Spanish police are investigating the death of a 39-year-old man whose body was found inside a dinosaur statue. Authorities were alerted on Saturday after a father and his son noticed a smell emanating from the papier-mâché figure in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a suburb of Barcelona. The father then saw the corpse through a crack in the Stegosaurus' hollow leg. Police said the man had been reported missing by his family, and no foul play is suspected. Three fire brigade teams were called to scene after the body was discovered, and firefighters cut open the dinosaur leg to retrieve it. Local media report the man - who has not been named - was trying to retrieve a mobile phone he dropped inside the statue. He then fell inside the decorative figure and was left trapped upside down, unable to call for help. Police have not confirmed how the man ended up inside the dinosaur, and are awaiting the results of his autopsy to find out how he died. The decorative statue has been removed from its place outside the city's Cubic Building, where it had been used to advertise an old cinema. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57226774
That reminds me of a story I heard when I worked at Boeing on jumbo jets. A man never showed up for work for several days. Then a Boeing 707 went for some sort of test flight. The fuel kept getting intermittently interrupted so the pilot returned to Boeing Field, now King County airport. When the looked in the fuel tanks to find the problem leading to interruptions in the flow of fuel they found a gelatinous mass. The man used to work in fuel tanks because he was small and could crawl thru the limited space inside. They figure he took a nap and woke up after everyone went home. Then when they filled the tanks he was killed and so remained until his gelatinous mass finally interrupted the flow of fuel. Gross, huh.
That's right when I noticed it wasn't my bed, it was a six-story tall crustacean from the Paleolithic era...
