Words fail me

[karohemd]

I hope none of you have ever eaten a kebab at this place in Wolverhampton.

ETA: Warning: Comments that could possibly described as tasteless within. ;o)

Comments

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

WTF...WHAT WAS IT EVEN DOING THERE???

[demondaz.livejournal.com]

That's grim! Glad I don't eat kebabs anymore!

D

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

The "'awful smell', thawing meat which was oozing blood and covered in flies, and a man smoking and spitting on the filthy floor" bothers me more than the corpse. After all, a dead body is just meat, and there's plenty of that in a kebab anyway (though hopefully the one is not sourced from the other).

Still, he you'd have thought that he cadaver guess that Environmental Health would have thought it a grave matter.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I need a stiff drink after reading that comment!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a quite worrying lack of explanation why there was a dead body...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

A controversial and probably not quite accurate view. Meat fit for consumption isn't actively decaying as much as a fresh body so you can get contamination when flies go from one to the other.
However, considering the description I doubt the meat was fit for consumption, even without a dead body in the same room.

The interesting question really is why there was a dead body in the first place. Was it the great uncle who had passed away? A customer with a severe case of food poisoning?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think it's been updated as it now says:

"A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said the death had not been found to be suspicious and no further action had been taken over the matter."

which doesn't really explain much.

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

I've not eaten there, but I have driven past it!

Blimey.

Sounds like the sort of place where nobody would even consider a dead body outré, judging from the description of the state of hygiene there :S

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

Councillor Barry Findlay, Wolverhampton City Council's cabinet member for the environment, said the council would not tolerate the public being put at risk.'

Really...

The court also heard that in a nearby room were a large number of flies which were landing on food. There was also an "awful smell", thawing meat which was oozing blood and covered in flies, and a man smoking and spitting on the filthy floor.

This has nothing to do with the body...

Environmental health officers had been visiting the shop since October 2007, the court heard.

So, despite visiting this place for a year, it was still a massive health risk.

Screw not eating at that shop, don't eat any place Wolverhampton City Council are responsible for!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

The only circumstance I can think of for having a body in a house is if they were having a funeral with an open casket in the immediate future.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

At least it wasn't a customer who had died of food poisoning. Hopefully.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I doubt the meat was fit for consumption, even without a dead body in the same room

Indeed. That was just the final nail in the coffin!

Ahem. What I find curious is that the guy was comfortable enough with a corpse on his sofa to carry on prepping food anyway. It says that it was an employee... I'm trying to picture the circumstances... "Oh crap, one of the staff has just died, and we open in half an hour. Oh well, misplaced sentiment won't help him now, and these kebabs ain't gonna make themselves!"

[emperor]

They probably pay taxes, too.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I don't know, it's not as if the dead have a vested interest in keeping the NHS going. If that's not an incentive to dodge taxes, what is?

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

Meat fit for consumption isn't actively decaying as much as a fresh body

Not true, I'm afraid. The skin forms a natural barrier against a lot of the airborne bacteria which cause decomposition. Rotting in a body usually starts from within, usually in the bloodstream. The outside of meat has no protection, and would start to go off quicker.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Erm, true. I think I was trying to get at something else but I'm not sure what...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You would hope the fresh meat would be in a fridge?