NYC, New York-

I feel a trend beginning here. I just have this feeling that New York is going to be the capital of StrangeRush.com. I could be wrong, but NY sure does seem to come up a lot in my screenings of all the various stories I have yet to write about.

Anyway, we out in the western part of the country really have no idea how effective the meter readers and traffic enforcement officers are in New York City. Take for example this minivan parked below the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway underpass. It was parked and left there for weeks……and for weeks the meter maids and police ticketed the van, really shoving it to the owner once he/she decided to return for their abandoned vehicle. Imagine the amazing revenue the city would collect after numerous tickets over a month’s period of time.

What happened was for four consecutive Mondays, a whole month, the van was ticketed. Finally, it was ordered that the van be towed, and with that tow job the body of George Morales was discovered decomposing, in plain sight, in the back of the van. The body was not covered with a blanket and not hard to see at all. Woo-hoo……high five for the NYC police, way to be on the ball. To top it off it was reported that the window was cracked and the odor was overwhelming. Each ticketer must have had some serious allergies causing their sniffers to not function properly.

The moral of the story: Be observant like they teach you to be in the police academy, you never know what you may discover.

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