Dead Body Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

ravenvii · Oct 28, 2005, 05:49 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/28/mis....ap/index.html

EricNau · Oct 28, 2005, 06:08 PM

That is just disturbing!!!

tiny_101 · Oct 28, 2005, 06:56 PM

Hmm, that is really quite disturbing as EricNau said. How is it possible to mistake a body from decorations, especially if the corpse isn't that old... ?

brendan67 · Oct 28, 2005, 07:01 PM

hey

very sad story

regards

~Shard~ · Oct 28, 2005, 07:08 PM

Yikes, that's just tragic. You would think someone would have been playing closer attention, but I guess with it being Hallowe'en and all. That, and people tend to be indifferent and lazy at times...

pknz · Oct 28, 2005, 07:18 PM

For a part, that is slightly hilarious. Yes my dark sardistic mind finds it funny. But it is quite sad at the same time.

agreenster · Oct 28, 2005, 07:23 PM

"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

Well, she was right, wasn't she?

Lord Blackadder · Oct 28, 2005, 07:27 PM

I have to admit I find the concept, if not the actual event, quite funny. Call me sick.

Dagless · Oct 28, 2005, 07:30 PM

Its like with bonfire night in the UK, you could easily shoot someone and the rest of the world would mistake it for another firework in the distance.

i'm more a crossbow person myself

GroundLoop · Oct 28, 2005, 07:32 PM

Wow. I guess things like this should be expected though. It is tragic though.

Hickman

MongoTheGeek · Oct 28, 2005, 08:49 PM

Its happened before. Its a reasonably common occurrence in haunted houses put on by amateurs. They do a fake hanged body and then don't get the safety harness right and the person actually hangs.

EricNau · Oct 29, 2005, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MongoTheGeek

Its happened before. Its a reasonably common occurrence in haunted houses put on by amateurs. They do a fake hanged body and then don't get the safety harness right and the person actually hangs.

That's awful

Deepdale · Oct 29, 2005, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MongoTheGeek

Its happened before. Its a reasonably common occurrence in haunted houses put on by amateurs. They do a fake hanged body and then don't get the safety harness right and the person actually hangs.

That would have been right up Vincent Price's alley.

carpe diem · Oct 29, 2005, 03:55 AM

That is just funny and stupid, however tragic it it.

Abstract · Oct 29, 2005, 10:44 AM

Imagine if she hung herself because nobody cared about her and she didn't get enough attention, and then she hangs herself and people STILL ignore her.

Funny, no?

maya · Oct 29, 2005, 10:49 AM

Sounds like a CSI episode.

"and nothing more."

EricNau · Oct 29, 2005, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abstract

Imagine if she hung herself because nobody cared about her and she didn't get enough attention, and then she hangs herself and people STILL ignore her.

Funny, no?

That is pretty funny - actually really funny! (still sad though)

~Shard~ · Oct 29, 2005, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abstract

Imagine if she hung herself because nobody cared about her and she didn't get enough attention, and then she hangs herself and people STILL ignore her.

Funny, no?

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Kobushi · Oct 29, 2005, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tiny_101

Hmm, that is really quite disturbing as EricNau said. How is it possible to mistake a body from decorations, especially if the corpse isn't that old... ?

It's more possible than if the corpse was getting older..... I can barely handle opening the mystery leftovers in the fridge sometimes.

Kobushi · Oct 29, 2005, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by agreenster

"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

Well, she was right, wasn't she?

Hee hee....(You do realize I'm going to hell, now.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Blackadder

I have to admit I find the concept, if not the actual event, quite funny. Call me sick.

sicko.

Quote:

Originally Posted by abstract

Imagine if she hung herself because nobody cared about her and she didn't get enough attention, and then she hangs herself and people STILL ignore her.

Funny, no?

LOL (Now i'm really going to hell)

I suppose making some sort of piñata comment would crossing the line.....
*sigh* off to go send a happygram. Maybe there's still hope...

PlaceofDis · Oct 29, 2005, 01:12 PM

very sad, and crazy. what a world we live in.

ReSiDeNtGrOuCh · Oct 30, 2005, 08:19 AM

Wow, this is one for the books.

Moxiemike · Oct 30, 2005, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by maya

Sounds like a CSI episode.

"and nothing more."

i wouldn't be surprised if it turns up next year around october in a CSI episode. I'll guess it to be on CSI:Miami

Jon'sLightBulbs · Oct 30, 2005, 05:47 PM

As Rover chewed on a bone, little Daisy noticed the pinata in a nearby tree was missing a foot. "Mama. That's not candy coming out. It's blood!"

GFLPraxis · Oct 30, 2005, 06:34 PM

It's sad, but funny due to irony. The actual event itself (someone dying) is not funny at all and quite sad, but the irony if the situation is. Don't feel bad about thinking so.

Quote:

Its happened before. Its a reasonably common occurrence in haunted houses put on by amateurs. They do a fake hanged body and then don't get the safety harness right and the person actually hangs.

I actually saw a thing on CourtTV where there was a mummified body hanging in a haunted house that was over a hundred years old. Because it was hardened and shriveled it didn't look like a real body till some visitors were toying with it and the arm broke off and there was muscles and bone underneath. They later traced it to an outlaw over a hundred years ago who was shot fleeing police.

Quite disturbing actually.

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