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Kevin Joseph Arendt, 38, of Mississauga, Ontario, near Toronto, was last seen leaving a local bar around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a press release issued Monday by Canadian police.
His body was discovered Friday by workers in a Flint-area landfill, it said.
Constable George Tudos of the Peel Regional Police Department in Ontario told msnbc.com on Tuesday that investigators are working with Michigan law enforcement to try and determine how Arendt ended up in the landfill.
Tudos said investigators don't know if Arendt was intoxicated when he left the bar. An autopsy was inconclusive, but uncovered no evidence of foul play, he said.
"How he got there is something we're looking into because it's not that common, " he said.
Dan Gudgel, district manager of the Brent Run landfill, told the Flint Journal that between 60 percent and 80 percent of the refuse that ends up in the landfill originates in Canada, mostly from the Toronto area.
Investigators have talked to witnesses at the bar, but haven't released any details about they've found.
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He probably got assaulted and tossed in the trash or he got drunk and decided to pass out in a dumpster.
Can they possibly imagine that he was murdered shortly after leaving the bar, the body dumped in a dumpster and brought across the border in a rolling land-fill? (trucker talk for trash haulers)
Transportation issue concluded. Now work on who did the deed.
was it raining and he decided to sleep it off in a dumpster, unaware that trash pickup was that morning.
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he knew the trash was going to a U.S.A. landfill so he packed a bag and went for a free ride.
No one would go to Flint, Mi. even if it was a free ride. Flint is the murder and arson capital of the USA.
As if we don't have enough trash of our own do we have to take Canada's also
He must have been pretty drunk to stumble the whole way over to Flint and take a dirt nap in a landfill. Now that's getting DRUNK! Wooooooooo!
An un-named source at NBC tells us that it is likely he was inadvertently caught in the mooring ropes of a dirigible that broke loose from it's mooring in Japan's most recent tsunami. Then he was obviously abducted by aliens, who kept him for 49 years, and then turned back time. Upon returning to the planet, it was necessary to insure his safety on re-entry by placing him in an iron clad escape pod, which amazingly resembled a dumpster. Upon touch-down in Canada, the container was likely mistaken for the common variety refuse container, unloaded into a NAFTA transport vehicle, and shipped to the USA as fragile cargo. Suspicion arose that the shipping company may have mis-routed the package, but can assure concerned citizens that they will be able to track it and get back to the shippers sometime next millennium when communication reaches a more refined scope of alien to human interface and vice versa. It is believed that he tripped and fell afterward, causing his untimely demise.
This is a developing story, and all information provided is on condition of anonymity.
NBC makes no warranty or claim in regard to the content of this post, other than it may or may not be better written and more informative than most of their articles.
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Just kidding guys. You folks at NBC are doing a great job... somewhere, I am sure.
@XDm9mm
You should really read more carefully before assuming!
(by the way ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and makes ME laugh).
How bout Constable Tudos? "Not that common" to find a body in a landfill. I think this cat might be from KY.
Stands to reason Canada uses the U.S. as their dumping ground.
So...not only do we Michiganders take in the garbage from "North America's Cleanest City", allow a Canadian mining company to use sulfide extraction in one of our last wilderness areas, and watch as our dwindling, future tax dollars are "committed" to the extravagance of a redundant trans-national bridge-- but NOW we have to take care of Canuck corpses as well?!?