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Sunday, July 30, 2006
9:44:00 AM EDT
Hearing Here's Where the Story Ends -- The Sundays
I love this article for the opening paragraph alone:
The 6.5-horsepower wood chipper sitting in the middle of John Williams' forensic anthropology lab run is no macabre joke. Yes, a wood chipper did figure in the bloody climax of the 1996 film "Fargo." And yes, the professor at Western Carolina University has run human bones through this particular Briggs & Stratton model.
Morbilicious!
Turns out Professor Williams is not a crazed serial killer, but instead will be on staff on a new "body farm," a research facility where the decomposition of human remains will be studied, which among other things can help law enforcement officials solve crimes. It follows on the heels of the original body farm, located at the University of Tennessee (here's an old article on that).
Stuff like this fascinates me, although not so much that I'd want the job. Because, news flash for all you goths and gothettes out there: Rotting human bodies smell really, really bad. And then there's all the bugs and mud. Thank you, no. I'll just read about it.
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9:44:00 AM EDT
Hearing Here's Where the Story Ends -- The Sundays
Building a Body Farm
I love this article for the opening paragraph alone:
The 6.5-horsepower wood chipper sitting in the middle of John Williams' forensic anthropology lab run is no macabre joke. Yes, a wood chipper did figure in the bloody climax of the 1996 film "Fargo." And yes, the professor at Western Carolina University has run human bones through this particular Briggs & Stratton model.
Morbilicious!
Turns out Professor Williams is not a crazed serial killer, but instead will be on staff on a new "body farm," a research facility where the decomposition of human remains will be studied, which among other things can help law enforcement officials solve crimes. It follows on the heels of the original body farm, located at the University of Tennessee (here's an old article on that).
Stuff like this fascinates me, although not so much that I'd want the job. Because, news flash for all you goths and gothettes out there: Rotting human bodies smell really, really bad. And then there's all the bugs and mud. Thank you, no. I'll just read about it.
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Yeah definitely just read about it and watch it on tv. Couldn't pay me enough to have to smell the real thing.
Amy
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Morbilicious!! Great new word for my vocabulary!! AJ
7/31/06 3:27 PM