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TIL Charity Hospital used to grind up unclaimed bodies and dump the slurry into the sewers
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:57 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:57 am
quote:
In response to complaints some years ago about blocked plumbing along New Orleans’ Claiborne Avenue, city workers opened up the sewer main and found a human nose. Following the line down the avenue, popping open manholes and looking inside, they discovered ears, fingers, fingernails, shriveled flaps of skin, viscera. Where had it all come from?
To solve this mystery, the Sewerage and Water Board turned to Warren Lawrence, a former plumber who served as the utility’s inspector. Lawrence conducted his job with the perspicacity of a criminal detective. It wasn’t enough for him to repair a drainage problem; he made a point of pursuing each disturbance back to its source and holding the perpetrator responsible. When, for instance, Lawrence encountered a section of corroded pipes, he traced the damage to a battery factory near the Superdome that had been illegally pouring acid down the drain. After finding a black-and-white jumpsuit in a sewer, he learned that inmates of Orleans Parish Prison had been stuffing their uniforms into the toilets in an effort to back up the jail’s plumbing system. To increase their odds of success, every prisoner flushed their toilet at the same time. They called this a “Royal Flush.”
Lawrence followed the trail of body parts to Charity Hospital. The manhole that led into the hospital’s sewer line was clogged with flesh. Lawrence asked hospital administrators why they were dumping bodies into the sewer. They explained that, until recently, they had incinerated all unclaimed corpses. The stench was abhorrent, however, so they had installed a $1 million, 15-horsepower grinder pump. The machine ground the bodies into a slurry, but small parts escaped the blades. Lawrence ordered the hospital to remove the grinder. As he was backed by the force of City Hall, the hospital had no choice but to comply.
New Republic
I scanned through the rest of the article - which goes over climate change, and how corrupt Louisiana can be - but the most important part is quoted above.
Charity Hospital had a corpse grinder. Cannibal Corpse would be pround
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I did a google search but couldn't find anything else on this.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:58 am to boxcarbarney
Big Charity couldn’t afford a barge to go into the Gulf and do a naval burial for all these deadbeats?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 9:59 am to boxcarbarney
Well this should be a movie.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:01 am to boxcarbarney
quote:shite they could’ve made some chicken Mac nuggets with that meat.
corpse grinder
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:01 am to boxcarbarney
quote:
Warren Lawrence
Seemingly the only person in the history of the NOLA S&WB to actually do any work. Well, I guess him and the artist that designed the iconic covers.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:02 am to boxcarbarney
I bet the crabbing at the far end of that pipe is incredible.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:02 am to White Bear
Should have been OPP Nutraloaf instead.
Just don’t call it Soylent Green.
Just don’t call it Soylent Green.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:05 am to boxcarbarney
That explains the smell of the quarter.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:06 am to boxcarbarney
Do you even soylent green bro?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:06 am to boxcarbarney
Now there's a story.
The Orleans Organ Grinder.
Maybe chatGPT can write it for y'all
ETA: dammit...this thing is getting better.
Or maybe it's just easy
By ChatGPT
In New Orleans, where the jazz notes flow,
And the streets are filled with colorful glow,
There lived an organ grinder, with a twist,
For his music came from the underground sewage system's mist.
The sewer workers were used to the smell,
But one day, they found something not easy to tell.
Body parts floating in the murky waters,
Sending shivers up their spines like unbroken cutters.
They called a plumber, who dove in deep,
Looking for answers to this gruesome heap.
His investigation led him to Charity Hospital,
Where the unclaimed dead bodies met their decay sequel.
A 15Hp industrial grinder was doing the deed,
Reducing flesh, bones, and tissue to a watery feed.
But it had an ally in the city's sewage mode,
Where it dumped the slurry, thinking no one would know.
The plumber felt his guts churn and turn,
At the thought of such a gruesome burn.
He knew that incinerating bodies is wrong,
But this was no way to sing the organ grinder's song.
He alerted the authorities, and the grinder was stopped,
And New Orleans' dark secrets were finally dropped.
Though the organ grinder's tune was tainted with gore,
The city still danced to it with soulful galore.
The Orleans Organ Grinder.
Maybe chatGPT can write it for y'all
ETA: dammit...this thing is getting better.
Or maybe it's just easy
By ChatGPT
In New Orleans, where the jazz notes flow,
And the streets are filled with colorful glow,
There lived an organ grinder, with a twist,
For his music came from the underground sewage system's mist.
The sewer workers were used to the smell,
But one day, they found something not easy to tell.
Body parts floating in the murky waters,
Sending shivers up their spines like unbroken cutters.
They called a plumber, who dove in deep,
Looking for answers to this gruesome heap.
His investigation led him to Charity Hospital,
Where the unclaimed dead bodies met their decay sequel.
A 15Hp industrial grinder was doing the deed,
Reducing flesh, bones, and tissue to a watery feed.
But it had an ally in the city's sewage mode,
Where it dumped the slurry, thinking no one would know.
The plumber felt his guts churn and turn,
At the thought of such a gruesome burn.
He knew that incinerating bodies is wrong,
But this was no way to sing the organ grinder's song.
He alerted the authorities, and the grinder was stopped,
And New Orleans' dark secrets were finally dropped.
Though the organ grinder's tune was tainted with gore,
The city still danced to it with soulful galore.
This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 10:23 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:09 am to boxcarbarney
quote:
grind up unclaimed bodies and dump the slurry into the sewers
Seems a little bit disrespectful
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:09 am to boxcarbarney
That is some horrific sh!t.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:11 am to boxcarbarney
My Uncle was the chief engineer at Charity until just before Katrina, I have to ask him about this..
Edit:
Talked to my uncle, he started at Charity in '72, he said they were phasing that out when he started, so that was going on in the sixties, early seventies.
He said it was handled on the medical side, none of the facility staff were part of it. It was basically a huge meat grinder, just not with the numerous holes at the end like the ones for making ground meat.
They also use to find fetuses in the pipes to the sewer system in the hospital from women having babies on the toilet then flushing the kid down the toilet. Crazy
Evidently, Charity got away with a lot of stuff they shouldn't have been doing until the 80's when Joint Commission came into play.
Edit:
Talked to my uncle, he started at Charity in '72, he said they were phasing that out when he started, so that was going on in the sixties, early seventies.
He said it was handled on the medical side, none of the facility staff were part of it. It was basically a huge meat grinder, just not with the numerous holes at the end like the ones for making ground meat.
They also use to find fetuses in the pipes to the sewer system in the hospital from women having babies on the toilet then flushing the kid down the toilet. Crazy
Evidently, Charity got away with a lot of stuff they shouldn't have been doing until the 80's when Joint Commission came into play.
This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 10:56 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:11 am to Hangover Haven
quote:
My Uncle was the chief engineer at Charity until just before Katrina, I have to ask him about this..
Please do, because I can't find anything else on it.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:21 am to boxcarbarney
We grind on Tuesday. Wednesday is spaghetti day in the employee cafeteria.
Bone Appetit.
Bone Appetit.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:21 am to teke184
quote:
Charity couldn’t afford a barge to go into the Gulf and do a naval burial for all these deadbeats?
Why not pack barrels of bodies onto the NOPD truck going to dump guns off the Rigolets bridge?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:25 am to boxcarbarney
quote:
inmates of Orleans Parish Prison had been stuffing their uniforms into the toilets in an effort to back up the jail’s plumbing system. To increase their odds of success, every prisoner flushed their toilet at the same time. They called this a “Royal Flush.”
Pretty clever those inmates are
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