Unidentified body...
Today they discovered a body in the ditch next to my office.
Chilling, ain't it? I hadn't even had a cup of coffee yet, and my boss asked if I'd noticed all the "hub-bub" going on outside my office window...
When I turned around to look, there was a yellow police "do not cross" tape around a big group of trees down in the ditch next to the parking lot. Two police officers where inspecting the area, and one went down to the ditch and took some pictures of, apparently, the body down under some bushes.
By the end of the morning, there were two fire trucks, several city vehicles, two mortuary vans, a police car, and lots and lots of police, detectives with dark glasses, and other officials wearing blue latex gloves huddled into groups and peering at the decomposing body down in the ditch. They'd go down to look in groups of 3 to 5. The local news camera crew was set up and rolling video. And there was a stretcher with a black body bag, and a blue tarp laying in an empty parking space.
It was surreal.
People from the office gathered outside the building to watch them, and there were people looking out the windows from inside the building too. Some took pictures. We were all waiting for the same thing... The body.
It had been laying down beside the creek/ditch for weeks apparently. They couldn't tell if it had been a man or a woman. The smell was awful - from the way everyone covered their noses when they brought the body up. Someone said that someone had smelled something last week and had thought maybe something had died down there...
One of the mortuary vans was black and the man was dress in black. The second mortuary van that arrived was white and there were two women with white blouses. They talked to the other mortuary worker for a bit, then the firemen loaded the body wrapped in the blue tarp on the stretcher into their van. Then they drove off with the rear windows of the van popped open.
The police took down the "do not cross" tape. The fire trucks left. They forgot a bundle of fence that apparently they'd used for something...
There was a story on the news that night about an unidentified body discovered by penitentiary workers earlier that morning on Fairview Industrial Drive in a ditch. And a clip of the detectives huddled and talking.
Surreal. Like a bad dream, or something I clicked through on the TV.
I'm glad they took the body away in the white van and not the black van, but I don't know why.
Chilling, ain't it? I hadn't even had a cup of coffee yet, and my boss asked if I'd noticed all the "hub-bub" going on outside my office window...
When I turned around to look, there was a yellow police "do not cross" tape around a big group of trees down in the ditch next to the parking lot. Two police officers where inspecting the area, and one went down to the ditch and took some pictures of, apparently, the body down under some bushes.
By the end of the morning, there were two fire trucks, several city vehicles, two mortuary vans, a police car, and lots and lots of police, detectives with dark glasses, and other officials wearing blue latex gloves huddled into groups and peering at the decomposing body down in the ditch. They'd go down to look in groups of 3 to 5. The local news camera crew was set up and rolling video. And there was a stretcher with a black body bag, and a blue tarp laying in an empty parking space.
It was surreal.
People from the office gathered outside the building to watch them, and there were people looking out the windows from inside the building too. Some took pictures. We were all waiting for the same thing... The body.
It had been laying down beside the creek/ditch for weeks apparently. They couldn't tell if it had been a man or a woman. The smell was awful - from the way everyone covered their noses when they brought the body up. Someone said that someone had smelled something last week and had thought maybe something had died down there...
One of the mortuary vans was black and the man was dress in black. The second mortuary van that arrived was white and there were two women with white blouses. They talked to the other mortuary worker for a bit, then the firemen loaded the body wrapped in the blue tarp on the stretcher into their van. Then they drove off with the rear windows of the van popped open.
The police took down the "do not cross" tape. The fire trucks left. They forgot a bundle of fence that apparently they'd used for something...
There was a story on the news that night about an unidentified body discovered by penitentiary workers earlier that morning on Fairview Industrial Drive in a ditch. And a clip of the detectives huddled and talking.
Surreal. Like a bad dream, or something I clicked through on the TV.
I'm glad they took the body away in the white van and not the black van, but I don't know why.
posted by Joe R at 4:31 PM
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