Today's project is camera time...
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Hopefully we find dry and unexciting pipes....
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Oooh - dirty pictures!
I remember a surveyor in Nebraska was as-builting a storm line out by the Airport and found a dead body. It was early in the day and he knew it would screw up his day, so he waited until late afternoon to make the call! That's a dedicated employee....
Good luck in your endeavors, today!
That's the best way. They arent going to rot that much more in that short of time.
Definite gold star and promotion there.
This is a storm so maybe we'll be lucky!!!!!
I remember a rodman on a highway department crew found the remains of a fella that had wandered away from a rest home some time back.?ÿ It was at the bottom of a 1:1 slope with about 30 feet of fall.?ÿ The PC said it took him almost 15 minutes to one handed slip and slide down the slope for a shot...
The PC said his rodman made it up the slope in about 5 seconds once he saw the remains and refused to go back down to get the rod he had dropped....now that's a 'dedicated' rodman.?ÿ 😉
once had a crew call in the morning that they'd found a body out in the woods on a corridor topo for an impending highway.?ÿ came back that afternoon all sideways and mad.?ÿ when asked why, the PC says "the cops showed up and pulled five thousand dollars out of his pocket."
Yep. Always roll the corpse to gather anything of value BEFORE you call the po PO.
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@jitterboogie that's what i told 'em- "not like they're gonna try and pin it on you."
Was working on and around an Army post a few years ago and we were instructed that if we found unexploded ordinance to report it immediately and stop all work. One day, we were working in an area that had been "searched and cleared" BUT we did find a single 50cal shell. We shoved a naked lath in the sand near the shell and continued working. When we left the site we pulled the lath and went about our business. Luckily we didn't have to return to that location for the remainder of the project.?ÿ
T. Nelson - SAM
Turns it was a woman some bikers had killed about 10 years earlier; so it was basically just a skeleton and clothes...
Found two partially exposed skulls in my career, one on the Kenai peninsula in Alaska next to a trail, and one on farmland near Walla Walla Wa. near a creek.?ÿ In both cases an archeologist dug them up a few weeks later.?ÿ Never heard anything about the Ak. skull, but the Wa. archeologist contacted us a year later and it was a Native American skull at least a few hundred years old, and the male owner was quite elderly so probably died of natural causes.
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SUXOS woulda been on your ass in our outfit.
Mostly because of the next crew finding it with geophysics and question the validity of the previous project.
Yeah red tape erupts when you actually find the targets of interest.
There's a section of road here I've done a lot of work along called Pittman Rd. Should be called Pitbull Rd. Seems far and away the most common breed to be found in the neighborhood and judging from the number of Pitbull skulls I've come across working along that road, they are often left to wonder and wind up road kill. Thankfully I've never come across human remains surveying. I've stumbled on two bodies in my time, both in an advanced state of decay and I don't think there is a worse smell in the world. Definitely something you don't forget.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Had a discussion with my party chief one day about the value of a rod I had dropped as I fled a ground nest of hornets...no dead bodies though.
True.
Spent many hours in the Denver City Morgue.
The dead homeless frozen guy with mold and green algae will always be something I'm trying suppress.
I'm glad I wasn't there when he was fully thawed.
@flyin-solo?ÿ Where was "Darrell" (Paden's crew buddy) when this happened??ÿ Did he claim it as his?
My Dad had a great story that involved the rendering truck finally making it to our place to retrieve a dead cow.?ÿ It had been a few days and she was fully bloated and covered in flies.?ÿ The truck driver had spent all morning doing similar loading via cable/winch into the big dump truck and was almost completely loaded.?ÿ Dad drove down in the pasture to help him find the best route to and from.?ÿ The guy backed his truck up to her and attached the cable.?ÿ Then he noticed his watch indicating it was lunch time.?ÿ So he got his lunch box out of the cab and sat on the dead cow while eating his lunch.
Had a project at the sewage lagoons in the busting metropolis of Fairview, OK.?ÿ We had been out there a few months previous and all out control points were are there.?ÿ We were there to stake the new additions to the plant.?ÿ This was also a good place for the local rancher to drag and drop his dead livestock carcasses.?ÿ The smell could keep a hungry coyote at bay, it was bad.
We couldn't find the ONE control point we really needed.?ÿ I had to set up somewhere else and stake-out out needed CP...you guessed it...the point (with lath) was directly under a very bloated dead cow.?ÿ We improvised and set a new one.
BTW - There are two kinds of dead livestock: the may-pops and the done-popped. They both stink to high heavens.