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The body of 75-year-old man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was part of a Halloween display and didn’t call police.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on the scene Thursday when authorities were alerted to the body.
Neighbors told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday “but didn’t bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy,” he said.
In other, vaguely unrelated Halloween news, Target has been asked to pull their “Illegal Alien” with a green card costume.
Nearly the same thing happened back in 2005. According to Snopes…
Didn’t they hear the gunshot?
The illegal Alien with a green card sound humorous.
Regarding the “Illegal Alien” with a green card costume.
“A Southern California immigrant rights group asked Target stores to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants.”
You know, you can spend your entire life trying to not offend someone and you will never completely succeed. People do not all think the same way and they never will.
How do you draw the line between what you think is acceptable and what is truly offensive and purposely hurtful?
Assuming Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed is muslim, this might be the first time one committed suicide without trying to take out a bunch of innocent bystanders.