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Old 11-10-2012, 06:25 AM
 
Location: SE Florida
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His explanation of thinking it was part of a leftover Halloween decoration/scene could make sense depending on what else was in the yard. Some people really get carried away with that graveyard stuff.
It did say the deceased had just worked the graveyard shift.....
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Old 11-10-2012, 07:34 AM
 
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He probably sees lots of prone motionless people back at the post office and just assumed the guy was sleeping.
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Old 11-10-2012, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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His explanation of thinking it was part of a leftover Halloween decoration/scene could make sense depending on what else was in the yard. Some people really get carried away with that graveyard stuff.
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True. I think something like this happened last year, too, with a woman, but not a postal worker that saw her.

I'm sure the postal worker is sick over this.
That could be true. Some years ago, a man hung himself from a tree in a park on a busy road across from a number of houses. It was around Halloween, and people thought some kids had put a dummy in the tree. He was there half the day before someone took a closer look and realized it was a real dead human being.
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Old 11-10-2012, 07:58 AM
 
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He probably sees lots of prone motionless people back at the post office and just assumed the guy was sleeping.
Or seriously--I think I would assume the person was passed out/wasted. Used to find my ex that way. Earlier in the relationship I would check, but he was never dead, so I gave up checking.
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:11 AM
 
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It happens in foreign countries also.

Juárez Halloween 'prop' really a dead man - El Paso Times

Residents of a neighborhood in Juárez thought someone had put up a realistic Halloween decoration -- a man dressed in black hanging from a fence.

Halloweeners passed by the prop, the newspaper El Norte reported.

On Thursday, residents and officials discovered that the prop was real. It's not known whether the man committed suicide or someone killed him and hanged him there.
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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His job is to deliver mail. Reporting dead bodies is not one of his job duties. Check with union steward.
What a GREAT response!!!
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:24 AM
 
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Or seriously--I think I would assume the person was passed out/wasted. Used to find my ex that way. Earlier in the relationship I would check, but he was never dead, so I gave up checking.
Yeah. I've had this with my mother, who doesn't drink but has sleep apnea. I've seen her pass out while sitting at the computer. She also tends to go on business trips and not call, so I'm worried one day I'll get an awkward phone call from a police officer asking why no one reported my mother missing after a week.

I had a flight in recent memory where there was en elderly man sleeping. It wasn't until people were getting off the plane that anyone thought he might be dead. He wasn't though.
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:27 AM
 
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It sounds like these people are just trying to find a way to sue so they can win some big money out this man's death.
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:31 AM
 
Location: Tampa (by way of Omaha)
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The lengths some people will go to.
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Old 11-10-2012, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Not much help you can give a dead guy.
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