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Skeleton Found in Chimney a Mystery
The Los Angeles Times ^
| March 29, 2005
| Solomon Moore and Richard Winton
Posted on 03/29/2005 12:53:58 PM PST by skyman
Investigators believe the body of a teenage male had been stuck in the abandoned building for two years. By Solomon Moore and Richard Winton Times Staff Writers March 29, 2005 The security guard didn't believe his 11-year-old daughter at first. Having just peered down a chimney stack while fetching a soccer ball that she had tossed onto the roof of an abandoned halfway house in South Los Angeles, Nelly Melgoza ran to her father breathless, saying she had seen a human skull. As Thursday night wore on, Nelly continued to insist that she had seen human remains. "I know I seen a skull," she told her father, Jose Melgoza.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: burglerykills; commonoccurance; constriction; suffication
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Sounds like an urban legend but I guess it's true. Not a pleasant way to go.
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posted on
03/29/2005 12:54:00 PM PST
by
skyman
To: skyman
2003 Hide and Seek Champion
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posted on
03/29/2005 12:54:40 PM PST
by
sierrahome
(What's the Cuban national anthem? "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")
To: skyman
This happens a lot. It usually turns out to be a self-imposed sentence for attempted breaking and entering.
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posted on
03/29/2005 12:56:12 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: skyman
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03/29/2005 12:56:50 PM PST
by
Hoodlum91
To: sierrahome
-2003 Hide and Seek Champion-
LOL
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posted on
03/29/2005 12:59:11 PM PST
by
skyman
To: skyman
Mmmmm ... smoked long pig ... mmmmm ....
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03/29/2005 1:01:32 PM PST
by
dirtboy
(Drooling moron since 1998...)
To: sierrahome
Snicker...
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posted on
03/29/2005 1:03:04 PM PST
by
scott7278
("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
To: skyman
Mary Poppins is a serial killer.
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posted on
03/29/2005 1:03:53 PM PST
by
ken5050
(The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
To: skyman
Chimney sweeps NOT lucky....
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03/29/2005 1:04:51 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
To: skyman
He probably left this earth due to exposure, dehydration and starvation. From what I have recently been led to believe, he was in a euphoric state, very peaceful, beautiful.
To: sierrahome
To: skyman
Person appears to have been Schiavoed and passing was peaceful and euphoric.
To: Hoodlum91
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03/29/2005 1:09:49 PM PST
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
To: dirtboy
"Mmmmm ... smoked long pig ... mmmmm ...."Thief jerky....
To: sierrahome
That joke was so clever I stole it when forwarding it on to someone else.. congrats.
And that's why I hate Christmas.
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posted on
03/29/2005 1:12:12 PM PST
by
vollmond
(Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.)
To: skyman
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posted on
03/29/2005 1:12:43 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: soundandvision
If they find another skeleton then I guess this one is "Runner-Up"
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03/29/2005 1:20:38 PM PST
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sierrahome
(What's the Cuban national anthem? "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")
To: sierrahome
To: skyman
Another Chimney Mystery -----
The reason Santa has no children: He only comes once a year --- and that's down the chimney!
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03/29/2005 1:25:42 PM PST
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TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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