Skeleton Discovered In Discarded Couch Near Belt Parkway

City workers were stunned Friday afternoon when a human skeleton tumbled out of a discarded couch that they tried to load into a garbage truck on the Belt Parkway, the Daily News reports.

A Department of Transportation cleanup crew spotted the couch at 3pm in the weeds off Shell Bank Creek, near the Flatbush Avenue exit on the westbound Belt Parkway, according to the newspaper. As the workers tried to toss the couch in a garbage truck, a skull and bones fell out.

The city medical examiner is working to identify the body and determine the cause of death, reports the Daily News.