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For four days, 74-year-old Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed was seen slumped over his balcony in Marina del Rey. Neighbors, who saw him on Monday, didn't think much of it--it was a dummy for Halloween, after all.
Oh snap, it wasn't! He allegedly committed suicide.
On Thursday evening, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies were called to his home and found a gunshot to his head. "... Everything is pointing to it being a suicide," an investigator said. An autospy is scheduled for Saturday.
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Oh snap, indeed!
Yeah, suicide is hilarious. I'm sure his family and friends think so.
Comedy is tragedy + distance. No one is making fun of this guy's family's grief, but you have to admit that there's something bleakly comic about a suicide being mistaken for halloween decorations.
I predict that this appears in a crime novel xmas 2010.
I appreciate bleak humor, but I don't think the term "oh snap" takes us into that territory. Plus the distance meant in the term you reference is time.
cool to see someone who commits fully to there halloween decor.
this is almost exactly like a scene in the movie trick r treat
this guy bites this girl, she runs around the town dripping blood, but everyone figures its fake blood and doesn't loo at her twice
creepy
Yeah, almost exactly. Except not.
I'm with mgn99. Pretty tasteless. Maybe save the "sardonic irreverence" your Tumblog.
P.S. Oh. Snap.