#1
using the rails as a pillow....alcohol may be involved. Jeebus
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/15/2006 15:11 Comments ||
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#2
Suicide by Norfolk Southern. Too bad the conductor has this on his conscience now, because the deceased was obviously begging to check out.
Posted by: Jonathan ||
08/15/2006 15:42 Comments ||
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#3
Trains. Why do they hate drunks?
I was in a commuter train in Chicago a few years ago which was struck in the side by a car that had turned left against a red light. 2 pm Sunday afternoon. The train had just left the station, so was only making maybe 15 mph, but she (I think it was a she!)had to run the red light and crash through the gate with the flashing red lights.
Could been a seizure, I guess.
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/15/2006 15:43 Comments ||
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#4
We've had our share of this crap here, too. What the hell is it with people - do they think the train can swerve to miss them? :-(
This sort of thing never happened in the railroad town I grew up in. Wonder why? (NOT)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/15/2006 15:51 Comments ||
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Bobby-
Over the years I've been on several commuter trains in Chicago that have hit people, either suicides or idiots trying to cross in front. 5 to 10 a year are killed around here.
An elderly Hong Kong man is being treated in hospital after doctors found he was being eaten alive by maggots, health chiefs said. They said the 67-year-old could have been gnawed to death by the parasites had he not been rushed into care.
The grisly affliction is known as human myiasis, a rare disease that results from flies infesting wounds or sores. Usually a problem for older people who have trouble looking after themselves, the flies lay their eggs in fresh or weeping wounds and sometimes even in the mouth, nose and ears. The hatched larvae then feed from the rotting flesh, quickly spreading through the body.
In the latest case in Hong Kong, the maggots infested a number of cuts on the man's face.
Health officials urged carers and staff at homes for the elderly to be alert to signs of the disease, which has so far this year been detected in seven other people.
But, as I learned from CSI, they feast on the "rotting" flesh, so they aren't exactly eating the man alive.....
Ah, the power of the headline!
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/15/2006 6:30 Comments ||
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#2
During WWII it was not uncommon for doctors to put maggots on a wound and then cover with a cast. A few days later when the cast was removed all the dead flesh was gone. Maggots will not eat a person alive.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/15/2006 8:34 Comments ||
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#3
Maggots eat the gangrene. Not the live flesh. The maggots probably saved his life.
#4
There are all kinds of bugs out there, not all of them benign. From the article below, these parasites start with the rotting flesh but "quickly spread through the body." Hence they are not just feeding on the gangrenous tissue.
#6
IIRC, there are various species of african flies' larvaes (maggot) which happilly eat a people from inside out, and I know of one horse-disease which consists of flies eggs hatching inside the horse's stomach, with subsequent maggots eating off the organ (this is not even fatal, only debilitating).
And we've all seen that picture serie of surgeons removing a live maggot from a patient's eye.
I can't decide which is worse - this, or the woman we took to the hospital with a cockroach inside her ear canal. (As well as in her clothes and all over her house. Bleechh.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/15/2006 12:24 Comments ||
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#9 TW - yep. AND never set our bags down inside the house [didn't need them - we were basically a taxi :-( ].
AND stamped our feet real hard as soon as we set foot outside the house (in case some had gotten on our shoes or pants).
We've been to calls in a lot of roachy places, but this one took the cake (or would have, if the roaches hadn't already carried it off).
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/15/2006 18:42 Comments ||
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Barbara,
Barbra, as you well know Az has plenty of those Giant Brown Cockroaches LOL!
fyi: they like to hide under your bed during the day and then come out at night. They love to sneak up on you in the wee hours of the am...and when they are sure you are in deeeep sleep a half dozen or so will creep up on your face and then all drink from your MOUTH!
FEMA will replace locks on as many as 118,000 trailers used by Gulf Coast hurricane victims after discovering that the same key could open multiple mobile homes, the agency said Monday. Some keys could open as many as 50 different locks causing a security risk in heavily populated trailer parks in Louisiana and Mississippi. "We're aggressively stepping out to minimize the risk," said Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Pat Philbin. He said FEMA worked though the weekend after discovering the problem last Friday at a Baton Rouge, La., trailer park that has hurricane victims. It is unknown how many trailers will need to have their locks replaced, Philbin said.
In all, FEMA has issued about 150,000 travel trailers and mobile homes to evacuees since hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into the Gulf Coast last year. But about 32,000 have been taken out of service, Philbin said. The snafu stems from a limited number of lock makers three that trailer manufacturers use when building mobile homes, FEMA officials said. That increases the likelihood of locks being the same, they said. FEMA bought 13 different kinds of travel trailers for hurricane evacuees, the officials said.
#2
Hmmm...if you lost everything in Katrina, what would be there to steal that wouldn't be in any other trailer?
You know back in the bad old days of real captial punishment, when police applied some injustice to people, and prison wasn't for 'reform', I recall my family didn't lock the door or windows on the house. Since we've been spending decades to reach perfection in the legal system, I've notice that it is more and more of the good people who are basically locked up every night and are unable to even travel through parts of their own city or locale. Progress.
#3
It really doesn't matter whether the key opens hundreds of FEMA trailers since FEMA seems to have a hard time even giving the keys out. Trailers sit unoccupied for months waiting on bureaucracy after taking months to be installed in the first place. It takes equally long to get them removed, and sometimes the home repairs are completed before the keys for the interim trailer houses are ever given out.
Not to mention - you hardly need a key if you want to break into these places - a friend lived in one and somebody lit it on fire; he got out straight through the wall, bare-ass nekkid.
#4
lol, Glenmore. What a story. On a serious note, I'd imagine that these trailers in Mississippi would be safe and sound (a lot of "self-protecting" homeowners in that area). It would be N.O./Louisiana "FEMA-ville's" that I'd be worried about.
Interesting note: EPA (I work for) cleaned up over 40,000 pounds of ammo in the aftermath of Katrina (most probably waterlogged/unusable). When our Admin. (from D.C.) came down to ATL to visit, he asked, "40,000 pounds is twice as much ammo as was used in the Battle of Gettysburg. Just exactly what are you all doing down in Mississippi?" I thought all of us "good ole' boys" would fall out of our chairs, lol.
And, GU4544, these people have a lot of stuff now. FEMA has provided $2,000/person, remember. Also, there were literally TONS of donations (food, water, clothing, tools, etc.) sent down there in Mississippi alone. These people are well covered. Granted, they don't have as much as they did, but they're doing o.k. now. There will be trailers down there for years (I've heard there are still several trailer parks, courtesy of FEMA) in Florida from the 2004 season. Katrina was a lot worse, and according to my buddies here, only 1 home near the water in Mississippi has even been started to be rebuilt (as of his trip 3 weeks ago). TONS of redtape/paperwork between FEMA, Insurance companies and homeowners as to who'll foot the bill.
Posted by: BA ||
08/15/2006 11:08 Comments ||
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#5
"TONS of redtape/paperwork between FEMA, Insurance companies and homeowners as to who'll foot the bill."
You forgot the SBA - Disaster Assistance Office. Now there is some paperwork. Background: SBA-DAO is the Small Business Administration, they administer the U.S. Gubmint's Disaster Relief Loan program.
It's about as screwed up as a Federal Agency can be.
#6
So what was preventing the recipients from going to the local Wal-Mart / Home Depot and actually BUYING THEIR OWN LOCK and installing it? Oh wait a minute; these are the same people that waited for the rest of the country to come in and wipe their arse because they were too stupid to MOVE when the storm was coming. All the smart ones left.
#8
The reason given for the lock problem seems weird. Auto makers make millions of vehicles and the vehicles don't have the same lock and key.In fact, I suggest there must be another reason. But I can't figure it out yet.
#9
Most RV's have a 2 lock system on the door. The top lock is the same tumbler as used on the storage access compartments and are pretty universal. The lower lock is keyed different but the key may also unlock the top lock. I have used my key on a friends camper to unlock the top, but could not undo the bottom. I think that it may be possible that there is more to this than being reported. I am going camping this weekend and will investigate this further. Please send donations for beer money so I may compensate my test subjects properly.
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An elderly Hong Kong man is being treated in hospital after doctors found he was being eaten alive by maggots, health chiefs said. They said the 67-year-old could have been gnawed to death by the parasites had he not been rushed into care.
FEMA will replace locks on as many as 118,000 trailers used by Gulf Coast hurricane victims after discovering that the same key could open multiple mobile homes, the agency said Monday. Some keys could open as many as 50 different locks causing a security risk in heavily populated trailer parks in Louisiana and Mississippi. "We're aggressively stepping out to minimize the risk," said Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Pat Philbin. He said FEMA worked though the weekend after discovering the problem last Friday at a Baton Rouge, La., trailer park that has hurricane victims. It is unknown how many trailers will need to have their locks replaced, Philbin said.
