Drunks, autopsies, and El Pollo Loco Chicken
Today's Drunken Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Massachusetts woman died from injuries suffered in a fall from an escalator at the Providence Place mall on May 2, 2004. Jennifer Canelli, 23, of Norfolk, died on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 of cardiorespiratory failure due to skull fractures and brain injury. Witnesses told police Canelli fell backward after she jumped to sit on the escalator's handrail. She was leaving a friend's birthday party at Dave & Buster's, a bar and game establishment. Canelli fell an estimated 40 feet to the floor.
Culled from: The Associated Press
Generously submitted by: Katie
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Her family really should sue that mall for putting a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages on an upstairs level like that. I mean, this was an accident just *begging* to happen!!
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"My Brush With Morbidity" by EvilPresly
"My boss used to be a coroner and was taking the search and rescue team to the morgue for a field trip, and asked if I wanted to tag along. YES! So we go in and it is one of the oldest buildings in Oakland, right near Jack London Square. It used to be a courthouse, and the hanging tree was right out front. We go in, get a basic tour of the admin. rooms and such, get to ask a lot of questions about corpse protocol, and heard a lot of gruesome and awesome and weird stories about picking up bodies and that kind of stuff.
"Then we get to the autopsy room antechamber, which has rows of freezers marked with things like 'livers, 1998-2000' and two drying chambers for bloody clothing and evidence. Here, our guide tells us that coroners used to wear plain clothes, but now it's a shirt and a blazer with a tie, 'which is a shame because when you lean down, it's inevitably - oops, in the mouth.' Did I mention that our guide is deadpan (pun VERY intended) and hilarious? He cracks jokes like that the whole time. Then we get to go to the autopsy room.
"To my dismay, there are no bodies anywhere. There is no blood or traces of it, and the floor had been mopped. But there are 6 stainless steel tables with vacuum hoses and foot pedals around them, and microphones suspended over each one. The doctors have to speak every last thing as they are doing it, to record the autopsy. We are told that sometimes every table is in use at once. Ooh, I can only imagine what that is like. 6 simultaneous autopsies! To get at the brain, the scalp is peeled back over the face and the skull incision is made in the back, so you can stretch the skin back over once the skull has been replaced and you can hardly tell the corpse just had a face lift. 'I was surprised at how easily it can be done!' He says.
Someone asks about the tools they use. Scalpel? 'The scalpel is there, but this is more of butcher's work - using regular kitchen knives and saws and things. And to open up the chest cavity, we use your ordinary average garden shears.' At which point, my boss went over and demonstrated the use of the shears. As the organs are removed and dissected, they get placed in a bucket on the floor, which at the end the contents of which are placed into a bag and sealed in the chest cavity - including the brain. As for the odds and ends, our guide told us that there is a garbage disposal at each autopsy table. "It drains right into the bay! Just kidding. I don't know where it goes. I don't want to find out." Someone of course made a Wendy's chili joke. We are told that they keep a piece of each body - a section of bone, or piece of tissue for storage indefinitely. And they do occasionally have to exhume bodies, though not often.
"At this point, I am beginning to think I will never see a corpse. And then we are herded toward the big door. No more personal corpse drawers for Oakland... it's even better... an enormous walk-in refrigerator. Butcher's work, indeed. The door opens and out comes a rotten, earthy smell and we are invited to walk into the human meat locker. I am surrounded by feet sticking out from under sheets. Yellow toe tags are homicides, and the black body bags are to keep the decomposition cases in as close to one piece as possible. There is a fly zapper just outside because 'nothing stops maggots,' and I imagine them working away even in the 36-39 degree refrigerator as I pass between the two rows of bodies on gurneys.
At the end of the row, the bodies are only haphazardly covered - allowing a look at the legs, and one foot stuck out which was covered in a pink powderiness, and had an immense lesion on the ankle surrounded by a green fungus, and the whole thing had started to decay. Two bodies down was an older man, who would have been wrinkled if it were not for the intense bloating that had stretched his belly and skin into a youthful tautness once more, transparent slightly with the stereotypical blue veins snaking beneath. He lay next to another body who had no idea it was covered in adipocere. 'Everyone's body reacts uniquely to death. It's quite amazing.'
"Hope you enjoyed, I know I did."
Indeed!! Thank you for sharing your good morbid fortune with the rest of us!
El Pollo Loco Chicken
Recipe By:
Serving Size: 4 Preparation Time: 0:00
Categories: Chicken, Sauces
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
1 Chicken -- cut pieces with skin
BROILER BASTING SAUCE
1/3 cup Lemon juice
1/3 cup Lime juice
1/3 cup Canola or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon Garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon Black pepper
Briefly simmer the cut-up chicken in a deep-sided skillet, keeping pieces in a single layer without crowding them, until the meat appears milky white and the juices run clear, so they’re no longer pink. Allow to cool in the broth, uncovered, while you prepare the basting sauce. Arrange the chicken pieces skin-side up on broiler pan in single layer and baste with enough of mixture to evenly coat skin side. Turn and baste the other side. Turn again to skin side up and broil 6" from the heat, brushing with additional sauce every few minutes until skin is really crispy and golden brown, approximately 5 to 8 minutes for large pieces. BASTING
MIXTURE - Mix juices, oil, turmeric, salt, and pepper. This makes enough to baste nine pieces.
A Massachusetts woman died from injuries suffered in a fall from an escalator at the Providence Place mall on May 2, 2004. Jennifer Canelli, 23, of Norfolk, died on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 of cardiorespiratory failure due to skull fractures and brain injury. Witnesses told police Canelli fell backward after she jumped to sit on the escalator's handrail. She was leaving a friend's birthday party at Dave & Buster's, a bar and game establishment. Canelli fell an estimated 40 feet to the floor.
Culled from: The Associated Press
Generously submitted by: Katie
**********************************************************************
Her family really should sue that mall for putting a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages on an upstairs level like that. I mean, this was an accident just *begging* to happen!!
*******
"My Brush With Morbidity" by EvilPresly
"My boss used to be a coroner and was taking the search and rescue team to the morgue for a field trip, and asked if I wanted to tag along. YES! So we go in and it is one of the oldest buildings in Oakland, right near Jack London Square. It used to be a courthouse, and the hanging tree was right out front. We go in, get a basic tour of the admin. rooms and such, get to ask a lot of questions about corpse protocol, and heard a lot of gruesome and awesome and weird stories about picking up bodies and that kind of stuff.
"Then we get to the autopsy room antechamber, which has rows of freezers marked with things like 'livers, 1998-2000' and two drying chambers for bloody clothing and evidence. Here, our guide tells us that coroners used to wear plain clothes, but now it's a shirt and a blazer with a tie, 'which is a shame because when you lean down, it's inevitably - oops, in the mouth.' Did I mention that our guide is deadpan (pun VERY intended) and hilarious? He cracks jokes like that the whole time. Then we get to go to the autopsy room.
"To my dismay, there are no bodies anywhere. There is no blood or traces of it, and the floor had been mopped. But there are 6 stainless steel tables with vacuum hoses and foot pedals around them, and microphones suspended over each one. The doctors have to speak every last thing as they are doing it, to record the autopsy. We are told that sometimes every table is in use at once. Ooh, I can only imagine what that is like. 6 simultaneous autopsies! To get at the brain, the scalp is peeled back over the face and the skull incision is made in the back, so you can stretch the skin back over once the skull has been replaced and you can hardly tell the corpse just had a face lift. 'I was surprised at how easily it can be done!' He says.
Someone asks about the tools they use. Scalpel? 'The scalpel is there, but this is more of butcher's work - using regular kitchen knives and saws and things. And to open up the chest cavity, we use your ordinary average garden shears.' At which point, my boss went over and demonstrated the use of the shears. As the organs are removed and dissected, they get placed in a bucket on the floor, which at the end the contents of which are placed into a bag and sealed in the chest cavity - including the brain. As for the odds and ends, our guide told us that there is a garbage disposal at each autopsy table. "It drains right into the bay! Just kidding. I don't know where it goes. I don't want to find out." Someone of course made a Wendy's chili joke. We are told that they keep a piece of each body - a section of bone, or piece of tissue for storage indefinitely. And they do occasionally have to exhume bodies, though not often.
"At this point, I am beginning to think I will never see a corpse. And then we are herded toward the big door. No more personal corpse drawers for Oakland... it's even better... an enormous walk-in refrigerator. Butcher's work, indeed. The door opens and out comes a rotten, earthy smell and we are invited to walk into the human meat locker. I am surrounded by feet sticking out from under sheets. Yellow toe tags are homicides, and the black body bags are to keep the decomposition cases in as close to one piece as possible. There is a fly zapper just outside because 'nothing stops maggots,' and I imagine them working away even in the 36-39 degree refrigerator as I pass between the two rows of bodies on gurneys.
At the end of the row, the bodies are only haphazardly covered - allowing a look at the legs, and one foot stuck out which was covered in a pink powderiness, and had an immense lesion on the ankle surrounded by a green fungus, and the whole thing had started to decay. Two bodies down was an older man, who would have been wrinkled if it were not for the intense bloating that had stretched his belly and skin into a youthful tautness once more, transparent slightly with the stereotypical blue veins snaking beneath. He lay next to another body who had no idea it was covered in adipocere. 'Everyone's body reacts uniquely to death. It's quite amazing.'
"Hope you enjoyed, I know I did."
Indeed!! Thank you for sharing your good morbid fortune with the rest of us!
El Pollo Loco Chicken
Recipe By:
Serving Size: 4 Preparation Time: 0:00
Categories: Chicken, Sauces
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
1 Chicken -- cut pieces with skin
BROILER BASTING SAUCE
1/3 cup Lemon juice
1/3 cup Lime juice
1/3 cup Canola or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon Garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon Black pepper
Briefly simmer the cut-up chicken in a deep-sided skillet, keeping pieces in a single layer without crowding them, until the meat appears milky white and the juices run clear, so they’re no longer pink. Allow to cool in the broth, uncovered, while you prepare the basting sauce. Arrange the chicken pieces skin-side up on broiler pan in single layer and baste with enough of mixture to evenly coat skin side. Turn and baste the other side. Turn again to skin side up and broil 6" from the heat, brushing with additional sauce every few minutes until skin is really crispy and golden brown, approximately 5 to 8 minutes for large pieces. BASTING
MIXTURE - Mix juices, oil, turmeric, salt, and pepper. This makes enough to baste nine pieces.
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