Posted on 10/27/2005 11:04:29 AM PDT by Millee
The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.
The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.
"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.
This would suck on Bastille Day.
It's not funny, but it is ping...
Ping.
Oh my lord!
How horrible and so sad.
No one cared, no one noticed....
No wonder she hung herself.
Wow, how sad. :(
Or Good Friday.
Before everyone goes off the deep end here..........it has been determined the woman did this after dark, so remained unnoticed during the night.
It is very sad that something in her life brought her to this, but to blame people for not realizing what was in the tree is not exactly fair.
Thanks for the ping.
BTW - this is not a 'city' it is a rural small town and the location was not exactly on main street.
Just think how nuts she must have been to do it in public like that.
Usually people hang themselves indoors - or out in the woods.
She did it in a VERY public way.
ICKY.
I have an idea of why she did it in public.
"No one sees how much I hurt,
no one notices,
no one cares,
see,
If I kill myself right here in the middle of everyone...
they STILL won't notice or care."
Seems like she made her point too.
There is a stretch of woods on this road and she did it at night.
Do you know the area?
Did you know her?
Sorry.
There is a thing called mannequin modeling, where you get all dolled up in some clothes from some store, and they put you on display. You are supposed to pose like a mannequin, and stand very still. In hindsight, it sounds really stupid. I mean, why not just use an actual mannequin.
But I digress. I was doing this one day in my youth, standing on a pedestal, when a lady came up to me to touch the clothes I was wearing. She ended up "touching me inappropriately", and I could not help but laugh.
I swear that lady freaked out, went asthmatic, peed her pants and had a heart attack all at the same time.
Good times.
I lived only about 10-15 miles from there for 21 years.
I have not heard from any my friends in the area, but most likely I will find out that even if I don't know her personally, she will have connections with people I do know.
No apology necessary - I guess I'm a bit testy today. I left Delaware because of my own problems with the state, and seem all I've been doing today is defending it :)
"See, people commit suicide in bizarre manners all the time."
D.L. Boren, Pres.
UO Norman OK
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