Getting the Purple from Greens

05/20/11 4:02pm

Getting the Purple from Greens

GETTING THE PURPLE FROM GREENS “He developed a purple dot right between the eyes, and within 2 hours it spread over his face and his abdominal parts and within 6 hours he was completely purple.” — Matthew Finn IV, telling reporter Sally MacDonald what happened after his father got a small cut on his leg while fishing in a freshwater tributary of Greens Bayou. The elder Finn died Monday, 11 days after the incident. His family blames an aggressive bacteria — which his doctors have been so far unable to identify — for the death. [MyFox Houston] Photo: MyFox Houston

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8 Comment

commonsense May 20, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Didn’t we all learn as kids to Stay Out of the Bayou!!! HPD pulls out a dead body out of a bayou each week on average, not to mention all the chemical runoff and dead animals.
Wendy May 20, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Oh my goodness! THAT is scary!! A dead body each week on average…wow, yuck?
TheNiche May 20, 2011 at 10:31 pm

Amateurish hearsay is disturbingly pervasive.
anon May 20, 2011 at 11:52 pm

It’s hard to make a snarky comment, since someone is dead and all. May he rest in peace. But fishing in the bayou? Really? Surely he was not going to eat anything he caught there.
Jason May 21, 2011 at 1:09 pm

From today’s headlines:

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/ktrk-womans-body-found-in-buffalo-bayou-in-downtown-houston/
miss_msry May 21, 2011 at 5:13 pm

My sympathy to the family for their loss.

In the ’60s it was known that falling into the ship channel was a sure-fired trip to the hospital. I thought things had gotten better.
Ian V May 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Well that is fairly terrifying. Yeesh.
belinda May 25, 2011 at 10:13 pm

Please everyone stay out of lakes like this one. Matt is dearly missed.His love will forever be in our hearts.Stop dwelling on how it happened etc….Learn from this tragedy in memory of him. Belinda /stepmother in Alaska