Man Dies at Occupy Tallahassee: Reports Suggest He Wasn’t Found for Days
- Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:45pm by
Erica Ritz
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The police are investigating the death of a man discovered Thursday night at the Occupy Tallahassee camp, according to Officer David Northway of the Tallahassee Police Department.
Though there is no indication of foul play at the current time, it reportedly took several days “or longer” for fellow Occupiers to discover the man’s body. “When somebody goes to their tent and goes to sleep, you leave them alone..Nobody‘s really prying into anybody else’s business out here, so it’s understandable,” one Tallahassee occupier said. He was allegedly found after occupiers noticed that he had been absent from group activities for several days, and went to check on him.
The movement’s local spokesman, Larry Hendricks, declared, “Unless they find out otherwise, I think it was a natural occurrence.” Apparently the now-deceased man had revealed he was a diabetic when signing the Occupy Tallahassee “covenant” several weeks prior, though it remains unclear whether this is related to the cause of death.
“It’s natural. It’s still safe here,” another occupier at the camp maintained.
Death, rape, and robbery have all been reported before at Occupy camps. It will be interesting to see if it puts a damper on the movement’s “spring offensive,” as laid out by Frances Fox Piven and Steven Lerner.
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Comments (115)
crusaderx9
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:39pmI‘m surprised this godless group of pagans didn’t eat their own while dancing in the moonlight and crapping where they sleep.
This lost soul will not be missed by anyone including his fellow “occupiers”…
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:49pmHey……there’s nothing wrong with dancing in the moonlight.
It’s a wonderful night for a moondance…… (the original Van, Morrison) :-)
I hope you’re wrong about this poor soul. I doubt he will be missed by the Occutards but I would bet he has family who grieves for him. Prayers go out to them.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 8:09pm“I want to see you dance again, on this Harvest Moon.”
Neil Young
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:35pmWas the dead guy bIack? If so it’s about time to have a march demanding justice, line up all the white guys for vilification….and apparently ‘White’-Hispanics are now fair game too.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:34pmHe was after 3 days.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:34pmIt‘s Alice Cooper’s Fault….“Give a Diabetic a CandyCane”. MUST BE BANNED, NOW! Eric Holder, Hurry and Regulate That Type Of Song!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:18pmImagine this story playing out at a Tea Party event. First, you have to ‘suspend disbelief’ that the Tea Party would hold an over night event. Then you have to believe that no one would interact with a ‘neighbor’ for several days. That little detail really differentiates occupiers from the Tea Party – people interact, they actually care about their neighbors. Finally, you then have to believe that a certain unpleasant odor would go unnoticed for, again, several days. If I missed anything, please add to the thread.
Report Post »rottiesforfreedom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:18pmIt’s sad if he reported he was diabetic you would think someone would be checking in on him . My neighbor just lost her 27 year old son , who was a truck driver to a diabetic coma while he laid at a toll plaza on the pa turnpike for 4 days .
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:01pmReason it took so long to discover he was dead was because they couldn’t smell him over the B.O. (no pun intended)
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:59pmOh well… Win some, Lose some.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:28pmIt only goes to show how much they care about others.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 9:27amMost are social outcast and irrelevant’s just wanting to belong to something.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:24pmWith all those crap covered flags and piles of poop,who could notice the stench of rotting flesh?Maybe they thought he was making a gay porn or raping a woman in his tent?
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:20pmThose occupy camps must really stink if nobody noticed him for 3 days.
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:43pmThe smell of Death is all about the OWS malcontents. I have never smelled a group worse than this. Skid Rowe winos do not smell as much like death as the OWS sickos. ANd no I have no sorrow in my heart for this dead guy. No one gets off the Planet alive. so what one more malcontent bites the dust.
Report Post »Who cares. I damn sure do not…
cassandra
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:17pmOWS is not prying into anybody else’s business ? really then what do you call taking money from those who work and give it to those who won’t ?
Report Post »StrongViolentType
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 8:46am@Cass Very nice twist – I love it.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:15pm“Like If Somebody Likes,You know?Trips off to their tent and like,You Know? Passes out or Something like that You Know? They are like,maybe shooting some H or dropping some acid you know?Maybe like making a gay porn or having sex with a child or like Raping a woman you know?We leave them alone until they start stinking worse than our unwashed bodies or the feces lying all over the flags and stuff You Know?”
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:07pmFortunately he’s still eligible to vote..
Report Post »Big Momma Cat
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:31pmThis ended my day with a good giggle! So true!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:43pmI almost choked on my dentures with that one!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 8:19amExcellent!!
Report Post »possom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:05pmThat make‘s nine dead now doesn’t it?
Patriot of My America
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:46pmN o I was thinking it is a Bakers Dozen, hopefully and one more so the cops know it is not a Dunkin Dounuts crime..
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:04pmTragic this has to happen. I hope people begin to realize that these OWSers don’t care about people, only the collective. This man unfortunately is just a statistic to them.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:03pmI am sorry but I know the smell of death and especially in tallahassee exactly how dirty must all of these folks be not to smell this? It is a very unique smell come on people. God rest his soul poor guy
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:09pmMy first thought also .. it has been HOT … this place must really STINK!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:30pmIt’s going to be hot as hades in those tents this summer…
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:03pmWow, such compassionate people the OWS are! The guy alerted them to the fact he was a diabetic.. yet no one checked on him for days!! Just proves to me of the self centeredness of these people! Life means nothing as long as we can take down that banker. Whooeeee! Lord help us!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:24pmIt was a pre-existing condition. Obamacare failed again.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:58pmWhat do you expect from people who only care about themselves ?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:58pmWhat does Garbage smell like… in a GarbagePit?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:28pmGarbage in. Garbage out.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:57pmWhat to say? Death is never funny. But theres something slightly amusing in an occupier being left for dead in his own tent…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:56pmSomeone is dead for days and the foul smell is covered by the rest of the foul smells typical of these Occupy camps? Why do they let them even encamp this way? How far will the summer offensive of Fox Piven be allowed to go before people will stand up against it?
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:49pmThe house hold fly will have a variety of menu options from feces to vomit and dead people so as to lay their maggots,,, Yum, yum,, you go maggots…
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 6:41amThey will be allowed to foul our parks and public places until Sweet Old Barack needs them. They are a major part of his plans. They will join the demonstrations and be a part of the riots, perhaps OWS against NBBP & NBLF, perhaps joining together but the demonstration at the nominating conventions could exceed Chicago in 68.
Sweet Old Barrack needs them to make the demonstrations seem to be legitimate and not racially motivated .
Watch the other Hand.
OMG 2012
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NorCalBlazer
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:54pmI guess the smell of decomp fits right in with the usual smells around an OWS campsite so nobody noticed anything unusual.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:25pmKeith Olberman would have noticed the smell apparently.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:53pmThe clue was, he smelled better dead than alive, they knew something was up. I wonder if they are going to have to put out warnings, “WARNING: OWS may be harmful to your health and may even cause death. If you experience vomiting, anal bleeding, dizziness, or moments of delusion, Please, stop drinking the kool aide.”
Report Post »Just4thefax
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:52pmFact: Really no fowl play… death smell really… So much crapping in and around the tent area …. Pelosi’s army continues to make news !!!!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:29pmThat is the way they want everyone to live.
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:10pmIt is the foul smell of socialism from the vile pie hole that Pelosi violates the sense of smell with is why the OWS morons can not smell the odor of death. their noses are filled with the vile odor of socialism.
Report Post »The dead smell far less revolting..
KangarooJack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:52pmIt’s natural…It’s still safe here…send your kids…bring out your dead. Yuck! Several days??? Exactly how many tents were there???
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:41pmThere are about 20 tents, but when people go to their tent, everyone knows its rub one out and to bed. So they obviously thought he was just a chronic wanker.
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