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Mortician surprised by New Orleans dead
Lincoln Journal Star ^ | 9-26 | Josh Swartzlander

Posted on 09/26/2005 11:45:14 AM PDT by stan_sipple

Mark Roper spent two weeks in St. Gabriel, La., this month, moving the bodies of Hurricane Katrina’s New Orleans victims into refrigerated trailers. After watching the steady stream of corpses, Roper’s biggest surprise about the dead: almost all were elderly or homeless. Most of the dead had drowned, Roper said. Others had died of dehydration, probably caused by abandonment, he said.

He was surprised by the number of homicides — people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs.

Autopsies were performed on those victims, Roper said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: crime; katrina; neworleans; urbanbarbarians
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To: whershey
Also I'm not sure how he know they drowned or how he knows for certain that some were homicides.

Well drowning victims have water in their lungs and homicide victims probably don't since dead people don't breathe even if they were found face down in water.

Gunshot wounds or stabbing wounds might also be a pretty good indication of homicide.

Bodies with no wounds and no water in their lungs will be classified some other way, probably dehydration.

And since this guy's specific job was storing and cataloging them onto refrigerator trucks after examination, it's a pretty good bet they had toe tags with the pertinent information for him record.

81 posted on 09/26/2005 2:21:57 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: Valpal1

The point is from my understanding of the article he was just helping load bodies. How would he know they had water in the lungs?


82 posted on 09/26/2005 2:39:18 PM PDT by whershey
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To: whershey
See my previous post:

And since this guy's specific job was storing and cataloging them onto refrigerator trucks after examination, it's a pretty good bet they had toe tags with the pertinent information for him record.

83 posted on 09/26/2005 2:44:48 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: BenLurkin

That is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time! Thanks for the laugh!


84 posted on 09/26/2005 2:47:59 PM PDT by Ima Lurker
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To: WatchOutForSnakes; PumaMan; Sissay

I know you guys can use a laugh....take a look at post #41.


85 posted on 09/26/2005 2:50:00 PM PDT by Ima Lurker
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To: Ima Lurker

Now that is funny. I have to get back to my photo shopping pictures. That was fun stuff. At least I THINK this one was photo shopped.


86 posted on 09/26/2005 2:54:44 PM PDT by WatchOutForSnakes
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To: stan_sipple
I have a verry reliable source who says the levee was deliberately taken out to spare the French Quarter. < /Farrakan>
87 posted on 09/26/2005 3:20:31 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Rakkasan1
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88 posted on 09/26/2005 5:38:34 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.)
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To: rdb3
Roper is a mortician, and deliberately vague.

Mark Roper

89 posted on 09/26/2005 5:53:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
Okay, but I still want to know if there were any homicides at the Superdome. I've heard 4 deaths by natural causes, one by suicide, and one by an overdose.

Homicides...?


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90 posted on 09/26/2005 6:01:37 PM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: rdb3

Last I heard, Superdome: 4 natural deaths, 1 suicide, 1 self inflicted drug overdose, 4 bodies found outside near area of Superdome all yet to be determined causes. So far, NO murders in the Superdome, NONE.


91 posted on 09/26/2005 6:10:28 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
So far, NO murders in the Superdome, NONE.

That's what I gathered. Looks like the MSM made fools out of nearly everyone, didn't they?


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92 posted on 09/26/2005 6:18:32 PM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: rdb3

It looks like the MSM (which I think of as the MSM+Hollywood) have made fools of at least themselves, again.


93 posted on 09/26/2005 6:21:54 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
I think it's wise to hold on for a moment when you first hear something from the MSM, unless it's blatantly obvious.


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94 posted on 09/26/2005 6:29:42 PM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: brytlea
He's making a guess, of course. However, many homeless are pretty identifiable. They usually carry all their belongings with them, either in a back pack or in their pockets, most have poor hygiene. They're frequently wearing two or three shirts, as it's easier to wear them than carry them. Many of the homeless are those that were turned out from mental institutions, and therefore can't take care of themselves.

We had some minor flooding in Austin, TX, back in the early 80's, and an entire homeless camp disappeared. We found bodies for quite a while after that (probably 18 or 19 in the camp, so the numbers were small). Even a couple of years later, people would find a partial skull or something downstream. There's no proof they were all homeless, but that's the best guess. We did find some murder victims, also. Lots of secrets are hidden in the rivers that run through large cities.

95 posted on 09/26/2005 6:37:41 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: FearlessFreep
"I didn't see any stats or numbers on the dead he had seen."

My thoughts exactly;
don't care what he did or did not do after the hurricane,
this piece is pure commentaty without even a "three out of ten" or "most of" or even "lots" to give it any foundation.

96 posted on 09/26/2005 6:41:15 PM PDT by norton
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To: rdb3
I gave up on MSM about a year ago, watch no TV news (I don't get Fox), read no major newspapers (and am amazed by the volume of NYT and AP bylines in the local freebies.

I get my news from talk radio, and the net.

Google "newspaper layoffs", it warms my heart.

97 posted on 09/26/2005 6:42:22 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: RightWhale

shhh! we aren't supposed to reveal that fact until the 2006 election cycle spins up.


98 posted on 09/26/2005 8:03:32 PM PDT by King Prout (19sep05 - I want at least 2 Saiga-12 shotguns. If you have leads, let me know)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

LOL.


99 posted on 09/26/2005 9:57:05 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: MizSterious

"That's the big question. Corpses who have been in the elements a long time are not going to look well-groomed and well-dressed. This guy is a 'Rat shill, nothing more."

The main stream media are uncritical of their sources and become useful idiots for shills like this.


100 posted on 09/26/2005 10:05:03 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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