A headline like “Police hunt for man wheeling dead body on dolly” is guaranteed to get my attention, and fairly likely to garner a mention here, on this site. It’s not something you see every day, some guy pushing a movers’ dolly down the street with a corpse strapped to it. I, for one, have never seen anything of the sort, anyway, and I doubt you have either. But folks in Staten Island, New York witnessed such a scene recently, when 31-year-old rocket scientist Anthony Lopez took a daylight stroll with his wife—his DEAD wife, that is, with her all trussed up kinda like Hannibal Lecter in that scene from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, minus the creepy half-face mask, reclining on a dolly. Lopez had murdered her and was attempting to get rid of the body.
Not to make light of a tragedy, but at what point exactly did this guy decide such an approach would be a good idea? Did he just think no one would notice? Even if most people are unobservant enough not to take note of the spectacle, it would only take one person who would, or did, right? One call to the cops? Oh, and in case you didn’t catch it, Lopez is not really a rocket scientist. That was sarcasm. You’d have to be as thickheaded as Lopez figured the citizenry of Staten Island to be, though, not to have noticed.