Real Estate Deal: house from late 70-early 80s. Includes Corpse. Fixer-upper.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Ah! Baltimore!

Stories like this seem made for Baltimore!

A house has been left to sit for 20+ years.

The city sells it for back taxes.

And, what do they find in an upstairs bedroom?

A corpse, surrounded by old Playboy magazines! (NO! It isn’t Anna Nichole’s!)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.remains13jun13,0,6524046.story

It is a house stuck in time.

A calendar hanging on the kitchen wall open to July 1978. Shoes and clothes, long out of style, spilling from plastic bags.

And in one of four upstairs bedrooms: the skeletal remains of what could be a human body, on a grungy orange blanket, surrounded by adult magazines - one a Playboy, vintage 1982.
…
Renee Faulkner, who has lived next to the house for seven years, said it never appeared that anyone really lived there. She said a woman stopped by a couple of times a week to take out garbage. When the grass and weeds grew too high, she said, city crews would come and mow the lawn. A light could sometimes be seen in the kitchen.

But a few years ago, people stopped coming. The light in the kitchen went out. The yard grew into a tangle of weeds. City work crews came, but instead of trimming the grass they boarded up the door and windows. The upstairs windows were covered with newspapers, allowing stray cats a way inside.

Who was the mystery woman?

Needlessly creepy.

[Skywatcher]

What’s the over/under for a corpse surrounded by Playboys on the top floor of an “abandoned” property turning up on Law & Order next season?

[matt_mcl]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

A corpse, surrounded by old Playboy magazines! (NO! It isn’t Anna Nichole’s!)

And next to it, on the second pillow, a long strand of iron-gray hair.

[Ferret_Herder]

@matt_mcl

And next to it, on the second pillow, a long strand of iron-gray hair.

snerk Beautiful.

[OpalCat]

“Numerous crates used to carry cats or small dogs can be found, as well as two-liter soda bottles filled with urine, giving off an unbearable stench.”

:eek:

[cmkeller]

@matt_mcl

And next to it, on the second pillow, a long strand of iron-gray hair.

What is this a reference to? I see someone got it, but I’m afraid I don’t.

[TroubleAgain]

“A Rose for Emily”, I think. Faulkner?

link to story

[RyJae]

What? I bid on a house and I got a mummy too, I always wanted a mummy.

http://www.kansascity.com/286/story/109966.html

[Nava]

@RyJae

What? I bid on a house and I got a mummy too, I always wanted a mummy.

http://www.kansascity.com/286/story/109966.html

And on the beach too!

Those auctions usually include information like a plan of the house and pictures, but I guess in there two cases either the info was MIA or they just used the plans on record…

ETA: ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

[Mangetout]

@OpalCat

“Numerous crates used to carry cats or small dogs can be found, as well as two-liter soda bottles filled with urine, giving off an unbearable stench.”

This happens every time. Seriously, I think it must be a mechanism built into the human brain that when this little thing snaps, right here, you need to start hoarding trash, excrement and urine, also, you need to collect as many animals as possible.

[butler1850]

@Nava

ETA: ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

Just like it’s spelled!

[hotflungwok]

“Up here is the master bedroom, bathroom adjoining.”
“Wait, is that a corpse on the bed?”
“Well, it really brings the room together, so we left it.”

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Nava

ETA: ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

'Smith".

[gigi]

@Lute Skywatcher

What’s the over/under for a corpse surrounded by Playboys on the top floor of an “abandoned” property turning up on Law & Order next season?

Or Cold Case.

[Smitty]

@Nava

ETA: ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

Throat-Warbler Mangrove

[plnnr]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Ah! Baltimore!

Who was the mystery woman?

Needlessly creepy.

Surrounded by porn? I’m guessing the mystery woman was a man.

[cmkeller]

ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

Shu-shev-ski. Just ask anyone at Duke University.

[Rebo]

@Nava

And on the beach too!

Those auctions usually include information like a plan of the house and pictures, but I guess in there two cases either the info was MIA or they just used the plans on record…

ETA: ok, fight my ignorance. Other than “very carefully”, how does one pronounce Szczypiski?

My WAG would be shipisky or zhipisky…

[kittenblue]

@plnnr

Surrounded by porn? I’m guessing the mystery woman was a man.

No, darlin’, the mystery woman is the one who used to come by a few times a week to take out the garbage. Try to keep up.

[Wile_E]

@kittenblue

No, darlin’, the mystery woman is the one who used to come by a few times a week to take out the garbage. Try to keep up.

I don’t understand how a corpse was producing garbage … becoming garbage, yes, but not producing it.