Friday, January 30, 2009

After 3 Phone Calls and 2 Days, Detroit City Services Finally Retrieve Frozen Body


It took three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of a man frozen in ice in the elevator shaft of a vacant warehouse, a newspaper reported Thursday.

A reporter for The Detroit News said it got a tip and found the body Tuesday in a former Detroit Public Schools warehouse.

The reporter called emergency services Tuesday and told a female operator about the body, the newspaper said. It said a man returned the call to the newsroom about 20 minutes later and said the body would be retrieved.

But the next day, the News said the body was still trapped in the ice. The reporter made two more calls to the emergency services, one of which was disconnected, and a fire department employee arranged to meet the reporter and to get the body, the paper said.

Authorities used saws to extricate the body Wednesday afternoon, the Detroit Free Press and WDIV-TV said. Investigators said they think the body was there for several months. The man's name and the cause of his death were unknown.




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posted by Lon at 11:07 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger Grim Wicked said...

Ha, sounds just like Detroit. I live not too far from there myself and this isn't the most shocking thing I've heard on how they dealt with stuff of this nature. It probably took them that long just to figure out how the hell they were going to extract it but who knows with the way that department's run.

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