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A minivan covered with parking tickets and debris had been sitting on 34th Avenue under the BQE overpass for long enough that a city marshal was finally dispatched to have the 2000 Chevrolet Ventura towed on Wednesday morning. But a grisly surprise was waiting inside: The badly decomposed corpse of a 59-year-old man, who apparently died from a heart attack, at least according to his daughter. Sources tell the Daily News that the deceased driver, a diabetic handyman named George Morales, was homeless, but his 29-year-old daughter Jennifer insists he lived with her and her two kids in Washington Heights. She says she called police after he went missing last month, but the NYPD claims they have no record of a missing person report. There's probably more to this story, but for now all we know are the disturbing details Morales shares with the News: "The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets. In the autopsy, they said they just found skeletal remains, no organs, only his heart." She believes he had a heart attack.
Dead Driver Found Inside Van Covered With Parking Tickets
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the daughter's just upset because she has to pay the tickets.
My condolences to the family.
That was done in an episode of 'Castle' called "A Death in the Family"...
Putting aside the apparent indifference of the ticketing agents for the moment, a month goes by, and the daughter claims she called the police, but apparently stopped at that. I guess when your father, who lives with you (claims the daughter), goes missing for a month, an undocumented phone call to the police is plenty of effort already. I wonder if she's claiming family ties now and setting this up to sue the city for some kind of emotional distress.
by god you've cracked the case.
The stories do not imply she waited a full month before contacting police. It says he has been missing for about a month -- it does not say when the daughter first contacted the police.
And as other elude to here, I guess it's asking too much for the ticket agents to actually turn their heads and take a look inside the automobile.
NYPD's Ticket Agents new campaign:
"If you don't see something, you don't have to say nothin'."
why in gods name would the autopsy not find any organs and only a heart?
I was wondering the same thing, it's just not making sense, does a body really decompose in that manner? And if it did, you mean to tell me with a window cracked, NO ONE smelled that mess??
because as the body is decomposing everything inside turns to mush. The heart was probably on it's way into being liquified.
C'mon, do they really just slap new tickets over old? Don't they even look in the window eventually? The dude just lay there and rot away?
C'mon, do they really just slap new tickets over old? Don't they even look in the window eventually? The dude just lay there and rot away?
of course, why shouldn't they, they're making their quota, what the hell else should they care about. I can only hold tight to my belief in Karma, as i mumble, "one day!"
My boyfriend once got a parking ticket while he was digging for quarters in his truck.
Unfortunately rats (and other animals) like nutrient rich and tasty organs, gruesome, but true.
The article says he was in the back seat, I'm guessing lying down, maybe covered with a blanket. I can understand parking enforcement not looking any further than the driver's seat.
There was a similar incident a few years ago in NYC, except the guy was slumped over the wheel..and they just kept ticketing the car. Traffic agents are not the brightest stars in the sky..
If the window was cracked, as stated...wouldn't it have stunk just a bit?
Since the car was under the BQE underpass in New York City, it probably smelled just like the rest of this city, and thus unnoticeable.
Plus, with the window cracked open, the van doesn't fog up from the body and the smell dissipates. But you know the agents smelled something and didn't want to deal with it. They need to be investigated, the jerks.
The ticket agents probably knew, but they were too lazy calling in it.
To the question about the organs: I read somewhere that the digestive acids and enzymes don't stop working upon a persons death and eventually leak out and consume the very organs they performed their role for. The heart is muscles and without digestive functions.
That the scene would go ignored this long goes to show us all the caliber of character in our metermaids.
Still, an unnecessry tragedy and lonely way to go.
This one's easy-the ticket cops new the guy was dead. Why tell anyone and blow an easy summons? I'm sure they figured that since the guy was dead, the van wouldn't be moving any time soon, so ticket away. Sure beats walking up and down the streets looking for double-parked Mr. Softee trucks.