City tickets car seven times, no one spots dead guy in back seat

[ErikStenger]

Let this be a warning to those of you who tint your car windows (at least in Gainesville, FL): If you die in the back seat, it may be a while before you're found. A man from Gainesville, FL went missing on February 11 and was found this past Monday deceased in the back passenger-side seat of his 2001 BMW 330i. The car had apparently been parked illegally and was ticketed seven times ? SEVEN TIMES! ? before anyone noticed its owner sitting dead in the back seat.

The first ticket was actually issued on February 12, the day after the man was first reported missing, but the windows on the car were tinted darker than the law allows, which prevented ticket officers from noticing the corpse riding shotgun in the back. We thought the smell of decay might have prompted the police to take a closer look, but no. Rather, a nearby resident who noticed that the car had been sitting there a while with seven tickets tucked under its wipers called it in.

A spokesperson for the city of Gainesville pointed out that ticket officers aren't actual police officers, but rather employees of the city's public works department. Apparently, they don't get the same training as actual police officers who know that the first thing you do is look for dead people in the back seat. The actual cause of the man's death is not known as an autopsy was inconclusive, though officials are waiting for the results of a toxicology test that could provide some answers.

 

[sixer9682]

Two items of note here:

1. Everyone in Florida is retarded to one degree or another due to a combination of factors, the final being that the sun bakes everybody's brain and they refuse to think for themselves.

2. The windows were tinted much darker than the law allows, which requires at least 28% transparency.

 

[Deploymentking]

Shit I could use a Beamer, I don't give a damn if there's some blood stains/Ebola in the back.

 

[sixer9682]

Do you realize what that would smell like after having body rot in it under the Florida sun. Talk about necrotic tissue/fluids in the damndest places in the car. I guarantee you'd never get the smell out. I've been around those corpses that are bloated and bursting from that sun, and let me tell you there's no description for the smell.

 

[CTFalcon]

Serves him right, Boon and I agree that only cocks drive Beamers. Now the only question I have is did he die while doing a powerpoint presentation on his personal finances in the back seat, or was he talking on his blue-tooth cell phone?