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PUERTO RICO’S MORGUE is overflowing with unclaimed bodies, the result of budget cutbacks in the US territory since last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria.
The bodies of 307 people are now being kept in the morgue and in four refrigerated containers in a nearby lot, the authorities said.
“The situation in light of the high volume of pending cases, lack of space and specialized personnel requires immediate attention,” legislator Juan Oscar Morales Rodriguez said on Twitter after inspecting the morgue.
The head of Puerto Rico’s office of forensic sciences Monica Menendez acknowledged that the mortuary has run out of room and that 52 unclaimed bodies have had to be stored in refrigerated containers.
She confirmed that because of budget cuts her office has lacked the specialised personnel to handle the caseload since the hurricane.
“We’ve never been in this kind of situation before and we don’t want to reach this point,” she said.
The official death count from the hurricane is 64, even though a recent study by Harvard University and Puerto Rico’s Carlos Albizu University estimates that there were as many as 4,645 hurricane-related deaths, many of them attributable to the collapse of the electric power grid.
Hurricane Maria struck the island 20 September as a devastating Category Four storm.
- © AFP, 2018
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For those wondering why it’s receving this much attention, basically it’s a hardware hackers dream come true. If it is a true development model then a jailbreak for the newest iPhone would be a breeze for them.
110% guarantee? Well that is enough for me.
I lost my job as a maths lecturer a few years back. Never understood why. I always gave 110%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4QMS0Zh_w
You should enjoy this.
You’d be unwise to think that this isn’t worth the money. If a good developer can get a hold of it and alter the software they could make a lot more then 48k out of it.
They’d make there money back in months if used right,and can continue making money rapidly for at very least 18-26 months and who knows, it can continue making the buyer money for long time as it’s the latest phone they have that the diagnostics on, which is why price is so high,,
YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY
Best of luck to the buyer.
Probably just apple bidding to get it back and Samsung bidding against them to get hold of it.
48k … Get a life
Looks like kimberlyk1018 may end up facedown lying in some american wasteland if this sale goes ahead….
Provably someone from Apple buying it back
*probably
Can anyone else see the hidden box of Cherios in the images?
Madness to pay that to the ordinary joe soap.
But to a developer or hacker it’s priceless.
There’s no such thing as 110% :) Seriously though, why would anybody want this with no guarantee that it will make calls or that the camera will work? I wouldn’t give her a chip butty for that ….
The context was wrong, but no more wrong than your assertion that there is no such such thing as 110%. What is 11/10 expressed as a percentage?
^This.
And not sure if you’re serious regarding the camera and calls. If so…lol
You might have been sick the day we did 110% in school.
You wouldn’t see any other phone prototype fetch this price. It’s a tech geeks wet dream.
There’s already been over 100 bids!! Why??!
Some eejit will probably pay it tho !
Now €100k
Would be cool to have but definitely not at that price, If it’s authenticated as been real collectors will go nuts for it
have your say