone than the movies make it seem. Ed Kemper described it well when he was surprised one stab didn’t immediately kill his victim but they “leak to death very slowly”.
I’d like to argue, but my lawyer has advised me to let this one go…
Depends what you do for a living 🤷
Unless you’re watching Forensic Files
You people watch way too many cop shows. IRL we have a lot of missing person cases.
When building our patio, I jokingly asked my wife to dig a trench 2 feet deep in the area near our gate. I came home and she somehow dug a 6 feet deep by 3 feet wide and 7 feet long hole. I was fucking speechless. Mainly because we had to fill 4 feet of it back in, but also because she did this within like 4 hours. I don’t think it was her first time….
That’s where Pulp Fiction is genius. You accidentally blow a dude’s head off in the car? The consequences are now the next 40 minutes of the film.
After you bury the body, common mistake shoes on backwards , walk in reverse, dragging a tree branch track raker-outer.
You should tie *another* tree branch to the track raker outer rake, to rake out the track raker outer tracks.
Prisons are full of single tree branch track raker outers.
Just eat the body; tik-tok taught me how to sear it just right and make bread from the bones.
Or live anywhere with a “middle of no where”
Drive out to no where
Off-road for about a mile
Dig a 12ft hole
Put the body in a barrel in the hole
Pour some phosphoric acid (like 2 jugs prolly)
Fill halfway with dirt
Toss in a roadkill
Finish filling with dirt
Skedaddle