Japanese Siblings Live With Dead Parent

[CottonBear]

Japanese Siblings Live With Dead Parent

Tue Mar 8, 9:56 AM ET World - AP Asia

TOKYO - Police on Tuesday questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade, an official said.

Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka lying on a futon bed at the family's home in Itami city in Hyogo prefecture in western Japan, said a prefectural police spokesman, who declined to be identified.

Kanaoka's three elderly children, all in their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead, the spokesman said.

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Had he been alive, the man would be 107 years old. Hyogo prefecture had registered Kanaoka as its oldest living resident, public broadcaster NHK said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050308/ap_on_re_as/japan_decomposing_relative&e=5


..."they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead..."
:wtf: :eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:

How could they not know he was dead since he'd been on the same futon for 10 years!

[trotsky]

1. The obligatory Monty Python reference...

He wasn't dead, he was just pining for the fjords!

[CottonBear]

2. At least they didn't nail dad to his perch.

:crazy:

[Stop_the_War]

3. Wouldn't he have been a skeleton by then?

[CottonBear]

4. You think that might have been a clue

that he was dead! :eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

6. yeah and decomposed

[Stop_the_War]

7. and smelly too!

[JohnKleeb]

9. Yep, to quote a favorite quote of mine

Some people are dumb.

[edbermac]

5. Maybe they thought he was a futon potato...

I think I might have been tipped off by noticing that Dad hadn't had much of an appetite for the past 2 or 3 years...

[Blue_Tires]

8. did they have him stuffed? like norman bates??

fucked up shite there