Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

[EdwardKnoxII]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_...rf_woman_hanged

 

Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

 

FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

 

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.

 

The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

 

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.

 

"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.

 

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

 

Looks like this woman picked the wrong time to kill herself.

[Guest Fook]

She should have done it Monday night for maximum effect.

[Golgo 13]

Isn't that an insult. You kill yourself in plain view and still nobody notices you.

[Guest *KNK*]

Isn't that an insult. You kill yourself in plain view and still nobody notices you.

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That might have been her intention.

[2GOLD]

Only in Delaware

[kkktookmybabyaway]

At least she followed through with what she wanted to do. Mad props...

[Sideburnious]

Well maybe she had second thoughts when noone was paying attention, started to climb down and slipped.

[Nighthawk]

This has happened before, in a haunted house. It's on snopes, but I don't feel like linking it.

[Special K]

Did they use her as a pinata?

[Richard]

no pic? damn

[CBright7831]

This has happened before, in a haunted house. It's on snopes, but I don't feel like linking it.

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I was on there last night looking up scary shit.

 

The following stories are all true:

 

Abused goat kills its owner.

Teenager accidentally hangs himself during Halloween stunt.

Two men each lose an arm in a grisly tug-of-war contest.

In 1919, a killing wave of molasses swept through Boston.

A damaged cactus falls onto the man who had harmed it and kills him.

A prisoner used playing cards to take his own life.

Lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a skyscraper crashes through and plunges to his death.

Several actors have kicked the bucket in front of an audience.

Tourist in Las Vegas is electrocuted while crossing the street.

A Houston doctor was decapitated by an elevator.

Vacationing couple discovers dead body in their hotel bed.

Cuckolded husband presents his wife with the head of her lover.

The larva of a human botfly was removed from a child's eye.

Pins, needles, and razor blades have been found in Halloween treats.

 

http://snopes.com/horrors/horrors.asp

[CBright7831]

I didn't mean to kill the thread discussion.

[Sideburnious]

what the fuck are molasses and botfly's?

[Nighthawk]

Cuckolded husband presents his wife with the head of her lover.

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I met a man, personally, who has done this. Through work (I work for a psychiatrist). He really didn't get much time.

 

Oh, and he actually just left it where she would find it, and he put a mirror in front of the head so it could look at itself.

[SpikeFayeJettEdBebop]

Cuckolded husband presents his wife with the head of her lover.

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I met a man, personally, who has done this. Through work (I work for a psychiatrist). He really didn't get much time.

 

Oh, and he actually just left it where she would find it, and he put a mirror in front of the head so it could look at itself.

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I find that to be hilarious. He put a mirror in front of the head...what a wacky guy!