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Michigan police said one person has been arrested in connection with the gruesome discovery of the remains of three elderly men in the basement of a Detroit home.Police were called to the home on Edsel St. Wednesday at about 1 p.m. on a report of a missing person, when they were approached by a man who said he had been attacked at a nearby home.'They were left in a basement area covered in old, dirty clothing, and one person was covered in a carpet.'When they went inside the home on Edsel, they found the three bodies in the basement."When units finally got inside, the minute you opened the door, you can see the blood, it's just a horrific scene," said First Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald."Not to go into too much detail on it, but we believe at this point they all met the fate of blunt-force trauma. There were some stab wounds on a couple of them," he added. "They were left in a basement area covered in old, dirty clothing, and one person was covered in a carpet."The family of one of the victims identified him as Norman Hamlin, a 66-year-old military veteran. The other two victims were identified as 65-year-old Mark Barnett and 72-year-old William Barrett.Neighbors near the home said it was a known drug house."There's some speculation, that I don't like to get into too much, that possibly some drugs were used in the location," Fitzgerald said, noting that nothing was found in that regard.The suspect was described as a 27-year-old black man and was detained on Thursday. He had a connection to the victims, according to police, as well as a criminal history that included carjacking, armed robbery, felony firearm, and fleeing from police."It was a brutal scene inside, just awful," Fitzgerald said.RELATED: Video shows wild car chase after rescue of 11-year-old from alleged kidnapper and torturer One of the neighbors said Hamlin was a good man but had fallen into drug use. "He got involved in the wrong way and actually seemed to have set up a safe environment for people to come over and use," said Joel Bond to WDIV-TV. "Of course, as we know, that’s dangerous. You don’t know who’s coming into your house." The man who approached the police told them he had been hit in the head twice with a hammer, but that appeared to be unrelated to the three deaths.Hamlin was a Marine veteran who had served in the Persian Gulf War and was the owner of the home.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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“They are not elegant, nor are they always comfortable. But neither are they mass-produced: they are individuals.” – Michael Woolf, Bastard Chairs     The hybrid, vernacular seats seen in Hong Kong’s backstreets and in mainland China are known as ‘Bastard Chairs’ . These improvised seats have been assembled and repaired by local residents using whatever materials were available. There are plastic backs grafted onto wooden stools, and metal legs bolted into mismatched frames.. German photojournalist Michael Wolf (1954-2019) spotted them.   “They are not elegant, nor are they always comfortable. But neither are they mass-produced: they are individuals. In China, the objects used for sitting are as manifold as the occasions for sitting. Each chair and stool has its own character, is a companion, a bastard, or a venerable elder. Their occupants sit close to the floor, introspective, watching the world go by, without the pressure of time.” – Michael Wolf, Sitting in China     “I actually collect these chairs – I’d buy them from the owner or trade them for a new chair – and at first it was just a gut thing, I found them beautiful. But later I realised they showed a transition point of China at the time: that the people are resourceful, thrifty and had time to sit, because the state-owned enterprises were going bankrupt and there was a lot of unemployment. So the chairs became a metaphor for China in the 1990s.” – Michael Wolf     Wolf was a photojournalist in the days when budgets were generous. But things changed. “From having unlimited resources and spending three months on a story, after 11 September 2001 and the dotcom bubble it all changed. My editor would say we’ll give you maximum 10 days, then it shrank to seven days, and the work became less interesting for me. So in 2003 I started to pursue my own projects, and I haven’t done any commissions since then.” Hong Kong became a rich place to explore. ‘”I think I know 95 per cent of Hong Kong’s back alleys now,” he said. “I’ll jump onto a bus and walk six hours in a day to find an interesting area.”     His artistic work includes 32 books and many photographic projects. The post Bastard Chairs: Homemade Seats On Hong Kong Streets appeared first on Flashbak.

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