A 96-year-old St. Petersburg, Florida, woman who committed suicide by jumping from her 16-story apartment complex was thrown in the dumpster by the complex’s desk clerk after he thought her corpse was a mannequin that someone had placed there as an April Fools’ Day prank.
According to The St. Petersburg Tribune, Ronald Benjamin stepped outside for a smoke break early Wednesday morning and saw the woman’s bloody body lying in the parking lot. But he crushed out his cigarette and went back inside because he thought the body was a mannequin with red paint on it.
Benjamin and several other employees decided that if it was indeed an April Fools’ Day prank, then the mannequin needed to be disposed of. So that’s when he asked a couple delivering newspapers to help him throw the body into a nearby dumpster, where it was later discovered by yet another employee to be anything but a prank.
When authorities arrived on the scene, they discovered a suicide note in the woman’s apartment as well as the stool she used to climb over her balcony wall.
However, the question remains, if so many people mistook her body as a mannequin, exactly how much plastic surgery did this woman go through while she was still alive?
Hey, at least the guy who thought she was a mannequin didn’t do this to her: Surveillance Camera Catches Suspected Thief Humping a Mannequin
