On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:11:59 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

How many are hopeless scroungers who will stop on garbage day and grab
something someone's put to the curb?
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Don't get too carried away with it, can prove to be fatal.
See:

http://www.nypress.com/article-293-t...of-harlem.html

excerpt:

"...By April 3, according to the Herald Tribune, the
searchers had removed 51 tons of waste. They had only
reached two rooms on the first floor. By April 8, 19 days
after the search began, The Sun reported 103 tons of debris
removed. Then they found Langley's body.

He had been buried alive in one of his booby traps while
crawling to bring Homer food. He had been only eight feet
from his brother. He was wearing burlap draped over his
shoulders as a cape, and police speculated this had snagged
on a wire and tripped the booby trap. Langley wore no
underwear or socks. He had on a bathrobe, three jackets and
four pairs of trousers. Around his neck as a scarf was a
white onion sack fastened with a safety pin. He lay on his
right side and the rats had been at him. Both The Sun of
April 8 and the World-Telegram of April 9 stated a
preliminary examination indicated Langley had died quite
some time before his brother. Apparently, Homer had died
utterly, horribly alone..."

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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