Body Found Hanging Outside VFW Post in Kentucky (just hours after flag burning)

Ap via Yahoo News ^ | 3/22/06

[Libloather]

Body Found Hanging Outside VFW Post in Ky.
2 hours, 17 minutes ago

WINCHESTER, Ky. - A man apparently hanged himself outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post early Wednesday morning, just hours after someone burned an American flag in the same place, Winchester police said.

Detective James Hall said foul play was not suspected.

Hall said the dead man was found by a passer-by about 1 a.m., about two hours after the flag was burned. He was dressed in civilian clothes and found hanging by the flagpole rope, Hall said.

The man had not been identified Wednesday afternoon. Clark County Coroner David Jacobs said he appeared to be in his late 20s or early 30s but was not carrying identification.

The body was sent to the state medical examiner's office in Frankfort for an autopsy.

Winchester, a city of about 16,000 residents, is about 20 miles east of Lexington.

[nuconvert]

Poorly written article

[MikeA]

"Cleaning all of those jumper's bodies off the streets and sidewalks is going to be a real pain in the ass."

It will be messy, but enimas usually are. Anyway, knowing that the end result will mean a better America because of fewer DemoFoamers, the clean up effort will become instead a labor of love for us all. We just have to hope we're not passing by when one of the loons decides to take a swan dive off a building.

[Brad’s Gramma]

No...it doesn't.

I read it as outside the front door(-ish) of the building. That does NOT seem respectful in my NEVER so humble opinion.

:)

[davisfh]

Have you heard the one about the plastic surgeon who
hung himself? And, if so, how many times and how
many years ago?

[msnimje]

Right, but this is an AP article so nothing can be assumed (or even believed).

[magslinger]

Didn't you notice that she looked a little better than usual?

[Uddercha0s]

Haha.. you owe me a keyboard! Great description. Thanks for the chuckle!

[MikeA]

My pleasure and sorry about the keyboard. Just put it on my tab.

[Paleo Conservative]

Attorney General's Warning:
Flag burning may be hazardous to your health.

[webheart]

It does, however, state that "a flag" was burned, and that the flag was burned at 11:00 pm, thus making it very unlikely that it was a ceremonious disposal of a worn flag.

[GWfan]

ROTFLMAO!!!!

I couldn't place what man she reminded me of--you did it! Ed Begley Jr.

[river rat]

One can dream and hope, that the flag burner was caught and hung at the scene of his crime....

Semper Fi

[He Rides A White Horse]

...she does kinda look like him.........

[austinaero]

Mr. T as Cindy Sheehan? I can see the resemblence actually,,,,,(sorry T)

[austinaero]

I didn't catch it either...sorry Ed.

[lawdude]

"Did his hands smell like lighter fluid and smoke?"

No, stars and stripes.

[Petronski]

[festus]

Promote that detective. I agree it was clearly suicide.

Only a suicidal man would burn the VFWs flag.

Here's hoping nobody saw nothing.

[flying Elvis]

I hear Droopy Dog is going to play her.

[festus]

http://www.winchestersun.com/articles/2006/03/22/local_news/news02.txt

Winchester police are investigating an apparent suicide that occurred at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 116 Sterling St. this morning.

Police say an unidentified white male in his 30s was discovered hanging from the flag pole at the VFW post at approximately 1 a.m.

The first officer who arrived on the scene cut down the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner David Jacobs.

At 11:08 p.m. Tuesday, police and the Winchester Fire Department had responded to the same location, where an American flag had been lowered and set on fire. Detective James Hall says he suspects that the same person set fire to the flag and later hanged himself on the flag pole.

Foul play is not suspected, according to Hall.

Hall says the man was 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8 and weighed between 140-160 pounds.

Police say the man was not carrying identification. They are asking anyone who might know the man's identity to contact the Winchester Police Department at 745-7403.