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Man found dead amid jars of fungus October 24, 2010 - deseretnews.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Police are trying to determine whether numerous jars of fungus found in an apartment are linked to a man's death.
A landlord Saturday night found the man's body in the apartment near 1200 East and 100 South, said Salt Lake Police Lt. Isaac Atencio. When officers arrived, they found a fungal growth in jars throughout the apartment.
"At that point it was determined that we needed to evacuate the apartment and the building just to make sure that we could investigate what we were looking at," Atencio said.
Tenants have been relocated for now with help of the Red Cross. Drug Enforcement Agency agents, specialists from the Utah National Guard, and Salt Lake County Health Department workers have also been helping in the investigation at the apartment.
Atencio says it could be days before investigators know what the substance is. It was unclear Sunday whether the fungus caused the man's death.
that is retarded. there is no mushroom that could kill you just by growing that he would grow on purpose. they evacuated everyone and shit that was dumb.
He could have been researching something like white truffles or growing black morels. Maybe he was learning about contaminants. Seeing as there were jars maybe there was some gourmet mushroom spawn being made. Maybe it is completely unrelated to the mushrooms and he unfortunately passed away.
A Salt Lake City apartment building was evacuated Saturday
night after a man’s body was found in his apartment with several jars
containing a possibly-hazardous fungus.
Residents were kept out of the six-unit building, at 1277 E. 100 South,
until early Sunday afternoon, said property manager Galen Ure. Teams
from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Salt Lake Valley
Health Department and a National Guard team descended on the building
Saturday evening after Ure found the man’s body.
“We’re still trying to figure out what the moldy substance is,” said
Salt Lake police Lt. Isaac Atencio. “Right now, there’s not a threat to
any other houses in the area.”
Ure said a mutual friend pointed out that no one had seen the man since
Thursday and asked Ure to check on him. When the two entered the
apartment, the man was lying in bed. He was not breathing, and his
hands were folded, Ure said.
There was no sign of a struggle, Ure said.
Police were not calling the death suspicious Sunday morning. Atencio
said an autopsy is pending.
Ure said the man, a guitar teacher in his 50s, had a large, infected
wound on his leg. The man recently complained it had not healed after
“several months” and was using a cane to walk, Ure said. Ure said he
encouraged the man to visit the nonprofit Fourth Street Clinic because
he had no health insurance.
“He was supposed to go tomorrow,” Ure said. Ure said he did not see the
jars of fungus when he went into the man’s apartment and could not
speculate on the reasons they were there.
He said he does not know why the DEA was investigating the man’s death
or the contents of his apartment, which Ure described as very small.
If he had a an infected untreated wound for months, he may have very
well died from Septicemia (Blood poisoning) or something related, and
the jars of fungus were probably just a hobby, totally unrelated to his
death.
He could have been growing some sort of deadly fungus to use as a biological weapon
typical reaction by the cops, most of the time when they find a mushroom grow its the first time they have seen a mushroom farm, thus their clueless reaction. plus their was a dead body, i am sure securing the area is standard operating procedure.
bad trip... thought he saw leprechaun on his chest and stabbed himself trying to kill it
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Sounds kinda like suicide, his hands were folded and he was laying in bed. Maybe he drank some kool aid while wearing nike sneakers?
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