Examiner Finds Man Breathing In Morgue (JEEPERS...)

ABC News ^ | January 26, 2005

[srm913]

Examiner Finds Man Breathing in Morgue North Carolina Medical Examiner Studying Body in a Morgue Finds the Man Breathing

Jan. 26, 2005 - A medical examiner studying a body in a morgue was startled when the man took a shallow breath.

Emergency medical technicians had declared 29-year-old Larry D. Green dead almost two hours earlier, after he was hit by a car.

Medical examiner J.B. Perdue was called to the accident scene Monday but did not examine Green then. Later, he was documenting Green's injuries when he noticed the man was breathing.

"I had to look twice myself just to make sure it was there, that's how subtle it was," Perdue said.

[srm913]

I don't know if I'll ever watch "CSI" the same way again!

[netmilsmom]

Oh this just creeps me out!
Yikes!

[PowerPro]

Whoa... I'm going to have to file this one under...

YIKES!!!!

[jocon307]

This bod's for you!

[b4its2late]

He's alive, Jim.

[Constitution Day]

This has been the talk of my office today. It happened about 30 minutes from my house.

[rdl6989]

It reminds me of "buried alive" horror stories.

[InTheRight]

So they just left a guy in critical condition lying there for two hours due to a mistake?!

[silent_jonny]

He's alive, Jim.

Heh, it's not often that you get use that one.

[TexasNative2000]

So . . . which was it while he was "out"? Did he see a bright light or was it getting warm?

[NorCalRepub]

yeah now the EMS personel have all been suspended for bringing this guy to the morgue instead of the hospital and pronouncing him dead.....heads are gonna roll here......

[TexasNative2000]

heads are gonna roll here......

The question is will they still be breathing . . . . .

[Dog Gone]

I declared disco dead nearly three decades ago, but I know they're still playing it in Spain.

Whether that's directly relevant to this thread is unclear.

[ErnBatavia]

29-year-old Larry D. Green

Ring..ring..ring: "Larry, former Senator Edwards is on the line..."

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If he pulls through, Larry D. Green is gonna spend the next several decades playing with house money.

[TXnMA]

Paramedics/EMTs sometimes make life/death calls based on observable "injuries inconsistent with life".

I once encountered an auto/truck accident scene where a man's head was facing directly backwards. I didn't stop to check his vitals, and immediately started trying to save his two surviving (but badly injured) children.

[Billthedrill]

Waking up on a slab with a toe-tag on is, after all, one sign your day is improving.

[Nick Danger]

Has anybody checked on Arafat?

[patton]

OMG - I am LOL...yeah, the day is improving...

[Mr. K]

No!!! I hope they buried that POS alive...