Posted on 09/28/2006 3:59:49 PM PDT by lowbridge
Only in the West Village, kids . . .
The body of a man clad in a kinky black leather mask and decked out head to toe in S&M gear was hanging from a chain-link fence on Hudson Street yesterday - as many passers-by ignored it, thinking it was a Halloween display.
The slightly built, fair-skinned mystery man may have been choked to death by a dog collar around his neck, it's other end strapped around a 3-foot-tall fence post, police sources said.
The 40ish, tattooed man was found kneeling, braced face-first against the fence in front of 424 Hudson St. at around 6:45 a.m.
In a bizarre twist, the body had been there for at least an hour, dismissed by some who walked past as a quirky seasonal display in an area scattered with S&M and gay bars.
"The body was covered with a black suit and he had a mask on his face," said deli owner Indra Patel, who first spotted the strangely posed corpse when he opened next door around 5:30 a.m.
"I thought it was a dummy. It looked like a dummy, because every year they do decorations like that. I was wondering why they put up the [Halloween] decorations early."
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A worker repairing a gas leak at Hudson and Leroy Street said "I thought it was a decoration for Halloween. I thought it was a scarecrow."
Another passer-by, Ralph Constanza, 31, said, "It looked like he had a bad night, I can tell you that."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Just another deathstyle choice, I guess.
"I thought it was a dummy. It looked like a dummy, because every year they do decorations like that. I was wondering why they put up the [Halloween] decorations early."
Thats okay, it WAS a dummy.
Given what I saw there,this story doesn't surprise me one bit.
One less democrat party activist.
I think this poor fella was all three.
Well I got a kick out the squirrel attacking the 4 year old boy--how twisted is that?
ping
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