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What should I do if I find a bag by the road that I'm concerned it's a dead body? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] SpaceNoodle 147 points 3 months ago (3 children)

OP killed a guy and thinks this is gonna be part of their cover story

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

I feel like this is a pretty crass joke to make.

A good friend of mine found a body a few months ago. It's a pretty shitty experience. And it's actually a lot like what OP describes. A sense of foreboding and suspicion combined with a conviction that these thoughts are foolish. And an uncertainty whether to check or to alert someone or to just try to forget it.

Op, I'd report it and ask them to please follow up with you and let you know. It's probably nothing, and you'll feel better once you know it was nothing, and that you did the responsible thing in having it dealt with.

[–] Good_fighter_guy 20 points 3 months ago

Exactly what I was thinking

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Honestly at least if it is a dead body I've called it in and explained that I did touch it trying to open it but couldn't.

[–] Ironfacebuster 10 points 3 months ago

"we found your fingerprints on the body"

Yeah I may have reached my hand inside and felt around a little my bad

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 3 months ago

Suuuure