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Man Who Was Being Eaten by Maggots Dies
AP ^ | 7/27/05

Posted on 07/27/2005 4:56:17 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

A 63-year-old man died a day after emergency workers found him at his home in such squalid conditions that maggots were eating his flesh, a fire department official said Wednesday.

Paramedics went to Michael Link's Yonkers home Sunday night after his 66-year-old brother and roommate, Adam Link, said Michael was having trouble breathing, department surgeon Roger Chirurgi said.

Michael Link was lying in his own feces on a pile of debris and "had open wounds with maggots eating on the flesh," Chirurgi said. "When I first got the call, the way they were describing it to me I thought the patient was dead."

Link was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday, the surgeon said. His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation....

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1 posted on 07/27/2005 4:56:19 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: chris1

Neighbor of yours?


2 posted on 07/27/2005 4:57:02 PM PDT by Clemenza (Life Ain't Fair, GET OVER IT!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

I'm no expert, but I thought maggots would only eat necrotic (dead) tissue. They've been used medically for that particular trait.


3 posted on 07/27/2005 4:57:56 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Replacement for GITMO.


4 posted on 07/27/2005 4:58:49 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

New York has maggots?


5 posted on 07/27/2005 4:59:00 PM PDT by jdm (The answer to the extra credit question on a Columbia U exam is always choice C: "Bush's Fault.")
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To: Spok
Like how?
"You have an excellent chance of recovery, so we're going to let these maggots have a go at you!" -
;-P eeeeeeew.
6 posted on 07/27/2005 4:59:54 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ("Se habla, MoFo!")
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
FULL TEXT: (not from newsday...from http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBEQ7K7OBE.html)

New York Man Who Was Being Eaten by Maggots Dies After He Is Taken From Filthy Home
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - A 63-year-old man died a day after emergency workers found him at his home in such squalid conditions that maggots were eating his flesh, a fire official said Wednesday.

Paramedics went to Michael Link's home Sunday night after his 66-year-old brother and roommate, Adam Link, said the victim was having trouble breathing, fire department surgeon Roger Chirurgi said.

Michael Link was lying in his own feces on a pile of debris and "had open wounds with maggots eating on the flesh," Chirurgi said.

Link was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday, the surgeon said. His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

The home, a large Victorian across from a school, was overgrown with trees, shrubs and weeds. Inside, paramedics found no electric power and papers and boxes everywhere, Chirurgi said.

Firefighters wore hazardous-materials suits to investigate the house after the brothers were taken out. Chirurgi said several veteran firefighters were sickened by the scene and stench.

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7 posted on 07/27/2005 5:00:42 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: longshadow; VadeRetro; balrog666; general_re; RadioAstronomer; js1138; whattajoke; Shryke; ...
"Eaten by Maggots" Ping List

8 posted on 07/27/2005 5:03:28 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

I knew that was coming!


9 posted on 07/27/2005 5:06:45 PM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: Spok
I'm no expert, but I thought maggots would only eat necrotic (dead) tissue.

It apparently depends on the type of maggot.

Medical Maggots Treat As They Eat
"Some maggots burrow deep into living flesh, but the ones we use do one thing—recycle organic waste,"

10 posted on 07/27/2005 5:07:26 PM PDT by holymoly (Ah, nuts.)
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To: Spok

They eat live and dead. Medically they are used to eat dead tissue as are leeches in order to clean open wounds


11 posted on 07/27/2005 5:07:32 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (I urge Roberts to support all sections of the Constitution which uphold abortion)
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To: holymoly

Liberals eat live tissue and spread disease


12 posted on 07/27/2005 5:09:01 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (I urge Roberts to support all sections of the Constitution which uphold abortion)
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To: LongElegantLegs

By eating the dead and rotting flesh, they keep gangrene down.


13 posted on 07/27/2005 5:09:23 PM PDT by Heyworth
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To: GSWarrior

14 posted on 07/27/2005 5:10:19 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Medically they are used to eat dead tissue as are leeches in order to clean open wounds.

I thought leeches were used to increase blood flow, in cases of a re-attached digits, limbs, etc.

15 posted on 07/27/2005 5:13:23 PM PDT by holymoly (Ah, nuts.)
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To: jdm

Only since the clintons moved up there


16 posted on 07/27/2005 5:14:41 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: holymoly

I thought leeches were used to increase blood flow


Thank god they came out with viagra!!!


17 posted on 07/27/2005 5:15:56 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Okay, we've got the who, what, when, why and how. How about filling us in on the WHERE?


18 posted on 07/27/2005 5:46:04 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Junior

"How about filling us in on the WHERE?"

dateline: Yonkers. Oy vey!


19 posted on 07/27/2005 6:42:53 PM PDT by jocon307 (Can we close the border NOW?)
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To: al baby



Eeeeeeeeeew... LOL


20 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:45 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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