Life Dead TV
posted by on June 30 at 8:34 AM
It’s not a new story, but in case you missed it:
THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing.The wronged woman in that Dickens fiction, Great Expectations, has been surpassed.Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.
Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old.
Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb.
But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in to help the authorities establish who owned the flat.
A police spokesman said: “So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.
“When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.
“The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there.”
I kinda want to go out like that.... it is sorta cool.
BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Another example of the "me" generation failing to even check-up on their neighbors. This is a sure sign of the end of civilization.
She died in 1966. Civilization sure didn't seem to end then. Do you go around checking every apartment on your block, even the ones that have been "vacant" for forty years?
Where is this story from?
Link, please........
Sorta like Eleanor Rigby died.
My dear Mudede:
"The wronged woman." Really? That's all you can offer regarding one of fiction's most enduring archetypes? Is Gatsby "that wealthy guy?" Is Bret Ashley "the woman in that bullfighting book?"
Surely you could peck out the relevant letters on your keyboard: M-i-s-s H-a-v-i-s-h-a-m.
Carry on.
@5 (Hartiepie), one place the story is from is some publication called The Stranger. Scroll down to the Friday June 20th Last Days entry. (It cites a UK's Daily Record story.)
No, Miss Havisham's mouse condo wedding cake still out does 60's era time capsule.
so she didnt hear the serbian-croatian war outside her window?
there is more to this story, im sure. however, if true, she dissapeared in yugoslavia and died in croatia without moving.
Miss H. has the grievance, great lines, and the cake (and goes out spectacularly), but Ms. Golik has politics: she is the Last Yugoslavian.
couldn't happen in capitalist america - no one would let space just sit there not making money for that long.
a legacy of communism. they didn't KNOW who OWNED the flat!
Ooh, nice one, Grant!
why didn't you just write her name, Miss Havisham?
Stop being needlessly obtuse.
@14 -- Obtuse is what Charles has instead of god.
(Sorry for the Papa kick today...)
Grant @11,
Speaking of intriguing dead people, when's that Marion Zioncheck movie coming out?
Must have been some damn good tea.
She expired waiting for whatever the Serbo-Croatian version of Godot is. And since Godot never comes, so did no one else. Valse triste.
So this was like, 20 years before Amanda Knox was born, and 40 years before she travelled to nearby Italy? So we can rule her out?
Comments Closed
In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).