Afternoon watch, 3 bells (1:41 pm)
To whack somebody, that is: Dead man on balcony ignored.
A 75-year-old dead man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the body was part of a Halloween display and didn’t call police.
I'll just file that away as useful information if I ever flip out and need to hide a body—do it around Halloween!
