Posted on 02/19/2021 1:53:20 AM PST by nickcarraway
A missing San Francisco computer programmer was found dead in a crawl space of his home last week, police said.
Cops responded to Christopher Woitel’s apartment in the Mission District on Friday and found his remains in a three-foot-tall crawl space above his bathroom that was “hidden from plain view,” according to the San Francisco Police Department.
Fire officials also arrived at the scene and had to cut a hole in the ceiling so they could retrieve Woitel’s body. Police say the 50-year-old likely got into the crawl space from the roof of the building.
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As are 90% of articles these days.
That was my first thought, but as with much ‘news’ these days, we will likely never know.
Apparently there’s mental illness involved, 50 years of depression is a full life. Sad.
“What type of house did he live in that has a three foot crawl space? isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
A TP hoarders house...
houses from the prohibition era are known to have secret compartments built into them...
my grandparents house had several...
“isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
Darn millennial writers. I hope she doesn’t do a DIY column on Sundays.
Shoulda learned to code.
Oh, wait...
Heart attack while working there. 50 y.o.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
I never figured you did coding.
You have a sense of humor and aren’t socially retarded.
😁
That’s because I went to UF. ;)
There it is...
That was my first thought too. I wouldn't leap to the conclusion that some mental issue was involved. He may have just been up there doing a job and had an untimely heart attack.
I'm in an old row house with a flat sloping roof. One can stand erect in the very front of the attic ("front" as per street orientation). One can move around with a little hunching in the front third. The middle third is hands and knees crawl space. For the rear third I'd call in a contractor with a couple of young skinny guys who can lie on their stomachs and barely squeeze through. You do what you gotta do for wires and air conditioning ducts.
I'll bet this guy was doing some wiring or running cable.
He received his blue screen of death.
It would be interesting to know how old the house is. The original builders would have provided some kind of access: stairs in some cases but often just a hatch. The original attic hatch in my house was in the front bedroom closet, which was wildly inconvenient and an exceedingly tight squeeze. That's ok if all that's needed is a way for an electrician to get up there once every 50 years. (We also have old gas pipes up there to serve the original gas lighting fixtures; those were disconnected when the house was electrified, but the pipes were never removed.) The closet hatch is not ok, however, if you want to convert the space into storage. A rooftop hatch would be weird, but I suppose someone might have done that in the course of a major renovation, perhaps when the house was completely rewired or a new HVAC system was installed. I wonder if a rooftop deck or an added room might be involved. Either would require stairs through the attic space, and that would be an obvious place to put a hatch into the crawlspace. The story says the entry was out of plain view, so I'm guessing some later construction was involved.
“What type of house did he live in that has a three foot crawl space? isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
Might have been some kind of dropped ceiling to make the room easier to heat.
It’s San Francisco. Nobody noticed the foul smell.
Did he go into the crawl space or was the body placed there?
And an ex Keystone pipeline worker before he started the natural transition into coding.
A new Law & Order episode???
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