It certainly is.
You can't make this stuff up. Guy spends last days in ladies windshield, now this.......
Dead man lived in van with mother's body buried under beer cans
By The Associated Press
(3/12/03 - DENTON, TEXAS) —
Bodies of a man and his mother were found in the front seat of a trashed-out van in the front yard of their Denton Texas residence, and police say they likely died months apart.
No cause of death has been determined, but police say they saw no obvious signs of foul play in the deaths of James Barry Mack, 48, and his mother, Margie Stuckey Mack, 87. Mack was found dead behind the wheel of the 1993 Dodge van registered to him. His mother was found dead in the passenger seat, buried under a mound of beer cans that filled the entire van up to the head rests, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported in its Wednesday editions. Mack apparently lived in the van and drove it around town with his mother's body inside, said Denton Detective Sgt. Lenn Carter.
"We had a welfare concern call there in December, and it's possible she was already dead then," Carter said. A neighbor said the gas had been cut off in the Mack residence for nonpayment and Mack had been staying in the van, running the engine to keep warm. The neighbor said she occasionally brought gasoline to Mack so he could keep the engine running.
Monday afternoon, a neighbor made a 911 call, saying she had not seen Mack recently. Police broke into the house when they could not rouse anyone. According to the police report, the house was filled with dog feces and cat litter, and an officer had to wade through knee-high piles of empty cans in one room. Officers then broke into the van, which had dark-tinted windows.
They found Mack slumped in the driver's seat, undressed from the waist down. Two emaciated dogs were in the van, and the officers called animal control to take them. "While we were waiting, the dogs would stand on him and honk the horn," Carter said. "They really wanted out of that van."
It was only after they began moving beer cans that they discovered the body of Mack's mother in the passenger seat. She also was partially undressed, and the lower half of one of her arms was missing. Police said they believe the starving dogs were responsible, though a sack of dog food was found buried underneath the cans.
According to tax records, taxes on the property had not been paid in the past two years. The huge back yard was overgrown in high weeds and scrub trees so dense the house is secluded from its back neighbor.
Neighbors said they did not remember the yard being mowed. Kyla Welch, whose house backs up to the side of the Mack house, told the Record-Chronicle that her neighbor did not appear to work and was a bit eccentric. But she said both were friendly enough to wave or speak when she saw them in the yard in the past eight years they have been neighbors. Welch said she had noticed recently that when she looked into the yard, Mack was sitting in the van.
"We did kind of notice they were out there all the time with the engine running. I just thought he was smoking in the van because of his mother's health," she said. "You never saw any lights in the house, but I thought they stayed in the back. You never saw anyone visiting," Welch said. "They were kind of odd, but they never bothered anybody."