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NoMoreScreenNames ago

Scavengers work by opening the abdominal cavity and consuming the soft tissues and organs therein ; that's for ALL corpses, quadrupedal and bipedal. The eyes-that's the first thing birds will go for. Unless evidence proving the organs were removed by surgical tools is found (and if the corpse is too far deteriorated, such evidence if ever present may no longer be discernable) , I think the coroner is correct in attributing the corpse's condition to small desert scavenegers. Regardless, that's an additional anguish for the victim's family, compounding the aready tragic death of a young man.

theHare ago

How did he die though? This is the future where no one's whereabouts aren't known. How was someone with a cellphone just stuck in the middle of the desert? Why didn't they determine some of the things already? I agree with you about how things scavenge but you are leaving out some important contextual information.

Are_we__sure ago

How did he die though? This is the future where no one's whereabouts aren't known. How was someone with a cellphone just stuck in the middle of the desert? Why didn't they determine some of the things already?

You're assuming facts not in evidence. You can easily be somewhere without a cell signal. It happened to me several times this week. People's whereabouts are unknown all the time.

If a body is found too decomposed, you can't determine the exact cause of death. A very probable cause for his death is he started walking in the heat and soon got dehydrated and became disoriented and wondered out to the desert. If you have ever seen it happen, it comes on quick. I was at a summer wedding and a guy was having trouble standing up. This was before the reception, so he wasn't drunk. And when we asked how he was was he couldn't answer us. Eventually we got him some water and he came out of it. We didn't know what it was, it turned out he was battling a stomach flu and it was real hot and he just got dehydrated. He said everything went black and white. It was definitely spooky.

theHare ago

I'm assuming facts? What does that mean? I'm mentioning facts. It seems suspicious to me. No doubt. The parents are suspicious. You don't just go drive out to the middle of nowhere and die. Sorry, you seem like a patronizing child, as in, you ASSUME that I'm of low-level intelligence and can't see the larger picture. I've yet to look at the case (nor will I ever) but there are several hundred cases I know of in which there are people in the justice system, covering shit up. So, sometimes, I assume that the authorities are compromised before I suspect some other more improbable circumstance, thank you.

Are_we__sure ago

I'm assuming facts? What does that mean? I'm mentioning facts.

Assuming facts not in evidence is a lawyer term. What I mean by that is you are mentioning "facts" without having shown that they are facts. Specifically this

This is the future where no one's whereabouts aren't known.

This is simply not a fact.

This is another example, it's framed more as an opinion, but you again, you are assuming as fact, something which you haven't shown evidence for.

You don't just go drive out to the middle of nowhere and die.

Maybe why this case it such an anomaly, such a mystery is that's what happened here. A guy wandered off, got heat stroke, passed out and later died and then animals scavenged his body.

theHare ago

You are a pedantic asshole. Good job with your useless analysis. Really, I explained the context, of course there are exceptions to things, any asshole knows this. Sometimes people can’t see the bigger picture which is obviously a lot more useful than an obsession with the literal interpretation of things. I know several languages and study language constantly. So I can read. I said things generally because this is vote, not an academic paper. Fuck yourself.

Are_we__sure ago

Wow. Someone's skin is paper thin.

theHare ago

You sound like a bitch.

Are_we__sure ago

nope. Paper is way too thick.