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I'm Trent! Get Bent!
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<Reply # 40 on 2/2/2009 7:16 PM >
|  | | | Blah blah blah ethics blah. Next hobo I find I'm going to make a bong out of his skull.
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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imprezawrxsti
Location: Portland, OR
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nothing is true; everything is permitted
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<Reply # 41 on 2/2/2009 8:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
Blah blah blah ethics blah. Next hobo I find I'm going to make a bong out of his skull.
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QFT.
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Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
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<Reply # 42 on 2/2/2009 9:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
Blah blah blah ethics blah. Next hobo I find I'm going to make a bong out of his skull.
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Haha
We have a winner right here.
[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 43 on 2/2/2009 9:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
Blah blah blah ethics blah. Next hobo I find I'm going to make a bong out of his skull.
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And when you fall down a shaft and die, some other imbecile will come along and make one out of your skull.
It's really not a hard concept to grasp (doing the humane thing for someone who has died). If anyone has difficulty with such a concept, they should have remained in the ballsack. 
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Speed
Location: Philly area
Gender: Male
Retired Explorer
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<Reply # 44 on 2/2/2009 9:30 PM >
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oh just hush, don't be such a victim of media and hearsay.
the body wasn't overlooked. it was, however, a popsicle that wasn't going anywhere...as in walking or decomposing. dead body finders of course come under uncomfortable police questioning. is it really so ethically absurd that someone finding a human popsicle might want to take a day to think about how such a report would effect his/her life?
people find dead bodies all the time and don't call 911 right then and there. get over it and get off you high horse.
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Amen, my man...Amen!
dont know how true this is but I heard that the police were notified and it took them over 24 hours to respond.
after all this is Detroit were talkin about so it wouldnt surprise me a bit if it were infact the truth
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 45 on 2/2/2009 9:37 PM >
| | | | Posted by sudbury
And when you fall down a shaft and die, some other imbecile will come along and make one out of your skull.
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It'll work out pretty well for them. I bet they could get high off my remains w/o even supplying their own pot.
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
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Giant octo-penised rapephant
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<Reply # 46 on 2/2/2009 10:11 PM >
| | | | Next bong made out of a skull that I FIND, I'm gonna make a hobo out of it.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
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<Reply # 47 on 2/2/2009 10:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
Next bong made out of a skull that I FIND, I'm gonna make a hobo out of it.
Chris...
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That's the spirit! That is very testosteroneic!
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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Live-Bait
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<Reply # 48 on 2/3/2009 1:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
It's important to contact authorities the moment you find something like that, so that the corpse can be quickly removed to a hospital for treatment.
As many as 60% of all dead people go on to make a full recovery, if treated in time.
Not many people know that.
Chris...
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lol, awesome.
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Live-Bait
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<Reply # 49 on 2/3/2009 1:40 AM >
| | | | Posted by Speed
dont know how true this is but I heard that the police were notified and it took them over 24 hours to respond.
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true that!
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halide
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<Reply # 50 on 2/3/2009 5:32 AM >
| | | | "In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Johnnie Redding. His name is Johnnie Redding. His name is Johnnie Redding."
Police identify frozen body; family says man wasn't homeless
BY CECIL ANGEL and BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
The man whose body was found frozen inside an elevator shaft in a vacant, rundown Detroit warehouse was identified Friday as 56-year-old Johnnie Redding of River Rouge.
On Thursday, authorities speculated that Redding was likely homeless, but his brother told the Free Press on Friday that was not the case.
"That's what I don't understand. They are saying he was homeless," said Homer Redding, 59, of River Rouge. "He had too many places he could live."
Homer Redding said his brother was a graduate of River Rouge High School and worked years ago at now-closed Detroit Steel. He said Johnnie Redding then worked as a handyman.
He said the last time he saw his brother was in September on Johnnie Redding's birthday.
"He was going out to celebrate his birthday, and I was going to work," he said.
Johnnie Redding lived at various places, including the family home on Holford, as well as with friends and a sister in Georgia.
Redding's cause of death had not been determined Friday by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office.
Only his legs protruded from a pool of frozen water where his body was found Wednesday inside the warehouse on 14th and Michigan.
Homer Redding said funeral arrangements are incomplete. Johnnie Redding is survived by a daughter, Tamika.
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so unnatural to see this thief so far from its home
must we resonate that we drive it out of the loam |
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<Reply # 51 on 2/3/2009 5:41 AM >
| | | | Family: Frozen man was our Johnnie
Relatives identify body found in elevator shaft as River Rouge native, 56.
Charlie LeDuff / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- The dead man at the bottom of the elevator shaft has been identified.
For the record, his name was Johnnie. Johnnie Redding.
Redding died about a month ago, authorities surmise, when he was pushed or fell down the shaft inside an abandoned Detroit warehouse and came to rest in 5 feet of water. The weather turned blue, and Redding would become encased in a vault of ice, his shoes and shins protruding.
The world was shocked to learn that people knew that a man lay below and yet carried on with their own games and grievances, not bothering to inform the authorities. Eventually, someone with a heart called this reporter. Once located, two dozen police officers and firefighters working with chainsaws and guide rope extricated his body.
A wallet was found on the corpse. The identification told investigators the barest of facts. Name: Johnnie Lewis Redding. DOB: 09-29-1952. City of residence: River Rouge.
They know little else. Whether his was death by misadventure or by the hand of another man remains a mystery.
"He is still too frozen to even take fingerprints," said Vanessa Denha-Garmo, spokeswoman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office.
The address in the wallet leads to a small Cape Cod in River Rouge, where he once lived with his mother. For the record, her name was Orlene.
The home is now owned by his brother Homer, who along with his sister, Lillian Warren, identified the body late Friday.
Homer Redding, 59, was heart-broken but not shocked by his little brother's death.
According to him, Johnnie was a soft-hearted man who fell into a hard world and could never extricate himself from it, no matter how hard he tried. Johnnie was infected with the need for drugs and alcohol. Rundown buildings were his clubhouse.
"He chose the life for whatever reason," Redding said. "But he wasn't homeless. Please don't call him homeless. He always had a place to go. He was loved."
Johnnie Redding, according to his brother and sister, was one of those men who bounced from odd job to couch to the homeless mission and back.
He lived with his mother in River Rouge, the same house he was raised in, until she died two years ago.
It wasn't always this way for Johnnie. He worked until he was 40 at a local steel mill alongside his father. Then Johnnie's brother Marion died of an overdose.
"That's when I seen the change," Homer said. "He was very close to Marion."
Johnnie began to ping-pong in life. He would do odd jobs: gardening, plumbing, anything to get him through. When he couldn't get through, he would insinuate himself on his sister's couch and then insinuate himself on his brother's couch and then, feeling better, he would get lost again.
"Last time I saw him was in September for his birthday," Homer said. "It was all right. I haven't seen him since."
If the outpouring of phone calls and letters are any indication, then the life and sad end of Johnnie Redding reminds us that even the dirtiest life has value. There are many Johnnies out there: Victor, Kenneth, Terrence, your loved ones are asking about you.
And if you should judge Johnnie Redding harshly, his brother Homer said, remember that no man deserves to go ignored at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
"We've got to live in the world together," Homer said. "And we got to care about each other."
You can reach Charlie LeDuff at (313) 222-2071 or [email protected]
so unnatural to see this thief so far from its home
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
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<Reply # 52 on 2/3/2009 6:35 AM >
| | | | Dag yo. I'm wondering who the people who found him were, and who it was that finally called the reporter.
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<Reply # 53 on 2/3/2009 7:44 AM >
| | | | Posted by Dresden
Dag yo. I'm wondering who the people who found him were, and who it was that finally called the reporter.
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umm, the person or persons who found him.
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
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I guess.
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<Reply # 54 on 2/3/2009 8:12 AM >
| | | | Posted by Live-Bait
umm, the person or persons who found him.
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uh, like i said. the people who found him. it says they were playing hockey in there. which i know like all of the detroit local explorers do, so that really doesn't narrow it down at all lol.
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
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<Reply # 55 on 2/3/2009 11:45 AM >
| | | | So he basically was homeless, the family just won't admit it? Sounds like he did some crashing on their couches, but this guy did some roaming around too. Not homeless as most of us may think, but still homeless.
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halide
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<Reply # 56 on 2/3/2009 5:12 PM >
| | | | It does not appear that the man found last week frozen at the bottom of an elevator shaft was murdered, authorities said.
"There is no preliminary indication of homicide," said Vanessa Denha-Garmo, a spokeswoman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner.
While the complete results of the autopsy of the man, Johnnie Redding, are not expected for days, an initial examination of his icy body showed he had not been shot, stabbed or the victim of blunt trauma.
Redding, 56, was discovered last week, frozen in a vault of ice in a warehouse next to the old Michigan Central Rail Depot, only his shoes and shins visible. Investigators surmise his body lay in the warehouse's flooded basement for more than a month. He was wearing work gloves and may have died while trying to scrounge scrap metal, they said.
"I'm glad to hear it wasn't murder," said his brother Homer Redding of River Rouge. "At least there's that."
A prominent musician has offered to pay for Johnnie Redding's funeral, and a Port Huron funeral home will donate a casket.
so unnatural to see this thief so far from its home
must we resonate that we drive it out of the loam |
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<Reply # 57 on 2/3/2009 5:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by Dresden
uh, like i said. the people who found him. it says they were playing hockey in there. which i know like all of the detroit local explorers do, so that really doesn't narrow it down at all lol.
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yeah my bad, i read your post wrong. sorry for the 'tude. this topic and all the chatter around it has really gotten under my skin. i just slapped myself on the wrist for you.
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Navi23
Location: The Calculus Rock
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 58 on 2/3/2009 6:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by Dresden
uh, like i said. the people who found him. it says they were playing hockey in there. which i know like all of the detroit local explorers do, so that really doesn't narrow it down at all lol.
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Personally, I'd put it at about 10% of them play hockey.
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Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
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<Reply # 59 on 2/3/2009 7:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
So he basically was homeless, the family just won't admit it? Sounds like he did some crashing on their couches, but this guy did some roaming around too. Not homeless as most of us may think, but still homeless.
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What difference does it make if he was homeless or not?
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