Checking if someone died in your house

Dysnomia

I work for a large airline and we have about 12-20 deaths on board our fleet every year. There was a time when crew were told to deal with the body by propping it in a seat with a blanket and an eye mask, and perhaps a G&T on the table!!!


Please note: we do not do this any more

davidmcn

Dysnomia wrote: »

I work for a large airline and we have about 12-20 deaths on board our fleet every year. There was a time when crew were told to deal with the body by propping it in a seat with a blanket and an eye mask, and perhaps a G&T on the table!!!


Please note: we do not do this any more

Quite right too. Sounds a waste of a good G&T.

cadon

I saw a flat for sale in North London - last year, I think? - where the previous occupant had stuffed dead people down the pipes.

Other than the fact that I felt the price was too high, I would never feel comfortable in a property like that.

Someone dying in their own bed is fine. Their body will have been recovered in one piece. Someone being stuffed into the nooks and crannies of the property? That's the point where I become squeamish and walk away.

cadon

Here's the flat I was thinking of: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51288047.html

Note the disclaimer in the listing: "BUYERS ARE KINDLY ASKED TO RESEARCH THE HISTORY OF THIS PROPERTY OR ENQUIRE WITH THE MARKETING AGENT PRIOR TO VIEWINGS."

Something like that would probably be your first clue someone had been murdered in a property.

AdrianC

cadon wrote: »

Here's the flat I was thinking of: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51288047.html

Note the disclaimer in the listing: "BUYERS ARE KINDLY ASKED TO RESEARCH THE HISTORY OF THIS PROPERTY OR ENQUIRE WITH THE MARKETING AGENT PRIOR TO VIEWINGS."

Something like that would probably be your first clue someone had been murdered in a property.

And here's the back story...
http://uk.businessinsider.com/denis-nilsen-cranley-gardens-muswell-hill-flat-on-sale-for-300000-2015-6

tenpicks33

I always ask if the owner died in the property if it is clear the owner has passed away - normally a no chain property. Don't think it would affect my making an offer if I like a house but I'd like to know. Also google in case there has been some sort of crime associated with the house. Think you should do this anyway as part of your general research.

marksoton

AdrianC wrote: »

And here's the back story...
http://uk.businessinsider.com/denis-nilsen-cranley-gardens-muswell-hill-flat-on-sale-for-300000-2015-6

Is that article intended to be ironic!?

On a side note i warned you people about what you were flushing down the loo just before christmas....

Davesnave

AdrianC wrote: »

Urban myth. Just ask Airey Neave, among others. Well, OK, you can't, but...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820

I wasn't referring to the law, just repeating something a doctor politician said in a radio interview recently.

The implication was that it was administratively inconvenient, to have someone die there, so any politician who expired was given the benefit of the doubt until safely in the ambulance.

So, either it happened as he said, or he was telling porkies, but let's face it, a politician bending the truth is hardly news, is it?

DaftyDuck

Look, interesting as it is to know if someone was murdered in your house, wouldn't it be more useful to know if anyone would be in the near future?

I could get away with so much more if I knew my wife wasn't planning my demise again...

Lazarus_Blackstar

This has got to be the funniest thread I've read in a long while!!!!
It's certainly brightened up my dreary Sunday!
Sorry if it is a genuine question but I'm baffled as to why you would be bothered?
It's not as if the blood stains are still on show from the mad axe murderer are they?!!!!