Weird jobs...share your story

[Zee]

You ever dealt with this?

You're pulling up to a job... and a car basically gets in the way and a guy tells you to call immediately if we find any trace of blood while in the house. Then points to an unmarked car down the street saying that's police and talk to him. But don't talk to the people in the house.

Ummm ok...

So how did this guy know we were coming? How did he know we were going to that house?
Why would they not go in there with a warrant or whatever? Why ask the dumb carpet cleaners to do this?

 

[dealtimeman]

I would tell him to do his job and I will do mine.

We aren't spies, we are carpet cleaners and I will not violate my customers trust by spying on them and telling them anything.

NOW IF WE GO INTO THE HOUSE AND THERE IS A HUGE BLOOD POOL THEY WANT CLEANED, we will just walk.

We don't need that kind of job.

AND ZEE YOUR GOING TO BE KNOWN AS THE MOBS CARPET CLEANER if you keep taking those kinds of jobs.

 

[dgardner]

Why would they not go in there with a warrant or whatever? Why ask the dumb carpet cleaners to do this?

They don't have or couldn't get a warrant and need you to provide them with probable cause so they can go in anyway....

 

[Cleanworks]

Or the guy's just pulling your leg. Kind of like, you go downtown and a crowd of people are staring up at a building. There is nothing up there, just one person looks up and points, then says, "did you see that"? The next person looks, then the next and pretty soon you have a crowd.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Collect first, one shouldn't judge people.

ALL paying customers are good people.

 

[hogjowl]

We all have a problem with authority and doing what we are told.

That's why we clean carpets

 

[Desk Jockey]

We all have a problem with authority and doing what we are told.

That's why we clean carpets

Don't be tellin me whut I is and whut I isn't. I AM MIGHTY!

 

[Cleanworks]

Mighty rebellious that is.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Mighty rebellious that is.

That statement does resemble me.

 

[steve_64]

I cleaned a puddle if blood for this guy who was still bleeding from his foot. I told him he needed to go to the hospital but he said it would be OK.

Two months later his kid called for me to clean the rest of the blood. He told me the dad died a couple days after I was there from that foot

I still feel bad about it.

 

[Papa John]

I was called to a house with a lot of blood on the carpet and walls. The customer said it was an accident.
BeING aware and concerned about blood borne pathogens I declined the work.
You need special training and dedicated equipment that is only used on crime scenes. You need to be concerned about contaminating the next customers house with what ever you may have picked up at the crime scene. You also don't want to be criminally charged with disposing of crime scene evidence or aiding a criminal.
Once I left I informed the police of my concerns. With THAT much blood I would think an ambulance would be called. The police said No ambulance was called to that address in past year.. so the police did a "Safety and welfare" courtesy visit to the home.

 

[Desk Jockey]

It can be disturbing. Murder, suicide, unattended death scenes can be tough on your mind.

Not so much the actual cleanup but your thoughts of it, hours, days weeks later.

 

[Nate The Great]

Where's Jerry Valentin when you need him?!? He loves trama cleanup...

 

[Sierra Clean Care]

Or the guy's just pulling your leg. Kind of like, you go downtown and a crowd of people are staring up at a building. There is nothing up there, just one person looks up and points, then says, "did you see that"? The next person looks, then the next and pretty soon you have a crowd.

Funny you should say that, living in the city you do..... I was living in Victoria, and hopped over to Van for Xmas with an x girlfriend..... We were downtown, I had woken up early to go get us coffee..... There was a guy standing there, looking up @ this building. So, naturally I stopped, looked up, and just as I did, an ice chunk the size of a large watermelon came crashing down onto the sidewalk 30 feet away from us. It was in the path I was planning on taking to get to the coffee shop..... As luck would have it, curiosity did NOT get this cat.....
Jeff @ SCC

 

[Jack Zipper Zerkie]

I had a call where a guy used a razor to cut his throat from side to side and I had to drive him to the hospital. That was in 1967 and I worked for the local PD he lived and I didn't have to clean up the mess except the blood on the seat of the car. Now I get paid to clean up the blood so it's better now. The only funny one now was I cleaned carpets and a sofa for a couple about 25 yrs ago. They said they were happy but the lady called the county to complain. I met with the county guy and the complaint was that whatever I used to clean caused their body to have rash from sitting on the sofa. At that time I showed them the Chemspec cleaner that I used. The county guy read the label and said no problem. Upon getting more info and not easy . We found out that they cover the sofa with sheets to keep it clean and at nite they sit in their birthday suites and she just changed the laundry cleaner and that was causing the rash. Wow the husband told the truth so he is in the dog house and I'm free. They called the next year for more cleaning but I said thank you but I'll pass. jz.

 

[Cleanworks]

One of the oddest and most tragic jobs I went on involved an 83 year old man. He called me to clean a blood stain and I happened to be in the area just as he called. He lets me in to his apartment and I find out that he has just been assaulted and robbed in his underground parking lot. They hit him over the head with some kind of iron bar and he was still bleeding. He was so confused, he called the carpet cleaner because he wasn't sure exactly what had happened. I called an ambulance and the police and they found the 2 little pricks who robbed him.

 

[bob vawter]

I killed an old lady once.....

 

[Barry-QDCC]

One of my techs (back when I had them) was cleaning at a house when some guy who was doing electrical work up in the attic (I have no idea if he was an electrician) zapped himself and he fell thru the ceiling - DEAD!

 

[bob vawter]

One of my techs (back when I had them) was cleaning at a house when some guy who was doing electrical work up in the attic (I have no idea if he was an electrician) zapped himself and he fell thru the ceiling - DEAD!

boy THAT'LL wake ya up in the morning