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[UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus
    #13381595 - 10/24/10 06:10 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13381605 - 10/24/10 06:13 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

thats crazy. what was he doing :weirdeyes:

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Fern]
    #13381612 - 10/24/10 06:15 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Um yeah make sure you post an update on this if they come out with any more info, this is a really weird story.


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Shroomerette]
    #13381645 - 10/24/10 06:24 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

PF tek?:shrug:

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: drr]
    #13381667 - 10/24/10 06:28 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

im interested also

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Shroomerette]
    #13381680 - 10/24/10 06:32 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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Um yeah make sure you post an update on this if they come out with any more info, this is a really weird story.




I agree. I'll be watching for the update Veggie. You tha man!


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: gamer4life]
    #13381908 - 10/24/10 07:16 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Leon Ferrum]
    #13381961 - 10/24/10 07:27 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Well who knows

He could have been growing some sort of deadly fungus to use as a biological weapon

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: drr]
    #13381966 - 10/24/10 07:27 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

He probably died or committed suicide amongst a grow that's all.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: jackgreen]
    #13381986 - 10/24/10 07:32 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Good thing they found him before the fungus devoured his body.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13382120 - 10/24/10 07:58 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Who knows what happened...

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.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Raw]
    #13382141 - 10/24/10 08:01 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

neighbors were saying there was alot of traffic like a drug house after a google search

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13382210 - 10/24/10 08:17 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Video update from ksl.com ...


Plus more details from The Salt Lake Tribune ...

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.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: drr]
    #13382216 - 10/24/10 08:17 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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drr said:
Well who knows

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.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13382286 - 10/24/10 08:28 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

:facepalm:

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jackgreen said:
He probably died or committed suicide amongst a grow that's all.



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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13382335 - 10/24/10 08:37 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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veggie said:
Video update from ksl.com ...





Good grief! Why don't they just evacuate the town and drop a nuke on the place?

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Le_Canard]
    #13382429 - 10/24/10 08:53 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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ToiletDuk said:
Quote:

veggie said:
Video update from ksl.com ...





Good grief! Why don't they just evacuate the town and drop a nuke on the place?




Lol ^ I bet they considered it.


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Shroomerette]
    #13382589 - 10/24/10 09:25 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

what if he was growing shrooms but they got contaminated he didn't know it ate them and died?

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: adamantasaurus]
    #13382597 - 10/24/10 09:27 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

bad trip... thought he saw leprechaun on his chest and stabbed himself trying to kill it


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Buckeye Oysters]
    #13382863 - 10/24/10 10:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: The Green Bastard]
    #13383000 - 10/24/10 11:12 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Dude died of a leg infection. Either he couldn't get antibiotics or was crazy and wouldn't get antibiotics.


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Darwin23]
    #13383512 - 10/25/10 02:11 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

yep definitely some type of sepsis caused by the wound on his leg... not smart of him to have waited that long.... well hes dead now..


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Mickalopagus]
    #13383601 - 10/25/10 02:50 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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yep definitely some type of sepsis caused by the wound on his leg... not smart of him to have waited that long.... well hes dead now..



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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: PinsWellWithOthers]
    #13383873 - 10/25/10 05:15 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

I took a whif of some penicilin mold once thinking it was bruising, needless to say i felt sick as shit all week.
I wonder if enough trich and black mold could do him in?

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Shroom Queen]
    #13383876 - 10/25/10 05:18 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Aspergillis will kill you. Other molds too.

But I'm guessing septicemia or coronary condition.


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Doc_T]
    #13387514 - 10/25/10 09:46 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

i live in utah and heard this last night that guy in the video was a tweaker and the biology major student is a tard i hate utah fuck

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: ryanchalk]
    #13387604 - 10/25/10 10:05 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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So you're saying they could be Shroomerites?


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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: Doc_T]
    #13388314 - 10/26/10 12:38 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Its unlikely but the thought also crossed my mind that maybe he died from some kind of weird contaminant fungus he grew by accident at some point during a mushroom grow. After all when your dealing with sterile medium, you could grow lots and lots of different kinds of fungi and bacteria. I'm pretty sure you could grow some pretty deadly stuff, but I'm no expert.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: veggie]
    #13392425 - 10/26/10 09:06 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Perhaps black mold or lipstick?

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #13392846 - 10/26/10 10:27 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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Perhaps black mold or lipstick?




trichoderma

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    #13392854 - 10/26/10 10:29 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

I thought trich was the green mold which causes the common cold.

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Re: [UT] Man found dead amid jars of fungus [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #13393801 - 10/27/10 03:23 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

After watching the video, i had a picture in my head of shaggy jumping into scooby-doo's arms after seeing a jar of fungus on the ground, but shaggy was a cop and scooby a drug dog.


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