This was reported on CNN and various other news outlets last week, but I didn’t have enough time to get it posted. Thus, here’s your Monday morning WTF about a corpse being found in a L.A. hotel’s water tank. Disgusting.
CNN reports, “Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank water from a tank in which a young woman’s body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks, police said.
Elisa Lam’s corpse was found in the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low Tuesday. Lam’s parents reported her missing in early February. The last sighting of her was in the hotel on January 31, Los Angeles Police said. Detectives are now investigating the 21-year-old Canadian’s suspicious death, police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said.
People who stayed at the Cecil since Lam’s disappearance expressed shock about developments. Here’s the grossest: “The shower was awful,” Sabrina Baugh told CNN. “When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal.”
It was not clear whether the water presented any health risks to those who consumed it. Results on tests on the water done Wednesday by the Los Angeles Public Health Department were expected later in the day. The hotel management has not responded to CNN requests for comment.
Commence zombie-themed adaptation….NOW!
