"The water was black for two seconds and then it went back to normal"

[End]

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank with 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.
It was not clear whether the water presented any health risks. 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.

Video appears to show four cisterns on the hotel roof.

People who stayed at the Cecil since Lam's disappearance expressed shock about developments.

"The water did have a funny taste," Sabrina Baugh told CNN on Wednesday. She and her husband used the water for eight days.

"We never thought anything of it," the British woman said. "We thought it was just the way it was here."
What she described was not normal.

"The shower was awful," she said. "When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal."

The hotel remained open after the discovery, but guests checking in Tuesday were told not to drink it, according to Qui Nguyen, who decided to find a new hotel Wednesday.

Nguyen said he learned about the body from a CNN reporter, not the hotel staff.

By Alan Duke, CNN
Updated 8:51 PM EST, Wed February 20, 2013

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/20/us/california-hotel-water-corpse/index.html

Yeah, um... Alright. Uh. Ew.

[Ad Bot]

[carolcat]

oh god that's disgusting
i probably would have thrown up if i heard about this after using the water there

[Momentum]

oh god thats loving discusting

[Boink!]

ewwwwww

[Night Fox]

oh stuff
I would kill myself

[YourBuddyBill]

Disgusting.

[Blockyz]

Damn that's disgusting. Would that make the people that drank the water Cannibals?

[sir dooble]

That's pretty nasty, and sad for the woman who died. Must have been dreadful for her family and co-workers to know she was missing for so long, yet her body was trapped within the building.


And I can't believe the British Woman describing the water.
Who sees a shower run black liquid for a moment and then stop and think that is normal and not complain?
I can understand as a tourist in expecting the water to taste different, but it coming out black?
A bit of common sense, surely. That's not normal regardless of where you are in the world.

[Liquid]

I don't blame the tourists who thought American water tastes like decomposing human remains.

That's certainly what their food is like.

[Mounds Bar]

A decomposing body's liquids mixed with purified water mixed in...

Delicious.

[YourBuddyBill]

I don't blame the tourists who thought American water tastes like decomposing human remains.

That's certainly what their food is like.

As an American, I should object, and yet, I can't exactly disagree with this.

[ChexGuy331]

I don't blame the tourists who thought American water tastes like decomposing human remains.

That's certainly what their food is like.

ok listen

florida water is stuff

but New York water is awesome.

[Neon]

Jesus forget what. This sounds like a really good creepypasta, but in real life. Euuuuuugh.

[Bisjac]

all tap water anywhere on earth is disgusting...

[Jairo]

all tap water anywhere on earth is disgusting...

unless you live next to natural springs