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.
Snakes? Another story.
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.
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.
2) use fill dirt to raise land for houses so they are above flood levels
3) sell houses with "waterfront views"
(Off the top of my head -- so anyone more knowledge, feel free to nitpick that to death. Alternately, anyone desperate to pick a fight and not knowledgeable enough, feel free to google my remark to within an inch of its life.)
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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(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.)
A corpse is not going to decompose over the span of 22 years; it's pretty much done within the first year.
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.
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).
Ironically, like plastic. :)
Squirrels eat bones. Skeletons disappear rapidly in the wild.
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.