If you found a human skull....?
If you were out exploring in nature and found a human skull, what would you do?
| report it. | 36 | |
| take it home. | 12 | |
| leave it and not report it. | 5 | |
| hide or bury it. | 0 | |
| other (explain) | 2 |
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driedroses
I'd reaaally want to take it home, but there could be family & friends out there with a missing loved one, so I'd report it.
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shuggy-chan
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LornaMae
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PikachuNova
I would observe it at first, probably for much longer than I should be... like, enough that I'd seem like a creep or a killer myself. -shrugs- I'm fascinated with weird things.
Then I'd leave it there and never contact anybody. Not that I wouldn't want to report it per se, I just don't do well with phone-calls and talking. Or explaining. They might just think I did it.Comment Hidden ( show ) -
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Pika-girl
Ooooh! Fascinating! ...I'm gonna take it home and, and, and... I don't know what I'm gonna do with it, but my first thing is freaking out my cousin!
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[Old Memory]
I doubt I would do anything. I'd probably just stand there and look at it a little and see if there are any other remains around.
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[Old Memory]
Not really. I like gore and all, so a skull would just seem like the bone off of a chicken wing. Lol.
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I like gore too and I'd take the skull in a heartbeat! I think I would talk to the skull a lot, give it a personality and stuff. I've always liked bones though. I'm constantly looking for them. Do you watch gore videos? If so, what type is your fave?
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[Old Memory]
Meh. Bones never really appealed to me. I prefer blood, especially if where the blood is isn't damaged (as in if someone is bleeding I would prefer to see it on an intact body rather than a dismantled one).
I have watched some, can't right now due to using someone elses computer. The gore videos I tend to watch tend to be of beheadings and slashes with sharp objects.
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dom180
There's a good chance it wouldn't even occur to me to do anything with it. If it did occur to me, I'd definitely report it.
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It seems strange that you'd see a skull and and just be like "meh, whatever" and just move along!
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dom180
I'm used to seeing bones in the woods near my house, so the presence of a bone might not seem out of place. Admittedly not human, but mammals like badgers and foxes definitely. I'm not used to seeing human bones in real life, but I am on TV and in video games and on the news and in museums. There's a chance I wouldn't consciously register the skull on that level because it wouldn't seem instantly incongruous. If I did register it, I imagine it would give me quite a fright and I would call the police.
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LornaMae
I was thinking about that and came up with an explanation for why the ones who said "meh" did so. They are non Americans and I think it's cultural and that the US reinforces that things should be reported to authorities, whereas other countries don't so much. Just a guess...
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I could understand if you lived in a place where it was common to see dead bodies strewn here and there....but in a civilized country?? Not so much.
I fully admit I would take the skull home and not report it, although I'd feel like I might likely be preventing a crime or disappearance from being solved.
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LornaMae
Maybe I made it sound like they wouldn't eventually think of or do it, that's not what I was trying to say, but rather that maybe it just wouldn't be their first immediate thought. As I see it Americans have practically been "trained" to do it, so there is a promptness in remembering that that is what it supposed to be done (granted some like you wouldn't do it out of choice), just that it seems to come quicker to mind. It was just a reflection...
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