Posted on 10/22/2010 3:40:31 PM PDT by FeliciaCat
Authorities say a woman drove around with a mummified corpse for about ten months before the body was discovered by police.
Officers made the gruesome discovery on Monday while responding to a report of an illegally parked car.
Police say the woman tried to cover the remains with pieces of clothing.
The car was blocking a driveway in the 2000 block of Tustin Avenue in Costa Mesa.
Officers could smell a foul odor coming from the car, and after seeing a leg underneath the clothing, broke a window to get access inside.
Inside the car, officers also found a box of baking soda that the driver used to try to dissipate the smell.
Costa Mesa police believe the body is that a transient woman in her 50's from Fountain Valley.
The driver of the car says she befriended the woman at a local park and allowed her to sleep in the car overnight.
When she found the woman had died, she continued to drive the car with the body, said Sgt. Ed Everett.
The driver told police she was afraid to contact police about the body, so she continued to drive the car.
An autopsy has revealed no obvious signs of foul play.
Officials believe the woman had been dead for as long as 10 months, Everett said.
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How did she stand the smell????? unbelievable...
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Old Guy and his wife were driving down the road and he ran over a skunk.
The wife started moaning and groaning about the ‘poor defenseless skunk’ not bothering anyone and finally the old guy goes back.
The wife got out, saw the skunk was barely alive, picked it up and instructed her husband to drive to the nearest animal hospital.
They took off and when the skunk started convulsing, the woman put the skunk under her dress to ‘keep it warm’.
She said “This should keep him warm, but what about the smell”?
“He will get used to it, I did”.
LOL! Terrible joke but funny. I have a similar joke but I’m not telling it here. :D
LOL! Terrible joke but funny. I have a similar joke but I’m not telling it here. :D
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I was really on the cusp as to relating it.
Figured it wouldn’t ‘hurt’ those that didn’t ‘figure it out’.
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