Posted on 08/15/2012 6:05:04 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) -- Contractors found about a dozen pieces of human flesh and other body parts Wednesday while they were clearing debris in a sewer pipe 50 feet below a busy suburban Detroit roadway.
Workers stumbled upon the parts about 8:30 a.m. while beginning their daily work in the 9-foot, 6-inch-wide pipe in Sterling Heights.
"It's not like there were arms or legs, it was small pieces," said Sterling Heights Police Lt. Luke Riley. "One of the pieces has what appears to be part of a tattoo."
Investigators don't believe the parts had been in the sewer too long, Riley said.
The Macomb County medical examiner's office was examining the pieces. Authorities also were checking on missing person's reports.
The parts are believed to have washed into the work area from one of two large lines flowing into the sewer from the north and west. The 21-mile-long line continues south from Macomb County into Detroit where it goes through a pumping plant before dumping into the Detroit River.
Each morning workers close doors shutting the flow of water and debris from the two lines so they can do grouting and other repairs in the sewer, said Gene Schabath, Macomb County's deputy public works commissioner.
As the water flowed slowly through the gravity-fed...
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Actually, “north of Detroit” isn’t Detroit. Unless something has changed.
Yeah. Jaywalkers, speeders, loud music, body parts, zoning violations. Nothing serious.
They don’t know who he was, but they registered him as a Democrat.
Same old, same old!
A dozen times
These days, north of Detroit is getting to be about the same as Detroit, unfortunately. Many Detroiters have fled the nest they’ve fouled.
The link does not work it goes back to this thread...
Next thing you know the Dems will build the Tomb of the Unknown Voter.
*chuckle*
Its quite a ways north of detroit, I use to live in Sterling Heights. Wonder what street sewers they found them in...
I just watched that for the first time yesterday.
Soylent Green is good for you...
Just don’t ask where it comes from..
At last, Jimmy Hoffa!
15 Mile near Scheoner, Sconner, however you spell the name of that street.
Movie starts about 2 minutes into clip (if you want to skip the "host" intro]
Entertaining, surprisingly well done low budget flick. I think most of the budget went to renting the woodchipper.
I know that area well, use to live only 5 miles from there and you did good with Schoener, even I don’t know how to spell it correctly, and lived not too far for over 20 years....gg
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