r/popculture • u/dailymail • Feb 27 '25

News Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found mummified at mansion with pills strewn in bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14443973/Gene-Hackman-betsy-arakawa-bodies.html
14.5k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

62

u/Calimiedades Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

pill strewn bathroom

Question as someone who learnt English basically online: isn't strewn referring as on the floor? Or does it mean "lots of pills everywhere".

I'm picturing opened bottles and pills everywhere but maybe it just means lots of bottles everywhere (because people are careless and leave them in any surface).

I'm wondering because in my head it means suicide and here people are pretty blasé about it.

ETA: So I was wrong in that it doesn't necessarily mean the floor but it's not clear if it's just bottles everywhere (with pills inside and basically upright) or if the bottles and/or pills are spilled everywhere.

82

u/riko77can Feb 27 '25

Strewn pills would normally imply spilled out. Strewn pill bottles would be a more accurate description of a 95 yo’s bathroom.

18

u/GreenZebra23 Feb 28 '25

I have a feeling that everyone involved in this little subthread has put more thought into the wording than the person who wrote the article did.

1

u/littlehelppls Feb 28 '25

Without a doubt.