NY dead man gets parking violations for a month; police finally figure out he's dead.

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From the "god that's stupid" files:

http://wcbstv.com/local/ny.vehicle.ticketed.2.1032503.html

Police made a gruesome discovery earlier this week while getting ready to tow a heavily-ticketed van – a decomposed body in the back seat.

It was that of a missing man, and now his family wants to know to how officers could ticket the vehicle numerous times -- and never notice what was inside.

Jennifer Morales, who didn't want her face filmed by CBS 2 HD cameras, wondered how her father's body could go unnoticed for so long.

"I'm shocked. I'm surprised, um...," Morales said.

The daughter of 58-year-old George Morales wants everyone to remember her handyman father in a different way, not as a decomposed body found in a van under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Wednesday. He'd been dead a month, in a van with four parking tickets.

"If you see an abandoned vehicle, you don't report it? You wait a month?" Jennifer Morales wondered.

Morales' daughter said her father left their apartment in Washington Heights on May 5 in a van owned by a friend. George Morales was headed for Long Island, but he just vanished.

His daughter suspects George Morales, who suffered from diabetes and heart problems, may have felt ill, and pulled off the road for a nap. A window was cracked. The odor became overpowering. After the car was ticketed each Monday for a month, a marshal, about to tow the van, noticed a body in the back seat.

"If you see a car has already three to four tickets and you just slabbing more, at least call 9-1-1 and say there's a car here that's not moving," Jennifer Morales said.

When he was found, his daughter said, he was not covered with a blanket or coat, but was in plain view of anyone who looked inside. She wondered: what if there was a person inside a car who was ill and needed help?

Jennifer Morales said it should be a lesson to all traffic agents and police officers: don't ticket without looking inside.

The NYC Medical Examiner's office has told the family it appears George Morales died of a heart attack. There was no word from police as to why tickets were repeatedly issued without taking a look inside.
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Re: NY dead man gets parking violations for a month; police finally figure out he's d

They ticketed it numerous times and never noticed? |D I need to read that again cause its so stupid.
 
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How can you not notice?! Wouldn't the police officer attempt to talk to the person, in trying to get/give him his ticket? -.- Gah, dumb beyond belief...
 
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Nicoleta01 said:
How can you not notice?! Wouldn't the police officer attempt to talk to the person, in trying to get/give him his ticket? -.- Gah, dumb beyond belief...
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I'd have to guess the body slumped over and the cops assumed there was no one in there.

But come on. To leave a ticket, you'd HAVE to at least get close enough to the window that you could see the guy...

I feel bad for his family in all this. They must have worried for so long about him.
 
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The stupidity of some people....

How do they not notice a dead body in plain veiw in that car? That is pretty odd.
 
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We can kinda see that police dont really care about why the car was left there or where the person is, they just care about leaving the ticket...
 
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FFS, a car with a dead body in plain view was left in the same spot for a month, recieved 4 parking tickets and no one noticed the body?! That's verging on insane.
 
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Wow. That's mad! Seriously...rather odd. Mildly amusing but also disturbing.
 
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Jeez, they didn't even SMELL the body, which was decomposing with a window cracked... that's insane.
 
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Wow, that's really stupid. How the hell did they not notice a decomposing body in that car?

Just goes to show how truly stupid people can be.
 
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No no, cut them some slack, guys!

It's really hard to notice a rotting corpse in the back of a van, even if it stinks to high heaven! I mean, that wouldn't look or smell anything like a bribe, so of course it went unnoticed!
 
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Well, this is New York, after all. Anything goes. Anything, that is, except corpses.
 
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