I think someone died in my building

[Ritalin]

There's a terrible odor in my building, like someone took a mean dump and didn't turn on the fan. The last time the building smelled like this, the old guy on the first floor had died.

It's a big co-op building: 6 stories with 19 or 20 apartments per floor, and some of these old folks have been living in the building for 30 or so years.

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

[topless_mike]

well, since you posted, we know its not you.

[Midkiff]

blecccchhhhh

[cupcakelove]

well, since you posted, we know its not you.

Or do we?



Great, now I've freaked myself out.

[topless_mike]

maybe its GVAC.

[JPMNICK]

call the cops and have them come and check it out.

i think this is how that found that girl at NYU, her neighbors smelled something.

[Chigworthy]

Hopefully it'll last til Halloween. A real corspe on Halloween? Awesome.

[Freitag]

I actually had to clean out an apartment once where someone died in their sleep... in August... with no AC... and the body wasn't discovered for two weeks.

[Yuppie_Scum]

my mom is a property manager and a similar thing happened in one of her apartments -- old woman died, no family, etc., they only found out when it started to smell.

Here's the really gross part -- she had a cat. Guess what the cat did to live for two weeks? Never trust your pet again.

[topless_mike]

Here's the really gross part -- she had a cat. Guess what the cat did to live for two weeks? Never trust your pet again.

ever hear of K2 ?
survival mode, son.

[Dougie Brootal]

this thread is useless without pics!

[Death Metal Moe]

They just found my grandmother's brother like this last week. Our local cops showed up to tell her 45 minutes before they were leaving to go up to visit him for 3 days. Glad the cops told them before they got there or worse yet, if they found him. He was dead in his apartment for 2 days, during some of the hottest days yet this summer. Just buried him yesterday afternoon.

Fucked up, lonely way to go.

[led37zep]

"If you're gonna die make sure someones home"- Audrey Griswald. National Lampoons Vacation.

[Ritalin]

Update: it was the old guy in 1N.

RIP

[cupcakelove]

Just because he's dead doesn't mean you can get away with calling him an N.

[DolaMight]

Update: it was the old guy in 1N.

RIP

Really? What do they do spray lemon fresh aerosol and all the tenants go on about their business? A smell isn't just invisble nothingness, it's tiny particles of whatever you're smelling.

You have rotted dead people particles in your nasal cavities and lungs. As of right now you're body weight is like 0.00034% rotted dead people particles. Party in the morg.

[Judge Smails]

http://eee.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/bringout.jpg

[Ritalin]

Really? What do they do spray lemon fresh aerosol and all the tenants go on about their business? A smell isn't just invisble nothingness, it's tiny particles of whatever you're smelling.

You have rotted dead people particles in your nasal cavities and lungs. As of right now you're body weight is like 0.00034% rotted dead people particles. Party in the morg.

Man, I live in Queens. I think I have worse particles in my body than dead guy from 1N.

Besides, who do you think I am? Keith Richards?

[Ritalin]

Just because he's dead doesn't mean you can get away with calling him an N.

Actually, he was an H, but what difference does it make now?

Ashes to ashes, you know.

[MadMatt]

They just found my grandmother's brother like this last week. Our local cops showed up to tell her 45 minutes before they were leaving to go up to visit him for 3 days. Glad the cops told them before they got there or worse yet, if they found him. He was dead in his apartment for 2 days, during some of the hottest days yet this summer. Just buried him yesterday afternoon.

Fucked up, lonely way to go.

Sorry for your family's loss Moe. Stories like this are never good to hear.

Poor people. My heart goes out to them.

[Ritalin]

They just found my grandmother's brother like this last week. Our local cops showed up to tell her 45 minutes before they were leaving to go up to visit him for 3 days. Glad the cops told them before they got there or worse yet, if they found him. He was dead in his apartment for 2 days, during some of the hottest days yet this summer. Just buried him yesterday afternoon.

Fucked up, lonely way to go.

Sorry for your family's loss Moe. Stories like this are never good to hear.

Poor people. My heart goes out to them.

Yes, I see what you guys are saying, but there's another way of looking at it: they were living in their own places, living their lives when they went. If I had to chose between a long illness and being surrounded by friends and family when I went, or just puttering along doing my thing and then I went in my sleep one night I think I'd rather go in my own house living my life normally until the end.

Either way you slice it, dying is a lonely business.

[citymedic27]

Yes, I see what you guys are saying, but there's another way of looking at it: they were living in their own places, living their lives when they went. If I had to chose between a long illness and being surrounded by friends and family when I went, or just puttering along doing my thing and then I went in my sleep one night I think I'd rather go in my own house living my life normally until the end.

Either way you slice it, dying is a lonely business.

yup, thats why im going out in the blaze of glory, me and bon jovi!

[cupcakelove]

Actually, he was an H, but what difference does it make now?

Ashes to ashes, you know.

You'll never learn.

[Death Metal Moe]

Yes, I see what you guys are saying, but there's another way of looking at it: they were living in their own places, living their lives when they went. If I had to chose between a long illness and being surrounded by friends and family when I went, or just puttering along doing my thing and then I went in my sleep one night I think I'd rather go in my own house living my life normally until the end.

Either way you slice it, dying is a lonely business.

That is true. I can't say that anyone who lives alone is lonely all the time. I know I would be lonely, but some people thrive on that kind of set up.

And you are correct. No matter where you are, you almost always die alone. Be it in a coma in some hospital or just of heart failure in your apartment, you're alone.

[Badinia]

And you are correct. No matter where you are, you almost always die alone. Be it in a coma in some hospital or just of heart failure in your apartment, you're alone.

When we go out, Moe, I think it'll be murder-suicide, so I have someone to keep me company. And what a "metal" way to go!

[Chigworthy]

my mom is a property manager and a similar thing happened in one of her apartments -- old woman died, no family, etc., they only found out when it started to smell.

Here's the really gross part -- she had a cat. Guess what the cat did to live for two weeks? Never trust your pet again.

This happens quite a bit. When my wife was in Animal Control, one of her coworkers assisted the Sherriff's Office with a vehicle that had driven off one of the steep pacific cliffs and been there a bit. He had two dogs in the car that survived. The dogs ate his dick. THEY ATE HIS DICK, EARL!

The dogs had to be returned to the deceased man's wife. So she now has two dogs to remind her of her husband and his dick. The same two dogs that ATE HIS DICK!!! I don't think that she was told the exact details.

When we go out, Moe, I think it'll be murder-suicide, so I have someone to keep me company. And what a "metal" way to go!

Moe, if you do it, go extra-metal and have the rest of Unhallowed eat part of your brain and make necklaces out of your skull fragments.

[midwestjeff]

I live upstairs in an old two-story house that is split into two apartments. Last Sunday afternoon i woke up to fire trucks and ambulances but went back to sleep figuring that my neighbor had fallen again and they were here to help her up. Nope. She died. She was like 57ish and way overweight with lots of medical problems but not in bad spirits at all. Well maybe a little. Anyway, besides me and like four other people she had no one in the world. So no funeral or memorial or anything. I've only lived here for a year but she was so lonely that she took me on as the son she never had. Admittedly, her neediness was sometimes annoying but i tried to give her as much attention as i could. Long story short, my neighbor's dead and it sucks. RIP

[Chigworthy]

Sounds like you may have brightened the last year of her life.

[Bulldogcakes]

This is kinda gross, so anyone with a weak stomach should skip over my post


























OK, chances are a rat died in one of the vents, and is rotting away. Especially if you just had a visit from the exterminator recently. When there is that unmistakable smell of death, its usually a small animal of some kind that died somewhere that is hard to reach. Tell the super. It will go away within a week or so either way, but get the guy to try to remove it.

[sr71blackbird]

BDC, they found it was a dead guy.

When I was a kid there was this old couple next door and their 50 yr. old single overweight daughter living with them. One Saturday morning at 6 o'clock the old people are pounding on the door, asking for my father. They say they think their daughter died. My father goes there and sure enough, she is dead in the bathroom, half naked. She must have had a heart attack. The old couple begs my father to get the woman on her bed and help get her dressed before the cops come. So my father is struggling to heave a 275 lb naked woman on a bed and then have to help her crying parents dress her. He was gone for like an hour and a half and when he came home, he was ashen and threw up and his back was out.
Sucks.
RIP old guy

[Ritalin]

When we go out, Moe, I think it'll be murder-suicide, so I have someone to keep me company. And what a "metal" way to go!

I think murder-suicide is more punk than metal.

but that's just me.

[Midkiff]

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/cuntymcslut/a-plague-on-both-your-houses.jpg

[Bulldogcakes]

BDC, they found it was a dead guy.

Oops sorry. Missed the update post.

[ralphbxny]

I had three people pass away within 2 weeks in my building (two old timers and a suicide) they just cleaned up and are showing the Apt already...is there a time they have to wait ? It seems wrong but I guess its life.

[MadMatt]

I had three people pass away within 2 weeks in my building (two old timers and a suicide) they just cleaned up and are showing the Apt already...is there a time they have to wait ? It seems wrong but I guess its life.

Only have to wait until the paint is dry - get the person's crap out, have the place cleaned and painted, get it rented ASAP.

My current apartment complex has added an addendum to the lease for next year stating that the family/estate of any deceased resident is on the hook for two months rent after a resident dies. Not pro-rated to the end of the month, not a month to get things squared away, but 2 full months rent - AND the security deposit doesn't count. Of course the family/estate has a leisurely 7 days after proof of death to remove the belongings of the deceased.

Just one of many reasons this will soon be my former apartment complex...

[Justice4all]

ok....I wonder how does it not skeeve you out to know that someone died in your building like that and you all smelled it for like 2-3 days?
And I bet you will remember that smell for a long long time.

I wonder how bad the body had decomposed before it was found.

[MrPink]

Awesome

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Every time you swim in the Atlantic Ocean, just realize you're swimming in the same kiddy pool that houses the grave of the Titanic and all the remaining corpse-particles of all the folks who died in that shin-dig. Size is just relative- you're still in the same pool a bunch of people died in. Skeevy, sure. But part of life. Every place has a history.

[sr71blackbird]

I thought the ocean was salty from fish piss

[led37zep]

I thought the ocean was salty from fish piss

Fish cum makes it salty, fish piss makes it warm in the summer.

[Ritalin]

ok....I wonder how does it not skeeve you out to know that someone died in your building like that and you all smelled it for like 2-3 days?
And I bet you will remember that smell for a long long time.

I wonder how bad the body had decomposed before it was found.

It only smelled that morning, so I think he probably passed early the night before. It was really hot that day.

It doesn't skeeve me because 2 years ago it happened, only that time the guy lived right across from the elevators on the first floor, and it took them 2 or 3 days before they figured out where the smell was coming from.

After that I started keeping a little jar of the stuff Scott Glenn rubbed under his nose in Silence of the Lambs, in that scene where they find the cocoon in that dead chick's throat.