Posted on 08/15/2012 6:05:04 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) -- Contractors found about a dozen pieces of human flesh and other body parts Wednesday while they were clearing debris in a sewer pipe 50 feet below a busy suburban Detroit roadway.
Workers stumbled upon the parts about 8:30 a.m. while beginning their daily work in the 9-foot, 6-inch-wide pipe in Sterling Heights.
"It's not like there were arms or legs, it was small pieces," said Sterling Heights Police Lt. Luke Riley. "One of the pieces has what appears to be part of a tattoo."
Investigators don't believe the parts had been in the sewer too long, Riley said.
The Macomb County medical examiner's office was examining the pieces. Authorities also were checking on missing person's reports.
The parts are believed to have washed into the work area from one of two large lines flowing into the sewer from the north and west. The 21-mile-long line continues south from Macomb County into Detroit where it goes through a pumping plant before dumping into the Detroit River.
Each morning workers close doors shutting the flow of water and debris from the two lines so they can do grouting and other repairs in the sewer, said Gene Schabath, Macomb County's deputy public works commissioner.
As the water flowed slowly through the gravity-fed...
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Parts is Parts.
Dinner leftovers, that’s all.
Hey,it’s Detroit.
{Note to self} - Never swim in the Detroit River.
I guess that is one way to get rid of your tats, just flush ‘em.
Nobody who’s recently been to Detroit finds this story to be even slightly surprising.
Bush’s fault.
How does one know when you’re leaving Detroit and entering its sewers?
“I’ve got chunks of guys like you in my stool.”
sounds like someone got fed to a wood chipper
He's really not buried under the end zone at the Meadowlands.
5.56mm
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/06/28/co-worker-tree-trimmer-pulled-into-wood-chipper/
I would think ‘Detroit Sewer Found to be Free of Human Body Parts’ would be bigger news...
Akkkk. They could be from anywhere or anyone.
I live in Macomb County. Any major news stories today?
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