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cops ticket minivan for weeks - and never notice decomposing body

waggy

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The daughter of a man whose badly decomposed body was found inside a minivan said Thursday traffic cops should have noticed her father over the several weeks they covered the vehicle in parking tickets.

"He was my only family," said Jennifer Morales, 29, about her father, whom she believes died from a heart attack while sitting in the family's 2000 Chevrolet Ventura in Queens.

"The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets," she told the Daily News last night.

Although sources said 59-year-old George Morales was homeless, his daughter said the diabetic handyman lived with her and her two kids in Washington Heights.

Jennifer Morales said she had last heard from her dad in early May. She said she contacted police, but cops had no record of a report.

A city marshal found the elder Morales Wednesday morning, while trying to tow the minivan parked on 34th Ave. under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass.

Parking tickets and dust covered the vehicle.

Cops called Jennifer Morales hours after the 6:45 a.m. discovery with the sad news.

"In the autopsy, they said they just found skeletal remains, no organs, only his heart," she said.

The Morales family plans to cremate him once officials positively identify the remains using X-rays taken of Morales in 2007 at Elmhurst Hospital Center





LOL sheesh. at least the tow truck guy looked in it before towing it!
 
The article doesn't say whether or not the man was in the front seat. I'm guessing he wasn't. With those tinted windows, it's not that hard to believe. Sad story though.
 
If he wasn't homeless and supposedly lived with her then why didn't she notice he was missing? Funny how she jumps straight to blaming the police. I agree with the fact they should have noticed something though.
 
Originally posted by: S Freud
If he wasn't homeless and supposedly lived with her then why didn't she notice he was missing? Funny how she jumps straight to blaming the police. I agree with the fact they should have noticed something though.

RTFA
 
Originally posted by: S Freud
If he wasn't homeless and supposedly lived with her then why didn't she notice he was missing? Funny how she jumps straight to blaming the police. I agree with the fact they should have noticed something though.

yeah its funny when you don't read the article then act like you did. cause then we can make fun of you!



sad story. The cops couldnt do anything about helping the guy. but i just find it amazing they didnt discover it before the tow truck guy did...and it took that long for the tow truck to get it heh
 
i'm going to guess he was in the back, the windows were tinted, dude may have been under a cover, and it was usually daylight when the parking guys came by, and so between their their eyes adjusting to the lower light level under the bridge, the tint, potential cover, and the fact that the parking guys were paying attention to their little ticket machines, they just didn't notice. and after the car got dusty it was probably difficult to see in intentionally.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i'm going to guess he was in the back, the windows were tinted, dude may have been under a cover, and it was usually daylight when the parking guys came by, and so between their their eyes adjusting to the lower light level under the bridge, the tint, potential cover, and the fact that the parking guys were paying attention to their little ticket machines, they just didn't notice. and after the car got dusty it was probably difficult to see in intentionally.

Hmmm....you seem like you know a little too much about the situation. *strokes beard*
 
Originally posted by: S Freud
If he wasn't homeless and supposedly lived with her then why didn't she notice he was missing? Funny how she jumps straight to blaming the police. I agree with the fact they should have noticed something though.

😕
 
Just seems kind of ridiculous that she's getting so upset at the police, where was she during these few weeks her father was missing? Kind of hypocritical considering it doesn't sound like she did anything to determine the whereabouts of her homeless father during this time. If she had filed a police report and mentioned that the family van was missing and that's probably what he was driving, the police might have discovered him much sooner.
 
Wait... What?

"In the autopsy, they said they just found skeletal remains, no organs, only his heart," she said.

That sounds more like alien abduction than a naturally decomposed body.... :Q

Seriously though, how in the flying fuck did nobody notice the incredible stench?! 😕

This story is weird......
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
May? The organs decompose that quickly?

in a hot vehicle? i would think so

i dunno, it shoulda made a mess...inside of van covered in fluid/condensation...
guess the layer of dust on the windows musta been thick
 
Not that hard to believe. Everytime I see parking officers at work, they take a quick gander at the dash, and then just walk to the front or back for the license plate to write the ticket.
 
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