20 July 2009

Death at Dickson Oval??

| Mrshmellowman
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When I got home last Friday afternoon around 5.00pm – I saw that there was a temporary blue fence erected down near the drains at Dickson Oval. There was a police car parked behind it and the bridge over the drain to the bicycle path was taped off with police tape.

As I watched, what looked just like a coroners van arrived and seemed to be loading. I had to pick up the little Mrshmellows but when I returned there was no sign of the cars, the fence or the tape.

Does anyone know what happened? I was away on the weekend and did not see any news.

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I remember one quite a few years ago where someone died in the middle of Garran oval one night. From memory, they were having a drunken nap. Unfortunately it was about -6 overnight and the beer coat just wasn’t quite warm enough. I concede the story I heard may just be a friend of a friend of a friend said….

barking toad said :

Coulda been pommy’s mate wandering down hill from Cook

That’s actually what sprang into my mind, too. Someone who’d ingested some substances and for whom the ambulance didn’t come.

Sadly, I live for trivia like this. Washboard Hank is now lasered into the febrile synapses of my brain forever!

midlife said :

Death beside a sewer! It must have been suicide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2tIAV1sEk

barking toad4:56 pm 20 Jul 09

Coulda been pommy’s mate wandering down hill from Cook

Death beside a sewer! It must have been suicide.

Auto erotic asphyxiation whilst trying to remove a car from a stormwater drain?

Self asphyxiation from overuse of spray paint in confined spaces?

Drowning in the stormwater drain (that was empty)?

Heart attack\aneurysm\stroke, etc.

Mrshmellowman2:05 pm 20 Jul 09

What is natural about dropping dead in the middle of Dickson Oval?

JB works for RiotACT…. >.>

Ousted!

Poor form, Jb.
The illusion of anonymity might only be an illusion, but its still a nice one to have.
(And I hope you don’t out me if\when I start talking work)

TAD tends to have inside running on these things.

Mike Bessenger1:08 pm 20 Jul 09

or a suicide

Just a natural causes death.

Nothing to go in the news.

probably a Dickson flats junkie died.. who knows?

nothing to see here.

move along.

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