Not disgusting but definitely F'd up.

So it's about 1:30 in the afternoon on a hot summer day and Im at work. A hospital, I am waiting in the main lobby at the elevators. A funeral home employee, obviously his first day, looks about 18 or 19 and is visibly nervous and inexperienced, comes walking through pushing a gurney with a body bag. Past the gift shop, past the E.R. and the waiting area, and out to the pickup/drop off parking. Where he parked the funeral homes hearse.

As he gets to the front, the doors open and a security manager approaches and informs him he needs to go the proper route, through the basement, and stop disturbing the members.

On the outside of the hospital, the cement has pebbles in it, so it's not smooth cement.

I'm watching the two talk as the kid continues to push the gurney. The second the gurney exits the doors the wheels hit the pebbles in the cement and the legs collapse, as they are suppose to, causing the end of the gurney to drop to the ground.

The body slides off of the gurney onto the cement. In view of numerous onlookers. Onlookers such as the awaiting family. Who have been waiting for their deceased family member to be discharged and released, for a few hours.

The kid frantic and losing his mind tries to fix the gurney and get the body in the bag back onto the gurney. But it's a full grown adult in the bag and the kid is thin and not muscular, and nervous and being watched by a good amount of people. So he struggles and drops the body, back onto the jagged cement. Upon picking the body up again, it rips, and a lifeless arm is and falls free through the tear. Making the tear worse, exposing more of the body.

In front of the onlookers and the family.

With help from a few of us. The body was secured and moved to the back of the hearse. While others tried to block the view.

I felt terrible for the family having to watch that. And bad for the kid, who was in over his head. He never came back to my hospital.