Thursday, October 21, 2010

“Mummy Takes a Ride” or “Carcophagus ”

http://www.ocregister.com/news/car-272176-woman-body.html
Orange County police discovered the mummified corpse of a homeless woman who had been kept in the passenger seat of a car still being driven for months since her death. Apparently, the driver just wanted to put “new car smell” to the test.

It sounds creepy that the driver just kept using the car with the dead woman’s body sitting in the passenger seat, but it got even creepier when they did a Chinese fire drill.

The driver says she was afraid to tell police about the woman’s death when it happened and left her there until her body withered to a 30-lb.over the next several months, but she wasn’t going to leave it there forever. When it shrunk small enough, the driver was going to hang the body from her rear-view mirror.

The driver hasn’t been charged with any crime, and won’t be unless it can be proven that she used the corpse to illegally use the carpool lane.

Even though the discovery of a dead person was involved, police say they might bring charges but they might not, based on the legal precedent of maybe-us corpus.

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