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Murflette [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:03:17 AM  
'Ignore it and don't take pictures citizen'

Why had no effort been made to reclaim this man's remains? This man's known body is just left dangling where he died?

That's just so f*cked up
 
Murflette [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:05:01 AM  
We got at least one farker good with cranes. I find it hard to believe nobody can think of a way

For over a year. He's been rotting up there for over a year
 
2020-01-22 10:13:11 AM  
What is this, Mount Everest?
 
gopher321 [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:13:27 AM  
Hard Luck Cafe
 
BunkyBrewman [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:14:48 AM  

Murflette: I find it hard to believe nobody can think of a way


Of course they can.  There's somebody that made the decision that it's too expensive.
 
croesius [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:18:10 AM  

Murflette: We got at least one farker good with cranes. I find it hard to believe nobody can think of a way

For over a year. He's been rotting up there for over a year


You'd have to start at the top and pull every piece off first, and he's relatively close to the "bottom" of the collapse. It would be like pulling the bottom-most piece out of a Jenga puzzle.

But yeah, there's DAMN sure a way to cover him up more respectfully until that time.
 
gopher321 [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:28:40 AM  
Maybe he's just playing 'Angry Birds' up there and just collectin overtime.
 
2020-01-22 10:34:34 AM  
You have to understand, it's New Orleans.

Dead bodies lying about isn't newsworthy.
 
Opacity [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:35:28 AM  
The last time anyone tried to do anything responsible, like a grown up, regarding that collapse, he got deported.

Good luck finding anyone willing to cover a rotting body with a tarp.
 
lostcat  
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2020-01-22 10:35:38 AM  
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...what the actual Fark?!
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:36:51 AM  

Murflette: Why had no effort been made to reclaim this man's remains? This man's known body is just left dangling where he died?


As I thought but a little GIS work and I see the remains are basically pancaked between two concrete slabs/floors.
 
Meat's dream [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:38:45 AM  
Murflette:

For over a year. He's been rotting up there for over a year

The building collapsed just over 3 months ago, but you say he's been rotting for over a year?  How do you know this?  Something you need to get off your chest?  It's ok, we're all friends here.
 
waxbeans  
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2020-01-22 10:39:12 AM  
I'm confused. So we only
 
2020-01-22 10:39:59 AM  
Oh calm down. It's not like there's gonna be much left to see after the birds and insects have been gnawing on the tasty bits for three months.

/Body farm in the sky
 
Gyrfalcon  
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2020-01-22 10:41:06 AM  
So they knew they would not be able to recover the remains; this I can understand.

All they could do was toss a tarp over the body and call it good; this I cannot understand.
 
waxbeans  
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2020-01-22 10:41:21 AM  

waxbeans: I'm confused. So we only


We only work at clearing rubble for days straight, when it's from an attack and not a possibly negligent collapse?
 
jmr61  
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2020-01-22 10:43:40 AM  

croesius: Murflette: We got at least one farker good with cranes. I find it hard to believe nobody can think of a way

For over a year. He's been rotting up there for over a year

You'd have to start at the top and pull every piece off first, and he's relatively close to the "bottom" of the collapse. It would be like pulling the bottom-most piece out of a Jenga puzzle.

But yeah, there's DAMN sure a way to cover him up more respectfully until that time.


I'm sorry but there's just no way that pulling out a rotting body is going to cause a whole building to collapse.
 
NEDM [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:45:22 AM  

waxbeans: waxbeans: I'm confused. So we only

We only work at clearing rubble for days straight, when it's from an attack and not a possibly negligent collapse?


Murflette: 'Ignore it and don't take pictures citizen'

Why had no effort been made to reclaim this man's remains? This man's known body is just left dangling where he died?

That's just so f*cked up



They only work at clearing rubble when it's not on top of a building several stories tall that might collapse even further into a crowded city district.  The rubble itself isn't the problem; the problem is they have no way to get the man's body out of the rubble without knocking the rest of the building down in the process.  That's why they're having to wait until they properly implode it for retrieval and burial.
 
Austin [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:45:56 AM  
I understand if they can't remove the body due to it being pancaked between slabs, but they can easily saw off the legs so you can't see anything from the street.
 
2020-01-22 10:46:00 AM  
I'm assuming the mayor isn't running for reelection, because this would be one hell of an opposition ad.
 
no_tan_lines  
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2020-01-22 10:46:35 AM  
I feel bad for the family of that guy. Tragic enough the way he was killed. Then to not have the body to cremate or bury; and now have it exposed for public display? Just terrible :(
 
ChrisDe  
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2020-01-22 10:46:47 AM  
Put a sign next to him, Free Beignets. The tourists will have him out of there in an hour.
 
2020-01-22 10:46:57 AM  
Betcha $20 i can tell ya where he got his shoes at.

/Already in hell.
 
NEDM [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 10:47:38 AM  

jmr61: I'm sorry but there's just no way that pulling out a rotting body is going to cause a whole building to collapse.


If you're just pulling, all you'll get are two rotting legs and leave the rest of him in between the slabs.
 
2020-01-22 10:48:35 AM  
The whole structure is prone to collapse. Removing the body means literally pulling out one brick and piece of rubble at a time to get to him. The body isn't sitting on a rock, it's partially between two concrete floors. A collapse would bring down the entire rest of the building into the street and the surrounding buildings. Then there will be than one body in that rubble.

This whole thing was a clusterfark of typical Louisiana proportions.
 
2020-01-22 10:53:42 AM  
Maybe he wanted a sky burial?
 
2020-01-22 10:53:46 AM  
It's not like he was going to have an open casket funeral anyway...
 
2020-01-22 10:53:52 AM  

Fear the Clam: Oh calm down. It's not like there's gonna be much left to see after the birds and insects have been gnawing on the tasty bits for three months.

/Body farm in the sky


Basically, the urban version of the sky burial.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 11:03:06 AM  
Your city is a failed state if it can't handle this kind of situation.

Just let the river move and start a new city somewhere else.
 
skyotter  
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2020-01-22 11:05:58 AM  
I was just there in late December, and a friend pointed out the tarp.  Macabre.

Anyone mention sky burials yet?
 
tekmo  
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2020-01-22 11:07:42 AM  

no_tan_lines: the body...exposed for public display? Just terrible


I feel this way about open-casket funerals, but it's just de rigueur where I live.
 
BizarreMan [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 11:09:46 AM  

no_tan_lines: I feel bad for the family of that guy. Tragic enough the way he was killed. Then to not have the body to cremate or bury; and now have it exposed for public display? Just terrible :(


This right here.  Not being able to bury him, knowing that sometime in the future he will be crushed even further.  Causing more damage to the remains.
 
vsavatar  
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2020-01-22 11:09:58 AM  

Austin: I understand if they can't remove the body due to it being pancaked between slabs, but they can easily saw off the legs so you can't see anything from the street.


That's a GREAT idea!  Can you imagine a mortician going up there with a bone saw and doing a Kashoggi on the poor guy in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers?  You think the press is having a field day now, wait until that happens.
 
Austin [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 11:11:44 AM  

vsavatar: Austin: I understand if they can't remove the body due to it being pancaked between slabs, but they can easily saw off the legs so you can't see anything from the street.

That's a GREAT idea!  Can you imagine a mortician going up there with a bone saw and doing a Kashoggi on the poor guy in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers?  You think the press is having a field day now, wait until that happens.


Put it on pay per view. Give the proceeds to the family. You know there's plenty of us sick farkers that would watch.
 
2020-01-22 11:17:38 AM  
Evacuate the city (or not) and then nuke it.  Problem solved.
 
Korzine  
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2020-01-22 11:20:59 AM  

Murflette: 'Ignore it and don't take pictures citizen'

Why had no effort been made to reclaim this man's remains? This man's known body is just left dangling where he died?

That's just so f*cked up


Partially collapsed buildings are extremely dangerous. After a partial collapsed the building enters a state of unknown stability which is fully possible of collapsing again. If the guy were still alive then steps should be taken to get him out quickly and safely, but the guy is already dead. While it sucks for his family, it makes zero sense to risk other peoples lives to retrieve a corpse. The building should be taken down in the safest possible way and they will get to the body when they get to the body.

I certainly wouldn't want anyone dying to retrieve my body.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-22 11:21:08 AM  

AmbassadorBooze: Evacuate the city (or not) and then nuke it.  Problem solved.


Just let the river move and the city will be gone in no time.
 
2020-01-22 11:22:01 AM  

AmbassadorBooze: Evacuate the city (or not) and then nuke it.  Problem solved.


User name checks out.

/and is heartily approved
 
2020-01-22 11:25:38 AM  
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I do not want to see this guy's corpse.

But, I don't see this guy's corpse in the photo. Is it hidden somewhere? Like a FindTheCorpseInThisPicture kind of thing?
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2020-01-22 11:28:25 AM  

This text is now purple: You have to understand, it's New Orleans.

Dead bodies lying about isn't newsworthy.


Hey! I saw Hard Target too!!
 
2020-01-22 11:48:59 AM  

Resident Muslim: This text is now purple: You have to understand, it's New Orleans.

Dead bodies lying about isn't newsworthy.

Hey! I saw Hard Target too!!


Wilfred Brimley as a Cajun was the pinnacle of high comedy.
 
2020-01-22 11:49:59 AM  
If this were Reddit we'd have a link to a pic of the body by now...
 
elweedz  
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2020-01-22 11:53:38 AM  
Fine- ill say it.  Where are the pics?
 
2020-01-22 11:58:11 AM  
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2020-01-22 12:01:11 PM  

tekmo: no_tan_lines: the body...exposed for public display? Just terrible

I feel this way about open-casket funerals, but it's just de rigueur where I live.


I don't do funerals for that very reason. Its a barbaric custom IMHO. A get together to show support for the family is really what the rite should be about.
 
freetomato [OhFark]  
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2020-01-22 12:09:28 PM  

Austin: I understand if they can't remove the body due to it being pancaked between slabs, but they can easily saw off the legs so you can't see anything from the street.


I'm reminded of the old joke:

This woman goes into a funeral home to make arrangements for her husband's funeral. She tells the director that she wants her husband to be buried in a dark blue suit.  He asks, "Wouldn't it just be easier to bury him in the black suit that he's wearing?  But she insists that it must be a blue suit and gives him a blank check to buy one.

When she comes back for the wake, she sees her husband in the coffin and he is wearing a beautiful blue suit. She tells the director how much she loves the suit and asks how much it cost. He says, "Actually, it didn't cost anything. The funniest thing happened. As soon as you left, another corpse was brought in, this one wearing a blue suit. I noticed that they were about the same size, and asked the other widow if she would mind if her husband were buried in a black suit. She said that was fine with her. So... I switched the heads.
 
gar1013  
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2020-01-22 12:11:12 PM  

FirstDennis: .
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I do not want to see this guy's corpse.

But, I don't see this guy's corpse in the photo. Is it hidden somewhere? Like a FindTheCorpseInThisPicture kind of thing?
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TFA doesn't show it.

You can see the photo on Twitter, but the key to being able to figure out what happened is to know that you can only see the poor victim's legs dangling.
 
kp1230  
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2020-01-22 12:13:21 PM  

ChrisDe: Put a sign next to him, Free Beignets. The tourists will have him out of there in an hour.


You owe me a new iPad.
 
2020-01-22 12:15:54 PM  
 
2020-01-22 12:18:13 PM  

no_tan_lines: tekmo: no_tan_lines: the body...exposed for public display? Just terrible

I feel this way about open-casket funerals, but it's just de rigueur where I live.

I don't do funerals for that very reason. Its a barbaric custom IMHO. A get together to show support for the family is really what the rite should be about.


^This. The important part has left- all that's left is what carried it around. It's one of the weirdest parts of human behavior, from down all the years.

Mulch me into the roses for all I care- I might actually do some good.
 
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