Man Who Was Being Eaten By Maggots Dies

WNBC Television ^ | 7/28/2005 | Puppage

[Puppage]

YONKERS, N.Y. -- A 63-year-old man died a day after emergency workers found him at his home in such squalid conditions that maggots were eating his flesh, a fire official said Wednesday.

Paramedics went to Michael Link's home Sunday night after his 66-year-old brother and roommate, Adam Link, said the victim was having trouble breathing, fire department surgeon Roger Chirurgi said.

Michael Link was lying in his own feces on a pile of debris and "had open wounds with maggots eating on the flesh," Chirurgi said. Link was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday, the surgeon said. His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The home, a large Victorian across from a school, was overgrown with trees, shrubs and weeds. Inside, paramedics found no electric power and papers and boxes everywhere, Chirurgi said.

Firefighters wore hazardous-materials suits to investigate the house after the brothers were taken out. Chirurgi said several veteran firefighters were sickened by the scene and stench.

[OXENinFLA]

Eeewwwwwwww...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The maggots can now apparently pick up where they left off.

[softwarecreator]

I second that .... GROSS!!!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Pointing out the hyperbole only - not diminishing the horror - maggots eat only necrotic flesh.

[satchmodog9]

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[Plymouth Sentinel]

This is surely the work of George Bush.

The government must compensate the family.

Sounds like a fitting topic for a Michael Moore picture.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

A lovely 'N' word that is not unlike niggardly in its rarity.

[Puppage]

MAGGOTS

[Jaysun]

God Almighty. His brother didn't think it strange that he'd been laying in bed rotting alive, and waited until he was "having trouble breathing" before he got help?

These men aren't old enough to have dementia. Maybe they were mentally ill, or druggies.

[Puppage]

I put the very same title in the search field...to no avail.

[Larry Lucido]

The maggots probably kept him alive longer.

[Puppage]

His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

This is an outrageous and homophobic attempt to smear gays! Somebody should censor this!

Oh, wait -- maggots. Never mind . . .

[Puppage]

Hehehe

[Jaysun]

His brother was undergoing psychiatric evaluation

I saw that. But if he had enough sense to get help when he couldn't breath well, what stopped him from getting help when he was laying in his own feces being eaten by maggots?

[texianyankee]

You're correct! Maybe this guy actually had the larvae from screwworms? Those things thrive on live flesh. I remember them as a kid when we had to doctor our livestock in central Texas. Occasionally there are still outbreaks of screwworms in south Texas.

[Marauder]

maggots eat only necrotic flesh.

Correct. There were several stories out of Viet Nam where American POWs allowed maggots to eat the gangrenous flesh from their untreated wounds, then used their own urine to rinse off the "cleansed" area.

Must've looked terrible, but they survived.

[PilloryHillary]

Well, after reading this, I can just skip breakfast. Disgusting!

[Puppage]

what stopped him from getting help when he was laying in his own feces being eaten by maggots?

Schaudenfraude?