Posted on 07/28/2011 10:24:17 PM PDT by Kartographer
The fate of a man who went missing 27 years ago was revealed when renovators found a skeleton wedged in the chimney of an historic bank building. The remains were found in May in an Abbeville, La., building when construction workers began restoring it. They were recently identified as Joseph Schexnider, who vanished in 1984 before a court appearance on charges of stealing a car, according to CNN. Schexnider, then 22, was presumed to have run away, as he had many times before.
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1984 was a bad year to be playing Santa.
What a sad, lonely, painful and scarry way to die.
lol..
Either he was casing the joint, or somebody REALLY didn’t like him.
A belated Darwin award...
I can’t imagine getting stuck forever there. I mean, he had all the time in the world (until he got too weak from starvation days later). I would have positioned myself in every way possible to get out. If you can get in you must surely be able to get out.
This may be a stretch but I wonder if lack of oxygen could have played a part in his death.
The difficulty as I understand it, is that while the chimney might be wide enough on top to get in, it narrows considerably at the bottom. Many people have found out the hard way and couldn’t get out because they became wedged in and couldn’t move up or down. A lonely and sad way to die.
I’d bet that the last 27 years really flue by for the guy.
I’ve always heard that you can die of the flue, now I know that its true.
Sooo, nobody built a fire for 27 years?
No one wondered why Santa stopped coming?
Sad, really sad.
Let us fly said the flea.
Let us flee said the fly.
so they flew through a flaw in the flue!
I saw that NCIS episode.
One thing I like about stuck-in-the-flue stories is there’s no “There but for the grace of God” factor.
I mean, long, long before I could get drunk enough to think that trying to climb down a chimney might be a good idea, my physical ability to do so would be long, long gone.
Hey! Wasn’t this the same guy who won the hide-and-seek championship 20 years ago?
A belated posthumous Darwin award...
How common is it for chimneys to have caps? If he got himself in there, and it had a cap, surely someone would eventually notice that the cap was sitting on the roof and not on the chimney. Not that a masonry chimney has to have a cap. If it’s tall enough it will absorb rain rather than let it run down to the fireplace.
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