Chip off the old block

Day #12 of 31 days of Halloween

Chip off the old block

Here is an image anyone over 25 knows like the back of their hand. The Final Destination Franchise did such a good job on playing on fears rooted in reality of things that could actually...possibly...maybe...happen.

Did you know the Final Destination deaths are actually based on 300,000 ER statistics and that some of the scenes have actually happened in real life. Oddly enough the one with the logging truck has yet to be on record for any known injuries or deaths

Especially fun living in the the North when this is the common view. Lets flip this a little bit. Speaking of wood.....

Anyone remember Fargo? When Gaear Grimsrud feeds Carl Showalter into the woodchipper. Movies based even loosely on reality are not new but what about when they are completely fictional and yet are one of the most common and viscous work place injury that you can imagine.

Can this happen? Yes. Has it? YES! Both accidentally and on purpose.

So what happens? A person wouldn't fare so well no matter what end goes in first. To chop at or twist a bone, you only need (on average) about 9 pounds of force to break it. The forces inside the jaws of a woodchipper happen perpendicular to the length of the bone, which would result in pulverizing the skeleton. The bones would be taken care of to an extent, but what about the rest? The body would basically be shredded. Skin first like consistency of a soft cheese, next the blood, fluids and fats would oddly enter a centrifuge style state and briefly mix while in air only to seperate like oil and water again as they hit the ground, the organs would be liquefied instantly as they are our squishy bits and than finallly the bones.... Not to the point of dust tho but to sharp shards and chips of calicum, collagen like a a salad bar of human remains.

It is basically "evidence" spread all over the place. It also doesn’t get rid of the body at the cellular level, often leaving hair and nails intact, as well as providing the authorities with a nice sampling of blood, tooth fragments, and bone shards to be easily packaged into little evidence bags which in turn resembles a chunky salsa.

Richard Crafts was proof that a murder trial can still happen without a body. He murdered his wife, Helle Craft in 1986, froze her remains and proceeded to use a wood chipper to dispose of her. Effectively spreading her remains over many communities in Connecticut

The moral to this whole story isn’t just to NOT put people through woodchippers. In fact, don’t murder anyone. It makes quite a mess, and it’s way too hard to cover it up.

All this talk of food is making me hungry!! Shredded taco salad for dinner sounds like a good idea!