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Wood chipper victim ID'd (new phrase enters vernacular?)
Fort Collins (CO) Coloradoan ^ | 2005-12-30 | SARA REED

Posted on 12/30/2005 7:11:44 AM PST by Boundless

Brian Morse, 54, was declared dead at the scene, at a home in the 2300 block of Fountain Drive, after his glove became stuck in the wood chipper and pulled him in.

The Larimer County Coroner's Office identified Morse, owner of Brian's Tree Trimming & Removal Service, using fingerprints. The cause of death was listed as "total morselization." The gloves protected Morse's hands, leaving the fingerprints intact.

(Excerpt) Read more at coloradoannews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: accident; chipper; chopper; fatal; kibbled; loveland; tree; wood
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This is an update to two stories posted yesterday:
Colorado Man Killed In Large Wood Chipper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1548793/posts
Colorado Man Dies in Wood Chipper Accident
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1548726/posts

I can't recall seeing the CoD of "total morselization"
before, and this surely can't be the first case of it.

1 posted on 12/30/2005 7:11:46 AM PST by Boundless
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To: Boundless

You've got to be kidding.


2 posted on 12/30/2005 7:15:24 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew ("A severed foot makes a great stocking stuffer." - late comedian)
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To: Boundless
I hope it was quick and that he's in a better place and his family can deal with their loss.

mc
3 posted on 12/30/2005 7:15:37 AM PST by mcshot (And much it grieves my heart to think what Dems proclaim the truth. Happy New Year)
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To: Boundless

I prefer Hoffaized as teh new word.


4 posted on 12/30/2005 7:16:51 AM PST by TXBSAFH ("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Wow, your tagline really works in this thread!


5 posted on 12/30/2005 7:16:52 AM PST by netmilsmom (God blessed me with a wonderful husband.)
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To: Boundless

I thought the term was "kinetic fragmentation."


6 posted on 12/30/2005 7:18:15 AM PST by Steely Tom
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To: Boundless

I thought it would be more like Saddamage, or Shreadamizataion.

(moose and cheese do not mix)


7 posted on 12/30/2005 7:18:25 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1992!)
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To: Boundless
"Morselization" - "Morsel" + "ization"

"IttyBittization"
"Atomization"

8 posted on 12/30/2005 7:18:34 AM PST by TexGuy
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To: Boundless

I have a pair of very heavy duty work gloves that I use when I'm stacking firewood...prevents a lot of cuts and splinters, and occasionally a log will snag on the glove when I toss it..so it's possible to understand how this could happen....The chipper rotor PULLS the log into the maw..so if his gloved hand got caught on a log, and pulled in..it would be over in an instant..


9 posted on 12/30/2005 7:18:50 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Boundless

http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=morselization


10 posted on 12/30/2005 7:19:46 AM PST by thoughtomator (Congrats Iraq!)
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To: Boundless

I knew this guy. He's done work for us before and was a really nice person that did an execellent job.


11 posted on 12/30/2005 7:20:34 AM PST by dljordan
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Kibbled


12 posted on 12/30/2005 7:23:33 AM PST by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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To: dljordan

I feel sorry for his partner having witnessed that.


13 posted on 12/30/2005 7:23:53 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Boundless
"total morselization."

Tough way to go, but at least it was quick. He probably had just enough time to realize that he had messed up big time.
14 posted on 12/30/2005 7:25:37 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope ("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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To: Boundless

My mom was in for Christmas and we watched Fargo...


15 posted on 12/30/2005 7:28:30 AM PST by floozy22
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To: Boundless

Terrible. My dad used to always warn us when we worked on the farm with him. No loose clothing, watch the moving parts etc. There was a kid a few years back in our area that fell into the manure spreader. It had become clogged and he was kicking at the clump trying to unclog it, he didn't have it disengaged, slipped and fell in. My uncle was the fire chief and said it was horriffic.

Prayers for this guy, his friend who witnessed it and his family.


16 posted on 12/30/2005 7:30:14 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Honestly, did anyone really get a Lexus for Christmas?)
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To: nuconvert

"I feel sorry for his partner having witnessed that."

Prayers for this man's family and friends.
His partner witnessed this grotesque death?


17 posted on 12/30/2005 7:31:04 AM PST by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

What is a manure spreader?


18 posted on 12/30/2005 7:35:21 AM PST by Muzzle_em ("Get busy LIVING or get busy dying")
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To: Boundless
I can't recall seeing the CoD of "total morselization"

Heavily chunkified.

Slurried to death.

Bruised, then juiced.

19 posted on 12/30/2005 7:37:05 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Over it is not, until over it is." -- Yoda Berra)
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To: Boundless

Once upon a time I spent many hours chunking logs and branches into a large Vermeer chipper. It had a large safety shut-off bar that went all the way around the feed chute. One light push on the bar and it would stop feeding. It was still scary because nothing is failsafe. Clothes and gloves would frequently hang up. Not for the faint of heart.

All that being said, and hopefully having qualified my two cents, please allow me to contribute to the proposed terms:

Catastrophic Discorporation


20 posted on 12/30/2005 7:39:20 AM PST by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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