There was a drowned squirrel in the pool that i had to retrieve. So my memory goes back to my stint with the NYC medical examiner. The task was to go throughout the city to collect corpses. The worst task was when you were called to the waterways surrounding NYC to extract "floaters. The most popular place for bodies to come up was Jamaica Bay. Following that the pylons around the bridges seemed to be magnets for waterlogged bodies.
The bodies were difficult to handle. They were bloated, odoriferous and fragile. It was not unusual that when you lifted them parts would separate.
When a call to retrieve a floater came over the radio, the race was to see who could get their last.
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