It seems the craziest things usually happen under the cloak of night, as those poor souls who burn the midnight oil know all too well. Be sure to read on to find out just how downright insane things can get as these night shift workers share their most shocking experiences while at work.
Don’t Sleep In The Nude.
“Worked in hotels for several years. A surprising number of sleepwalkers sleep in the nude. They wander out of their rooms without their keys and have to be let back in. Verifying their identities can be a bit of a chore.” (Source)
That’s A Whole Lot Of Nope.
“I collect organs and tissues for transplant from decedents which usually entails going into morgues in the dead of night. Once a donor was tubed and “burped” at me from the release of gasses from their stomach. Nearly. Sh–t. Myself.” (Source)
Nooooooooooo.
“Dispatched to one of the parkades attached to the mall after a woman called our security office via help phone. Dispatcher tells me that the woman is hysterical and unable to explicitly say what is wrong, but on the security cameras there is a car near the help phone with the front passenger door ajar and what appeared to be blood on the windshield; driver is in his seat but not moving. Fearing the worst, our entire team rushes over there. When we arrive, my supervisor tries to get the woman, who has blood all over her, to tell him what happened. I look in the car and I see a young man passed out in the driver’s seat, pants down, and a very much severed penis. The car had strobe lights inside and she was apparently an epileptic. She was giving him head when she had a seizure. Police, fire, and EMS arrive, and during extrication they accidentally tear his penis off. That was an interesting report to write.” (Source)
Um, Ew.
“I work 3rd shift as an x-ray tech in a hospital. I get all of the crazy people: Man with an umbrella stuck up his a–. Woman with an electric toothbrush stuck up her vag. A man from the local jail that puts straightened out paper clips up his urethra (penis) to go on a little field trip to the hospital. Severed limbs during surgical cases. A hand after a quarter stick of dynamite exploded in it. People high on bath salts.” (Source)
Way To Go Sherlock.
“Working in a liquor store at 2 am some guys walks into the store. Heads to the back to grab a 12 case of beer from the cooler. Ten seconds later his car comes barreling through the front door still on and everything. The idiot left his car in drive and the sloped parking lot let it pick up speed and barrel through the front door. Best part when he walked out of the cooler. ‘Ahh f–k, that’s my car.’ Well no s–t sherlock you’re the only person in the parking lot.” (Source)
So Disturbing.
“I answer phones for an answering service. One night I took a call from some account we barely take calls for. It was dead air for a moment and suddenly this guy starts singing. ‘Hey there little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You’re everything a big bad wolf could want.’ And then went quiet. Despite me trying to get a response, he just kept breathing. Eventually I hung up on him. This one is disturbing in a different way. Another night I took a call for a vet’s office from a woman that was in a panic because her cat was sick. She wasn’t sure what was wrong, but I could hear the poor thing gargling as it meowed like it had blood in it’s lungs. The woman said the cat was all she had left, so I tried my best to get all her info down so I could get the vet asap. But the cat died before I could. The poor woman lost it. She began bawling hysterically and screaming/begging the cat to get up, and then begged God not to take the cat because she’d have nobody left. After I realized there was nothing I could do or say because she walked away from the phone, I quietly hung up and just kinda sat there for a minute. That call has stuck with me for a while.” (Source)
Don’t Do Drugs.
“McDonald’s employee. 2:30AM Guy broke a syringe off in his arm after overdosing on heroin in the bathroom. Bled out. Through his arm. Blood. Blood everywhere. Please god no.” (Source)
What Else Are You Suppose To Do With It?
“I worked overnights at a Arby’s in a busy metro area. Week nights were pretty slow, so my manager Ok’s me a 30 min break to go to the store. I exit out the back and find my coworker f–king a 10 pound slab of roast beef. ’cause you know, its awesome f–king roast beef blocks at 1:30 in the morning.” (Source)
“DUDE, YOU CAN’T BE RAPING PEOPLE BACK HERE!!!”
“When I worked graveyard at a 24-hour porno store/strip club, on a night I happened to fortunately not be working, there was an incident in the gay room. Basically a big black guy came in and went into the room. Few minutes later another dude comes basically crawling out crying and screaming, ‘HE’S RAPING PEOPLE BACK THERE.’ A cashier friend of mine get convinced to go check it out, so he grabs the baseball bat we had behind the counter and adventures into what can only be described as a dark, teeming gay cavern of misdeeds. Now we were all afraid to get police involved in this kind of s–t because not only was the place mafia-run, but it is also illegal to have a ‘gay room,’ which was definitely that place’s biggest money-maker (where else can priests and married guys easily get a quick blow jay). Anyway, he gets inside, and this big gentleman is wearing a gimp mask and has all of theses dudes lined up with no pants on, and he’s just taking their a–holes, one by one, leaving dudes bleeding and terrified. My friend walks in there and starts yelling at the dude all like, ‘DUDE, YOU CAN’T BE RAPING PEOPLE BACK HERE!!!’ The guy starts sobbing, apologizing profusely, and runs out of the store.” (Source)
SSDD.
“Gas station in Florida just off of I95 and highway 50. A group of transvestite hookers. Every Tuesday. Got to know Terry well. A gentleman s–t blood all over the bathroom. ALL OVER. A woman beating her grand child. Called the cops and she denied it. Showed the tapes to the cops (against regs, but f–k em) and watched her get carted off. 20+ black woman fight. Weaves were everywhere. Cops doing coke in the lot. Customers doing the same. Cops arresting the customers and doing their coke. Had a murder in town, guy beheaded his ex and killed their kid and then committed suicide and our store was flooded with folks from the area this happened as they were all kicked out of the apartment building.” (Source)
“Women Are The Devil!”
“Hotel Employee. I used to work overnight shift for a few years. I have seen some s–t. Once an older gentleman walks to the front desk at midnight asking for a room. He seemed normal and quite cordial. The gentleman goes to his room and a few hours later comes down to the front desk and asks me if I knew where to score some ecstasy. I tell him no and he storms off out of the hotel mumbling to himself saying he wants to kill me. He comes back to the hotel a few hours later in a much better mood. Me on the other hand am scared s–tless. He comes strolling in wearing a thick sheriff’s officer jacket and a sheriff’s hat. He asks me if I had a girlfriend and I reply yes. He tells me to dump her because woman are evil. He then tells me he went to prison for beating his ex-wife in a rage of finding out she cheated on him. He had a revelation while in prison the best experience was making love to a man and that women were the devil. The guy then warns me to dump women and to consider men. I apologize to him about how I am straight and thank him for the story. Once he left I call 911 and ask if anyone is missing a jacket and a hat. They ask me if the person was staying at the hotel. I confirm with them his description. They inform me to keep away from him that he took a brick to a window of a cruiser and stole a taser, jacket, hat and club. A few minutes later the hotel is surrounded and the officers race to his room. There they find him watching adult movies sodomizing himself with the club. They come out with the guy cuffed, he yells to me on the way out to reconsider his beliefs of women. Surprisingly his credit card went through for the charges.” (Source)
Use Your Imagination.
“Graveyard at a porno theater. Imagine the most disgusting sexual acts a 500-seat room full of men can be doing with and around each other. Now imagine it being worse than that.” (Source)
Welp, Don’t See That Every Day.
“Working the night shift at a hotel front desk is an interesting job. You get your drunks, your methheads, and your all around nutbags. One night, our hotel was hosting a college baseball team. The team came back around 11pm and went up to their rooms and to bed. No big deal. Then, around 1am, the coaches came back absolutely HAMMERED. They went up to their rooms, and that was the last I heard from them for about an hour. While I was setting up for breakfast, I heard the elevator din, one of the coaches bursts out, and he runs straight out the front door. Odd, but okay, whatever. He comes running back inside shouting, ‘He fell! He fell!’ I run outside while pulling out my phone and dialing 911 to see one of the coaches face down on the ground in a HUGE puddle of blood. I have had a bit of rescue training, so I knew to put him in the rescue position so he wouldn’t choke on his own blood. The paramedics got there and as they were loading him up, one of them wiped off his forehead, and there it was. The guy had fallen out of a 3rd story window straight on his forehead and split it open so wide and deep, you could see his brain. He lived. I got a raise the next day.” (Source)
Wasted Effort.
“At a gas station. Had a man who was amazed we sold bugler rolling papers and said it would sell for 500 bucks in jail. He then purchased the papers and a white owl cigar.(they come in plastic tubes). He commented that he was a virgin to that size and then asked to use the restroom so he could stick the papers up his ass. He returned and asked me to call the cops on him since he had an open warrant, and not mention his plan to smuggle papers into jail. When the cops arrived they ran his name and such and found no warrants or reason to take the man to jail. They left and the dude got all sad and walked off into the night.” (Source)
All The Lols.
“I was working Janitorial in a mall in British Columbia. The task I was assigned was to clean all the main entrances to the mall and it was weird to see people walking around the exterior of the mall for a few reasons. Large parking lot, and it’s really late at night. This random drunk dude wanders up to the main doors, waves at me and asks how I’m doing. I wave back and say fine. He then whips out his penis and starts trying to pee on me through the small crack in the door. Luckily, the crack isn’t that big, and I’m quick enough to get out of the way of the stream that makes it through the door. He started laughing and as I stood in shock, staring at him, a police officer flashes his lights and the guy starts to run. He didn’t make it very far. Apparently, security was watching me on camera almost getting pissed on, so he called the cops. Watched the video with him. Many lols were had.” (Source)
Jon Bon Jovi.
“A co-worker told me about a time he was working nights in a gas station in the 80’s. Jon Bon Jovi came in during the height of his fame with a limo and smoking hot chick. They went to the bathroom and Jon Bon Jovi came out a few minutes later, says ‘Hey, man, I’m really sorry but my friend is kind of sick and she made a mess in your bathroom.”‘ She’d puked all over the place. Jon Bon Jovi then said ‘Where’s your cleaning equipment, I’ll clear this up for you.’ And f–king did just that.” (Source)
Not the donuts!
“I work night shift at a 7-11. No one is probably going to believe this but a large homeless man marched into our store with a giant stick, took his shirt off, knocked our donuts to the ground, and then proceeded to run around the store shouting for gawd to protect him until a cross dresser from the local gay club and I cornered him until police arrived. The police refused to arrest him instead forcing him just off our property where he stood there 12 hours straight shouting to the heavens.” (Source)