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(UPI) Scary Apartment residents discover there isn't a Brita filter in the world that can get the taste of dead guy out of your tapwater   (upi.com) divider line 71
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camelclub [TotalFark] 2006-08-27 10:53:41 PM  
A couple of months of maceration and they can have a nifty skeleton for the lobby.

 
Gormenghast [TotalFark] 2006-08-27 11:00:25 PM  
Well if this didn't tip them off, then I don't know what would.
static.flickr.com

 
hillary [TotalFark] 2006-08-27 11:31:18 PM  
www.cem.msu.edu

Instant soup stock. Just add noodles.

 
TherajwithSubtitles 2006-08-27 11:31:40 PM  
That's so damn gross...

Mmm, taste like dead guy... blllarf.

 
Drewster 2006-08-27 11:31:54 PM  
that's so foul....

 
Detroit_Bob 2006-08-27 11:32:26 PM  
Run it through a few filters and it tastes like top-shelf dead guy.

 
xtex 2006-08-27 11:32:43 PM  
Wasn't this a CSI episode?

 
Howser 2006-08-27 11:32:46 PM  
Not cool when your tapwater has a head

 
Azyraphyle 2006-08-27 11:33:35 PM  
And the bottles of corpse water appear on eBay in 5... 4 ... 3... 2 ...

 
Heroic Poser 2006-08-27 11:34:11 PM  
Should have used NIKKEN.
Africa does.

 
unclefenders 2006-08-27 11:34:28 PM  
Was his name Bob?

 
SOiSAID 2006-08-27 11:35:57 PM  
Yum!

xtewx
I think it also happened in Law and Order: CI.

/i promise i only know this because it was on the other night.

 
Elendili 2006-08-27 11:36:19 PM  
why not just use the purification tablets and get it over with

/would need a new water tower if I lived there...

 
Hypergeek_1984 2006-08-27 11:36:32 PM  
Let me just say...


EWWwwwwwwuuURRrrrrRGHAAAaaaAAUGH!!!

 
mikeinca 2006-08-27 11:36:48 PM  
I think this was on CSI too.

 
Dinty Moore's Law 2006-08-27 11:36:57 PM  
Damn, this water's got a little wang to it.

 
danneedsage 2006-08-27 11:37:56 PM  
when i was little i had a dream of being trapped in a watertower. i had that nightmare a few times in the past 10 years or so. man..creapy

 
bob_dobbs 2006-08-27 11:38:23 PM  
Prosecutors will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

just a guess: drowning

 
CarcinogenCrunchies [TotalFark] 2006-08-27 11:38:33 PM  
How the fark do you just "fall into" a water tower?

 
Prince Of Farkness 2006-08-27 11:38:46 PM  
Man, get a good STIFF drink.

/that's really farkin' gross.

 
whitxcore 2006-08-27 11:41:06 PM  
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....tastes like pork

 
KarmicDisaster 2006-08-27 11:41:25 PM  
CarcinogenCrunchies

How the fark do you just "fall into" a water tower?

Was he wearing a scuba outfit?

/UL

 
rex_smallspeakers 2006-08-27 11:42:13 PM  
guy who discovers corpse: (spoken while barfing) What the fark is that?!?!?

/obscure?

 
derrith 2006-08-27 11:43:56 PM  
This featured in an episode of CSI:NY, as previously supposed.

 
Dwreck 2006-08-27 11:44:38 PM  
Its actually very common to find dead squirrels, raccoons, possums, and seagulls in water towers.

Im not sure about 27-year old crackheads, though.

 
12inpianist 2006-08-27 11:46:08 PM  
"Soylent Cola"

"Is it good?"

"It varies from person to person..."

 
Mordis 2006-08-27 11:49:42 PM  
Glen Liver?

/Nahsing!

 
hexane 2006-08-27 11:51:32 PM  
This Water has a fine bouquet, hints of oak and is full bodied.

 
PsychoPhil 2006-08-27 11:51:55 PM  
Its actually very common to find dead squirrels, raccoons, possums, and seagulls in water towers.

Where the heck are YOU? Around here, you'd have a BIG issue if you found any of that in there - everything here has nice screens over the air vents, and altitude valves are rather common anyway.

Most water utilities here are bonkers about testing the water for anything, esp after it's gone to system.

Heh, we had a boil water order after they found that body in the clearwell at that plnt in NJ. I don't think they solved that either...

 
Heroic Poser 2006-08-27 11:54:03 PM  
Dinty Moore's Law: Damn, this water's got a little wang to it.

Good though. Mind if I have more?

 
mc frontalot 2006-08-27 11:54:19 PM  
www.webwombat.com.au

 
titwrench 2006-08-27 11:57:18 PM  
A couple of weeks ago they had shut down a section of the San Diego water supply because they found E-Coli in it. People were eating at resturants that 5 minutes later were shut down.

 
Mikehell 2006-08-27 11:57:42 PM  
Don't you think the "sick" tag might have been more appropriate?

If I lived in that building I'd be drinking AND bathing in bottled water for the rest of my life.

 
CarcinogenCrunchies [TotalFark] 2006-08-27 11:57:49 PM  
Around here it's more likely you'll find barium and other assorted nuclear residue in the water.

/grew up across the street from an munitions plant.
//probably gonna die of something bizarre someday.

 
desolationrow 2006-08-27 11:59:28 PM  
What drugs was the guy on? Maybe they can at least get a contact high.
*baaaaaaaaarf*

 
a2pfunk 2006-08-28 12:00:09 AM  
PsychoPhil...
I believe that the water tower in this case was a private one on top of a taller building. They are used in order to add water pressure to buildings in urban area which might be above the level of the water towers operated by water treatment officials. Therefore this type of water tower is likely to be less often inspected, and not built to specifications you would have to meet for a large water tower in a public system. Besides, the tower on top of an apartment building would never be tested by officials, just like they probably don't come into your kitchen and test your water.

 
MorganSloat 2006-08-28 12:00:50 AM  
2006-08-27 11:42:13 PM rex_smallspeakers

guy who discovers corpse: (spoken while barfing) What the fark is that?!?!?

/obscure?


no.

I would definately pull a Tim Roth too.

 
Mr_Smartypants 2006-08-28 12:01:38 AM  
titwrench
A couple of weeks ago they had shut down a section of the San Diego water supply because they found E-Coli in it. People were eating at resturants that 5 minutes later were shut down.

Yeah, and last year I got a letter in the mail from the city saying, basically: "Um, Oops. Last month there might have been some coliform bacteria in the water supply. Our bad"

/coliform = from the colon (== poop)

 
DonnaDMK 2006-08-28 12:02:58 AM  
"And two dead pigeons in the water tank"

//obscure?

 
weeneedhelp 2006-08-28 12:05:05 AM  
Yeah, Dark Water totally.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382628/

but... the dead guy didn't come back to haunt the 20 families this time :-/

/he should have

 
NittLion78 2006-08-28 12:13:16 AM  
Don't forget the legend of Admiral Nelson. Legend carries that he was placed in a barrel of rum to preserve his body for the trip back to England after the Battle of fl_nelson

I don't like my rum with any less than a high-ranking pickled British hero in it. Don't try to fool me with your worms in the tequila bottle, either - I better find Poncho Villa's finger in there.

 
All Apologies 2006-08-28 12:16:09 AM  
That's farking gross.

 
bigstoopidbruce 2006-08-28 12:19:37 AM  
Donna -

"No, dear, I left them in; they're nearly done."

/you beat me
//Watery Fowls

 
BloodFart 2006-08-28 12:21:26 AM  
Apparently the img.fark.com tag was unavailable, because it was hunched over the toilet puking up its spleen.

 
angryred 2006-08-28 12:23:35 AM  
'Oos up for tapping the admiral, gents?

/salutes NittLion

 
CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED 2006-08-28 12:28:55 AM  
NittLion78

Don't forget the legend of Admiral Nelson.

By all means, do forget it..

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp

/carry on
//off to bed...

 
darknys 2006-08-28 12:29:39 AM  
NittLion78: Don't forget the legend of Admiral Nelson. Legend carries that he was placed in a barrel of rum to preserve his body for the trip back to England after the Battle of fl_nelson

I don't like my rum with any less than a high-ranking pickled British hero in it. Don't try to fool me with your worms in the tequila bottle, either - I better find Poncho Villa's finger in there.


It was brandy.

 
angryred 2006-08-28 12:44:51 AM  
CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED:

NittLion78

Don't forget the legend of Admiral Nelson.


By all means, do forget it..

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp




Dude. From your own link:

"The most famous instance of preservation by immersion in alcohol was the casking of the remains of Lord Nelson in the ship's brandy stores after his death during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. That much is true - Nelson was, in effect, pickled to get as much of him home in as
decent a state as possible. But not in rum, as would later be claimed in lore. No, Nelson had been immersed in brandy for shipment home. At Gibralter the fluid was replaced with wine."

Brandy (like Darknys said). Don't assume it false 'cause it's on Snopes, they clarify a lot of the true stuff as well.

 
zelachang 2006-08-28 12:45:34 AM  
elmejocine.iespana.es

/obscure?
//probably not

 
stuffy 2006-08-28 12:45:56 AM  
need "icky" tag

 
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