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Sheriff's deputies discovered a dead body inside a car in the parking lot of a grocery store in Fallbrook, San Diego County, on Thursday night.
SAN DIEGO -- A dead body was discovered zipped up in a sleeping bag in a car at a grocery store's parking lot on Thursday.
Deputies and fire officials were called to the Albertson's supermarket in Fallbrook, Calif., around 7:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET). The body was found inside a 1997 Toyota Forerunner.
Homicide detectives later responded to the scene.
"At this point we don't know whose it is -- we don't even know if it is male or female -- just that it appears suspicious," San Diego Sheriff's Department Sgt. Patrick Yates said. "The body is dead [and] the circumstances are suspicious."
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A family member said that the Toyota Forerunner belongs to Alvin Bulaoro, 24. He's been missing since Dec. 21.
Bulaoro's family was at the scene on Thursday night.
Bulaoro's brother said the family had hired a private investigator to search for their missing relative. The private investigator told the family that Bulaoro's car had been spotted in the Albertson's parking lot.
Bulaoro's brother said he went to the lot, found the car and called authorities.
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"At this point we don't know whose it is -- we don't even know if it is male or female -- just that it appears suspicious,"
Never underestimate the value of education.
The article is written so graduates of the public school system, where all students are equal, can understand it.
Or experience. "We're putting Detective Blunt on the case. He recently detected several doughnuts at a Krispy Kreme."
I guess if the body wasn't of a dead person officials wouldn't be suspicious?
The lack of any visible signs of life suggests that the subject may be dead. When asked if he or she was male or female, the subject was unable to provide an answer, possibly due to his or her presumed deadness. If the subject begins talking to police in the future, we may have to reconsider whether or not he or she is actually dead.
How does a lone private eye locate the missing car while an entire police force is unable?
Cops, C-students in action.
upgraded- amybe the PI had something to do with the body being where it is.
I think suspicious means they don't appear to have died from natural causes. Suspicious is police language for this. It is related to their job . Suspicious or not suspicious will dictate how they proceed.
I think a body zipped up in a sleeping bag in a car in a parking lot would be suspicious even if it wasn't dead.
Homeless man that was living in his car in a parking lot was found dead.. This is someone trying to make a big story out of a common occurrence.. People are found dead like this all the time and during the winter months it peaks.. Cause of death will most likely be drugs or carbon monoxide with the small chance of natural causes.. 2 weeks dead in a confined space makes for a mess..
Bet the PI found the car by offering a reward to a network of people who will look for specific things on request.. Kind of like a scavenger hunt with several hundred people looking for a prize.. Common and effective thing that is used all the time, cops call them snitches..
a dead person was found in a sleeping bag...wording they used is a little weird...i find that suspicious...the body of a dead skunk...just call it a dead skunk...
Body in a sleeping bag? Obviouosly a camping trip gone bad.
They can't tell if the body is male or female? Do cops know basic human anatomy? Wouldn't the clothes give them a clue? Scary to think these are people armed with guns with the power to throw you in jail.
Roadrunner -- this was SAN DIEGO. Most people don't die under those circumstances in southern California. (BTW: The LOW temp last night was around 45 ... and the "body" was found around 7:15, well before the coldest point of the night.)
At the very least, someone MOVED the body there or it would have been found earlier.
Cops call them CIs (Confidential Informants). Criminals call them snitches.
I'm guessing that the cops are going to $h!t down both legs when some guy or girl comes back to claim their body.
The use of a possesive pronoun makes it appear that the owner of the body will be back to collect it like it was a lost piece of luggage. Typical "cop"ese (cop speak) - using words to make themselves sound smarter but show their real intellect.
Obviously you have never seen a body that has had a couple of weeks to decompose in warm temperature, let alone wrapped in a sleeping bag. I would bet that you would be pucking you guts out before you even got close enough to tell it was a body.
Agreed that this article was written very poorly, not what I call news.
Thinker, I didn't the cops wrote articles for the news.
Oops my bad, writing like the reporter of this article. Should have said I didn't know the cops wrote articles for the news.
It only says the family hired a private investigator. Maybe the family never called the cops to report him missing. Cops won't be looking for someone who was NEVER REPORTED MISSING.
Its obvious that the long holiday break has some of you missing grading papers. Get off your egg-headed high horse. Nobody but you would be looking for grammar errors instead of ready an article for information.
Maybe it's a shemale.
Looks like Sherlock Holmes has nothing on these cops! ~ lol - Missing guy, found in car (both reported missingthree weeks agao) -- Found same car and a dead body in that car in parking lot -- Would not want to "jump" to any hasty concludions here, would we?
Upgradedd,Maybe because the family never reported this young man missing to the police.The article said they hired a private investigator,it doesn't say anything about reporting his disappearance to law enforcement.Something with this family seems very fishy.
i am always suspicious when i first meet someone and i can't tell if they are female or male. and/or if i have to ask.
something just doesn't seem right in those cases, does it?
and often times isn't!!
Ya, that wording, appears suspicious, hilarious.
Even worse quote..."The body is dead [and] the circumstances are suspicious." OK
Surprised that Yates was willing to comitt to the fact that the body was dead. - lol -- Why cannot the police speak more simply and to the point? Why the unneccessary verbieage? We foinf a dead bodt in a car in the parking lot -- still have to deteremin and confirm the ID. period.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing that Spellcheck was not happy that Toyota uses car name 4Runner.
I am so sick of the media not reporting anymore. It seems it stopped years ago, but the libs just love it. Yes folks, I am the first to go political. MSNBC you REALLY are a trash news agency with the lib trash and this article is, as my above folks mentioned pitiful. Get a 5th grader to be a reporter, oh sorry, I see you already did that.
I will never understand why people come here, read an new story, then just start trashing the news organization, then start trashing liberals in general. Why are you on this website reading articles? LMAO unreal. Complain Much?
If you do not like MSNBC, why do you read it's articles?
Or maybe, it's your insatiable need to complain about something...
Dam Liberals:
The garbage men didn't pick up my trash - blame liberals
My dog died - blame liberals
A comet is hurling towards the earth - blame liberals
I wet my pants - blame liberals
Can't wipe my butt - blame liberals
Give it a rest...
Can't wipe our butts because liberals hug trees.
Just look at the people all around you. The quality of education is down the tubes thanks to technology. Please, most people cannot function without some sort of technological device in their hands. Just this morning on the "Today Show", a group of young college roommates decided to "detox" from all technology-related devices (smartphones, computers & other devices). At first they were lost without the devices, then as the days progressed they realized how much more clearer they were able to think and comprehend simple things like conversations with people, more observant of their surroundings and more energy during the day.
Life is not what goes on in technology; life is what happens when you are not paying attention to what goes on around you!
I am a firm believer that computers and other devices do not belong in grammar school classrooms. Until children can master the basics of math, reading & writing on their own they will never know their true capabilities. It is as simple as doing basic math in your head or on paper; reading a book and comprehending what you read; and being able to write a thesis on paper with one's own ideas, thoughts and creativity. Technology cannot do that for the human brain. Remember, computers are only as good as the human operating them. Even the "spell check" feature in MS Word, Outlook or smartphone cannot think like the human brain hence the reason it offers various spellings because it does not know what is being conveyed.
Us Rightwingers have to come here to let you numbnut liberals know we are still around and have an eye on you....and to say I told you so when your messiah screws up which is daily I think....Sure is funny I never see this type of infantile reporting on "faux" news....do you?
We are watching ~_~
Julieann, Technology is not what makes "education go down", people do. I think it is a matter of how the technology is used. Junk in= junk out. It is a matter of what you do with it and how you manage it.
A lot of these news reports are like reading stuff coming over the wire, which used to be only reporters got to do. You're getting the news feed from the very beginning of a story when details are sketchy. That's all.
In this case do not blame the media, this is exactly how the news was issued last night when the body was first found, they are only conveying what was said at the crime scene. If you want to blame anyone blame the San Diego Sheriff Deputy that spoke stupidly, might as well he hadn't made any comments.
Please, some right-wing Conservative rewrite the story in a non-lib way. I would love to read your unbiased version......
These conned servative types have to come here to bash liberals because they are too cowardly to do it in person. Makes 'em feel big and powerful. LOL! Poor little impotent turds.
Don't you know? Fox closed down all its boards at once and threw its trolls out from beneath their bridges...they're hungry and surly and had to find new homes. It's been a few months now. Think back and you'll realise there was a fresh influx a while back.
Fox grew tired of the attempt to police them. They shut it all down. Can you blame them? All those tin-foil hat wearing apocalypse wingnuts are now polluting CNN and MSN and Yahoo and every other board, claiming that they're liberal-biased.
Sickening namby-pamby whiners who blame everyone but themselves for what's wrong in the world. They fail to take responsibility for their own problems, their own issues and the fact they have personality disorders.
I love the lib trolls posting bashes about the conservative trolls bashing. Then later, only if we are lucky, the conservative trolls will respond to the lib trolls with similiar useless dribble. You political types on both sides never cease to amaze me...
Someone who's handle is a reference to the beloved Fox News is telling other people to give it a rest? The irony is so thick one could choke on it.
Is your life really that unmeaningful that you need to put your nose into someone else's? Or that you feel anyone needs your point of view?
This caliber of reporting is the result of the media going to third world countries and having them write the news articles and then send them to the news organizations. And you thought your medical records, IT help and credit card clearing houses were the only services being provided by off-shore sweat shops.
Sorry to tell you this, but MSN has always had stupid people posting on it's threads...I read the articles here, but I've never considered this a 'good source of news', rather I view it as a cartoon version of 'news'. I'd rather read several sources (from both spectrum of news media) and foreign (often more accurate) news sources, as well.
Good for you, Angela. This is the same reason that I listen to Rush, Hannity, and NPR when driving. Isn't it scary to think that some people get all the "facts" to make informed decisions only from this NBC site?
For those who are curious why some of us come here when we think the reporting is sub-par? It is the comedy relief. Some of the posts are hilarious!
Sounds to me the poor lad may have had some mental health issues. The reporter, I mean.
besides this poorly written article being an indication of the poor standards that seem to be accepted in most reporting done today it also occurs to me the idea of being 'first', regardless if you have any salient facts to report, is much more important than giving a comprehensive accounting of the related facts.
why not just wait until you can write most of the basic facts of this case---who, why, when, where and how! to answer only one of these---the where (and even this is in doubt as the person could have died elsewhere and then left at the parking lot location) is not really of much use to anyone, except for the reporter who wrote the story. the writer provides no real information except to be able to say ''i was first'' is another indication of the lowering of our standards that passes for 'acceptable' today.
i wonder when we will reach the bottom and can't go any lower!
It appears someone jumped the gun on this story and should of waited another ten minutes to get the facts.
"At this point we don't know whose it is -- we don't even know if it is male or female -- just that it appears suspicious," San Diego Sheriff's Department Sgt. Patrick Yates said. "The body is dead [and] the circumstances are suspicious."
Maybe the reporter should of asked someone at the scene of the crime instead of the guy cleaning up isle five in Albertsons.
What? And miss the opportunity to be the first to say they don't know $h!t but will be glad to fill in the details once they are able to read them from another source?
"The world will end at 10:00 - details at 11:00."
the 'crime scene' could be many miles away rather than the car with said sleeping bag in it.
Well, hey, "thinker", maybe you "should of" waited to post until you could larn yo'self some grammar (and no, I don't mean your daddy's mama).
It's "should have", no "should of". When I was a 7th grader decades ago, "should of" was one of the examples our English grammar textbook listed of common grammatical errors. Did you get detention that day?
I dont see anthing Suspicious about this. No doubt that the person in the sleeping bag put himself in the sleeping bag and zipped it up, and died. What would be suspicious about that. Duh.
It was an accident..he climbed into the sleeping bag..zipped it up from the inside..thought better of it and when he tried to zip it down the zipper got stuck..and there he had to stay..
Hmm, a new method to commit 'Hara Kiri'... most interesting.
These people that spend day-in and day-out critiquing the media makes me wonder how they handle it when someone is quick to pass a judgement on the things they do. My guess, they don't like it!!
I wonder if the guy is military, I used to live not far from there, that's right by Camp Pendleton, Marine base.
Decent neighborhood. My Ex is from there, its why the article caught my eye. I feel bad for his family :( poor guy.
Sgt. Yates thinks that it is suspicious to find a dead body in the back of a truck. He is a genius. Now if he could only learn to tie his shoes.
And you thought Barney Fife was just a figment of Hollywood's imagination. Those script writers need to get their ideas from some place.
the story wasn't well written, but these comments are HILARIOUS =) made my morning
You must be easily amused.
who the heck spit in your cheerios this morning. that was rude and uncalled for.
Did the police know about this person missing? I wonder if the family only contacted the private detective... And if so, why?
Police departments do little to locate missing persons who are over the age of 18. If they're sane, not chronically ill or in need of medication, they take the report and file it. They'll interview you but adults are autonomous; unless an individual was known to be stalked by someone or there is evidence of foul play there is little or nothing a PD will do when your family member goes missing.
If you have money to hire a private detective to look for him or her, they may be located or not. This was evidently a case where the vehicle was located. The body inside may or may not be the individual.
The story was put out too soon and without enough information. Why do they do that?? They should be able to tell with one look if it's a male or a female body! Suspicious? Ya think? Sounds like it is the brother (male) that was missing.
When decomp occurs to the point the remains are liquified, no one can tell if it's male or female until the coroner looks at them. You're inexperienced with these matters like the rest of the folks shooting off their keyboards on this thread. It's warm during the day in CA. Heat builds up in a vehicle due to the greenhouse effect and inside the sleeping bag the corpse would have cooked more.
Read between the lines: it's a rotted corpse that's been there for days. Identification will be made via dental records.
Ban Sleeping bags !
most likely a suicide gone bad. rip dead sleeping bag guy.
If it was a suicide gone bad, then wouldn't that person still be alive?
Oh Crap! Now sleeping bags will be on the list of things to ban....
"The body is dead {and} the circumstances are suspicious" Thank you, Sgt. Yates, for your stellar police work. I feel safer already. Better alert Homeland See-curity in case there is a terrorist plot involving sleeping bags and Toyota SUV's...
One thing is certain: this event will most certainly lower the vehicle's resale value...
I have no doubt that Mad Max of the John Boy and Billy show would have comments about the title of this article!
And when would finding a body, in a bag, not be suspicious?????
"At this point we don't know whose it is -- we don't even know if it is male or female -- just that it appears suspicious," San Diego Sheriff's Department Sgt. Patrick Yates said. "The body is dead [and] the circumstances are suspicious."
No $hit...thank you captain obvious.
I read the title and the first thing I thought was: "As opposed to an 'unsuspicious' body found in a parking lot"
Really article writer? When is a body that is found in a parking lot NOT suspicious?
gottta love the edumacation system.
The body is dead?? Oh wow seems to be self evident since it was not moving.
You'd think they could at least get the name of the vehicle right. It's a Toyota 4Runner; not Forerunner.
That's what I noticed too. Maybe we Texans are simply more aware of SUV models?