The Worst Sound You Ever Heard?

My son, when he was a little feller, found my old typewriter in the shed. This was an ancient typewriter. He was poking around on it and got his finger stuck. I heard screams. I ran. I almost ripped his finger off getting it free because I was more upset than he was and needed the high pitched screams to end NOW!

What is the worst sound you ever heard?

Actually, any time he talks he makes my skin crawl, but his mispronunciation is especially grating. Second: Anything by Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, or any other "singer" who does not know how to sing a song, but use songs as vehicles to show off their vocal power. They should be carnival barkers.

was underneath a blanket, and the sound she admitted was horrifying. She was ok though.

The torture scene when the dude was scratching chalk on the blackboard. Cringe!

....a night of eating raw hotdogs and warm beer.

A TV anchor's voice speaking thoose words in December 2000 easily ranks as the worst sound I've ever heard!!!

blowing leaves around at my townhouse complex. One leaf blower is bad enough, but three, all slightly 'out of tune' with each other made an absolutely horrifying sound. I had to put on the headphones.

Nuff Said....

The spring of 1963, if memory serves.

The next-door neighbor's daughter was about four or five and had committed some outrage against humanity. Her father took her down to the cellar, made her strip from the waist down, and whipped her with his belt, screaming abuse at her with every lick.

He had also neglected to close the little window at ground level. Everybody on the block heard the report of the belt hitting the child, the old man's filthy language, and the little girl's pathetic wails.

Good church-goin' people, pillars of the community, they were.

--bkl

Both cars totalled, I had no seat belt... but I was ok. The crashing sound, the metallic CRASH... it sticks with you. Ugly sound, that.

My Honda Civic, with me in it, was annihilated when it was hit from behind by a large Ford sedan that was spinning out of control at about 40 MPH. You never forget that sound.

A six-year-old boy was brought in with a dislocated knee. The orthopedic surgeon popped the knee into place with no anesthetic whatsoever. The sound of that child's screams still haunts me, and it happened over 20 years ago! Thank God the orthopod is dead now!

They kind of have to do that. I mean, I assume you're talking about a dislocated kneecap, right? If they anesthetized you before they put it back in, they wouldn't know if they'd messed up or not, and they'd probably push it out the other side because the muscles and tendons would be too loose to hold it in the right place. Besides which, putting it back in is really quick and easy and doesn't hurt nearly as much as it seems like it does. Well, it hurts a LOT, but only for about a second, and then it feels really, really good, because the big pain goes away. All they do is just put one hand on the side of your kneecap, one hand on your heel, and then straighten your leg while pushing your kneecap back in, and pop! Away it goes and it's all good. (Doesn't hurt *nearly* as much as a gall bladder attack!)

I've done that twice now, and let me assure you, the sound it makes from *inside* (going out, and then going back in again) is worse than the screaming. It's this sort of liquid crunching popping sound, and it's pretty horrible.

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never a good sound

on the phone, 2000 miles away from me.
And all I could do was talk to her.
I couldn't be there and put my arms around her.
I once saw and heard a large DC8, 4 engine jetliner, crash and kill all on board 100 yards from me.
That still wasn't as bad as hearing her cry a continent away.
:-(

...when it slides out of the can in one, unbroken cylinder.

I was in a barracks room at Alameda NAS and the whole building just bounced and shook like a dollhouse being thrashed by a kid. I will never forget that terrible noise.

slamming into a Nissan truck outside my apartment. Horrible, horrible accident.

I was standing in line at an ice cream stand, after a baseball game. The stand was on a busy road and about half a mile up a dog tried to
cross. He did not make it. He got hit twice and it was the saddest most horrifying thing I have heard.

Jay

And yowling at all hours for two weeks straight to "get some."

After that heat was over, I made a trip to the vet and had her spayed. Was not going to go through that again.

in a eyedropper syringe (how he'd gotten ahold of it, I'll never know), and he screamed. I didn't know that they could scream so loud! He wouldn't stop screaming as we were trying to get it off of his tooth. It's horrible to hear something that you love in distress.

ugh.

second place: the crack of my own fibula and tibia snapping in two.

third place: the unfortunate sound of my then-girlfriend having sex with someone else- guess I got home too early...

"Your wife's been in a bad car accident. Get down to the emergency room - fast!"

wife screaming as I rolled the truck into a ditch (forced off road)

I'd rather listen to the agonizing screams of all of my loved ones roasted alive in a nuclear-powered toaster oven as flaming paperclips sear the surface of their eyeballs, their fingernails are forced to scratch blackboards, and rabid neo-conservative hedgehogs eat their genitals than hear that song again.

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(multiple offensive swear words) but I swear that is the absolutely worst, most annoyingm, dispicable God-awful sound ever created.

How people can listen to that shit is waaaaaay beyond me.

There's music I don't like, and don't appreciate, but I can't handle it. Salsa and merengue are in the realm of industrially painful "sound events".

Mother of God, is it awful.

heard and felt it crunch under my foot. He was well-camophlaged (sp?) so I didn't see him. Had he hopped, I would have tried to avoid him.

Also... when my son was 3 he rolled off the sofa backwards, and dislocated his shoulder. I heard it pop out. Disgusting.

stepped on a cat... and once rolled over one's tail in a wheelchair

That is a sound that bypasses your ears and goes straight to your brain. I still get the heebiejeebies just thinking about it. Brrrrrrrrr

I used to be a long haul trucker and I drove team. One night while my co-driver was driving and I was asleep in the bunk he had an accident. We were going about 60 mph down the highway and he hit the back end of a u-haul that was going about 30 mph. He hit the truck with the right front corner of ours and this caused a jack-knife and left us skidding into the median. The initial impact threw me out of the bunk and into the back of the seats. And then it was just this long skidding/screaching sound as we skid across the road and into the grass. I didn't see anything so for all I knew we were heading for a cliff. But that didn't happen and the truck came to a rest in the center of the median. Aside from a few bruises, everybody was okay. But I'll never forget that sound. I was actually very lucky, because if I'd have been up and in the passenger seat, I would have lost my legs from the knees down and possibly my life. The truck was one of those cab-over or hoodless types and the impact of the accident pushed the whole right front corner of the cab into the passenger seat.

I hate that damn song/album with a passion.

then stopping. Silence on an airliner at 35,000 feet is NOT a good sound.

#1. HisssssssssssssssssssssPOP.

I was hiking near the foot of El Capitan in Yosemite when some climber apparently lost his grip and fell. He hit the granite about 40 feet behind me, and I will never forget that pop...nor the sight when I turned around *shudder*

#2. ThumpThump. The sound of my cousin getting run over by a car when we were both seven years old. Damned driver never even stopped.

#3 (through the ceiling above me) Clomp Clomp Clomp Clomp *shriek* thumpthumpthumpthumpthump *pause* THUD *DAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDYYYYYY!!!*. The sound I heard the day my then seven year old daughter and her friends decided to play "mountain climber" on the roof of my house. Luckily, she escaped with only a broken leg and sprained wrist.

that and plane # 2.

The worst sound I ever heard would have to be the sound of my ankle twisting on my third day of college two years ago....and I'd laid out there on the front steps outside my house for fifteen minutes in excruciating pain before anyone came out to help me. That seriously sucked.

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Hearing that word totally unexpectedly and out of the blue was very freaky- I started having weird things happen with my perception of the Dr. and the room, almost like I was having one of those LSD "flashbacks" they warned us about(I'm still waiting for mine...).

my husband who died in his sleep next to me. The sound is what woke me up. I cant really say it was the worse thing I ever heard but it certanly the strangest.

the agonal breathing my mother-in-law was doing for about a week before she finally passed on was horrible to hear. When they say you can't mistake the death rattle, they're not kidding. That's an awful, awful sound.

of my father's last few breaths out of my mind, but I can't. I just know he really wasn't ready; the docs had given him a good prognosis and he took it to heart. Oh, man . . . I can hear it now.

I was upstairs and it was five AM. Our Lower level family room had flooded and we were running fans to dry out the carpet. Somehow, she'd managed to get the cover off the fan and stick her face in it.

I woke up to this scream of pain and I ran to our daughter's room first. I figured out she was safe then came down to find my cat laying in a pool of blood.

Cat came thru it with a broken jaw and some missing teeth. Scared hell outta me...

Laura

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the Twin Towers collapsing.

Saturday morning!!!

Well, not quite. I had cleaned my alarm clock radio after spilling some water on it the night before, and apparently accidentally turned the volume up. WAAAAAAYYYYY UP!

6: 30 came and I was literally petrified. My mom was scared too, but she had the presence of mind to come in my room and get me rational again. By then, we had figured out what it was.

Kid story, too: my son had a horrendous ear infection with a fever of 104. We took him to his pediatrician and she gave us a bucket of ice water and towels, told us to strip him because his fever had to come down fast. His soft, hurt little sobs still ring in my ears, along with the "why are you doing this?' eyes. He was only 4 months old, and it was just awful.

It's the scariest sound in the world. Mainly it was situations with croup, which each of them had as a baby and my youngest son had some serious breathing problems when he was first born (more than fine now thankfully).

if a sound could be described as sickly sweet, that sucker was.