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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JTs on September 07, 2005, 05:58:07 AM
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ok so far we have taken 5000 gallons of bottled water to new orleans.
20,000 water purifiacation kits to hattiesburg, ms.
now fema wants us to take our trailer (its a refer) to new orleans empty and take a load to houston. guess what they want to put in it.
would you do it and why?
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Umm.. why is it necessary to take the trailer there empty to bring something back? Logically the trailer gets emptied in NO anyway.
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sorry should have been more clear. will be loading at the temporay morgue.
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So its not close enough to NO for you to bring any supplies there, or don't you have anything to bring?
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I hate moving bodies. It feels creepy when you feel the bones grind while your moving them. I remember one time I was loading a body on a plane when the bag busted and started leaking body fluid all over. Three months later that same plane came back and I about lost it when I opened up the hatch because you could still smell the stench.
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water in, bodies out - makes sense to me
get past the boogie woogie kiddy thoughts of "dead people"
as long as they are properly sealed to protect you and the truck from disease, why not?
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its being run by fema. air is a supply to the feds. seriously. no there is nothing to bring to new orleans from mississippi.
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I always seem to get more upset over a dead dog then a human, if I don't know the person. But I've never had to move children and I think that would realy bother me.
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Originally posted by JTs
its being run by fema. air is a supply to the feds. seriously. no there is nothing to bring to new orleans from mississippi.
ah ok.. I thought you were going in from Las Vegas empty to pick up corpses. My bad.
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Not to be callous but if you are going to help those in need you shouldn't be surprised about it. Getting bodies taken care of is a major concern there for health. It isn't a matter of want, they need to clear bodies so that disease doesn't take more lives.
for helping them.
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Originally posted by JTs
would you do it and why?
Yes. Dead bodies are a health hazard.
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JT - hey its help, any kinda help is what they need , but no i wouldnt want to load/unload em! but driving em not a problem, at least your not driving em all in a bus!:huh
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What are the health hazards from dead bodies anyway?
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Originally posted by lefty2
What are the health hazards from dead bodies anyway?
Decaying animal and people corpses poisons the water with bacteria. The Indians somethimes put cadavers in drinking water after they had taken what they needed to poison the soldiers.
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Originally posted by JTs
guess what they want to put in it.
would you do it and why?
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/humor/sixthsense.htm
:eek: (Just a joke, I know many were elderly or very poor, too bad all those buses were not immobilized to help them out of the city)
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Depends on if they are very well sealed. I can not stand the smell of a corpse. I had to deliver to a funeral home once and I walked in the front door and had to go right back out to keep from puking. The last place I worked our delivery doors faced a funeral home across the street and on monday mornings sometimes they would air their place out and you could smell it from 100 yards away.
And these I guess were regular old embalmed. I imagine those ones been floating around for the better part of the week smell to high heaven.
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Only 327 miles? Sure, I'd do it, if its legal. Should pay pretty good, too.
I'd clean that sucker out real good with bleach afterwards, though.
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Would I do it? Of course.
Am I glad you're doing it and not me? Of course.
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I can't seem to get over the gitty, touch something dead it migth jump at you feeling...
It's gotten better since having to move euthanized dogs to the freezer for the crematory to pick up, but the dead limp weight is hard enough, I can't imagine stiffness, and grinding, and then the humans make noises when dead..
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only if there getting ya a new reefer when its done with .... those Dane's are pritty sweet all polished up .
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before you guys jump on JT just remember he's done more to help out than most of us. Driving to NO with water for free was an awsome deed man
About the bodies, I have to ask.....since it's for fema, will you be getting paid.
If yes I might be more inclined to drive dead bodies. Either way it helps but like somone said it's hard to get the stench out if the bags break.
ALso, would you have to do any of the loading/unloading or are you strictly drive only?
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I think that odds are the trailer will be useless for any cargo that is going to be consumed after that. Hard to believe that the smell won't linger for the life of the trailer. You could haul metal stuff in it but you'd never be able to haul a load of food or clothingagain.
If it wasn't my trailer from which I derived my livelihood, yah, I'd do it. Of if they were going to give me a new trailer after this whole thing is finished.
But if my income depended on using that exact trailer in the future, I'd probably have to say no.
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Im with Toad.
Those bodies have to be putrid by now.
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Never mind. Everything I wanted to say sounded too ghoulish.
You have bigger cajones than me.
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The smell and bacteria can easily be cleaned up with a special enzyme based cleaner that crime scene cleanup crews use to cleanup after homicides/suicides.
And yes I would do it.