Attack of 50ft Woman star 'dead for a year'

[lurok]

Wasn't sure if this was more relevant here or in Misc. Either way, though of different generation, find it sad when these old B-movie stars pass away in these circumstances. OK, may not be greatest movie ever made but not bad of its ilk and interesting enough idea to warrant a remake

Yvette-VickEx-Playboy-model-mummified-Beverly-Hills-home

 

[Garak]

That's pretty sad no one noticed her for a year.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've heard several other stories like this before-- like the elderly Florida couple who were mummified in their air-conditioned home-- and it always amazes me that so much time can go by without something being reported. How could nobody notice the mail piling up and the yard turning into a jungle?

Poor woman. RIP, Yvette Vickers.

 

[Sindatur]

Wow, how terrible to be left alone that long and no one even noticed she had died.

 

[Greg Cox]

A sad story indeed.

It might be worth noting, because a lot of the press coverage has been unclear on this point, but Ms. Vickers did not actually play the Fifty-Foot Woman. She played a supporting part in the movie. The Fifty-Foot Woman was played by Allison Hayes.

 

[Noname Given]

You'd think the Person delivering her mail might have said somethiing to someone (ie the mail 'yellowing' in the mail box.) Boy, I guess we are an apathetic lot.

 

[scotpens]

A sad story indeed.

It might be worth noting, because a lot of the press coverage has been unclear on this point, but Ms. Vickers did not actually play the Fifty-Foot Woman. She played a supporting part in the movie. The Fifty-Foot Woman was played by Allison Hayes.

Of course, all of us geeks know that! Yvette played the slutty mistress of the Fifty-Foot Woman’s husband. She was often typecast as a “bad girl.”

To die alone and be left to rot for nearly a year without anyone noticing something amiss? That’s just awful.

May she rest in peace.

 

[RobertVA]

I've heard several other stories like this before-- like the elderly Florida couple who were mummified in their air-conditioned home-- and it always amazes me that so much time can go by without something being reported. How could nobody notice the mail piling up and the yard turning into a jungle?

Poor woman. RIP, Yvette Vickers.

Some homes have a mail slot in the front door instead of a mail box. I suppose it would take quite a while for things to pile tall enough to block that. Perhaps she had a mail slot.

In some parts of the southwest there are some people who have replaced their lawns with landscaping that's more consistent with the area's natural vegitation. In addition to less pruning, the desert adapted plants need less irrigation, economical in a region where the amount of city water to keep a lawn green would be expensive.

My local cable/internet company offers paperless billing which allow subscribers to view their statements over the Internet. Combine that with their automatic payment option (also available from popular satelite TV companies) and the phone bill could keep getting paid until the checking account ran dry. I don't know if any electric or water/sewer agencies offer similar options.

 

[Myasishchev]

I think my mail carrier thinks I'm dead. Checked the box in the apartment's mail room today after a week or so and they'd flipped the card with my name on it to read "Vacant."

Maybe I am dead. It happened in at least twenty different Twilight Zone episodes.

It might be preferable, because I just know it's going to be a pain in the ass to get my mail service resumed and receive the two or three pieces of valid mail, the four or five pieces of redundant mail,* and the metric fuckton of trash per week to which I'm entitled.

*"Guess what, Myasishchev? You still have a bank account!" For now, BoA, for now.

 

[Mutara Nebula 1967]

I think it is very sad someone could go unnoticed and unmissed for so long. I wonder how her life came to end in such a lonely way.

 

[Trekker4747]

If her mail was piling up the carrier likely would've assumed she was out-of-town and not picking it up and would've emptied the box (esp. if it was getting too full to put new mail in) and then it would've started collecting at the local PO when delivery was canceled. It happened to me once when I failed to pick up my mail for a couple of weeks, had to go pick it up at the PO and sign something to say they could continue delivery.

 

[Sindatur]

If her mail was piling up the carrier likely would've assumed she was out-of-town and not picking it up and would've emptied the box (esp. if it was getting too full to put new mail in) and then it would've started collecting at the local PO when delivery was canceled. It happened to me once when I failed to pick up my mail for a couple of weeks, had to go pick it up at the PO and sign something to say they could continue delivery.

Except I think it says mail slot, which means a slot in the door with a flap on it (Or in the wall, near the door). So, it would take a really long time to notice a pile inside the house, continuing to pile up, until it was no longer possible to put mail through the slot.

 

[Trekker4747]

"Mail slot" could, really, mean anything as I don't think there's going to be much consistency in the terms. I, personally, doubt there's many door-mounted mail slots around anymore if there were then, yeah, the mailing piling up would go un-noticed.

If the she had a mailbox next to her front door (requiring more time and man-power to deliver the mail on foot to each house) then it'd pile up fairly quickly.

If she had a flag-box on the roadway it'd pile up quickly.

If she had a community mailbox around the corner, more and more popular these days as the mailman only needs to go to one place to deliver, then mail would pile up within a day or two as those things are friggin tiny.

Depending on how much you want to stretch the term any one of those things could be called a "mail slot."

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Being Beverly Hills I imagine there are plenty of homes that sit empty for much of the year because the owners are on some extended vacation or living at some other place that they own. I'm guessing the mailman sees the mail piling up, sees letters from SAG and figures this chick is just filming somewhere and forgot to put a stop to her mail.

 

[Trekker4747]

And if she had enough money on an account and had all of her bills on automatic deduct she could go a long time without anyone knowing. I'd go a year before anyone would notice my missing if they were just going of the maintaining of my bills and only then they'd notice because I never renewed my lease nor vacated my apartment. Electricity, water, rent, cable, phone are all paid automatically.

 

[Servo]

Electricity, water, rent, cable, phone are all paid automatically.

Only 'cause you're getting paid regularly. If you died you wouldn't be turning up to work, in which case your employer isn't going to just keep paying your wage every month, so your bank account would empty pretty quick.

 

[Trekker4747]

Electricity, water, rent, cable, phone are all paid automatically.

Only 'cause you're getting paid regularly. If you died you wouldn't be turning up to work, in which case your employer isn't going to just keep paying your wage every month, so your bank account would empty pretty quick.

It's called savings.

 

[Greg Cox]

Electricity, water, rent, cable, phone are all paid automatically.

Only 'cause you're getting paid regularly. If you died you wouldn't be turning up to work, in which case your employer isn't going to just keep paying your wage every month, so your bank account would empty pretty quick.

Given that she was 82 years old, I doubt that was an issue.

 

[Servo]

Electricity, water, rent, cable, phone are all paid automatically.

Only 'cause you're getting paid regularly. If you died you wouldn't be turning up to work, in which case your employer isn't going to just keep paying your wage every month, so your bank account would empty pretty quick.

It's called savings.

Your bills come out of your savings account? Kinda defeats the object of "savings", smart arse.

 

[Sindatur]

Only 'cause you're getting paid regularly. If you died you wouldn't be turning up to work, in which case your employer isn't going to just keep paying your wage every month, so your bank account would empty pretty quick.

It's called savings.

Your bills come out of your savings account? Kinda defeats the object of "savings", smart arse.

Well, if you use your Savings account as overdraft protection, the auto-bill pay would hit, account would want to go negative, and then savings would automatically be transferred to Checking by the bank to bring balance back up to $0.00

Though, the bank wouldn't tolerate that for too many months before taking some kind of action.