Burglars scared off by corpse

Ananova ^ | November 3, 2003

[stiga bey]

Two French burglars who broke into a house were scared off when they came across the body of the owner - who died years earlier. The noise of the burglars breaking into the Paris apartment woke a neighbour, who went to investigate. She saw the two men running off and went inside the apartment to find the body of the 70-year-old owner. The woman called police, who confirmed the man had died of natural causes - about four years ago. Neighbours say they hadn't noticed the man had not been seen for so long because he was very quiet and kept himself to himself. The caretaker of the building said: "He was a nice old man who lived alone and didn't speak with anyone."

[stiga bey]

There's gotta be some reason that this could only happen in France. Anyone?

[Diogenesis]

France iz a shitty little country
which demands to control the world, but cannot protect its own.

[duckman]

French version of 'Neighborhood Watch'.

[Consort]

The smell just blended in.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

he was very quiet and kept himself to himself

Corpses do that.

[Diogenesis]

At a Connecticut fundraiser in the spring of 1996, X42 made a "crack"
about a five-hundred-year-old Inca mummy that had just been discovered, at the summit of a Peruvian volcano.
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out," Clinton said. "That's a good-looking mummy."

[TomB]

I smell a Mark Steyn column coming......

[11th Earl of Mar]

Leave it to the French to run away from a dead guy.

[friendly]

15,000 to 20,000 French elderly died in the European heat wave of the past summer. They died as this poor old fellow did the year before: alone in their little non-air conditioned oven of a room.

The hospitals were essentially closed for August, under the socialist mandated 35 hour work week and 8 weeks paid vacation.

Some old folks who made it to the hospital dying from dehydration and heat prostration. They were all sent home!!

And this is what the rats want for us!!

[Tolik]

Brave daring burglars and caring loving neighbors. But the cheese is good.

[TaxRelief]

Socialism at its best!

[PeyersPatches]

French. Running from a pre-dead enemy. Smelly. Geesh, some stories you just can't add to! This story already sums up the Froggies!

[whereasandsoforth]

This happens all the time right here in our own backyard. But give'em hell anyway! A lot of the living French have been dead for years and nobody noticed either.

[Puppage]

[dakine]

Who paid the rent?...

[kittymyrib]

Kinda reminds one of the story of the fire-fighting helicopters in CA that might have put out the Cedar fire when it was the size of a basketball court...but it was 20 min. after the state cut-off time for flying. That bureaucratic decision cost 15 people their lives and 2,000 homes burned to the ground. When government rules trump common sense, any country is in decline.

[Ichneumon]

Who paid the rent?...

And who cut the lawn, trimmed the bushes, and emptied the accumulating junk mail from the mailbox?

[mtbopfuyn]

Proof this summer was not the exception. Does France stink so much the neighbors didn't smell the body? Didn't the neighbors or the postman or the utility companies or the landlord or the relatives or the friends or anyone not notice they weren't getting paid or hadn't seen this person? Who was paying the bills?

[friendly]

Common decency is absent under socialism.

[blanknoone]

This speaks volumes about the french. How on earth can someone die alone and NO ONE notice for 4 years? No one noticed the rent or mortgage not being paid? Bills like utilities or taxes? Noticing the mail piling up? Socialist welfare checks not being cashed? Something? Anything? This could never happen here...if nothing else the collection agents would find him.

I'll give them a break about the stench though...it probably didn't change all that much.

This begs the question about how many more bodies from the summer heat wave will be found. France is in desperate need of a 'check on your neighbor' day or something.

The communo-socialists are inhuman.