Cleanup efforts lead to grisly discovery

 

Huffy, seen here on his boat, made a ghastly discovery in the river this week.
Photos by Persephone Bolero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Bolero News Services

Editors note: This story contains graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised.  

AMAZON — When a local man endeavored to clean up the Amazon River, he set out to make the river safer. After what he hauled up onto his boat this week, he said he's reconsidering whether he will continue.

The man, known mononymously as Huffy, said he saw how often people were getting injured in and around the river, in the course of daily activities such as swimming and fishing, and decided to do something about it.

"Fishing and swimming had become dangerous. I cut myself nearly every time, just trying to cross a river," Huffy said, showing off bandages over a variety of wounds he said he received in the river from these activities.

Huffy owns his own boat, which he uses to provide
free river cleanup services.

Huffy said the entire operation is paid for out of his own pocket without any support from grants or other fundraising efforts. However, he's now thinking about giving it up. 

"I found something I wish I could put back. Or at least never have pulled it up," Huffy said. 

That thing was a shipping container full of dead bodies. The bodies were in a state of decomposition, and the victims appear to have tortured prior to death. 

Four or more bodies were discovered
inside the container that was pulled from the river.

Besides the disturbing discovery, Huffy said there are other hassles to the operation. 

"There's the boating hazards. And nosy Natives. Like the Tapi, who hate any sort of mechanical machine. But I usually carry my gun with me and they leave me alone," Huffy said. 

Prior to his altruistic cleanup endeavor, Huffy had a logging operation, with the goal of setting up a resort to compete with the Red Coast Resort. The business faced a number of cost overruns related to protests from natives, who hate any kind of civilized progress, and eventually had to be shuttered. 

 

Local businessman Huffy