Michael Moore Dead
<div class="IPBDescription">Found 40 days after going missing</div> Yep, it's true..
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<!--QuoteBegin-New York Daily News+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (New York Daily News)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Motorcyclist found
dead after 40 days
BY PETE DONOHUE
and TONY SCLAFANI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A motorcycle-riding bus driver who vanished on his Kawasaki 40 days ago was found dead yesterday in Queens by a search party that included his wife.
"I went through suffering for 40 days till this morning," said Michael Moore's widow, Tessa Moore, 39. "I don't wish it on a dog."
The decomposed body of Michael Moore, 49, was discovered facedown in a patch of 6-foot-tall grass between the Whitestone Expressway and the Cross Island Parkway in Malba, cops and witnesses said. He was about 10 feet from the southbound lane of the parkway, which carries more than 100,000 vehicles every day.
Moore's beloved green-and-black Kawasaki Ninja was nearby, cops and witnesses said.
"That was his passion. That was his friend. He loved that bike," said Tessa Moore, a nursing home clerk. "He rode it all the time."
Police believe Michael Moore, a gold-toothed and tattooed father of four from Springfield Gardens, died after hitting a concrete barrier and ending up on the median.
A cop in a 30-member search party consisting of police officers, friends of Moore's and members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 made the grisly find in the first spot the group looked yesterday. The cop told union Vice President Barry Roberts to hustle the rest of the searchers back into the convoy van, especially Tessa Moore, his wife of 18 years and the mother of three of his children. "Do me a favor. I got him but I don't want to break the news to his family here," the cop whispered.
When searchers reached a hotel parking lot over the Whitestone Bridge, a female cop broke the news to Tessa Moore, sending her into tears.
The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy, but cops said they believe the body is Michael Moore's. Michael Moore, a Guyanese immigrant, finished a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift on Aug. 28 and then attended a christening party in the Bronx. A security camera photographed him paying the toll on the Whitestone Bridge on his way home at 3:51 a.m. on Aug. 29. He was wearing a helmet.
Police checked highways, hospitals and airports, and Tessa Moore and other relatives scoured the area for weeks, even offering a $25,000 reward.
But Tessa Moore thinks more could have been done.
"I'm very, very angry," she said. "If he was Donald Trump, they would have found him. He's only a poor black man who comes home from work like every single human being."
Michael Moore, assigned to the Manhattanville depot, drove the M5 and earned several commendations for outstanding service during his 11-year career, Transit Authority spokesman Charles Seaton said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-New York Daily News+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (New York Daily News)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Motorcyclist found
dead after 40 days
BY PETE DONOHUE
and TONY SCLAFANI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A motorcycle-riding bus driver who vanished on his Kawasaki 40 days ago was found dead yesterday in Queens by a search party that included his wife.
"I went through suffering for 40 days till this morning," said Michael Moore's widow, Tessa Moore, 39. "I don't wish it on a dog."
The decomposed body of Michael Moore, 49, was discovered facedown in a patch of 6-foot-tall grass between the Whitestone Expressway and the Cross Island Parkway in Malba, cops and witnesses said. He was about 10 feet from the southbound lane of the parkway, which carries more than 100,000 vehicles every day.
Moore's beloved green-and-black Kawasaki Ninja was nearby, cops and witnesses said.
"That was his passion. That was his friend. He loved that bike," said Tessa Moore, a nursing home clerk. "He rode it all the time."
Police believe Michael Moore, a gold-toothed and tattooed father of four from Springfield Gardens, died after hitting a concrete barrier and ending up on the median.
A cop in a 30-member search party consisting of police officers, friends of Moore's and members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 made the grisly find in the first spot the group looked yesterday. The cop told union Vice President Barry Roberts to hustle the rest of the searchers back into the convoy van, especially Tessa Moore, his wife of 18 years and the mother of three of his children. "Do me a favor. I got him but I don't want to break the news to his family here," the cop whispered.
When searchers reached a hotel parking lot over the Whitestone Bridge, a female cop broke the news to Tessa Moore, sending her into tears.
The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy, but cops said they believe the body is Michael Moore's. Michael Moore, a Guyanese immigrant, finished a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift on Aug. 28 and then attended a christening party in the Bronx. A security camera photographed him paying the toll on the Whitestone Bridge on his way home at 3:51 a.m. on Aug. 29. He was wearing a helmet.
Police checked highways, hospitals and airports, and Tessa Moore and other relatives scoured the area for weeks, even offering a $25,000 reward.
But Tessa Moore thinks more could have been done.
"I'm very, very angry," she said. "If he was Donald Trump, they would have found him. He's only a poor black man who comes home from work like every single human being."
Michael Moore, assigned to the Manhattanville depot, drove the M5 and earned several commendations for outstanding service during his 11-year career, Transit Authority spokesman Charles Seaton said.
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Comments
*rolls eyes*
I'm misleading people!
Wouldn't be a big loss though.
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<span style='color:gray'><b>S</b></span>he just had to play that card?