So who has found a dead body while out running?

i saw a dead guy on an out and back on the chicago lakefront. i passed him on the way out. i looked over and thought the guy (who looked homeless) was just sleeping - something not unusual. 15-20 minutes later i came back and the police and ambulance were there with the white sheet over the guy. doesn't quite qualify as "found" but dead nonetheless.

I found a guy who committed suicide in his car. It was in a cemetary where I always did hill repeats. I was cooling down on a back part of the cemetary and there was a car sitting there running and the driver side window was all blood splattered. I called the cops at a pay phone and they came.

Are you aware that The Onion is not a Bermudian newspaper.

we found a dead body on a bench just before a workout in VCP about 3 or 4 years ago....

In my 30 years as a runner (i'm 37) I have never found a dead body while running.

While running I have:

I've found money (including $20 five different times)

I've found condoms (new and used)

I've found the remnants of a Satanic cult ceromony - no body but alot of blood and symbols.

I've found an old grave site of a family in the middle of the woods but they had been buried for 150 years before.

I've been attacked by both animals (dogs, 1 cat and 1 squirrel) and people.

I was propositioned once by a "lady of the evening" in South Beach on my 5 am run

I have come upon a fist fight (twice)

I have come upon people having sex (in the woods near my trail)

I have witnessed sex acts performed in parked cars

I have seen people get hit by cars (no deaths I know of)

I have seen car accidents (some fairly bad)

I have found suitcases full of clothes

I have found people by themselves crying

I have seen naked people hiking (but they had shoes on)

But never once in my 30 years I have found a dead body while running.

I guess I should consider myself lucky.

I seen a dead bigfoot once.

Either you are an extreme case, or I've had the most boring training routes for the last 20 years. I never find anything and rarely see anything interesting either.

I haven´t, but once I was piss drunk in Rome and fell asleep in a shrubbery. When I woke up, there was a dead junkie beside me.

distance guy wrote:

Either you are an extreme case, or I've had the most boring training routes for the last 20 years. I never find anything and rarely see anything interesting either.

I think 3 things explains why I've seen so many weird things:

1) For 5 years I did most of my running in a small college town. College kids will do anything, anywhere or so it seems.

2) I use to do alot of running at a public Greenway early in the morning.

3) I do most of my running early in the morning or late at night.

härföraren wrote:

I haven´t, but once I was piss drunk in Rome and fell asleep in a shrubbery. When I woke up, there was a dead junkie beside me.

"Bring me a shrubbery. Not to big mind you, about yeah high." - The Knights That Say Neeh

Monty Python's Fool wrote:

"Bring me a shrubbery. Not to big mind you, about yeah high." - The Knights That Say Neeh

Should read "... Not a big one mind you ...."

do racoons and roadkill count?

grew up running on country roads... roadkill in abundance

I found a gameboy once, but no dead people, unless you count cemetaries. always lots of empty booze bottles on the side of the road too (no not mine).

distance guy wrote:

Either you are an extreme case, or I've had the most boring training routes for the last 20 years. I never find anything and rarely see anything interesting either.

I've happened upon many of the same situations MHT mentioned during 35 years of running.

I ran past a stark naked guy who looked like Jesus.... and he even said hi!

I also saw a dildo on the side of a road, across from a grocery store and by a residential neighborhood.

Plenty of condoms, needles, sex acts in cars AND out in the open.

Never seen a dead person (although plenty of dead animals)....

I rarely find anything interesting when I'm running, but I did see a dead man who had just committed suicide in his car when I was meeting a friend to run- one of the most disturbing things to start off your morning with.

Came upon Lars from Metallica while he was beating off at a rest area men's room off I-5 near Buttonwillow, California.

found a woman who had killed herself in a park with my team

THats why I dont JOG, its always the joggers that discover dead bodies.

do squirrels and chipmunks count?