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Victims' bodies still at New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel months after collapse

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Victims' bodies still at New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel months after collapse | US news | The Guardian

Wind blows tarp off one of two bodies amid ruins
Unstable building to be imploded in March


Three months after the partial collapse of the Hard Rock hotel construction site on the tip of New Orleans’s historic French Quarter, a macabre reminder of the tragedy that claimed three lives was visible to passersby this week.

Among the collapsed building’s twisted remains and rubble, the dangling legs of a wedged corpse were revealed to the public after a tarpaulin sheet covering the body was blown away by wind.
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N'Awlins is not my favorite city. Been there many times for business. Gotten mugged once & got fleeced at a camera store. Dangerous after dark. Corrupt police. Otherwise OK.
 
No reason to risk other lives to recover the body of someone already dead in such in unstable building.
 
Is that the hotel collapse that followed an illegal's report of structural problems (whereupon the employer/builder retaliated by going to ICE)? A name is on the tip of my tongue...
 
No reason to risk other lives to recover the body of someone already dead in such in unstable building.

GTFOH. That building will be no less unstable in December 2020 than it is today. All the precautions they will need to take in December 2020 could be taken right now to remove the men from the wreckage.

I mean, hell, there is ample reason, if the wreckage is really that unstable, to remove it right now before it collapses on surrounding buildings.
 
GTFOH. That building will be no less unstable in December 2020 than it is today. All the precautions they will need to take in December 2020 could be taken right now to remove the men from the wreckage.

I mean, hell, there is ample reason, if the wreckage is really that unstable, to remove it right now before it collapses on surrounding buildings.

They are working on removing the building and it won't happen until May and may involve demolishing 3 surrounding buildings as well to make room for the heavy cranes. They cannot implode it. The thing has to be disassembled which will will first require additional structural components to be added to stabilize the structure.
 
No reason to risk other lives to recover the body of someone already dead in such in unstable building.

I've rode down on the headache ball to sit beside a body so the ravens wouldn't land on it while we waited for the EMT's to come and risk their lives recovering it.
It's what you do.
 
They are working on removing the building and it won't happen until May and may involve demolishing 3 surrounding buildings as well to make room for the heavy cranes. They cannot implode it. The thing has to be disassembled which will will first require additional structural components to be added to stabilize the structure.

Again, is all excuses for why they aren't acting quickly. Ground zero was well past the halfway stage of cleanup by the time these nitwits are planning to start.

Just saying that they are slow and incompetent isn't an excuse for slowness and incompetence.
 
I've rode down on the headache ball to sit beside a body so the ravens wouldn't land on it while we waited for the EMT's to come and risk their lives recovering it.
It's what you do.

Down in New Orleans, apparently, it's OK to let the body get slowly eaten by vermin so long as their is a tarp over it.
 
I've rode down on the headache ball to sit beside a body so the ravens wouldn't land on it while we waited for the EMT's to come and risk their lives recovering it.
It's what you do.

In this case they are keeping it protected by tarps until it can be recovered
 
In this case they are keeping it protected by tarps until it can be recovered

Oh please, a tarp doesn't protect anything. The tarp just keeps people from having to see the body decomposing and being eaten by vermin.
 
In this case they are keeping it protected by tarps until it can be recovered

If you can take a picture of it from off-site you can recover it. Cost a few bucks, yeah, but so what? Bill the company responsible and if it bankrupts them, so what?
 
Again, is all excuses for why they aren't acting quickly. Ground zero was well past the halfway stage of cleanup by the time these nitwits are planning to start.

Just saying that they are slow and incompetent isn't an excuse for slowness and incompetence.

Time is not of the essence here.
 
If you can take a picture of it from off-site you can recover it. Cost a few bucks, yeah, but so what? Bill the company responsible and if it bankrupts them, so what?

Then go recover the bodies and send them a bill, spiderman.
 
Then go recover the bodies and send them a bill, spiderman.

No problem. Just keep OSHA away for the day. And give me a crane operator old enough to have hoisted the connectors on the ball.
If you can see the body, and the mayor asked that people not take pictures of it, if you can put a crane on the street and drop a headache ball on it there's no excuse not to recover it. No excuse except the cost and even there we're talking thousands, not hundreds of thousands.
 
No problem. Just keep OSHA away for the day. And give me a crane operator old enough to have hoisted the connectors on the ball.
If you can see the body, and the mayor asked that people not take pictures of it, if you can put a crane on the street and drop a headache ball on it there's no excuse not to recover it. No excuse except the cost and even there we're talking thousands, not hundreds of thousands.

I've seen the pictures. The victim was caught between two floors, with his lower body hanging out of the wreckage.
 
Then go recover the bodies and send them a bill, spiderman.

Really? This is the hill you want to fight on? What is wrong with you?
 
It is if you actually believe their excuses. They are lazy and incompetent.

They did an assessment that determined that the building cannot be safely imploded and now they are in the process of stabilizing it to bring it down in sections. If it weren't so tall, they could just bring in that giant T-rex claw and rip the thing apart.
 
Really? This is the hill you want to fight on? What is wrong with you?

You are the one claiming that because people can photo the bodies they can be recovered. If that were the case then the tactical rescue people sent to cover the body up again would have just recovered it. Perhaps you should go show them how it is done.
 
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