Newspaper carrier finds woman pinned by husband's dead body

[Laisrean]

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_fe_st/pinned_by_body_4)

ST. LOUIS - Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something was wrong when the papers piled up outside their home.

"It was never like them to leave a newspaper in their tube," Pitt said Tuesday. "That wonderful, small voice inside me said, `This isn't right.'"

After his route early Sunday, Pitts went home, napped briefly and, with his wife, returned to Blanche and Fred Roberts' home, just outside Marion, Ill.

It's really hard to imagine what it must have been like for that woman to be pinned for all those days beneath her dead husband...

[mephistopheles]

Oooh, that poor lady : o(

[Invidosa]

Wow, poor thing, I can't imagine that! Strangely enough, I remember a horror story I read a while back that had a similar story line, eerie!

[Sacredsin]

Poor woman. :(

[Ladybug1258]

Eeewwwww that's just terrible. The entire story wasn't on the original posting, so is she okay physically speaking? She's can't be fine mentally after such an ordeal! What happened to the husband? It's so sad when there's no family nearby. It's people like postal carriers and Meals-On-Wheels (if they can afford to make runs with gas so high) to check in on the elderly now.

[DaNcInG_WiNd]

Poor woman. I can't even imagine what that must have been like.

[la tortuga]

I'm glad her mail carrier was concerned enough to do something, otherwise who knows what would have happened? It would have been a much sadder story, I'm sure. I look at this as a miracle. I'm very happy someone came to help her, and that someone cared enough to do so. :)

[LadyCanine]

oh my....

:(

I hate being pinned down and would probably go out of my mind

[aluokaloo]

omgs, that's terrible

[bbnflpn]

that is terrible, usually if newspapers pile up its not a good sign (unless the owners forgot to stop their paper while on vacation.

we had that happen to our next door neighbor, my dad called the police and told them he thought she might be dead, he didnt want to enter with out some sort of presence there (ie brakeing and entering and with medical support if she was still alive). unfortunatly she had passed,