greattenchim
Jul 18 2005, 05:52 AM
This one may actually be true.
The story goes like this. Someone, often two homosexual men, commit suicide with a gun in a new Corvette. They are found months later, but the smell is so bad that some used car dealer is offering the car for some outrageously low price.
I heard this one on Johnnie Carson as an Urban Legend, (he was hostile to the supernatural), but before that, I had heard it from a gearhead friend of mine who looked at one out in Lynden Washington. He said that you couldn't get downwind of it or you would "blow chunks".
As a little bonus, one of my two best friends had a job as an automobile upholsterer, and upon one occaision had to clean up jellied blood from underneath a car seat being somewhat the worse for having held a long term suicide. If you think about how many people commit suicide, there have to be some taking place in cars.
cyberbud2000
Jul 18 2005, 08:00 AM
this was on mythbusters. the stuck a dead pig in a corvette and sealed up the car in a shipping container for...... i forget....may have been a few weeks. but they couldn't get the smell out. One of the guys nearly passed out because the pig gave off ammonia while decomposing.
nick_fury
Jul 18 2005, 06:23 PM
That's gross. Although I would have thought any cars used in suicides would be taken to the police impound as evidence whilst an investigation was held, then most probably crushed and recycled. That's just my opinion though, JMPD will know for sure
nightmare_girl
Jul 18 2005, 10:39 PM
Eew, why would someone actually attempt to sell a car that smells so horrible you can't even get near it, not to mention drive it? I wouldn't be comfortable if I knew I was driving a car that someone commited suicide in. For that matter, I don't think anyone would...well, except for people who..like that kind of thing

Well, at least it wasn't a Hummer

(I love Hummers

)
Jeenuh
Jul 20 2005, 09:39 AM
Ooh. that's the start of a bunch of ghost stories too.
Jeenuh
Jul 20 2005, 09:40 AM
Also really gross. (sorry for double posting. :/)
Xyfer
Jul 20 2005, 10:27 AM
If the smell doesn't bother whoever buys the car then they at least get a good deal out of it and buy it for a low price
American Chupacabra
May 31 2007, 12:25 AM
There are people whose noses don't work...
Sweetsalem82103
May 31 2007, 01:24 AM
QUOTE(cyberbud2000 @ Jul 18 2005, 03:00 AM) [snapback]739392[/snapback]
this was on mythbusters. the stuck a dead pig in a corvette and sealed up the car in a shipping container for...... i forget....may have been a few weeks. but they couldn't get the smell out. One of the guys nearly passed out because the pig gave off ammonia while decomposing.

Ugh, I saw that one. So gross.

I almost puked just watching.
American Chupacabra
May 31 2007, 08:27 PM
QUOTE(Sweetsalem82103 @ May 30 2007, 08:24 PM) [snapback]1701702[/snapback]
Ugh, I saw that one. So gross.

I almost puked just watching.
Never seen it. I'll see it eventually though, I love Mythbusters