Don't die on the lawn

[Ed Pawlowski]

A North Carolina family is demanding answers after their loved one's body was found facedown on the lawn of an empty home where a groundskeeper saw it, mistook it for a prop dummy and mowed the grass around it.

The body of Robert Paul Owens, 34, was found Oct. 10 at an abandoned log cabin used by several law enforcement agencies for training on Shue Road in the small town of China Grove, about 35 miles northeast of Charlotte, China Grove police said.

The day before, on Oct. 9, a groundskeeper saw the body as he was mowing the property but believed it was "a fake dummy used for training" and as a result didn’t report it, police said.

[micky]

That's sad but I can certainly believe it.

[rbowman]

He probably would have reported it the next time he mowed and the body had time ti ripen. Or maybe he thought the local cops were building their own body farm.

[philo]

Maybe, to make up for it, they could get him a nice coffin with extra padding.