Police Look for Identity of Dead Mystery Man

2006_09_husonst.JPGThe police are trying to identify the man who was found dead Wednesday morning. The man was fully clad in leather - including a mask- and hanging from a fence at 424 Hudson Street, ignored by people who thought it might be an early Halloween prop until they realized it was a human corpse. The Post speaks to a witness who said the man was drunk and asking for money. The Daily News wrote that "rookie police officers, and residents" all had seen the man in the neighborhood around 4:30AM; it's also possible the man had been recently released from a psychiatric hospital.

The police are still awaiting the ME's findings, though right now the police suspect the man died by suicide or during a sex act gone wrong. It's just simply a strange mystery.

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If Dick Wolf ever wanted to do right by you Jen, discovering the body in THIS inevitable L&O episode would be the time. It's got instant classic written all over it.

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Leave it to the NYPost to call a dead guy a "beggar." Here's a quote from the article:

'The man, whom police are attempting to identify through fingerprint records, also spoke Spanish and said he lived in Brooklyn.'

Really? A dead guy spoke to the reporters? Behold the power of the Post.

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Im I the only one who feels sad for whoever this man was. No human being should find their last moments like that. Maybe disturbed or whatnot that human being was once a baby, a little child. I think its sad.

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"No human being should find their last moments like that. Maybe disturbed or whatnot that human being was once a baby, a little child. I think its sad."

Even Adolf Hitler was 'once a baby', so let's leave THAT sympathy-grabber argument out of this..

This guy made a choice when he adopted a lifestyle that included wandering the streets in the wee morning hours dressed up in dominatrix leather w/ dog-collar & mask.

What I regret is that some kids might have seen the gruesome spectacle on their way to school or something.

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Desk Sgt. - A dominatrix is a female, you twit.

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HA! Only the murderer knew that detail. You're under arrest as a suspect in this case. Come turn yourself in cause our squad cars are doing the pizza parlor rounds right now.

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