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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: 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.

AP-ES-07-27-05 1928EDT

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: 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: Tumbleweed_Connection

Maggots don't eat people. They eat the bacteria that live on us. That's why they're used to clean out wouonds in poorer parts of the world.


29 posted on 07/28/2005 4:28:45 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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