ODDS AND ENDS: Four lived with dead body for six years, other offerings

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It was a real life Weekend at Bernie’s situation in Kansas.

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A family lived with a dead body for six years, according to KSNT.com.

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Relatives of Mike Carroll, of Overland Park, told journalists as many as four people lived in a home with the body since 2016.

The Social Security Administration is now conducting a criminal investigating, a spokesperson for the Overland Park Police Department told FOX4.

Family members told FOX4 they were stunned.

“Just so confused about the whole thing. You know, how can this happen? And how can he lay there for that many years and nobody reported,” said Janet Carroll, a niece of Mike Carroll.

Investigators figured out what happened after a visit from Overland Park police in October 2022 when officers found the body on a bed.

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The home had reportedly fallen into disrepair. The man was 81-years-old when he died.

Relatives said one of the family members living with Carroll was his daughter.

A next-door neighbour told FOX4 he had not smelled anything.

THE CAT IN THE APP

A pet owner who lost a cat came up with a different type of idea to try to track down the feline.

The user went on Grindr and made a profile of the missing cat and registered it under the name “Missing cat,” in Brighton, England, according to Sussexexpress.com.

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DEPUTIES DISCIPLINED FOR FRIENDLY FIRE

Three deputies in South Carolina were disciplined after things went wrong during a training exercise.

Reports said the Greenville County deputies were on a training exercise when one got shot in the foot.

An investigation into the February incident said the deputies were training with blank rounds during a controlled exercise.

After the training exercise, deputies were securing equipment when a deputy one fired a blank round from a simulation gun at another in an act of “horseplay,” according to WSPA.com.

The second deputy responded by firing back, forgetting he had already switched back to his duty weapon, and shot the other deputy in the foot.

The injured deputy treated and released from a hospital. Both were given 10-day suspensions and will undergo remedial training.

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A supervisor was also punished.

KID IN DETENTION HITCHES RIDE HOME

An elementary school student left school and hitched a ride home after being disciplined instead of waiting around outside a portable classroom the way he was supposed to.

The student was misbehaving, according to News4sanantonio.com.

Corey Heemer, the mother of the child, told the station she couldn’t believe it when the teacher said the child was missing.

The third-grader has special needs and got under a fence, and caught a ride on the street.

The child’s return home was captured by a doorbell video.

Luckily, the child got home safely. The teacher is being investigated.