"The Guardian" lese ich gerne, wenn mich das Heimweh nach Birmingham überkommt und ich mir Deutschland lieber von außen angucken will. Heute hat er aber sehr Ekliges zu vermelden.


Woman's body mistaken for Halloween decoration

Press Association in New York
Saturday October 29, 2005
The Guardian

The apparent suicide of a woman found hanged in a tree was ignored for hours because neighbours thought she was a Halloween decoration.

The 42-year-old woman's body was suspended five metres (15ft) from the ground at the side of a busy road in Frederica, Delaware, from Tuesday night, police said.

Locals noticed the body early on Wednesday but dismissed it as a Halloween prank. "They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Mayor William Glanden's wife, Fay, told a local paper. "It looked like something somebody would have rigged up."

Police were called later in the day."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1604177,00.html