If you think your idea is too far-fetched...

Bufty · Feb 8, 2008

Think again.

The body of a man believed to have been dead for nearly 10 years has been found in a flat which was still occupied by a council tenant.[ On a couch!!!!]

We have a murder trial going here where the accused's defence - believe it or not - is that yes, his DNA was found on the body, but he didn't kill her. He simply happened to walk past the house where her blood-stained body was lying in the driveway - and 'took advantage of the situation'.

Yes - 'took advantage' means just that. Yikes.

Mr Flibble · Feb 8, 2008

I hesitate to ask, but does 'take advantage' mean what I think it means?

ewwwww.

sunna · Feb 8, 2008

Well. That's thoroughly disturbing.

Bufty · Feb 8, 2008

Agreed. So much so, I wouldn't complain if a Mod deleted this thread or moved it to wherever it belongs - like the trash basket.

sunna said:
Well. That's thoroughly disturbing.

donut · Feb 8, 2008

oh god, that's some defense.

defiling a corpse is illegal (in most places, I think), but I guess the punishment isn't as bad as for as rape or murder.

KTC · Feb 8, 2008

Do you think he used the couch? It would be an awkward thorn in his side to sit on the floor all those years to watch TV. The least the body could have done was pull up a floor!

ishtar'sgate · Feb 8, 2008

IdiotsRUs said:
I hesitate to ask, but does 'take advantage' mean what I think it means?

ewwwww.

Isn't that person a necropheliac or something like that? I knew they existed, just never thought I'd hear about it. Ugh.
Linnea

Bufty · Feb 8, 2008

Another room - they shared the flat. No suspicious cicrumstances. Age and mental health appear to be the factors. Sad.

KTC said:
Do you think he used the couch? It would be an awkward thorn in his side to sit on the floor all those years to watch TV. The least the body could have done was pull up a floor!

sunna · Feb 8, 2008

donut said:
oh god, that's some defense.

defiling a corpse is illegal (in most places, I think), but I guess the punishment isn't as bad as for as rape or murder.

not until he gets to prison anyway...

wow.

donroc · Feb 8, 2008

If a human thinks of it, than IT can become possible.

IceCreamEmpress · Feb 8, 2008

I'm not sure that the defense "I'm not a murderer or rapist, just a necrophiliac" has ever been tried before. It's certainly creative.

swvaughn · Feb 8, 2008

donroc said:
If a human thinks of it, than IT can become possible.

Sweet! I'm thinking I can be invisible and fly.

(sorry, don, I know you were being serious - I just couldn't resist!)

Zoombie · Feb 8, 2008

donut said:
oh god, that's some defense.

defiling a corpse is illegal (in most places, I think), but I guess the punishment isn't as bad as for as rape or murder.

Actually, it's not actually illegal in some states...

otterman · Feb 8, 2008

And someone was living with the dead guy on the couch?

"Pass the remote. Oh, I forgot..."

geardrops · Feb 8, 2008

Zoombie said:
Actually, it's not actually illegal in some states...

It concerns me that Zoombie knows this...

Mike Martyn · Feb 8, 2008

Bufty said:
Think again.

Yes - 'took advantage' means just that. Yikes.

Under the Criminal Code of Canada, this falls under the category of

"offering an indignity to a dead body"

I mean, how quaintly Victorian is that?

Ravenlocks · Feb 8, 2008

Mike Martyn said:
Under the Criminal Code of Canada, this falls under the category of

"offering an indignity to a dead body"

I mean, how quaintly Victorian is that?

The act itself is gross, but this phrasing rocks.

sunna · Feb 8, 2008

Mike Martyn said:
Under the Criminal Code of Canada, this falls under the category of

"offering an indignity to a dead body"

I mean, how quaintly Victorian is that?

Offering?? I can get past indignity, but offering? :crazy:

If you think your idea is too far-fetched...

Bufty

Where have the last ten years gone?

Mr Flibble

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

sunna

Bufty

Where have the last ten years gone?

donut

fame-seeking floozy

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live

ishtar'sgate

living in the past

Bufty

Where have the last ten years gone?

sunna

donroc

Historicals and Horror rule

IceCreamEmpress

Hapless Virago

swvaughn

adrift

Zoombie

Dragon of the Multiverse

otterman

Word Voyeur

geardrops

Good thing I like my day job

Mike Martyn

Ravenlocks

How novel.

sunna