Man Frozen in a block of ice at the bottom of a elevator shaft.

[Bodzilla]

Where else but Detroit. (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090128/METRO08/901280491)

DETROIT -- This city has not always been a gentle place, but a series of events over the past few, frigid days causes one to wonder how cold the collective heart has grown.

It starts with a phone call made by a man who said his friend found a dead body in the elevator shaft of an abandoned building on the city's west side.

"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller phoned to tell this reporter.

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"Why didn't your friend call the police?"

"He was trespassing and didn't want to get in trouble," the caller replied. As it happens, the caller's friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

Before calling the police, this reporter went to check on the tip, skeptical of a hoax. Sure enough, in the well of the cargo elevator, two feet jutted out above the ice. Closer inspection revealed that the rest of the body was encased in 2-3 feet of ice, the body prostrate, suspended into the ice like a porpoising walrus.

The hem of a beige jacket could be made out, as could the cuffs of blue jeans. The socks were relatively clean and white. The left shoe was worn at the heel but carried fresh laces. Adding to the macabre and incongruous scene was a pillow that gently propped up the left foot of the corpse. It looked almost peaceful.

What happened to this person, one wonders? Murder in Motown is a definite possibility. Perhaps it was death by alcoholic stupor. Perhaps the person was crawling around in the elevator shaft trying to retrieve some metal that he could sell at a scrap yard. In any event, there the person was. Stone-cold dead.
Go to the link, theres more.
http://www.detnews.com/graphics/2009/0129frozen.jpg
jesus fucking christ.

[SnaFuBAR]

Damn, that's crazy. I would bet that it was a homicide amongst the homeless there. Competition for food or some other resource, maybe. No matter, this is mind blowing.

[Bodzilla]

it was there for over a month and after repeated calls the cops still didnt show up.
not to mention they where talking to a reporter.....

god dam they could at least try to look organized.

They should be blown across the front pages for that, it's fucking ridiculous.

[mech]

It's Detroit, law enforcement doesn't care unless you make a break to the white side.

Also, He's homeless sporting forces and clean socks..?

[paladin]

MB another Lucy?

[Dr Nick]

Why are there cushions and shit? It doesn't make sense!

[DaaxGhost]

Look at the legs very closely, you can see seems. photoshop? no. :awesome:

That's just down right crazy, maybe he was sleeping and roled down into water as it froze over night, elevator shafts are concrete and are very close to freezing soil.

My story is just bullshit. idk.

[Mr Buckshot]

Probably a vagrant or a junkie who went the "wrong way"...this particular scene quite bizarre (encased in ice) but there are many cases of such people freezing/starving to death in abandoned buildings all over the world, or maybe they ODed and died or got killed in a competition for food/drugs.

[Cojafoji]

Haha, omfg. That's terrible that they would actually play hockey on top of someone's final, and ill conceived resting place.

[LlamaMaster]

Haha, omfg. That's terrible that they would actually play hockey on top of someone's final, and ill conceived resting place.
He's dead, he wouldn't know or care. It's like an atheist bringing flowers to a grave, they are just doing it to make themselves feel better...

[Cojafoji]

He's dead, he wouldn't know or care. It's like an atheist bringing flowers to a grave, they are just doing it to make themselves feel better...
Still, and even in today's world, some reverence and civility must be paid towards the dead. That was a human life.

[Huero]

He's dead, he wouldn't know or care. It's like an atheist bringing flowers to a grave, they are just doing it to make themselves feel better...

this is an ignorant post.

bringing flowers to a grave denotes respect for the dead person, it has nothing to do with religion.

[Cojafoji]

this is an ignorant post.

bringing flowers to a grave denotes respect for the dead person, it has nothing to do with religion.
I believe that there is a certain amount of reverence on how we treat the dead. Regardless of religion, they are cleaned, and buried, have a head stone etc. They're cremated, and the ashes disposed of according to their wishes etc.

I'm not really sure what I'm arguing about. I hate to bring this into it, but I am really high. I was just saying that... I have no idea. I don't know where, or how religions got involved.
Oh fuck dude, I was arguing against someone that supported my opposition. Jesus, I really am super high.

[LlamaMaster]

I brought religion into it because if a Christian leaves flowers on a grave, they might believe that god/the dead guy are looking down at them. This would serve a purpose, because the person would believe that the person who the flowers were intended for would see them leaving a sign of respect.

On the other hand, if a seemingly logical Atheist were to leave flowers, they would be doing it out of respect for the person's family/friends/themselves who see the flowers. The dead guy doesn't care at that point, and the guy who leaves flowers just ends up feeling a little better. If the person feels no attachment to a dead body, then there is no need to "treat it with respect" unless somebody else cares.

....that was a worthless argument, why did I type that.

[Rook]

He couldn't afford a proper burial, so why not preserve yourself like that.

[Apoc4lypse]

He couldn't afford a proper burial, so why not preserve yourself like that.

O_o

I just figured out how I'm going to die when I'm old and tired of being elderly, get my self uber drunk and fucked up with pain killers then freeze my self. They say you start to hallucinate when you freeze to death.

E: could've been a suicide like I mentioned above... do they know the cause of death was freezing, or maybe someone just put the body there trying to get rid of it?

E2: I don't mean any disrespect with what I said above, I'm just sayin... Its a shame that something like this can happen, tbh I dont blame the homeless men in the article, they've probably seen worse.

[Cojafoji]

O_o

I just figured out how I'm going to die when I'm old and tired of being elderly, get my self uber drunk and fucked up with pain killers then freeze my self. They say you start to hallucinate when you freeze to death.

E: could've been a suicide like I mentioned above... do they know the cause of death was freezing, or maybe someone just put the body there trying to get rid of it?

E2: I don't mean any disrespect with what I said above, I'm just sayin... Its a shame that something like this can happen, tbh I dont blame the homeless men in the article, they've probably seen worse.
Uh, he's submerged in ice, which was once water, so it's a good chance that he drowned first genius...

[Hotrod]

Well, it wouldn't be too hard to move the body, and figure out the cause of death, no? Couldn't they just cut out a chunk of ice, let it melt, and then preform an autopsy? Still, I must agree that the body was really badly treated, due to the hockey players not stopping their game after having seen it, and everybody else leaving it there, and ignoring it. Just imagine the guy's family, how they must be worried...

[Heathen]

Whats so mind blowing about this?

I think I missed something...

[ultama121]

Probably the fact that he's submerged in ice. 0_o

[Hotrod]

And that nobody did shit about it for over a month.

[blind]

I find the picture very disturbing

[Heathen]

Lol, how is it disturbing? Its feet poking out of frozen water.

Its shocking because its in ice? It was obviously in water first....

Would you be shocked to find a body in water?

[Bodzilla]

I brought religion into it because if a Christian leaves flowers on a grave, they might believe that god/the dead guy are looking down at them. This would serve a purpose, because the person would believe that the person who the flowers were intended for would see them leaving a sign of respect.

On the other hand, if a seemingly logical Atheist were to leave flowers, they would be doing it out of respect for the person's family/friends/themselves who see the flowers. The dead guy doesn't care at that point, and the guy who leaves flowers just ends up feeling a little better. If the person feels no attachment to a dead body, then there is no need to "treat it with respect" unless somebody else cares.

....that was a worthless argument, why did I type that.
i respect bill hicks even though he's dead AND i'm an atheist.

so where does that leave us....
you dont have to have someone see something, or at least have others know you respect someone, to respect them.

[Corndogman]

I find the picture very disturbing

Idk, I found it kind of awesome.

[blind]

Would you be shocked to find a body in water?
Its a dead body. Of fucking course I'd be shocked.

[supersniper]

Yeah we were talking about his in sociology class, I wish our city was better...

[cheezdue]

Its odd, amusing, and yet sad at the same time.

[Dwood]

Its odd, amusing, and yet sad at the same time.


Agreed.