POLICE TICKET CAR FOR DAYS; HAD DEAD MAN INSIDE

In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, city parking officers had been plastering parking tickets on an Isuzu Axiom SUV parked three blocks from the Broward County Courthouse. When Carolyn White noticed the pile of citations, she wondered what was going on. She stepped closer to the car to peek inside. That’s when she saw the dead man. The body of Jacob Morpeau, 62, was sitting in the driver’s seat, and his upper body lay face down over the SUV’s center console. His hand held a credit card. The Broward County Medical Examiner’s office later said Morpeau had died from natural causes and had been ill with hypertensive cardiovascular disease. What’s not known is how long Morpeau’s body had been inside the Isuzu. The city dismissed the $160 in parking fees, “due to extenuating circumstances.”
* What a deadbeat.
* There goes the “new car” smell.
* His hand held a credit card? What a perfect comment on our consumer society.
* Forget the parking tickets. This guy really got his ticket punched.
* He was DUI – Dead Unexpectedly Inside.
* He was also sited for a non-moving violation.
* Wait, the city dismissed the parking tickets? Who says government doesn’t have a heart?
* He probably keeled over when he noticed the first ticket.