Dead student not found for 8 weeks

[smwhorn 482]

https://www.chron.com/news/article/A-college-student-died-in-his-dorm-room-It-took-14466774.php

Was this in Jester East or West ?

[Dennis Taylor 18849]

that's a horrible story. how the fuck could his parents not freak the hell out and be there after at most a few  days of not hearing from the kid? that probably wouldn't have saved him but 8 weeks is ridiculous    

[CooterBrown 18021]

that's a horrible story. how the fuck could his parents not freak the hell out and be there after at most a few  days of not hearing from the kid?

Wut? Who talks to their parents every few days in college? My mom pointed out once that they didn’t hear from me for 7 months at one point. Granted that was pre cell phone and texting but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have made a difference.

[michaelpshayes 417]

it happens

Missing man was stuck behind coolers at supermarket for 10 years, Iowa cops say

[Bevo 13591]

That kind of happened to a friend of mine at UT. The girl had some disease where she was in a lot of pain. She had a roommate who left for Houston for a long weekend. She turned down the air conditioning and called a repair guy to come to her apartment. Then, she shot herself in the head. The repair guy didn't show so her roommate ended up finding her 3.5 days later. Supposedly, it smelled pretty bad and was gruesome.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21913]

Yeah, but the roommate got a 4.0 for the semester right?

[Hpara759 1780]

Nothing smells worse than a dead human......(dead wise).....it's our diet

[TexArcher 37997]

49 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

 

Wut? Who talks to their parents every few days in college? My mom pointed out once that they didn’t hear from me for 7 months at one point. Granted that was pre cell phone and texting but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have made a difference.

 

Weird.  I hear from your mom at least twice a day.

[Pato del Muerto 52543]

So that’s a link to the Houston chronicle which is republishing a story by the Washington post about a story in New Zealand?

[Incredulity 11680]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So that’s a link to the Houston chronicle which is republishing a story by the Washington post about a story in New Zealand?

Well, it’s a whole lot more cost effective than paying someone to do actual journalism. NoCR

[El Diablo 4232]

Probably too late when they found out to drop the classes and get the money back.

[Deej 76870]

They waited until the refund period to drop passed to "find" him.

[Helobious 9464]

2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

 

Wut? Who talks to their parents every few days in college? My mom pointed out once that they didn’t hear from me for 7 months at one point. Granted that was pre cell phone and texting but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have made a difference.

 

Me and most other normal people not estranged from their family. I'd talk to my mom at least once every week or 2 weeks. 

[Bill Brasky 1449]

3 hours ago, michaelpshayes said:

it happens

Missing man was stuck behind coolers at supermarket for 10 years, Iowa cops say

hide and seek world champion 

[Redneck Mutha 8007]

1 hour ago, Bill Brasky said:

hide and seek world champion 

Sometimes when you win, you really lose, Billy.

[NorthLoop 14219]

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

Me and most other normal people Millennials not estranged from their family. I'd talk to my mom at least once every week or 2 weeks. 

Count me in the camp that talked to my parents maybe once a month when I left for college. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21913]

My parents moved out of state a month after I graduated from high school. I didn’t talk to them until I got ready to go visit during Christmas.

[Planet Houston 4930]

Something’s rotten about this whole story. 

[Tailgate 3022]

I talk to my kids almost everyday...if two or three days go by...I definitely “check in.”

Do not understand eight weeks...and a freshman.

Stinks.

[Bernard 879]

6 hours ago, Helobious said:

Me and most other normal people not estranged from their family. I'd talk to my mom at least once every week or 2 weeks. 

Nope. I have a perfectly good relationship with my parents, but could easily go weeks without speaking to either one of them while in college and long after. Now they are old so I keep closer tabs on them. 

Bernard

[Fat Bastard 600]

Talked to my parents almost every day while in college/school. If 2 days went by without calling, my mom would passive aggressively say, “ohhh, it’s so nice of you to call and think of us”. Must be an immigrant family thing. They just care more about their kids than whiteys

[Reagan1k 3024]

The lack of any requests for more money would have been the biggest red flag when my kids were in school.

They might not call and check in but they'd sure as shit make contact when funds were getting low.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

7 minutes ago, Fat Bastard said:

Talked to my parents almost every day while in college/school. If 2 days went by without calling, my mom would passive aggressively say, “ohhh, it’s so nice of you to call and think of us”. Must be an immigrant family thing. They just care more about their kids than whiteys

Heh heh heh.  Having watched our son go thru college, and participating in a parents FB page for the Corps of cadets at VT. I can say yeah... no, a huge swing and a miss.  Helicopter moms no no racial or ethnic designations.

[Gene Parmesan 4008]

It doesn't really matter how often you talked to your parents.  Your parents aren't the only ones capable of checking on you, they are just the most likely.  This guy was dead for 8 weeks, so he talked to no one in that time.  Any of you guys that went a couple months between calls to mom in college not talk to a single other person during that time as well?  If so, you probably should be on some sort of list.

[Rougarou 594]

What does a human body look like after 8 weeks of solid state decomposition? I ask because a) the article states that the body wasn't identifiable and they had to bring in dental records people so that makes me think that the skin drooped off or shriveled up or it was all black like pork rinds and b) I'm scared to google images of a dead body at 8 weeks on my work computer.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

52 minutes ago, Fat Bastard said:

Talked to my parents almost every day while in college/school. If 2 days went by without calling, my mom would passive aggressively say, “ohhh, it’s so nice of you to call and think of us”. Must be an immigrant family thing. They just care more about their kids than whiteys

I think it may have something to do with the culture going back to European stoicism (the modern usage of the term, as opposed to the philosophy). My wife is of Mexican heritage, while I am of European heritage with everything from English, Scotch-Irish, Danish, French, German, Dutch, etc. in my blood. She talks to her mother and sisters pretty much every day, while I rarely talk to my family. But when we do talk it's as if we never missed a beat. There is a lot more subtlety in our conversations, though. The words we do say to each other have more meaning through various implications developed through centuries of polite society. It's an interesting dichotomy seeing the differences in how we communicate and leads to a lot of explaining of things on my part.

Edited September 26, 2019 by NotActuallyALonghorn

[Js1 85457]

20 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

It doesn't really matter how often you talked to your parents.  Your parents aren't the only ones capable of checking on you, they are just the most likely.  This guy was dead for 8 weeks, so he talked to no one in that time.  Any of you guys that went a couple months between calls to mom in college not talk to a single other person during that time as well?  If so, you probably should be on some sort of list.

Did they not have RA checks? I mean, the smell alone.  But usually your RA gets curious if they haven't seen you in days, let alone weeks. 

[MAUFRAIS 6631]

See, you put the dead body in a toilet paper roll with dryer sheets on both ends and nobody can smell the putrefaction.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3834]

Was this kid a music major? Cuz that's a long time to be ......decomposing 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13516]

16 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So that’s a link to the Houston chronicle which is republishing a story by the Washington post about a story in New Zealand?

modern journalism in a world where no one pays for news.  Eventually all news stories will be written by one person in China.

[Gene Parmesan 4008]

Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

modern journalism in a world where no one pays for news.  Eventually all news stories will be written by one person in China.

and that person's name...Albert Einstein. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13516]

27 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Did they not have RA checks? I mean, the smell alone.  But usually your RA gets curious if they haven't seen you in days, let alone weeks. 

Come on. My RA in Jester and I did not know each other's names much less speak to each other. Maybe once or twice he stopped by when the door was open but he didn't seek out speaking to anyone.  And everyone was ok with that.

Edited September 26, 2019 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Dennis Taylor 18849]

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

modern journalism in a world where no one pays for news.  Eventually all news stories will be written by one person in China.

[formermav43 4606]

Something like this happened when my brother was in school at Tarleton. Middle aged guy, divorced, estranged from his family, living in a dorm, killed himself over Christmas break and they didn’t find him till they came back in January.

[Apep 645]

In my family, eight weeks of no contact is nothing. After moving out in college, my mom didn't call me for at least five years and then it was only to ask for money. That's not to say we didn't talk, but it was always me reaching out. It's just the way she is with everyone in the family.