DUers, lets' say you smelled what you thought to be a large dead person or something decaying .

[elehhhhna]

Maybe when you passed your neighbors house. For weeks at a time.

Would you MYOB or call the cops?

[Ian David]

1. I'd call the cops. n/t

[onenote]

2. sure, but not if it was only a small dead person

:sarcasm:

[hlthe2b]

3. I imagine living next to Tom Delay, you'd get used to the smell...

as not unexpected... but anywhere else, I'd call the police.

[robinlynne]

4. They called several times, had sewers flushed, all sorts of things done.

Noone knew it was dead people.

[pipi_k]

9. Amazing...

Smells like dead guys...so what do they do? Knock on the door or break in to see if anyone is there (alive/injured or dead)?

No. They did all the hard shit first

Yeah, because dead guy smell is just too....obvious.

:eyes:

[robinlynne]

24. I wouldn't know.

[Warpy]

5. I did call the cops

There was a parked car I passed on my way to work and the odor was unmistakable.

I never did find out whose body was in the trunk or who whacked him.

If you've ever smelled a rotting corpse, you always recognize it afterward.

[msanthrope]

13. You are right--rotting corpse is a smell you never, ever forget. n/t

[pipi_k]

6. Never mind weeks and weeks....

Just a couple of days of smelling that would make me call. Because you never know if it's a dead person or...because natural gas and propane smell similar to dead bodies...it might be a very dangerous gas leak.

[XemaSab]

7. I found a garbage bag once in a canal in Madera and I called the cops

It turned out to be a dog. x(

But yeah, I let Madera's finest poke it with a stick to find that out. x(

[johnnie]

8. Here is a local story

"CLEVELAND -- An eighth body has been removed from the site of an Imperial Avenue home Tuesday, according to a WKYC crew on the scene.

It was the second set of remains removed from the property on Tuesday."

<snip>

"Last week, six bodies were discovered inside the home where Anthony Sowell, 50, lived. The Cuyahoga County Coroner is using dental records to identify the victims. "

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=124649



Unless this is what you're talking about? If not then it might be something to think about if you smell something rotting.

[placton]

10. you mean like

Obama's campaign promises?

[Blue-Jay]

20. hurr hurr....

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I'd call the cops.

[gkhouston]

12. You can tell the size of a dead person by the smell?

:shrug:

[elehhhhna]

21. yeah -- a large object versus, say, a rat. BIG diff!

[HipChick]

14. If I had to call the cops on everybody that emitted a funk..

trust me, the cops would be busy for a while..

[Egnever]

15. if it persisted I would cal the cops.

[Alameda]

16. I am amazed at how many here know just what a dead human

body smells like! I've smelled dead rats and dead whales....the whales smell is bad enough to make you pass out. Even the seagulls stayed away. I would imagine a dead human would smell like spoiled meat, the longer it stayed out, the stronger the aroma......I would call the fire and police department to investigate any strong unpleasant smell.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I'd wonder if Cheney moved into the neighborhood

The smell of decay, decomposition, and death around him must be overpowering.

[anigbrowl]

18. Neither. I would call the county health department.

[Broken_Hero]

19. Yep, I sure would

Reminds me of my youth, when an elderly lady killed her husband and wrapped him in a blue tarp and put him outside, and covered him with wood.

He was out front for almost 3weeks before the cops came a knocking. The blue tarp thing is somewhat of a legend back home(SE AK), because the same year that this old guy was found in a blue tarp, another body was found out north of town in a blue tarp as well, and people started dressing up for halloween and what not dressed in a blue tarp, tasteless, but humans are funny animals.

[busybl]

22. call the cops

I'd call even if I didn't smell it, but saw hundreds of flies on the
inside of a window.

[Piwi2009]

23. We need more cadaver dogs

Turn them loose in various neighborhoods, and wherever he stops and points, that's where you look. Sounds like probable cause to me.