Gothamist: Body Found at McCarren Park Pool

Rfive

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:03:45 -0500

NYC pandas bitch!!!

virgil

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:35:40 -0500

what a surly bunch of pandas.

ncm

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:16:02 -0500

I'm confused. Why should people from Ohio go back to Kansas?

TSOL

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:58:47 -0500

Won't somebody please think of the CHILDREN?

daacres

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:26:29 -0500

maybe this person was killed by one of the machete wielding teenagers?

Rfive

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:19:52 -0500

brooklynbs had it right. the folks who the parks dept. hires probably couldn't care less about a mysterious smell and avoided it. if it was stinkin' it might have been there a bit (YES! AT THE BREEDERS SHOW!!!!), which only adds to the weirdness. gothamist has way too many trolls from ohio. fuck y'all and go back to kansas if you don't like finding old bodies. this is NY!!!

Nick S

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:48:52 -0500

"And people wonder why society seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket." Yes, because people taking glee in the death of others is a completely new thing.

Spiritof76

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:48:07 -0500

The low level of empathy in these comments toward the unidentified deceased is nothing. The same people never care whenever anybody dies. If it was an accident, they gleefully say it's worth a Darwin Award. If it was a crime like Nicole Dufresne, they say she was stupid hick and had it coming. Some loons here were positively giddy when Tony Snow died. And people wonder why society seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket.

citizenerased

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:13:46 -0500

Hey they is a foul smell coming from that shed, lets wait 'months' to look into what it is.

Kojak

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:05:16 -0500

"It's uncertain how long the body has been decomposing for" This is indeed pertinent information that needs to be found out at once. How long has this dead body been stinking for??? Never mind when he died, the goal here is to maintain that springtime freshness on all the dead bodies we find.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:04 -0500

you mean homeless people. aka the unseen.

bklyngrrl

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:54:29 -0500

Gross, I was at the Breeders show there last Sunday. Creepy!

mihow

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:52:44 -0500

My guess is it's one of the many, many very drunk men that wander around these parts each and every day. :[ We had one living in the empty lot behind our house for almost a year. They bulldozed the site (for the third time) only yesterday. He had people coming in and out of that lot every day, getting blasted drunk and sometimes ranting and raving at the local skater kids. There are just so many of these men wandering around. They find wherever they can and just fall down. It's like something out of a Cormac McCarthy novel.

Gouda

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:14 -0500

Maybe this will convince the Renegade Craft people to move the Fair out of the blazing hot crock-pot that is the McCarren Park Pool and back into the park.

meowster

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:09:07 -0500

I wonder if we will ever hear about this death/murder whatever in a reputable media outlet. It's really disturbing that the guy that was shot and killed at the Marcy/Broadway bus terminal last weekend, got NO coverage whatsoever. What's up with that?

virgil

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:00 -0500

If you really want to see something ugly, click on your favorite troll commenter's name and look at their comment history. It's amazing how much energy they spend contributing so little.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:00 -0500

Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, all the same to me.

brooklynbs

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:44 -0500

As others have pointed out, the pool is in the 94th Precinct. The Parks worker who generally do the clean-up of the pool after events are low-level criminals doing community service, work detail or some other form of restitution. You know, hoes and junkies. Not a surprise that they didn't bother to check on the smell.

WorksInDUMBO

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:44:01 -0500

uh, "Cuntry" (even your name implies that you are a jackass)--why do you even bother coming to Gothamist if you obviously have such disdain for the site? So you say hope it was a "hipster from Ohio" who died? I hope it was a foul message-board troll.

cwbuecheler

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:22:21 -0500

Umm...someone died. Anyone up for anything other then sarcasm towards Gothamist/the Police Precinct? I came in here with a snarky quote in mind when the post first went up and then decided against it for that exact reason. Course, there's really not much more to be said at this point, because no one knows wtf happened to the person in question.

gossipgirl

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:19:34 -0500

Umm...someone died. Anyone up for anything other then sarcasm towards Gothamist/the Police Precinct?

cuntry

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:21 -0500

hopefully it was a hipster from ohio

w0wzers

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:14:39 -0500

Maybe because it's the 94th that should take care of it. Since it's 3 blocks away.

Ungabunga

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:09 -0500

One down...

greenpointers

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:59:43 -0500

I'm wondering if this would be the 94th Precinct jurisdiction and not the 90th?

semarr

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:32:24 -0500

The 90th precinct never answers their phone in my experience of attempting to follow-up on a burglary police report. Although, sometimes I would get a busy signal, which made me hopeful of life at the other end of the line, but eventually I came to the conclusion that all their lines were already filled by other other not-to-be-answered phone calls.

meowster

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:30:56 -0500

...thanks for leaving us hanging!

interlard

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:23:16 -0500

I've called police precincts before and let it ring for about 15 minutes before the line just went dead. Good luck getting help, never mind a quote for a news story.

edEx

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:17:40 -0500

sounds like a repeat of Law and Order.

Kojak

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:17:31 -0500

The cause of death was suffocation by hackysac

Dirk

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:15:01 -0500

Thus far, multiple calls to the 90th Precinct went unanswered. Probably because it's Gothamist.