Bizarre story at Purdue: Body in closet

[KnuteRockne]

Apparently this kid has been missing for weeks/months, and they found him in a utility closet in a dorm that's supposed to always be locked.
Weiiiiird:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/LOCAL/703200367

 

[sportschick]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

 

[Captain_Kirk]

you ever been in a men's dorm, sportschick?

 

[sportschick]

you ever been in a men's dorm, sportschick?

Yes, but still.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Remember, he was instantly fried.

Folks probably thought someone was just making some popcorn.

(God, add that one to my Hell tab......)

 

[User 1019]

Yuck.

 

[Seahawk]

Dorm rooms can't smell like a *******, but the smell of a dead body is a stink like no other.

Had to cover a dead body story one time, and the stench was gag-inducing for quite a distance around town.

 

[User 4332]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

I lived in that dorm my freshmen year. I can kind of -- although not totally -- see how someone might not smell the kid for a while.

That utility room -- it's bigger than a closet -- is in the bowels of the basement of the common area. The dorm is set up with two wings -- when I was there it was men in one and women in the other -- and a large, two floor structure that joins the two in the middle. Back then it housed a lobby, cafeteria, kitchen, housing and security offices on the main floor. In the basement was a radio station, game room, snack bar, laundry room and the utility room.

If I remember correctly -- it has been 11 years -- the only thing near the utility room was the laundry room. It sounds like he was on the far side of the utility room where there is an access to the outside. And those doors were always shut up tight.

Depending on how well air circulated out of that room, I could see how it might not have gotten pungent enough in the hallway between the utility room and laundry room for anyone to have said "****, I think there's something wrong in there."

I mean the men's half of the building stank to high heaven anyway.

I can tell you one thing: That dorm ain't air conditioned. If this had happened in August, it wouldn't have taken two months for people to notice the smell.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There's a tasteless Najeh Davenport reference out there somewhere, dammit.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

There's a tasteless R. Kelly reference out there somewhere, dammit.

 

[Ellis Redding]

There's a tasteless Najeh Davenport reference out there somewhere, dammit.

That's the joke I would have made, if not for my fear of eternal damnation.

 

[farmerjerome]

Oh my. That is a truly disturbing story. My prayers go out to the family.

 

[Mmac]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

Remember this was in West Lafayette, the smell probably blended in with its surroundings.

 

[sportschick]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

Remember this was in West Lafayette, the smell probably blended in with its surroundings.

I lived in the Haute for three and a half years. Don't try to tell me West Lafayette stinks!

 

[Mmac]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

Remember this was in West Lafayette, the smell probably blended in with its surroundings.

I lived in the Haute for three and a half years. Don't try to tell me West Lafayette stinks!

That's true, the line would've been better if it was at ISU, but an IU grad can't turn down that kind of opening for a Purdue shot.

 

[User 4332]

How the hell did the body not smell enough to prompt somebody to complain earlier?

Remember this was in West Lafayette, the smell probably blended in with its surroundings.

I lived in the Haute for three and a half years. Don't try to tell me West Lafayette stinks!

West Lafayette does stink! Maybe not quite as bad as the Haute. But it stinks.

Somedays you get the wind going the wrong way and you get the stench that folks in Terre Haute are so familiar with -- a paper factory across the river in south Lafayette. Other days something was wrong with the sewer system in WL and the sweet stench of sewage would permeate the air.

Thinking about it takes me back to that wonderful time in my life when I couldn't wait to leave West Lafayette.

 

[crimsonace]

Thinking about it takes me back to that wonderful time in my life when I couldn't wait to leave West Lafayette.

Usually, that time in my life comes the moment I set foot in West Lafayette.

 

[slappy4428]

you ever been in a men's dorm this week, sportschick?

Yes, but still.

Fixed

 

[david kaye]

From someone who has lived in West Lafayette and the Haute, there is no comparison. Haute wins in a stinky landslide.

 

[Sly]

True story: When I was in college, a kid who was just five-feet tall fell down the garbage chute eight or nine stories and lived to tell about it (but not without some serious injuries, IIRC) Luckily the janitor looked that morning before hitting the compactor button. This was so long ago that I can't remember all the details, but I also seem to remember there was speculation that someone threw him down there because he was so drunk and so small.