Beerball Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 I just want everyone to know that I am indeed alive and well.
bills_fan Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 The funny thing about that is that many folks actually walked by the dude and thought he was a Halloween decoration. Only in New York... VILLAGE CORPSE TWIST 'HALLOWEEN' SHOCK By LARRY CELONA, DAN KADISON and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN September 28, 2006 -- 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." Patel said at least an hour went by before a woman walking her dog realized the sidewalk exhibit of a man wearing a pair of leather spiked gloves, chaps and a vest was a real person and called police. Cops were investigating if the man had committed suicide or died during some sort of bizarre auto-erotic sex game. An autopsy will be performed today to determine how the man died. Police sources said there was no sign of a struggle and they don't believe he was a victim of foul play. Another witness, Kevin Samuel, 50, a porter for a building across the street, said he had looked at the body several times but it just never clicked that it might be a real person. "I'm staring at him and I think, 'Is that a prop or a real person?' His legs looked like he was twisted on an angle and that he fell in it [the fence]. It looked like he was stuck there and couldn't get up, like he lost his balance," Samuel said. "He didn't look like a person. I think he had a black mask on; I couldn't see his face. "I was looking at him for a while. I've never been stumped before trying to identify people. I'm ashamed of myself in a way because, I didn't realize it was a human being." 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." larry.celona@nypost.com
Hawk Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 WTF!!!! My Uncle Louie lives on Hudson...I'm Calling him right now!!!!
MelissaInPhilly Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 No offense Bill, but I would rather stay out of NY completely -- it's not my favorite place. Philly is annoying enough. I'm glad my daughter decided not to apply to NYU!
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