Dead guy mistaken for Halloween decoration

That's one hell of a realistic decoration.

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A 75-year-old dead man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony
for days because neighbors thought the body was part of a Halloween
display and didn’t call police.

Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a
single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the
third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman
Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on scene Thursday when
authorities found the body.

Neighbors on the 13900 block of Bora Bora Way told Raishbrook that
they noticed the body Monday “but didn’t bother calling authorities
because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.
"The body was
in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn’t do
anything,” Raishbrook said. “It’s very strange. It did look unreal, to
be honest.”

Kind of strange that no one took a closer look and recognized him, or thought that the smell was kinda rank, even for a Halloween prop.

I was just thinking the other day about that woman that hung herself and everyone thought she was a prop too.

I'm just wondering why nobody noticed it slowly decaying, or the smell, or the animals that may have been attracted to it - let alone recognised the guy's face.

Also, do people put up Halloween decorations this early? o_o

What, I suppose NONE of you smug pricks have made this mistake before? DO YOU THINK THAT MAKES YOU BETTER THAN MIKEY?!?!?! :redangry:

Raine wrote:

Also, do people put up Halloween decorations this early? o_o

Are you kidding? People have been buying Christmas decorations for two weeks now.

Decorations go up on October 1st. Get in the holiday spirit Raine.

So, was it murder or suicide this time? Last time with the hanged woman it was suicide.

Lapin wrote:

Decorations go up on October 1st. Get in the holiday spirit Raine.

Considering they start selling Easter Eggs around February now, I shouldn't be so surprised.

But still... lolwut? I didn't really know Halloween was that big a deal.

Raine wrote:

Considering they start selling Easter Eggs around February now, I shouldn't be so surprised.

But still... lolwut? I didn't really know Halloween was that big a deal.

Dunno how it is in Australia, but in America Halloween has become one of the major holidays for selling candy.

Malganis wrote:

Raine wrote:

Considering they start selling Easter Eggs around February now, I shouldn't be so surprised.

But still... lolwut? I didn't really know Halloween was that big a deal.

Dunno how it is in Australia, but in America Halloween has become one of the major holidays for selling candy.

Basically, Halloween is either a dinner and movie night at someone's house, or a shoddy dress-up event at a pub.

That's totally happened to me before. I tried chatting up this cowboy who was leaning against a building once, but he totally turned out to be a prop.

If that pictures is of the guy (or supposed to be), how can you mistake that for a prop? There is nothing else Halloweeny around him, and I don't know... Wouldn't there be more fake blood if it was a prop?

Just... Pretty weird.

As deaths go, becoming your own Halloween decoration is pretty damn metal.

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"The body was
in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn’t do
anything,” Raishbrook said. “It’s very strange. It did look unreal, to
be honest.”

So, if it had been doing something, then it would have looked more realistic? It's a CORPSE, for crying out loud. Does it need to do a little jig for someone to notice?

OK, this story leads me to believe that in America it is commonplace to have things that look like rotting corpses on your balcony two weeks before Halloween. Um... why?

All we do in the UK is stock up on sweets so the shitty little chavlings don't egg our houses.

When I was in the US last month, my friend took me to a Halloween store. I was completely baffled when she told me it opens for business in the beginning of September each year. Americans are so weird.

It's not unusual to see Christmas decorations out on November 1st.

Aggie wrote:

It's not unusual to see Christmas decorations out on November 1st.

They arrive in August here.

Raine wrote:

Malganis wrote:

Raine wrote:

Considering they start selling Easter Eggs around February now, I shouldn't be so surprised.

But still... lolwut? I didn't really know Halloween was that big a deal.

Dunno how it is in Australia, but in America Halloween has become one of the major holidays for selling candy.

Basically, Halloween is either a dinner and movie night at someone's house, or a shoddy dress-up event at a pub.

Sounds like my Halloween last year, horror movies and booze. Was enjoyable. I am surprised my department hasn't decided to do a Halloween party this year, every other major social event has been costume.

When I first read the thread title, my first thought was this: Didn't Bones do an episode with the same premise, or at least similar? I think it was a Halloween episode where one body was found in a maze made out of hay bales and had been dead for a year. Later on in the episode, another body was found in a funhouse and that person was dead for 2 years.

Penguin wrote:

As deaths go, becoming your own Halloween decoration is pretty damn metal.

Bones actually had an episode where the body of a black metal band member was used as stage prop for live shows.

Well, at least I now know that the more bizarre scenarios on Bones can actually occur in real life. Though I don't know whether that's a good thing or not.

Rageful Jewel wrote:

When I first read the thread title, my first thought was this: Didn't Bones do an episode with the same premise, or at least similar? I think it was a Halloween episode where one body was found in a maze made out of hay bales and had been dead for a year. Later on in the episode, another body was found in a funhouse and that person was dead for 2 years.

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Thanos6 wrote:

Rageful Jewel wrote:

When I first read the thread title, my first thought was this: Didn't Bones do an episode with the same premise, or at least similar? I think it was a Halloween episode where one body was found in a maze made out of hay bales and had been dead for a year. Later on in the episode, another body was found in a funhouse and that person was dead for 2 years.

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I had forgotten about that guy. I remember seeing the episode of Wild West Tech featuring him a long time ago. Darn, now I want to see that episode again, but alas, that's not possible.

Rageful Jewel wrote:

Thanos6 wrote:

Rageful Jewel wrote:

When I first read the thread title, my first thought was this: Didn't Bones do an episode with the same premise, or at least similar? I think it was a Halloween episode where one body was found in a maze made out of hay bales and had been dead for a year. Later on in the episode, another body was found in a funhouse and that person was dead for 2 years.

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I had forgotten about that guy. I remember seeing the episode of Wild West Tech featuring him a long time ago. Darn, now I want to see that episode again, but alas, that's not possible.

I think there's a Forensic Files about him too.

Thanos6 wrote:

Rageful Jewel wrote:

Thanos6 wrote:

Rageful Jewel wrote:

When I first read the thread title, my first thought was this: Didn't Bones do an episode with the same premise, or at least similar? I think it was a Halloween episode where one body was found in a maze made out of hay bales and had been dead for a year. Later on in the episode, another body was found in a funhouse and that person was dead for 2 years.

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I had forgotten about that guy. I remember seeing the episode of Wild West Tech featuring him a long time ago. Darn, now I want to see that episode again, but alas, that's not possible.

I think there's a Forensic Files about him too.

And an episode of HBO's Autopsy

Lady Anne wrote:

Aggie wrote:

It's not unusual to see Christmas decorations out on November 1st.

They arrive in August here.

The hardware store I used to work at had a seasonal section that was Lawn & Gardening in the summer and Christmas in the winter. They started pulling L&G stuff to put out Christmas stuff on my birthday. Which is exactly six months from Christmas eve. I was appalled.

Also, doesn't this Halloween decoration body thing happen every year? I swear I've read similar stories for years.

Shit.

My personal comment to this discussion that, shit, it's not gonna be easy to carry out post-mortem and autopsy stuff when he's been dead for a week. A lot of evidence and stuff will be hard to define.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Shit.

My personal comment to this discussion that, shit, it's not gonna be easy to carry out post-mortem and autopsy stuff when he's been dead for a week. A lot of evidence and stuff will be hard to define.

And also, the health hazard of having a corpse laying around.

Now I have to wonder, what kind of people think having a fake body as a decoration is a good idea?