A man's body was found wrapped in plastic on the roof of a McDonald's restaurant and local residents suspect it had been there for days.
People who live nearby said the corpse was emitting a sickening odour that was coming through their windows, and the man's feet were poking out of the bag, which was under a heavy blanket.
The alarm was raised when a maintenance worker reportedly made the gruesome discovery just before 6am on Wednesday, and a 911 caller told police it appeared only half a body was on the roof.
Aerial footage showed police standing around the body, which was near a corner of the roof and partially obscured by a tree's branches, which extend over part of the building in the Bronx in New York City.
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