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UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW. (Viewed 3727 times)
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Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
< on 1/29/2009 5:13 PM >
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http://www.detnews.../METRO08/901290400

I apologize if you've already seen this, it's new to me.

"He was trespassing and didn't want to get in trouble," the caller replied. As it happens, the caller's friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

[last edit 1/29/2009 5:39 PM by Beta - edited 1 times]

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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 1 on 1/29/2009 5:15 PM >
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Posted by Beta
http://www.detnews.../METRO08/901290400

I apologize if you've already seen this, it's new to me.

"He was trespassing and didn't want to get in trouble," the caller replied. As it happens, the caller's friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.



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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 2 on 1/29/2009 5:27 PM >
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There's absolutely no indication in any of the articles about this that it was an explorer.

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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 3 on 1/29/2009 5:31 PM >
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yeeeeeeesh o.0

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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 4 on 1/29/2009 5:31 PM >
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It was indeed explorers that found the Hobosicle in question.

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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 5 on 1/29/2009 5:34 PM >
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The article is confusing, but from what I can gather, the person who found the body was an explorer. He told his friend, who called the reporter who wrote the article. Judging by the shoes, the person is elderly and/or homeless.



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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 6 on 1/29/2009 5:36 PM >
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Posted by BigSam
The article is confusing, but from what I can gather, the person who found the body was an explorer. He told his friend, who called the reporter who wrote the article. Judging by the shoes, the person is elderly and/or homeless.



Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.


Yeah the title of the THREAD is VERy misleading! There is nothing pointing to this as being an explorer. It's most likley a homeless guy, but then again the body was pretty well dressed and clean. Could be a scrapper!



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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 7 on 1/29/2009 5:37 PM >
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Posted by BigSam
He told his friend, who called the reporter who wrote the article.






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Re: Urban Explorer found dead. Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 8 on 1/29/2009 5:39 PM >
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Posted by MHInc


Yeah the title of the THREAD is VERy misleading! There is nothing pointing to this as being an explorer. It's most likley a homeless guy, but then again the body was pretty well dressed and clean. Could be a scrapper!




Yeah, I think I read the article wrong. I thought the line I quoted was saying one of the urban explorers died, and his friends left him because they didn't want to get in trouble.

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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 9 on 1/29/2009 5:40 PM >
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Posted by Beta


Yeah, I think I read the article wrong. I thought the line I quoted was saying one of the urban explorers died, and his friends left him because they didn't want to get in trouble.


Skipping some lines in the article there eh



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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 10 on 1/29/2009 5:55 PM >
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Posted by MHInc


Skipping some lines in the article there eh




Admittedly. I don't get how I messed up though, skipping lines usually works out good for me. Like when I read The Shining and the dad got stressed out from taking care of the hotel, and the family had to compromise, leading to a happy ending.

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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 11 on 1/29/2009 5:58 PM >
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Posted by Beta


Yeah, I think I read the article wrong. I thought the line I quoted was saying one of the urban explorers died, and his friends left him because they didn't want to get in trouble.


EDIT: removed because thread subject has been fixed.
[last edit 1/29/2009 5:59 PM by trent - edited 1 times]

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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 12 on 1/29/2009 9:52 PM >
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I'd like to know if the person who found him post on here. I'm sure if so, they're keeping quiet.

Posted by BigSamJudging by the shoes, the person is elderly and/or homeless.



Or a certain poster on here who also has his own website/forum. Flood pants.


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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 13 on 1/29/2009 11:27 PM >
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Highly dramatized article about this -



Indifference to dead man symbol of Detroit's ills

Print By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer – 30 mins ago AP –

A dead body is seen frozen in a block of ice located in an elevator shaft in a former Detroit Public … DETROIT – In an abandoned warehouse, the image was stark and shocking: two denim-clad, lifeless legs poking up through trash-choked ice.

Investigators who took three 911 calls over two days before finally going out to retrieve the body will now try to figure out what killed the man, but this much is clear — it's become another symbol of Detroit's decay and indifference.

"Most of us grew up with this," said Mike Corbin, 34, pointing toward the old warehouse and brooding, dilapidated Michigan Central train depot nearby. "It's depressing. Chicago and New York have their own problems, but those are in certain areas. But in Detroit, it's the entire city."

Investigators are looking into reports that a group of urban adventurers who get their kicks exploring Detroit's crumbling buildings and at least one homeless man had seen the man's body, but didn't call police.

Detroit is a tough town, often described as gritty, hard-knuckled, a survivor. Its post-World War II population soared to more than 1.8 million. Many of the 900,000 people who now call it home lived through Detroit's days as the country's "murder capital" when more than 700 people were slain in 1974.

Now they are slogging through the worst economy in its history as Detroit ranks among the nation's leaders in unemployment and home foreclosures. Restructuring by the slumping U.S. auto industry promises to leave many more jobless.

Faced with a budget deficit expected to top $200 million, bond ratings at junk status, a recently ended sex scandal that landed ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff in jail and a current federal probe into City Hall corruption, Detroit's fortunes mirror the nameless unclaimed man on thaw at the city morgue.

"When you hear somebody say it's a dead body near a train station, you say 'and?'" said 28-year-old Bianca Glenn over her vegan Jamaican stew at the Mercury Coffee Bar near the abandoned warehouse. "I'm kind of desensitized to it."

The Mercury, which opened just four months ago, and several other nearby eateries contrast sharply with the surrounding neighborhood dominated by the empty train station, out-of-business Roosevelt Hotel and numerous vacant lots.

Around the corner and down the block stands what remains of the old Tiger Stadium, mostly torn down after closing down nearly a decade ago.

In warmer weather, the homeless languish in a park facing the train station.

"It's a monument and symbol of what we used to be. It's like our Roman ruin," said Corbin, manager of the Mercury. He acknowledges he's explored the depot and other abandoned structures in the area.

Detroit News reporter and columnist Charlie LeDuff found the body after receiving a tip that it was at the bottom of a submerged elevator shaft at the Roosevelt Warehouse. A homeless man camped a few yards from the shaft where the body lay, but didn't report it to authorities, LeDuff wrote.

A group of young men playing hockey in the frozen interior also didn't call police because they were trespassing, LeDuff said, though he didn't quote anybody by name.

Firefighters used saws to cut through the ice Wednesday afternoon. It wasn't known how long the man's body had been in the shaft.

Ribbons of razor wire proved no barrier to the warehouse grounds Thursday as the man-high fence was peeled back. Inside, amid the dumped trash and crumbled bricks lay shoes, mattresses, cheap gin and wine bottles. The paper cover of Scott Turow's novel "Presumed Innocent" lay folded on the loading dock.

The county medical examiner's office said an autopsy will have to wait until the body naturally thaws. Detroit police won't know until then how he died.

Police spokesman James Tate disputes LeDuff's account that officers failed to respond Tuesday afternoon when he called 911 to report the body. LeDuff wasn't clear on the location of the body, Tate said.

In a front page story that was accompanied by a photo of the frozen legs, LeDuff wrote that he returned Wednesday to find the body still there. It took two more calls to 911 before firefighters and police arrived, he wrote.

Detroit News Editor and Publisher Jonathan Wolman told The Associated Press on Thursday that the decision to put the photo on the front page "was not made lightly."

"We found it to be a shocking image, but at the same time a poignant and heartbreaking one," Wolman said. "I felt telling the story was profoundly respectful of this victim's life and death, yet a difficult story to tell. What it says about the community, I'll leave that to others."


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<Reply # 14 on 1/29/2009 11:30 PM >
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Okay, who done it?

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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 15 on 1/29/2009 11:39 PM >
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Posted by BigSam
The article is confusing, but from what I can gather, the person who found the body was an explorer. He told his friend, who called the reporter who wrote the article. Judging by the shoes, the person is elderly and/or homeless.



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<Reply # 16 on 1/30/2009 1:18 AM >
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O Snap, I saw your post just after posting the same thing.... derr

The position the guy is in is kind of bizarre

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<Reply # 17 on 1/30/2009 1:26 AM >
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Wow. I explored this place about a year ago and I think I looked down that very elevator shaft. Scary. I and the rest of us had a bad feeling about the place and we left early (though it was more because we knew it was a major squat and we didn't want trouble on account of it being Detroit and all).

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<Reply # 18 on 1/30/2009 1:51 AM >
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Someone posted a picture of a hockey game in that very same building.

http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=52391
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Re: Urban Explorers find dead body.* Frozen in ice - Possibly NSFW.
<Reply # 19 on 1/30/2009 1:59 AM >
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Posted by DevilC
Someone posted a picture of a hockey game in that very same building.

http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=52391





Totally different location/country.

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