I moved way too soon

Texans fight proposed sites to host 'body farm'


June 17, 2007


HOUSTON - There are a lot of necessary but unpleasant things -- landfills and chemical plants, for example -- that can cause homeowners to rush to the local zoning board to declare, "Not in my back yard!"

But some folks in the small central Texas city of San Marcos recently dodged the ultimate NIMBY nightmare: a forensic-research facility comprising dozens of dead human bodies left out in the open to rot.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-body1707jun17,0,715245,full.story


O: where I lived
X: where dead ppl were supposed to hang out