You're Not Going To Believe This One

This week's edition of the local weekly had a big story on the front page- a dead body was found in a car parked in a supermarket parking lot in nearby Wall earlier this week. It was a guy from Belleville, about a hour north of here. Here's where it gets odd. The guy was in the passenger seat, so not likely the driver. (definitely not his car) The autopsy indicated no obvious trauma, but did find that the body had been dead in the car for 4 days. A witness claims the car was there at least 2 days, so either it was not noticed earlier, or was driven there days after the passenger died. Toxicology report is pending. You would think this would be a good subject for another supermaket print, but there's a problem- I did a print about a very similar occurence that happened at another store in the same supermarket chain at the other end of Wall several years ago. Is this a trend? In the earlier case, the deceased had OD'd, and his host at the time of death thought it a good idea to get the body out of his house, so the dead man was put in the passenger seat of his own car, and it was driven to that parking lot. The print that came out of it is shown above, Scenes From the Grand Opening #12. My take on it was one of the "what if?" prints in the series, that if people are delivering dead bodies to supermarkets, perhaps the supermarket should have a morgue department. Thus, aisle 13, with one draped body stuffed in a shopping cart, another on a hand truck.

So for me to use this new story for another print, I'd have to come up with a significantly different idea. At the very least, I should wait until the investigation is done, as some other details about the incident may provide the inspiration.