Texas State University was going to bury cadavers in a 17-acre plot of land near the San Marcos Municipal Airport.
Was is the operative word. Apparently there is a fear of buzzards interfering with the local aircraft....not eating the cadavers.
Buzzard proof cases, razor wire fences and grass buffers were planned to keep the birds away from the dead guys...but nobody could ensure the buzzards would not get in the way of local pilots and their little mechanical birds.
What I wondered was what in the world they were hoping to grow with the cadavers in the first place?
Texas State University wanted to be the third such 'body farm' that studied human decomposition to help police better determine when and how someone died or was killed.
Yuck!
I wonder, did they stab some, burn some, poison some, strangle some...and then lay them out in the field and check on from them from time to time?
"Yo, Mary Sue. Wanna go out tonight?"
"Sorry, Bubba, gotta go watch Robbite rot."
University of Tennessee in Knoxville has been watching bodies rot for a quarter of a century and Western Carolina University started doing it last year.
I think I went to school much too early.
Would you like to study how bodies decompose in school?
Some profs are probably wondering how that dead beat in the back row keeps himself so preserved. Alcohol maybe....
For now...the buzzards are circling Texas State University's plan.
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