Unclaimed bodies piling up in the Detroit morgue.
Posted on 10/02/2009 10:49:47 AM PDT by conservativeauditor
DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.
Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.
Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money."
Lifelong Detroit residents Darrell and Cheryl Vickers understand this firsthand. On a chilly September morning they had to visit the freezer to identify the body of Darrell's aunt, Nancy Graham -- and say their goodbyes.
The couple, already financially strained, don't have the $695 needed to cremate her. Other family members, mostly in Florida, don't have the means to contribute, either. In fact, when Darrell's grandmother passed recently, his father paid for the cremation on a credit card -- at 21% interest.
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Unclaimed bodies piling up in the Detroit morgue.
Shovel ready stimulus program...call the Kenyan!
Perhaps some nice European nation will colonize Detroit and introduce the people to western civilization.
Shovel ready stimulus program...call the Kenyan!
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Yep, ask the WH for the money out of the anti-stimulus program.
Well, this is what happens when you run things by committees and don’t have individuals to make decisions.
One backhoe (city owned), assorted pine boxes made from plywood and two by fours, and a bit of county land that isn’t being used.
Problem solved from now on.
Paging Soylent Corp. Paging Soylent Corp.
It would seem that it would cost less to fund the cremation and store the remains than to pay for space and freezing the bodies. Just a thought.
I’m sure the city could get it for $500 a piece if they have 67. $6,500 to cremate all the bodies... how much do they pay to keep them frozen?
Get a 2’fer...Just put as many bodies as you can into a clunker trade in and bury the whole damn thing....
ACORN will take care of the problem! So many unregistered dead voters, so little time...
Decades worth of liberalism gets you a place that looks like Tokyo after the US bombings in WWII.
Don’t remove them from the voting roll yet ,, zer0 might need them in 2012 .
...and there’s pastors arming themselves tin that city.
Connection?
ROTFLMAO
I spewed coffee on that one... LOL
Nice Europeans colonized Detroit at one time, but then made the mistake of bringing in lots of ——. (The reader is asked to finish the sentence.)
Live like a Democrat - Die like a Democrat.
Alone, unwanted, and unclaimed. Fitting end for them.
It's October and Halloween is coming up fast. A few broomsticks, some nails and twine, some mood music, and you got the hottest attraction in Detroit! No fake blood and gore here...
Of course, right after Halloween comes election day - and another opportunity!
Detroit bump
Now, that's funny! I don't care who you are...
HA!
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