Posted on 07/28/2005 5:13:09 AM PDT by Puppage
YONKERS, N.Y. -- 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.
I was joking..it's hard to tell when you're not conversing face to face..ie mannerisms and body language..they just don't exist on a VBB...
That is one disgusting story!
omg, I can't believe how much you all know about maggots!!!!!!!
ewwwwwwwwwwww
How sad. Wonder if there were other family members that should have been checking on these two.
I personally knew a man that was bitten in the tip of a finger by a rattlesnake while fixing fence. He simply chopped off the tip of the finger, then killed the rattler, and went back to fixing fence with a dirty handkerchief wrapped around the finger.
Lots of little stories like that from my childhood.
I believe it!
What, the fact that I know a man who has Alzheimer's is disgusting?
Apropos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470276/posts
I was taught that 'humor' is inappropriate in public discourse for just such reasons - not every one is smart enough to detect it or they may just be dour individuals.
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