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Man Who Was Being Eaten By Maggots Dies
WNBC Television ^ | 7/28/2005 | Puppage

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.


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To: dhuffman@awod.com

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...


81 posted on 07/28/2005 1:36:17 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: RipSawyer

That is one disgusting story!


82 posted on 07/28/2005 1:37:14 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: rock58seg; texianyankee

omg, I can't believe how much you all know about maggots!!!!!!!

ewwwwwwwwwwww


83 posted on 07/28/2005 1:42:30 PM PDT by SunnyUsa (No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.)
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To: Puppage

How sad. Wonder if there were other family members that should have been checking on these two.


84 posted on 07/28/2005 2:20:00 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: SunnyUsa
When you grow up on a farm, at an early age you become a veterinarian and sometimes doctor, at a very early age.

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.

85 posted on 07/28/2005 3:09:09 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: rock58seg
When you grow up on a farm, at an early age you become a veterinarian and sometimes doctor, at a very early age.

I believe it!

86 posted on 07/28/2005 3:33:06 PM PDT by SunnyUsa (No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.)
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To: LYSandra

What, the fact that I know a man who has Alzheimer's is disgusting?


87 posted on 07/30/2005 4:27:05 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: MD_Willington_1976

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.


88 posted on 08/25/2005 4:48:22 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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