Man dead a year found in front of TV

[sportschick]

How do people not notice this stuff?

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/498648p-420298c.html

 

[Garner]

Partially mummified is not a way I ever want to hear myself described.

Don't ever fall asleep in a snowbank, my friend.

 

[slappy4428]

Quite Frankly, Cold Pizza can kill people.

 

[Lamar Mundane]

Must have been watching Janice Dickinson Modeling agency.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Somebody will inherit a big TiVo backlog. And he was blind!

 

[Clever username]

How do people not notice this stuff?

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/498648p-420298c.html

What's frightening is that you do and continue to.

 

[ballscribe]

There was a story here this past week of a guy who was dead in his house TWO years when they found him.
He was a 79-year-old retiree, estranged from his family, didn't really speak to the neighbours. He would go to the supermarket as winter set in and load up with stuff so he wouldn't have to go outside.

The one who figured it out was a woman from the equivalent of the tax assessors' office. He had been friendly with her. But he had stopped coming in, hadn't paid his taxes the previous year and she finally called the cops. Otherwise, they wouldn't have found him until another year went by, and his house was seized and sold for unpaid property taxes.

Yeesh. Be nice to everyone, because dying THAT alone would absolutely suck.

 

[Moderator1]

A guy at the paper went three days before anyone found him and I thought THAT sucked. A year? More? Yipes.
Didn't it smell?

 

[BNWriter]

His neighbors *thought* his family had put him in a facility???

Wouldn't there have been activity they would have seen if he were being moved? Wouldn't someone had seen movement??

That is sad. Just sad.

 

[spup1122]

This is sad, but I can think this would happen more often if there is no build up of mail or anything to make the people think something was wrong.

 

[Moderator1]

You mean like a utility bill showing up EVERY month? Maybe after 2-3 months the postman says, "What the ****? And what stinks?"

 

[spup1122]

They said there was no build-up of mail in the article. I think it's sad, but without some sign that something happened, why would anyone think anything was wrong?

 

[Moderator1]

Another reason everyone should take the paper.

 

[DocTalk]

The sadness is not his death, but that he lived a life where nobody cared that he was missing. How lonely an existence might that be?

 

[bigpern23]

It's easy for no one to notice you're dead when you hang out with Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman.

 

[Moderator1]

"You can't sing Deck the Halls when there's maggots on your balls!"

Line from the great Christmas When You're Dead.

 

[Point of Order]

Another reason everyone should take the paper.

Do they do the paper in braile every day?

 

[Moderator1]

Well, no. But you want something to stack up in case you are dead. Otherwise, well, they could not discover you for a YEAR or so.
Yuck.

 

[Point of Order]

Well, no. But you want something to stack up in case you are dead. Otherwise, well, they could not discover you for a YEAR or so.
Yuck.

Well, the paper boy would need to be awful accurate for Mr. Blind and lonely to locate it every day. Then again, searching for the paper every morning might have been a worthwhile activity for him.

 

[BYH]

Apparently, this guy was a grumpy sort who alienated the one woman who tried to take care of him.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-libody0217,0,141600.story?track=mostemailedlink

The house could not be seen from the street, and this is a pretty remote town on Long Island. Still, that's terrible. How can NO ONE check in on him? And how does his electric stay on for a whole ****ing year? Screw you Keyspan, I'm not paying my bill for a year! You've set a precedent!!!

And the award for cold biotch of the year goes to...

At a neighborhood gathering last month, residents commented that they hadn't seen Riccardi in a while, neighbor Diane Devon said. "We never thought to check on him," she said.