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Would-be burglar may have been dead in bar's vent for days
It took authorities about five hours to extricate the body from the vent, which police said measured no more than 2 square feet. The dead suspected would-be burglar was 5-7, 182 pounds. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
July 22, 2008 | Permalink
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Employees of the bar called police about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, after they smelled a foul odor and saw what appeared to be blood dripping onto the bar's kitchen floor.
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Ok, so they were presumably cooking for a couple of days before they noticed. Aren't exhausts usually right above the cooking surface?
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | Jul 22, 2008 1:18:32 PM
That mug certainly doesn't look dead. Must be an earlier photo... and ugh. After 72 hours it must have been pretty gamey in there.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 22, 2008 1:28:41 PM
What do you want to bet Ghost Hunters gets called to the bar to help with a troublesome robber-ghost?
Posted by: thereverendtwerp | Jul 22, 2008 1:36:35 PM
i dunno, Reno; looks dead to ME...
Posted by: oldewave | Jul 22, 2008 1:53:13 PM
Hmm, his eyes seem too focused on the camera to be dead, but I certainly am no expert on dead eyes. He's certainly dead now anyway!
Posted by: Reno | Jul 22, 2008 2:01:41 PM
"Employees of the bar called police about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, after they smelled a foul odor and saw what appeared to be blood dripping onto the bar's kitchen floor."
Come to the All-Star Sports Bar, for real home-style cookin'!
Posted by: Mook | Jul 22, 2008 2:12:45 PM
72 hours...Oh lordy, that's right smack in the Putrefaction Stage of Decomposition.
Well, that's the 441 All-Star Sports Bar right off my "Must Try" list.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 22, 2008 2:12:56 PM
Not saying where the picture is from is just more quality reporting, but it wasn't taken postmortem. That is unless they put some visine in the corpse's eyes first. The surface of the eye wouldn't be reflecting lights like they are had he been dead. Fortunately though, this wonderful example of wasted space is dead now.
Posted by: zombie00x | Jul 22, 2008 2:39:09 PM
Maybe they brought him back to life for the photo.
This is a case where I feel sorry for the police. I bet that vent was pretty nasty before there was a dead body stuck in it.
Posted by: Torgo | Jul 22, 2008 2:43:27 PM
Don't wish to even imagine being hopelessly trapped in a confined space. It might have taken longer to find him, had he been smoked by the bar's working grill.
WTF was he thinking? The bar was closed down.
Posted by: thomas | Jul 22, 2008 3:17:03 PM
I've worked in kitchens as a cook. This dude was in the hoods, the exhaust vents over the cooking area for 72 hours. Gets mighty warm up there. EMS/fire rescue pulled him out medium rare I bet.
Posted by: Chris | Jul 22, 2008 6:44:00 PM
PROBABLY ALL HE NEEDED WAS A STIFF DRINK OR TWO.
Posted by: | Jul 23, 2008 4:42:18 AM
Barbara over at Snopes is gonna LOVE this one.
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/stuck.asp
Posted by: russ | Jul 23, 2008 5:16:00 AM
