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re: TIL Charity Hospital used to grind up unclaimed bodies and dump the slurry into the sewers
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:28 am to Deactived
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:28 am to Deactived
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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
Paging SuperSaint - can you confirm this?
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Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:35 am to boxcarbarney
That’s horrific
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:37 am to SidetrackSilvera
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I bet the crabbing at the far end of that pipe is incredible.
And then people would catch and eat the crabs
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:38 am to Havoc
Did the crabs have crabs?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:39 am to boxcarbarney
I would call bullshite but we are talking about New Orleans and the morons who run it
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:45 am to boxcarbarney
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Lawrence remembered all those severed noses, ears, and fingers more than three decades later
At least this makes me feel a little bit better than this being a new discovery.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:48 am to Jebadeb
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Lawrence remembered all those severed noses, ears, and fingers more than three decades later
I don't get this line. A body decays in much less time.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:49 am to Hangover Haven
I think they mean “he remembers seeing them 30 years ago”, not “he remembers seeing 30 year old body parts.”
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:51 am to boxcarbarney
What was the time frame on this?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:54 am to Hangover Haven
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They also use to find fetuses in the pipe to the sewer system in the hospital from women having babies on the toilet then flushing the kid down the toilet. Crazy
How does that even work? Did toilets in the 70s have massive holes in them that kids could fit through?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:54 am to jlovel7
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What was the time frame on this?
60's till the early 70's when they phased it out.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:55 am to jlovel7
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How does that even work? Did toilets in the 70s have massive holes in them that kids could fit through?
I'm sure it was premature babies, not term.
This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 10:57 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:58 am to teke184
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I think they mean “he remembers seeing them 30 years ago”, not “he remembers seeing 30 year old body parts.”
Gotcha...
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:00 am to boxcarbarney
I guess it's cheaper than a potter's field. Government trying to save public dollars. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. 
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:02 am to boxcarbarney
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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.
How in the frick is that even legal???
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:02 am to boxcarbarney
Thank god because there’s not enough burial plots for all the humans dead and dying.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:04 am to Hangover Haven
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My Uncle was the chief engineer at Charity until just before Katrina, I have to ask him about this..
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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.
Holy
shite
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:06 am to boxcarbarney
Did they even bother to leave a note around their neck reading bad arse Yella boy
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:06 am to Montezuma
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I guess it's cheaper than a potter's field. Government trying to save public dollars. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
After they phased it out, they started to bury all the unidentified bodies at the Charity Cemetery.
This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 11:07 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:14 am to Hangover Haven
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After they phased it out, they started to bury all the unidentified bodies at the Charity Cemetery.
A lot of bodies buried there. I remember reading they were having problems with wildlife digging up the body parts.
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