Hey, it's a twofer. Also:

Armless, One-Legged Man Leads Police on High-Speed Chase.

Bonus question: How does a one-legged man kick a police officer?

Now with extra added http://!

How does a one-legged man kick a police officer?

Verrrrrry carefully.

Also: The thought of enough buzzards to screw up airline flight patterns is disturbing, even without the rotting bodies.

Everyone downwind from the proposed site must be breathing a sigh of relief right about now.

Things to do after I die:
donate self to science

You would be surprised what even a small bird can do to a jet engine. It ain't pretty. In fact, the commercial jet engines I worked on have kevlar jackets around the fan casing in case one of the blades gets thrown - jacket catches the fan blade so it doesn't go through the wing or fuselage.

Which reminds me, I was at an airport one day when a small bizjet aborted its takeoff because something got ingested into the engine. Turned out to be a piece of paper, but it didn't stop the mechanics from tearing the engine apart.

"Six to nine bodies" is a far cry from "hundreds."

Link.

I don't know where I got hundreds. I could have sworn I read it, but it's not there. Wasn't trying to be sensationalist -- just subconsciously extrapolated, I guess.

Pups was probably writing knowing that you need hundreds of bodies to have a body farm. Six to nine is more like a body garden or something. Body pot... Body windowbox... Body something or another. Something much smaller than a farm. :)

Body container garden.

The article that Citrus linked confuses me, though. How is TX's climate so vastly different from Tennessee's or North Carolina's? Alaska's, maybe. Massachusetts'. That's where we need to be thinking body garden, people.

Pups was probably writing knowing that you need hundreds of bodies to have a body farm.

Exactly! I mean, I have 10 pepper plants and 12 tomato plants, but I don't call my yard a fucking farm!

Maybe I should get some...

Oh, never mind.

Bodies make excellent fertilizer, mudpuppie.

Keep that in mind.

"...How is TX's climate so vastly different from Tennessee's or North Carolina's?..."

Different fauna, particularly. Middle stage time of death estimates are done by staging the development of maggots, beetles, and other fauna that use carcasses as both food and habitat. Finding eggs and mature maggots in a decomposing body means that death occurred at least 1 full maggot generation before, while eggs only would mean the body was comparitively fresh. Examining the soil under the body for colonization by other fauna can reveal additional information about whether the death occurred in situ, or at a different location.

For these reasons, localization of decay processes vastly improve forensics, compared to data gathered in different climate zones, soil conditions, and habitats. Given the size and variability of Texas geography, it could probably justify a couple of body farms, itself. Things rot differently around dry El Paso than they probably do in Galveston or Austin.

Coupla bodies = whatever.
Hundreds = cool!
Therefore, El Pups should write for the Times.
'nuff said.

Oh, so it's just a hobby body farm.

Or perhaps a "gentleman's body farm".

youngergirl, you killed me with your comment. "Body windowbox". Hee! I got the giggles for...well, still!