When a joke serves as a dual purpose safety sign.
Yes There are several cities similar, I think I shared this story before here somewhere. My friend said he worked as a tree trimming contractor for the City of East St. Louis. He said the first summer after A time they smelled something rotten so looked and found a decomposing body then called police.
Few days later it repeated. He said by the end of that summer they could actually ID the smell and would just call police. Seems the gang bangers (and a few others probably) would kill then take the body and dump it in the nearest brushy area which was often around power lines, which of course they were working in.
He is not the lying sort.
I live outside of Los Angeles - the large park where I walk my dogs gets one body dumped there per month according to the local police - usually from gangs or drugs, but not always.
Often it is the dogs that discover the bodies, one a few years ago retrieved a severed head! I am always fearful that one of the dogs will do this b/c they enjoy rooting around in the bushes.
A couple of years ago, there was a body hanging from a tree right where my husband and I often walk. Glad we weren’t there that day - body was discovered later in the morning and we usually walk much earlier.