He Died In Vast Isolation

Remember the racket a few weeks ago about the old man who died in his house and was found 13 months later, still in front of the turned-on TV?

LAT's Erika Hayasaki brings us the backstory (thanks, Cory): Southampton, N.Y. — THE blind man died alone in front of his television in a lounge chair, near a table covered with medicine bottles wrapped in rubber bands and a cereal box stuffed with mail. Each rubber band marked a prescription he recognized by touch. Each envelope contained information he could not read. He never received letters, only bills.

A neighbor called police after she noticed a pipe had burst at his house. His double-door garage was cloaked in a frozen waterfall. Police…