So I was walking and found this garbage bag that had flys on it and it was tied up. I kicked at it a bit and it did feel like something limp was in there like it was dead. Tried to untie it as well so might have my fingerprints on it. But yeah a car came up and was yeah someone actually concerned for me and he’s like I’m going to pray for you man. So that right there just got me to stop looking any further at the bag. But I’m still kinda of interested if I should’ve said something right then and there. My phone was almost dead anyway. But yeah I was thinking maybe I might find a dead body maybe a part of a dead body. I didn’t look any further but it was out of place I felt. Should I report such finds?
- Swordgeek ( @swordgeek@lemmy.ca ) 49•17 days ago
Seriously?
Phone the cops. Now.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English41•17 days ago
At the very least, OP, dumping garbage by the road is against the law, so even if it’s just regular garbage, you are reporting a crime regardless. Bonus: a cop has to deal with someone else’s garbage.
- Dem Bosain ( @DemBoSain@midwest.social ) English32•17 days ago
911, what’s your emergency?
I found a dead body on the side of the road.
Where are you? I’m sending police to you now.
Uhh, I touched it.
OK, don’t do that. Do you have hand sanitizer?
I may have eaten some.
…
Also, I tripped. I may have slipped inside.
What does that mean?
I…completed.
Listen just stay where you are, police are on their way.
- Andy ( @andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ) 17•17 days ago
I would suggest calling the city or county and reporting suspicious dumping. It could be a body. It could be a rotting animal carcass. It could have toxic chemicals in it.
You don’t need to suspect that it’s a body to call the city and report what looks like dangerous dumping.
So I did call the non-emergency phone number. Could be a waste of time for the cops or whatever. What I was doing is walking to Burger King to get a Whooper I walked 5 miles there and 5 miles back home found it on my way home.
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) 14•17 days ago
Whooper
Joking aside, if you think you’ve found a body, drugs, a gun, whatever it is; don’t touch it, find a place that’s far away from the thing but in view so you can keep an eye on it, and then call it in. I know, ACAB and all that, but this is serious shit. You don’t wanna be too close in case the owner comes back, but you don’t wanna leave it either.
- TerkErJerbs ( @TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee ) 9•17 days ago
The person said they’d pray for you because they thought you were a dumpster diver i.e. that you were gonna eat out of the trash so that’s what happened there. And so… It was also probably just a bag of food waste going gnarly.
It’s actually really funny to me that a cop has to go look in the funky bag. That’s a better use of their time than a lot of things they get up to of a day. Nice one!
- Drusas ( @Drusas@fedia.io ) 4•17 days ago
The person said they’d pray for you because they thought you were a dumpster diver i.e. that you were gonna eat out of the trash so that’s what happened there.
Possible, but it is a huge stretch to automatically assume that was what they were thinking.
Yeah it’s a pretty rural area. I think he was just someone looking to spread his religion to cause he basically did hold up traffic a bit. So it did seem like he was actually concerned I would be walking all the way out.
- choss ( @choss@lemmy.ml ) 4•16 days ago
I have to know - was this in Knoxville?
I live in Indiana.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 1•15 days ago
What’s happening in Knoxville that made you assume this? 😰
- choss ( @choss@lemmy.ml ) 1•15 days ago
I bet it’s just a mannequin.
- bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 2•17 days ago
Open it
- Annoyed_🦀 🏅 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 2•17 days ago
In my country, you can phone the nearest station(not using emergency line) and the police will check it for you. That’s how a lot of murder victim is found in my country anyway. They will also check for suspicious package left at the train station to make sure it’s not a bomb.
- potentiallynotfelix ( @potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id ) English1•15 days ago
Call your local law enforcement, either police or sheriff via the non-emergency number to not waste 911 time.