Mummified body found in front of blaring TV

[Shithappens]

REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.

 

The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes. Police said Saturday his body was discovered Thursday when they were called to the house over a burst water pipe.

 

"You could see his face. He still had hair on his head," Newsday quoted morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus as saying. The home's low humidity had preserved the body.

 

Officials could not explain why the electricity had not been turned off, considering Ricardo had not been heard from since December 2005.

 

Neighbors said when they had not seen Ricardo, who was diabetic and had been blind for years, they assumed he was in the hospital or a long-term care facility.

 

Its a sorry world we live in when you can die and not be found for a year!!!

 

And howard aspires for us to be like them in the US!!

[WantDaChronic]

wish my neighbours would take a lesson from them, i cant even have friends over without a neighbour commenting on it

[Stoney]

what i wanna know is how can ya use power for a year and not pay a cent and not get it cut off

 

thats what i wanna know

 

but year pretty sad that no one knows ya dead

 

cheerz :Dj:

[123abc]

haha yeah stoney.. makes me wonder- did he own his apartment?

 

was he renting- and the superintendant never checked him up for rent or power ..

 

maybe he was gettin empty threats from the power company about shutting down the power..

 

hmm- i had a friend who once told me he faxed threw a fake telstra start up phone line application.. all bodgy and with that he started up a power bill.. he paid it a few times then transerd over to a new company.. paid it a few times.. then when he created a credit rating.. he let the power run out full till his 12 month verbal lease was over.. then f'kd right off..

 

6 months his power wasnt cut off..

[HighRising]

dying watching TV... talk about a bad way to go

[mull]

Why did he have a telly and not a radio if he was blind for years

[DownUnderDoper]

Why did he have a telly and not a radio if he was blind for years

 

"Blind" isn't necessarily completely totally pitch black blind

 

 

Or maybe the squatters who'd been living there with his corpse had left the tv on

[loylty gets u nothing]

lmao

[Zaknefain]

That is disgusting that person in life cared about him enough to not notice. This shows how lonely he probably was before death, its a shame to let him die that way.