Most Bizarre News Story I've Read Today

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/05/16/woman-sat-dead-in-front-of-tv-for-42-years-86908-20419070/

Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years.

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Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

I feel rather sad for her. Dies at 42 and no one notices.

soulcamp said, (202 days ago)

Holy WTF in a handbasket!

ABoyNamedArt said, (202 days ago)

The weirdest shit always happens in Britain.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

Actually it happened in Croatia.

ABoyNamedArt said, (202 days ago)

Even better.

seemingly satanic said, (202 days ago)

Except that this happened in Croatia.

Pagne said, (202 days ago)

Wow. The closest thing I've seen is a year. This woman died on the toilet and no one missed her. Her neighbors also failed to smell her decomposing body. By the time the ME found her she was totally skeletonized with her legs on the floor and pelvis on the toilet. The top half of her had collapsed into a pile next to the toilet. It was fucking surreal.

seemingly satanic said, (202 days ago)

Oops, sorry for the reiteration.

kmon said, (202 days ago)

How did the police not check her house when she was filed missing?

Pagne said, (202 days ago)

I have a feeling that missing persons aren't a big priority for Croatian authorities.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

@katymonster: It's pretty baffling that they wouldn't have checked.

Though I'm not sure that police on the other side of the Iron Curtain were ever that scrupulous about finding missing persons.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

This was in 1966 after all.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

@Pagne: Your story, also fucking bizarre.

I didn't think that bodies skeletonized that quickly, though.

Merry JasAsian v2.0 said, (202 days ago)

I guess it was communism and she didn't need to pay rent? I'm pretty sure they'd break-into my place after two months of no rent.

Pagne said, (202 days ago)

@CM: In the desert a body can completely skeletonize in 7 days. By contrast, an body that has been enbalmed and buried might not completely skeletonize even after 100 years. A coroner in Lousiana disinterred the body of a civil war solider from an unmarked grave and before they closely analyzed his clothing it was thought that he was a recent murder victim.

cupcakes, really. said, (202 days ago)

Am I the only one who finds these stories FUCKING FASCINATING?

Maybe I'm a secret internet necromancer.

cupcakes, really. said, (202 days ago)

The acronym for which is SIN.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

No. You are so not the only one.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (202 days ago)

@Pagne: Thank you. And may I say (though I know it's your job and all) it's really freakin' cool that you know that sort of thing.

Pagne said, (202 days ago)

@Johnny: Dude, I do this for a living. You're not eh only one.
@CM: Thank you. It is really freakin cool. :)

cupcakes, really. said, (202 days ago)

We should form a band of seven and call ourselves the seven deadly SINs.

ipe said, (202 days ago)

Made me wish there was a documentary crew, possibly with Geraldo, filming the discovery of the 1966 time capsule.

purl said, (202 days ago)

and do you know what? during that entire time, there was absolutely nothing on!

purl said, (202 days ago)

I seem to remember hearing this story a few weeks ago, but it added that the neighbours finally asked people to check in because they wanted her apartment

Coin-Operated Boy said, (202 days ago)

That is just the most bungest shit. Typical Croatians.

And yes, before people go off at me for being a racialist, I do know a few Croatian people.

kmon said, (201 days ago)

@ Johnny - SINner fits you.

@Bustie and Pagne - yea, I'm sure missing persons wasn't too high on the officers list. But still....whoever reported her missing? They never came by her house? Noticed a smell?

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (201 days ago)

@katymonster: Maybe Croatia was just smelly at the time?

kmon said, (201 days ago)

@ Bustie - you should be a detective.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (201 days ago)

I may have missed my calling.

0guninnayouface0 said, (201 days ago)

one might argue people do this every day

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