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- B00Radley, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4I don't know why i felt compelled to go watch this. It is exactly as stated, and it is completely vomit-inducing.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -2/+6This is pathetic. How many of you walk or drive past people who are hungry, homeless, and sick every day on you way to and from work, or even worse church, and offer no help at all?
Perhaps some find it amusing. I can tell you having been homeless myself more than once that it is not!! Finding a job while homeless is far easier said than done too!! Would you hire someone with dirty clothes who is unbathed and ungroomed and has no address to give? No sane person would choose to live like that. If they are homeless they are in trouble and can do nothing about it, or they are insane. Either way they deserve better if for no other reason than that they are human beings!!! I'm not a fan of government sponsored social programs, and many so called "ministries" are getting rich while offering little help to those their funding is supposedly helping.
I have never been able to walk past a homeless, hungry, or injured person with a clear conscience, and more than once have gone back to help for that reason to find them gone!! I had never seen many homeless people, having grown up in the rural south. We had the two or three "odd balls" that small towns have, and my family helped them!!! When I arrived in Seattle to attend the Art institute I was appalled at the suffering I saw all around me. A middle aged woman in a wheel chair with one leg amputated, the other covered with sores, sitting outside McDonald's begging for change. She was diabetic!!! Sick and dying people everywhere I looked! Snobs walking by indifferent to their suffering.
For those of you who don't know, Seattle gets very miserable in the fall if you are on the street. I know because I wound up there!! I had bitten off more than I could chew physically and financially by naively hopping on a plane in my designer clothes with a little over $1000 total and flying from GA to Seattle, thousands of miles from anyone I knew. I was trying to work full time and go to school full time and became sick. I was walking six miles one way to work and back, working 12 and 13 hour days as a janitorial foreman in the constant rain. I was forced to drop out of school and move into a rat hole room in an old hotel that had been built in the 1910's, sharing a bathroom with everyone else in the decaying building. McDonald's had 39 cent cheeseburgers on Wednesdays then, which I bought fifty of each week and refrigerated. That was all I had to eat. I was stubborn, and was not going to be defeated. I refused to go home. I was paying $550 a month for the dump I was staying in and working my butt off doing my job and everyone else's who wouldn't work, with nothing to look forward to other than scrubbing toilets and cleaning offices while arguing with my staff who refused to work. This was not what I had in mind when I left home. I wound up deciding to move to the street and into the November rain and winds. I had had a fever and flu symptoms for about a week. I wound up walking over thirty miles that night to avoid hypothermia. Every time I thought I had found something dry to get under someone threatened to call the cops, or I panicked and moved on.
I had money in the bank (Washington Mutual), a little over $100. The bank didn't open until 9:00 AM and shortly after dawn I sank down under the awning in front to get out of the rain, waiting to withdraw my money so I could eat. I was soaked and miserable, not to mention exhausted from walking so far. I suppose I looked strange sitting there soaked on the side of the street early that morning decked out in designer leather and designer boots, and designer everything else. Some kind lady who was walking to work approached me and asked if I was OK. I explained I was waiting for the bank to open. I was too proud to ask for help. She said I looked cold and miserable, like I was in trouble. She gave me all of the money she had on her, which was two dollars. I've never been so thankful for such a small amount of money in my life!! I walked down the street to McDonald's, bought myself an Egg McMuffin for a dollar and a cup of coffee. That made me feel so much better!! And to think that I was in good shape compared to most I encountered that night!!
I finally called my family for help, after seriously considering jumping into Elliot Bay. They wired me enough money to purchase a Greyhound bus ticket and to purchase food with on the ride home. When I got home and went to the doctor I learned that the fever, headaches, coughing, etc, was from a severe case of bronchitis.
That wasn't the last time that my health and my pride got me in trouble, but it opened my eyes. The next time you walk past a person and pass judgement on them consider the fact that you could just as easily wind up in the same situation or worse!!! - Fracture98, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3I'm kind of the same way. After all, he'd likely have died long ago from gas gangrene if it weren't for those maggots debriding the necrotic flesh.
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3It wasn't clear enough to be truly disturbing. If it was high res on a large screen there may have been a few negative mental ramifications.
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNNNNNNOT BE UNSEEN
- ColderHotter, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Poor man. Any doctors or nurses know what's going on with this leg? Is he diabetic?
- kazz67, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Moving and, above all, thought provoking. Thank you for sharing this Mark.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Go away Captain Christianity.
- jgatz, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2prepare to puke
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3I've done more hard work in my life than you will ever do if you live to be 1000 (yes I intended to type three zeros). You are a hypocrite, a bastard, and a fool. Goodbye and good riddance.
- truman48, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Two YouTube searches will due me in "Bot Fly Removal" and "Spider Bite Puss". That is some jacked up *****!
- stonebear, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1That's right. Maggots have been an effective treatment for keeping wounds clean for thousands of years, and are still used by physicians on stubborn wounds today. Flesh eating maggots are comparatively rare, and it's clear in the video these are not of that variety.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Well, at least the maggots are keeping the flesh-eating bacteria from killing him.
- ThinkOutTheBox, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1He needs to go get that cut off.
- ath1337, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1dugg for saying "jacked up"
- kylethompson1, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Jesus ***** Christ. Its so sad that people like this can afford to have medical treatment.
- life38, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1There are just some things I know that I would prefer not to see and this was one of them.
- bullioncube, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1The maggots are eating the dead flesh in his leg, ironically they are helping his leg, maggots only eat the dead flesh, it reduces chances of gangrene and infection, but it looks like it is too late.
- stonebear, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Venomous necrotizing fascitis is rare, as it's caused by an allergic reaction to spider venom. The extensive damage seen in shock emails is not caused by the venom itself, and it does not happen in all but a very few cases. Human bot flys get a bad rap; they aren't as bad as they are cracked up to be, and have actually become quite useful medically.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Too long, didn't read. But I assume it's some fake ***** you copy and pasted from about 50 millions forums.
- bullioncube, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1NEED FOR SPREED
- CoolHandLuke70, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Yes, the maggots will clean his wound and hopefully prevent or stop gangrene. Maggots have been used for ages to do just this and they still are in parts of the world, even the U.S. -- I suspect the man was using them for this.
- mccartyba, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1I don't know whats wrong with the rest of you, but it isn't that bad. It sucks, but its gonna take much more than that to make my stomach churn.
- robanders8, on 08/17/2008, -0/+0Who needs porn when you have this vid!
- luke16, on 08/17/2008, -1/+1First i was like "damn that's gross"
But then he lifted his pants up and i was like "*****" - SeaweedWater, on 08/17/2008, -3/+1There's no way I'm reading that.
- jgatz, on 08/17/2008, -5/+2for every story like yours there is another is another of a lazy god forsaken degenerate who lives off of the hard work of others and thinks his need is above the needs of others since he has put himself into the worst possible circumstances
you did it through your own actions and deserve the consequences of living with pride
dont think your story inspires anyone
maybe that isnt the liberal digg view
but its the truth even if i get dugg down for seeing it - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -5/+131 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the [fn2] holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'
37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
41 "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'
44 "Then they also will answer [fn3] Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' 45 Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Matthew 25:31-46
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