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Nevermind it being visible on google maps since 2007... Imagine being the homeowner who had no idea a corpse was decomposing steps from his own backyard for th
by flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
Nevermind it being visible on google maps since 2007...
Imagine being the homeowner who had no idea a corpse was decomposing steps from his own backyard for the past 22 years... or that a car was in the pond behind your house.
People really need to get out more often.
- brink 7y agoCould you imagine going out for a simple swim, diving down for fun, and stumbling across a car with a rotting corpse in it? There's the reason why I don't like swimming in deep water.
- jonknee 7y agoIt's a man made pond in Florida, it's not deep at all. Definitely not something you'd swim in though, lots of funky stuff grows in warm stagnant water like that, plus ever present alligators.
- vonseel 7y agoLots of funky stuff. Don’t let your dogs swim in those ponds either.
- scrumper 7y agoVisiting friends in Florida recently, they warned our kids not to go in the landscaped pond in their development (it had a beach). I asked if snakes were a danger. They laughed, not in the least: the real problem was flesh-eating amoebae.
- phkahler 7y agoYou mean brain eating amoebas right?
- outworlder 7y agoThere is brain eating amoebas and flesh eating bacteria. You pick.
- scrumper 7y agoYou might be right. Maybe I got splashed...
- scrumper 7y agoUgh I thought that was amusing, at least until I read yesterday about a 10 year old girl in Texas who died from exactly this. The amoeba is called Naegleria Fowleri and nagelerisis is a terrifying way to die: even with treatment there's a 95% mortality rate. The amoebas enter the nose when they traverse the olfactory nerve via something called the cribriform plate to enter the brain. Once there, they mistake neurons for bacteria, which they consume.
- throwaway66920 7y agoMaybe they should go somewhere nice instead of a swamp though
- subpixel 7y agoNobody wanders around the gator and snake infested pond behind their Florida house.
- xvector 7y agoAs someone who used to be a Floridian, tales of gators in ponds are greatly exaggerated :) The vast majority of ponds, especially community ponds, do not have gators. Snakes? Another story.
- munk-a 7y ago> The vast majority of ponds, especially community ponds, do not have gators. The need for this qualification on your statement really isn't helping. /s Yea, local sterotypes tend to be that way, Boston is actually a really nice city with (mostly, except the crazy insulated catholics) pleasant people.
- skrebbel 7y agoI don't know anything about Florida. Why would developers choose to build suburbs with ponds in areas like that?
- lotsofpulp 7y agoThey are retention ponds, it’s necessary to create areas where water can drain into.
- newnewpdro 7y agoA large part of Florida is the combination of coastal and at sea level. People want to live there, so they actively and continuously drain the swamp and build wherever possible. Sea level rise is posing some expensive problems for them, obviously.
- wtvanhest 7y agoThey dig the pond and use the dirt as fill to build houses on at a higher level than sea level.
- herpderperator 7y agoI wonder how close he lived. That definitely does not look like a street you'd be just passing through.
- bonestamp2 7y agoIf he lived on that street or a connecting street then you can see how he might drive right into that pond if he fell asleep (from all those drinks at the club) right before making that turn.
- jrork 7y agoGood point, but why oh why didn't the police think to check the ponds years ago?
- lallysingh 7y agoThey probably looked a bit, but missing persons cases don't usually get satellite fly-bys.
- bonestamp2 7y agoI thought about that as well. I guess there are any number of answers and maybe they did check the ponds and couldn't see anything -- it was visible on google maps for 12 years and nobody spotted it so it couldn't have been that easy to see from the shore.
- kazinator 7y agoOther comments reveal that, in fact, this is inside a gated community. Driving your car into a gated community and then into a pond just doesn't add up as an accident.
- hinkley 7y agoYeah that sounds a bit like some Hot Fuzz, "The Greater Good" level stuff going on.
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- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt probably wasn't visible from ground level. If it's five feet below the surface but 30 feet from shore, then your line of sight would pass through a bit more than 30 feet of water, and the pond is muddy enough that it's partly obscured even from directly above. If no one happened to swim or boat directly over it, and with no tall buildings nearby, there may have been no opportunity to see it. (I've noticed something similar flying over the Great Lakes. Looking down from the window of a descending plane, you can clearly make out lakefloor contours that are invisible from shore, even with the relatively clear water.)
- gattr 7y agoAlso the Fresnel reflection coefficient comes into play [0]: water surface has higher reflectivity at grazing-incidence angles than at those close to the surface normal. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations
- kazinator 7y agoIf you live anywhere near nature (park, woods, ...) there are things decomposing near where you live. Raccoons, squirrels, ... A corpse is not going to decompose over the span of 22 years; it's pretty much done within the first year.
- PostPost 7y agoFrom the article: When the vehicle was pulled from the water, skeletal remains were found inside. One week later the remains were positively identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.
- dcchambers 7y agoDecomposing is typically only in reference to tissues/organs/soft matter. Things that bacteria, insects, and animals can eat (thus causing the decomposition). This happens rather quickly. Bone can't be eaten, so when all that is left is the Skeleton there is no more decoposing. As long as they aren't crushed or destroyed through other means, bones will last virtually forever. I assume he was identified by dental records or something similar (healed broken bones, etc).
- kazinator 7y ago> bones will last virtually forever Ironically, like plastic. :)
- aqrit 7y ago> Bone can't be eaten Squirrels eat bones. Skeletons disappear rapidly in the wild.
- jessaustin 7y agoNeither the squirrels nor the bone-eating fish were able to get through the car doors.
- dcchambers 7y ago