Man turns `stupid’ after finding floating body

The badly decomposed body of an unidentified man clad in a white boxer-type shorts was discovered among rocks along the desolate northern coastline at Buccoo yesterday morning. The discovery was made by a villager who was picking ‘pacro’ among the rocks located at the bottom of a 40-ft precipice at the end of Battery Street.  Sheldon “Stalin” Trim, 28, recounted what was for him a terrifying experience while speaking to Sunday Newsday on location where a large crowd of curious villagers had gathered. He said: “I was digging out pacro when I started to get this scent.  When I went ‘round a rock I see a hand. I say, ‘wait! that is not a human being hand?’ and I take off  like a bullet. I fall down in some water between two rocks and I turn stupid and beat up and thing and managed to get up and fly up the rocks and jump over the wall and straight home; I was scared like hell!”. When Sunday Newsday arrived on the scene, earlier, several villagers along the street indicated the location of the bloated body 40 feet down along the uninhabited shoreline. Access for the purpose of removal was difficult, and the body had to be later ‘airlifted’ out of the rocks with the use of a hydraulic hoist operated by Excellent Choices Ltd, who were summoned by the police. The body is believed to be that of a man of African descent in his late 20s or early30s, who was powerfully built. It is estimated that he died about a week ago. A preliminary inspection indicated  no visible marks of violence. The police are proceeding with an ‘open mind’.  There have been no recent reports of missing persons in Tobago except for the three fishermen who are missing (and have not been seen to date) after going on a fishing expedition out of Swallows Bay, Pigeon Point on June 26.