Public suicide goes unnoticed for three months in Walmart parking lot
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[url]http://fox2now.com/2016/02/10/womans-body-was-in-walmart-parking-lot-for-three-months/[/url]
[quote]The body of a 22-year-old California woman was discovered in a parking lot last week. Police say the body may have been in the busy parking lot for three months.[/quote]
[quote]Her car had dark tinted windows and a sunshade covering the dashboard. This made it difficult for someone to see inside the vehicle.
The cause of death has not yet been determined. Police say her death was most likely a suicide. Her sister says she left a note and there was a drug needle in the car.[/quote]
Video in source.
Just a bit of depressing news to round out your evening nicely.
I know this is pretty fucked up to say but
imagine opening the door and smelling that, and just seeing a dead body, knowing full well that you've seen it there for months now.
Their security must suck dong. When I worked security for a hardware store we had 6 squads show up for a car that had been left on the lot for 3 days
On one hand, I'm not surprised. Walking through a Wal-Mart parking lot is like trekking through a wasteland
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On the other hand, someone [I]should[/I] have noticed it
Might be a stretch, but maybe no one noticed because wal-marts allow people to spend the night in cars/motor homes in their parking lots. Dont know how 3 weeks could've happened, but maybe they assumed they came and left and came back?
[QUOTE=abananapeel;49718440]Might be a stretch, but maybe no one noticed because wal-marts allow people to spend the night in cars/motor homes in their parking lots. Dont know how 3 weeks could've happened, but maybe they assumed they came and left and came back?[/QUOTE]
3 months, not weeks
I work retail so I can easily see how this could happen. Everyone that works outside here would more than likely be underage, making less than minimum wage and just going through the motions. And Asset Protection (when they're here) usually sticks to the inside unless traveling to and from the gas station.
I work for a large competitor (if not the largest) to Walmart so I'm guessing there are some similarities at least
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49718491]I can see how it can happen. The lot at our store is huge, we have at least a thousand cars coming on regularly. It'd be difficult to notice one car sitting in the lot. Unless something was odd about it most cart pushers wouldn't pay no mind to an average looking car.[/QUOTE]
And even if you did see it regularly, it would be easy to just assume that it belongs to someone who works in the mall.
We had the same car parked outside of our Walmart for 8 days straight in the same parking spot and pointed it out from the 2nd day onwards. I have no idea how you don't notice the same car in the same spot for 3 months.
Work at a Walmart, I probably wouldn't notice. I work at a smaller store and our parking lot is still big enough as to where I could see it happening. Considering most of the cart pushers probably hate their lives at work they probably didn't look around much either, or assumed it was just an employees car with the sunshade up since it's there so frequently.
I'd think the smell would get to someone sooner than that though.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49718491]I can see how it can happen. The lot at our store is huge, we have at least a thousand cars coming on regularly. It'd be difficult to notice one car sitting in the lot. Unless something was odd about it most cart pushers wouldn't pay no mind to an average looking car.[/QUOTE]
i've done my fair share of cart pushing and unless something stood out about a car i barely even registered what type of car it was
It's been cold in the Monterey Area (where Salinas is) until this week. The body probably just now started to smell a lot more.
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;49718460]3 months, not weeks[/QUOTE]
Holy FUCK!
[quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/tp0Szaz.png[/img][/quote]
I fail to see how nobody would notice a car like this that's parked for months. Did none of the employees think it was suspicious a car never moved? Consider it abandoned or something?
A generic Jetta parked on a walmart next to a very busy highway next to a mall and shopping center(googled the store)?
Yeah I can see that being there for a long time before someone actually takes notice.
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[QUOTE=Tools;49718696]I fail to see how nobody would notice a car like this that's parked for months. Did none of the employees think it was suspicious a car never moved? Consider it abandoned or something?[/QUOTE]
Google the walmart and look at the location, not to mention it is 24/7. It could easily be overlooked.
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;49718708]A generic Jetta parked on a walmart next to a very busy highway next to a mall and shopping center(googled the store)?
Yeah I can see that being there for a long time before someone actually takes notice.
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Google the walmart and look at the location, not to mention it is 24/7. It could easily be overlooked.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, just looking at the location we're talking about:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Q8EP49T.jpg[/IMG]
Seems a lot less surprising that nobody would notice a single car, especially with the Walmart being 24 hours.
When put it that way, it makes more sense really..
Gets me wondering how many cars like this are out there.. how many of the abandoned misty cars I've driven by that could had been one. :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=Tools;49718778]When put it that way, it makes more sense really..
Gets me wondering how many cars like this are out there.. how many of the abandoned misty cars I've driven by that could had been one. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
If you really want to get that tinfoil hat going, consider the following:
[QUOTE]"Approximately 3.5 million people in the U.S. are homeless, many of them veterans. It is worth noting that, at the same time, there are 18.5 million vacant homes in the country.”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"European Union figures show that there are 4.1 million homeless living across Europe, while there are 11 million empty homes across the continent."[/QUOTE]
Let's say there is a dead person in say, one in one thousand empty homes. That doesn't seem too unbelievable, does it? I mean - after all, who goes into these homes besides homeless people seeking shelter, and how often are they checked for illegal occupants?
Also, the homeless are not exactly reported 'missing' as nobody notices when they disappear.
In other words, I was not surprised by the news - There are so many abandoned structures in my city alone that I have a hard time convincing myself that there isn't at least a dozen per thousand derelict structures, as I know nobody is checking other than patrolling the streets around them.
[QUOTE=Tools;49718696]I fail to see how nobody would notice a car like this that's parked for months. Did none of the employees think it was suspicious a car never moved? Consider it abandoned or something?[/QUOTE]
There was this sketchy old truck parked outside of a Walmart by my old college for what had to be a few months. It had stuffed animals tied to the front and rear fenders/grille. Was positively creepy. Never moved until one day it was just gone.
I remember reading way back that people dying alone was a relatively big issue, puts me into thinking why it still hasn't been dealt with - or further, how someone can go entirely missing for month(s) without anyone looking into it?
Creeps me out really, how it's possible to go missing in today's society.
Did anyone even care about her? Because if she was left for 3 months there and nobody cared then that is pretty fucking depressing man.
Imagine nobody missing you for 3 months.
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;49718928]Did anyone even care about her? Because if she was left for 3 months there and nobody cared then that is pretty fucking depressing man.
Imagine nobody missing you for 3 months.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Moss was last seen leaving a rehab center. She was reported missing to the police and a case was opened.[/QUOTE]
It's in the article, dude
The local Walmart kicked us out of the parking lot one night a couple years ago when we tried to leave a car there over night on our way to a party, how did one car go unnoticed for three months?
not as bad as this though: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent[/url]
Had the police bust a flat opposite of mine a few months ago, apparently the granny inside has been dead for a bout a week.
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[QUOTE=FreakyMe;49718809]If you really want to get that tinfoil hat going, consider the following:
Let's say there is a dead person in say, one in one thousand empty homes. That doesn't seem too unbelievable, does it? I mean - after all, who goes into these homes besides homeless people seeking shelter, and how often are they checked for illegal occupants?
Also, the homeless are not exactly reported 'missing' as nobody notices when they disappear.
In other words, I was not surprised by the news - There are so many abandoned structures in my city alone that I have a hard time convincing myself that there isn't at least a dozen per thousand derelict structures, as I know nobody is checking other than patrolling the streets around them.[/QUOTE]
I went into abandoned houses quite often as a kid.
It's just wiggling me out a bit that the main reason she probably chose to commit suicide in a highly public place like this was the belief that her body would be found very quickly. Three months later...
Your working at a place and you don't notice that a car has been parked in the same location for the last 3 months? I think after the first week you would notice something was up.
[QUOTE=Passing;49720096]Your working at a place and you don't notice that a car has been parked in the same location for the last 3 months? I think after the first week you would notice something was up.[/QUOTE]
Hello, welcome to WalMart. Does it look like I care?
[QUOTE=Passing;49720096]Your working at a place and you don't notice that a car has been parked in the same location for the last 3 months? I think after the first week you would notice something was up.[/QUOTE]
It's a very generic looking car parked at an angle where looking into seeing anything odd inside is near impossible. This would be a lot more shocking if the location wasn't on a high way leading directly to San Jose/San Francisco, additionally being next to a mall and a strip mall are two big factors. Not to mention, people you meet who's job to gather carts in the lot generally aren't the most attentive to detail, aside from "don't hit a car".
Not to mention, how often does anyone really check to see what cars are parked where when they leave work? Especially one on the outer edge of a parking lot.
[QUOTE=Passing;49720096]Your working at a place and you don't notice that a car has been parked in the same location for the last 3 months? I think after the first week you would notice something was up.[/QUOTE]
it doesnt matter if someone noticed it. Its the public. They can turn a blind eye to (mostly) anything and not get in trouble for it.
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