Saturday, April 10, 2010

More about dead people

soooo...Bremen has two more dead people! In the last couple of days two bodies were found. On April 1st a body was found near a train station, apparently run over by a train. Police doesn't know yet but probably it was a homeless guy...definitely no murder though. The second case is more interesting/gruesome: a farmer found a pretty decomposed body near a lake...the police thinks the person has been there for about half a year already but only came out in the open recently after all the snow we had this winter melted away. And yes, I'm writing person, because it is so decomposed that they can't even tell the sex yet (Bones would have known in a second, isn't there a good forensic anthropologist in this town?).
Maybe we should tell Gunther van Hagens about it - coincidentally his exhibition "Body Worlds" is in town right now...maybe a decomposed body is just what he needs to spice things up a little! He wouldn't even have to work on it, just put it in a glas case and see what happens - that would actually be a great incentive for people to come back every couple of days :) but to be honest, I don't even like this exhibition, it smells horrendously and watching little dead babys with hydrocephaly or other deformities is NOT funny and nobody seriously needs to see that! Not even me...and as you've probably noticed I'm really into this whole dead people business.
And that's why I've got one more for you: Two weeks ago a dead kid was found buried under a marketplace ´right next to the town hall. Only the skeleton was left therefore it is unknown so far if it's a boy or girl, but it's definitely between 7 and 12 years old. It had a necklace with a little pendant with it and...is about 500 years old. Otherwise I would have come up with this case as my cover story of course :) It was found accidentaly during construction work and is now being examined closer to find out more about peoples lives and especially bodies during the Middle Ages. The marketplace used to be a cementary for the poor back then and therefore it is no surprise that it turned up. I just hope this won't encourage people to go dig the whole place up at night...as they will only find poor people there it doesn't sound like a promising thing to do though, unless they are not looking for jewelry but the bodies itself - don't tell van Hagens about it ;)

I'll be back as soon as a new body turns up ;)

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