Sitting on handrails and chains...

[GaTechGal]

Got this from another site--wouldn't it be great if everyone who visits the parks had this kind of "drug problem"?

http://www.liveasif.org/view.cgi?type=w ... 0060928002

What a fantasitc link. I'll be sure the share that "drug problem" story with others. Thanks for sharing. :D:

[Theme Park Where]

And then there's this guy(?), who evidentally was doing something they shouldn't have ...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 21933.html

As a disclaimer, I'll say that I hope they can find out who this is so they can let the family know, and we don't know how he (or she) got there so we don't know if it was foul play or an accident or what. It's a truly bizarre story though.

[Big Wallaby]

Wow! No kidding, that's bizarre! If that's an accident, sucks to be him (her?) and their family. If it was foul play, someone committed the perfect crime.

[Zazu]

And then there's this guy(?), who evidentally was doing something they shouldn't have ...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 21933.html

As a disclaimer, I'll say that I hope they can find out who this is so they can let the family know, and we don't know how he (or she) got there so we don't know if it was foul play or an accident or what. It's a truly bizarre story though.

Not such a big deal. The old Long Beach Pike had a figure in their funhouse that turned out to be a long-dead human when someone tried to adjust the "mannekin". Don McLean wrote a nice song about him, "The Legend of Andrew Mccrew" (though his real name was Elmer McCurdy). :rip:

Yep, you won't find that kind of entertainment at no Disney park!

[DisneyMom]

Not such a big deal. The old Long Beach Pike had a figure in their funhouse that turned out to be a long-dead human when someone tried to adjust the "mannekin". Don McLean wrote a nice song about him, "The Legend of Andrew Mccrew" (though his real name was Elmer McCurdy). :rip:

Yep, you won't find that kind of entertainment at no Disney park!

Hmmmmm, you mean the skeletons at Pirates aren't the bones of SGs who perished at the Parks? ;)

[felinefan]

I remember reading about a similar case to Elmer. This was a figure that was in a movie props department for who knows how long, and one day one of the arms came off. A prop man tried to glue it back on, only to discover that it was a human mummy. When the body was examined, they found a couple of puzzling things--the autopsy incision was X-shaped, instead of the Y-shaped incision used in America; the body had also been embalmed with arsenic, which is illegal here. Both the incision and embalming method pointed to Europe as the source of the body, but I don't know if they ever found out who he was.

From what little there is in the story, I think it may have been either a case of someone trying to scale the rock wall (get in for free, or just wanted to scale a rock wall--any rock wall), or a murder, and the body dumped. I don't think the corpse would've been smelled necessarily by guests, but I wonder if anyone noticed if there were more than the usual number of crows or other birds that feed on carrion in that area while the body was there? Or if the park had more than the usual number of flies and/or beetles that also feed on corpses. Sorry if I gross anyone out, but those are the facts. The way forensic medicine is advancing, it might be awhile before they identify him (most likely it's a guy), but from there, they can trace family, friends and associates. From there they can put together a motive, and eventually find the killer. Unless, of course, it was an accident, which should be determined by the injuries that are bound to be in the skeleton.

[mechurchlady]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/mccurdy.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy

http://www.sideshowworld.com/tgodmummy.html

His mother was 17 and pregnant probably by a cousin, he was raised by an aunt and uncle who died then his mother moved in, he could not find work and finally messed up several times as a robber.

The last link is very detailed with a picture.

WARNING CONTAINS GRAPHIC (you may want to puke) DEAD GUY PICTURES
http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/episode/epis ... dummy.html

[Ms. Matterhorn]

Thanks for the links, Churchy. I remember reading about that it in the newspaper when they discovered the body at the Pike.

[felinefan]

Looks like I was talking about the same guy. But remember, 30+ years is a long time to remember the details....

I didn't think the pictures were puke-worthy. But then again, since my earliest interests in life were anatomy/medicine and archaeology, I'm used to seeing mummified bodies. I agree--the undertaker did a great job on him.

[DisneyMom]

Looks like I was talking about the same guy. But remember, 30+ years is a long time to remember the details....

I didn't think the pictures were puke-worthy. But then again, since my earliest interests in life were anatomy/medicine and archaeology, I'm used to seeing mummified bodies. I agree--the undertaker did a great job on him.

I read that they used arsenic(now illegal) to preserve the body, apparently it does a great job