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megimoo
02-28-2011, 09:59 PM
A man whose body was found in a car outside a Walmart parking was suspected to have been decomposing for days before authorities were contacted.

70-year-old Luis Ramirez’s body was discovered in a car late yesterday morning in Orlando, Florida after police responded to reports of a man slumped over in a grey Chrysler van.....Several shoppers said that they walked past the car where Ramirez was thought to have been living for several weeks - just feet from the entrance to the store in the south east Orlando shopping plaza.

Many who crowded around the scene as he was removed from the van yesterday now fear that as they noticed Ramirez while entering and exiting the store over the past weeks they were slowly watching him starve to death.....'I see him ducking down and he's got his like clothes hung up inside the van, he should go to a shelter or hospital or something,' shopper Lamont Bagley told CF News 13 in Orlando.

According to a report filed by the Orlando police, Ramirez’s body was found in a state of decomposition. It appeared that he had been dead for approximately 48 hours before his body was found....The Orange County medical examiner who responded yesterday also concluded that Ramirez’s death was from natural causes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361528/Decomposing-body-man-Walmart-parking-lot-ignored-shoppers-days.html
Calypso Jones
02-28-2011, 10:04 PM
that's a heck of a way to die.
megimoo
02-28-2011, 10:12 PM
that's a heck of a way to die.He needed access to the men's room !
Gingersnap
02-28-2011, 10:42 PM
I hope Wal-Mart kicks ass all through the ranks of their store managers and lot people. There was a really problem with their own staff here. While Wal-Mart allows RV people to overnight in their lots, an unmoving car should have been checked after 8 or 10 hours. :mad:
Novaheart
02-28-2011, 10:44 PM
How many people were surprised that this was Florida?
Rockntractor
02-28-2011, 10:46 PM
How many people were surprised that this was Florida?

And warm too, I wouldn't have wanted to be near that car when they opened the door and moved him.
Novaheart
02-28-2011, 10:48 PM
And warm too, I wouldn't have wanted to be near that car when they opened the door and moved him.

Well that's what my friend Cruella just asked, "Why didn't someone smell it?" My response was that this is Florida. When you smell something awful, it usually means that someone is watering the lawn with reclaimed water.
Rockntractor
02-28-2011, 10:54 PM
Well that's what my friend Cruella just asked, "Why didn't someone smell it?" My response was that this is Florida. When you smell something awful, it usually means that someone is watering the lawn with reclaimed water.

I would also think in about three days he would have bloated to double size and than the maggots would go nuts, especially in a hot damp climate inside a car.
megimoo
02-28-2011, 11:27 PM
I would also think in about three days he would have bloated to double size and than the maggots would go nuts, especially in a hot damp climate inside a car.Are you looking for some you_tube to gross you out. ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuQfToa254&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8uYE6TJ5X8&feature=related
lacarnut
02-28-2011, 11:57 PM
How many people were surprised that this was Florida?

About as many as your dumb ass lives there.
Novaheart
03-01-2011, 12:09 AM
About as many as your dumb ass lives there.

OMG! LOL! The wit!
lacarnut
03-01-2011, 12:14 AM
OMG! LOL! The wit!

No doubt.
Gingersnap
03-01-2011, 11:07 AM
I could have gone all day without the maggot angle. :mad:
noonwitch
03-01-2011, 02:59 PM
I hope Wal-Mart kicks ass all through the ranks of their store managers and lot people. There was a really problem with their own staff here. While Wal-Mart allows RV people to overnight in their lots, an unmoving car should have been checked after 8 or 10 hours. :mad:


I always thought WalMart did a pretty good job of security and parking lot duty, at least they do around here.


This is horrible, though, and I can't imagine walking by the car with a guy slumped over in it more than once without noticing.
Gingersnap
03-01-2011, 03:29 PM
I always thought WalMart did a pretty good job of security and parking lot duty, at least they do around here.


This is horrible, though, and I can't imagine walking by the car with a guy slumped over in it more than once without noticing.

That's what surprises me. I can't imagine this happening at the Wal-Mart I go to - they have hot and cold running help all over the place, inside and out. :confused:
Rockntractor
03-01-2011, 04:42 PM
I could have gone all day without the maggot angle. :mad:

They would have been up on the windows looking out after four days!