Why I will never move any further north......

The photo here is from the elevator shaft of an abandoned warehouse in Detroit. And yes, that’s an actual dead man encased in 2-3 feet of ice with his fee and is that a hand sticking out. It was discovered when “urban explorers” were playing ice hockey in the basement. This shook me to my foundation (no pun intended) when I came across it.

[The man who found the body] is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging
through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

Well, it’s not like stopping the hockey game is gonna bring him back to life now, is it? What’s the rush? Just make sure you don't trip over his legs so rudely sticking out of the ice. Don't want to get hurt, you know.

A colony of homeless men live in the warehouse. Wednesday morning a few fires were burning inside oil drums. Scott Ruben, 38, huddled under filthy blankets not 20 paces from the elevator shaft.

“Yeah, I seen him,” Ruben said. The snow outside howled. The heat from the can warped the landscape of rotting buildings and razor wire. Did he know who the dead person was? “I don’t recognize him from his shoes.”

[Ruben's] shack mate, Kenneth Williams, 47, returned at that point with an armload of wood. “Yeah, he’s been down there since last month at least.” He was asked if he called the police. “No, I thought it was a dummy myself,” he said unconvincingly. Besides, Williams said, there were more pressing issues like keeping warm and finding something to eat.“You got a couple bucks?” he asked.

After snapping photos and carefully interviewing all the vagrants and demanding to know why they didn’t call the police right away, the reporter finally gets the authorities involved, but it takes multiple 911 calls and something along the lines of 48 hours for the authorities to finally show up with a jackhammer to remove the poor man's (??) body. (Note that the urban explorers never called the authorities - a friend of a friend called a reporter at the newspaper. So the reporter goes and gets this story complete with pictures BEFORE ever calling the police)

Where's the national news media? Where's CNN or Fox News with Greta Van whatever going on the scene? This is much more newsworthy than the lady who didn't return the d**n library book and got in trouble.

Maybe the prophets are right - maybe this IS the end time?