body found in front of TV year after death
 

...i double checked the date on this one to be sure it was todays news! seems like we had a thread like this maybe 6 months ago. How can this happen tho? At my shop we have an older tech, he should be retired but he doesnt want to just stay home (ya know what, ill probably be the same way) and he;s a genious at electrical probems, so he faithfully comes to work everyday. He doesnt have a phone so if he;s out for more than a day ill personally go to check on him( and usually meet someone else from the shop there doing the same)...so how does someone go unnoticed for a year! Thats too sad.



HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. - The partially mummified body of a man dead for more than a year has been found in a chair in front of his television, which was still on, authorities said.

Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, apparently died of natural causes, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County’s deputy chief medical examiner.

Police found Ricardo’s body this week when they investigated a report of burst pipes.
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The home’s dry air had preserved his features, morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus said.

“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Bacchus said.

Ricardo’s wife died years ago, and he lived alone, Dawson said.

“He hasn’t been heard from in over a year. That’s the part that baffles me,” he said. “Nobody sounded the alarm.”

Neighbors said they had thought Ricardo was in a hospital or nursing home.

“We never thought to check on him,” said neighbor Diane Devon.
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[QUOTE=Keefla]...so how does someone go unnoticed for a year! Thats too sad.



Yeah, it's sad alright. Shows what little respect (and caring) that some neighbors have for others.

Probably will be how I go...only with a soldering iron in one hand and a roll of Kester 44 in the other.

:yippy:

Well.............???? Did the TV still work?

If it was a Zenith made any time before 1990--or by any chance a GE made before 1960--yes.

You'd think the utility companies would have cut off the power after not being paid for a year.:scratch2:

You would think something ANYTHING would have triggered concerns and someone would have called the authorities. For one, what are the odds someone is so isolated from the rest of humanity that nobody notices he is dead?

Some of my neighbors think I'm dead...:scratch2: As far as the utilities are concerned, he probably had auto pay set up on his bank account.

I hope he wasn't subjected to too many reruns and repeats...

Bet his mail box was full.

Seems like I remember reading about some woman in England who was dead 3 years before they found her...Think it was here. IIRC, Benny Hill lived alone & was dead about a week when they found him...

I wonder what kind of t.v. it was, and who got it? GW, SA?:dammit:

I wonder if he had any tube audio stuff?

And why were the Egyptians involved? The plot thickens...

"partially mummified body"

Wonder if they played "Yakety Sax" at his funeral... :scratch2:

i bet it was something stupid on Fox that did him in...i think they should be indicted for reckless endangerment or something.....all in all sad

yeah im pretty sure it was here, im pretty sure that's the same thread i was referring to in the beginning of my post...when i read this story i checked the date just cause of that. I thought no way it could happen twice, ya know!?

On a side note, a good friend of mine is a manager at a local Walmart and told me the in store TV's they have hanging from the celing were installed in '00. they are 19" emerson TV's and they've been on continuously since then, only turned off for power outages. One is out from a slight verticle overscan issue (probaby cap), and another is slightly green, but there about 5 that look perfect. good contrast and color....even after 7 years of continuous play!

Our bedroom TV is a 27" Zenith we bought new in '89. It has never missed a lick in all these years. And that includes ten moves. If it dies, I think I'll bury it in the back yard. :D

"He still had hair on his head" ... not surprising unless maybe he was bald to begin with...

Is hair supposed to go someplace else after you die?

Is anyone else worried that his chair might pop up on eBay??

If this happened in my town, the police would still be trying to question the man...

he is not cooperating with the investigation, we are going to have to take him down town .

CNN Headline News had shown this story, as well as the television. It was a 1989-1993 13-inch RCA (Thomson), as per the shots. I wonder what station he was watching?

I wouldn't want that chair to pop up on eBay, at least without thorough cleaning. Wouldn't be easy to sit on it.

There would have to be pretty specific circumstances for something like this to happen. If you rented you would have been evicted...if you owned a house, the grass would have been 2' tall and the town would have cited you. Mail would be piling up somewhere-wouldn't the post office at some point start returning his mail? (I know, I know, there IS a joke there about "dead letters") I suppose he could have been in some sort of subsidized housing, but how many places can you stay totally free and nobody checks on you?

Very sadly, we lost our next door neighbor weeks ago. She was much too young-another driver crossed the center line and her number was up. While we knew her & had talked on a regular basis ("nice weather today!") when the state troopers came to our door neither my wife or I could come up with a next of kin. 2 years she lived next door and we didn't know she had a son, didn't realize that we knew her son-in-law.

And, on a lighter note...I'd wondered about those Wal*Mart tv sets. That's a great longevity test. Like most things I guess leaving them running is easier on them than constant on-and-off cycling.

Something similar to this happened recently in southeast Texas. However, there is no mention of the TV playing.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2858576

He was probably watching CNN.

And the people that heard the story on television immediately started thinking, "I should probably go get some exercise."

Maybe died waiting for that basic cable tv guide to scroll past.

Heard more on the news last night. The cable company's bills didn't get paid for a while, so they disconnected it at the pole. So he was probably "watching" snow and hearing white noise. The postmaster said that his mailbox was getting stuffed, so he assumed that the guy left town and forgot to tell the post office. So the postmaster started holding his mail for his return.

No mention of this, but maybe attention was drawn because the real estate town tax went overdue for a year....

There's no way that a home in Hampton Bays, Long Island could have dry air.
Hampton Bays is virtually surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. And the ocean ain't dry!

that's not the story I heard
 

This is the story I heard:

Vinney barbarino 124, apparently died of super-natural causes, said Dr. Dudley Do-right, Maricopa County’s asisstant to the assistant in charge of assisting.

Police found vinney's body this week when they investigated a report of loud music.
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The home had been highly modded with room acoustic panels, and TOTL vintage stereo equipment, said morgue assistant Dudley Do-right.

“You could see his face. He still had a shit-ass ear-to-ear grin", Dudley said.

Vinney's wife left him years ago, apparently due to an overwhelming amount of silver faced equipment that he had been collecting through the years overwhelmed the space of the house and she was heard to have given Vinney the ultimatum:
"it's me or the silver", a neighbor said. "I guess it was her, we hadn't seen her since"...

“He hadn't turned off the music in over a year. That’s the part that baffles me,” the neighbor said. “I just thought he was enjoying his tunes". "We were always amazed at the clarity. We could here how good it sounded from here"!

Neighbors said they had thought Vinney was a old record exec or an ex-rock star or something.

“We never thought to check on him,” said neighbor Diane Devon. "The music always sounded so good".

Aw, shit, Meggy !! <grin>

just what i heard

C-SPAN. He was bored to death.

So much for my once cool thought of somehow being able to see the things that an old tv would have seen if some recording device or memory was somehow incorporated and you could review from the perspective of being inside the set, looking out.

I dont think a review of this sets, sight, if you will would be very savory......

I apologize in advance for my lack of good taste...

not for nothing, but thats pretty d**m cool picture.:banana:

Will, at least his tv out lasted him...

He must have been watching the Fox network.

Rob