So I had the usual weekend of me and my friends cruising around the woods, driving `rustic` roads (that's all we have lol) and basically just locking the truck in 4wd low range and idling around the mountains. But Saturday night, now that was a different night. We were rolling down a 4x4 road, and in the ditch beside the road, there was a guy laying there. He was wearing just a t-shirt and jeans, and it wasn't cold, but there were no other vehicles on the entire mountain (that I could see) and this wasn't exactly weather that you would just go hiking in, I mean, this was the old road in the days of the horse and buggies, used up to like 1936 or so, and since then it has just been a bad road in a bad location, and the interstates killed this road, so it's not good for anything other than hunting and 4 wheeling. When you wreck, you go down the side of a cliff that is anywhere from 10 to about 300 feet, so it isn't heavily travelled, and it takes you from the backwoods of one town to the backwoods of another, point being that no one would be walking this road (under normal circumstances, I have walked it before, but that was when my brother had a Chevy and we broke down up there.)
So I revved the engine a little bit, and the guy never moved (now my truck is LOUD, what with no cats or mufflers or anything but straight pipe). So, my friend and I got out to check on the man. He wasn't breathing, so when we rolled him over, sure enough, he was dead. No details or anything, but it was a little on the gross side. Well, no one answered my call out on channel 9 on the cb, and my friend's cell phone had no signal, so we just drove on. We drove about 15 miles and finally came out in the middle of nowhere. No one around, so we drove back to the interstate and headed back towards our town, where we finally found a cop on our way to the payphone. He seemed a little uninterested, said that he had probably overdosed and someone threw him out. Well, anyway, 3 hours later, they finally sent someone to go check it out, then they found the body, but left and came all the way back to where we were before they told us that it was in a different county and they couldn't do anything. Well, another half hour passed (and I know this because they were sitting inside the double kwik eating beside me and my friend), and they finally radiod the other county and told them. It's at least an hour drive to where this guy was from the other side of the mountain, and about 25 or 30 minutes from our side. Well, the cops go up there and all they find is pieces of clothes and some bones where the guy had been completely eaten by coyotes and a bear. They got back word of this, and then informed me that they were at the Kwik Shop still waiting on me to leave so they could pull me over and give me a ticket for my exhaust. There's police at work for you, to protect and serve. So this man has not been identified as of now, and there are no missing persons reports in the area, and then it comes on the news about how a Deputy found a body and it said absoultely nothing else. Crazy, huh?

 

Sounds like you need to call/write your Representative about that. Give them all the facts and don't leave out any details. Also file a complaint with the cops' department that you first spoke to. Believe me, the chief of police for that county will be VERY interested to hear your story. Just goes to show you what we have in law enforcement these days.

 

OMG!

And they gave you no credit?

Sounds like a bunch of police chiefs with nothing better to do.

You just found some dude's dead body, and here he has the nerve to give you a ticket for your exhaust? Well maybe if it wasn't because you revved your engine, you never would have gone down there.

 

I don't care if I get the credit or not, but I sure wouldn't want to be laying up there if that's how they are going to treat the situation. Every once in a while, something should be more important than harrassing people and eating cheese fries, especially when it's their job.
Frank S, I am in the process of writing my letter right now. Good idea.

 

That's horrible. Bad enough to die on a lonely mountain road but when you are finally found the cops let the coyotes and bears make a meal out of you before they decide to do anything. I can't imagine the response this poor guys family is going to have to that one. Of course the police will gloss over the fact that he was intact when he was found and only after their negligence was he allowed to become snack food. If I were you I'd see that the family knew the details. It will be painful for them to hear but I think a lawsuit is in the makings with that one. Hearing things like that just **** me off

 

I know, that IS terrible, but there'll really be no way to know who he was, he's gone now, so there's no way to identify him, unless someone just goes missing and they fit the description, then it still isn't guaranteed to be right.

 

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...

ANYTHING can be discovered!

 

But seriously that is pretty bad...can't believe something like that would happen.

They were more concerned about giving you a ticket for your exhaust than getting the dead guy...

 

Hey, around here, if the cops ain't harrassing anyone, then they ain't doing nothing.

 

that sure in hell beats my weekend story.

 

they should be able to identify him by dental

 

Hey, keep us updated, please. I'd like to know if you letter does any good. and if they found bones there shouldn't be any reason they can't identify him by dental or DNA (assuming they have something to match either one to)...

I know the guy was already gone, but still, that's horrible... especially for any family's sake...

 

If there is a bone left, there is DNA. As long as the family has some DNA, they can compare it against the man that died.

 

I am not sure if there were teeth or not, but I'll definitely keep you updated on this. I hope that they can identify the man and that someone who is missing their son/brother/father/friend at least finds out what happened to him.