And yes, it’s once again time to post stories that make you scratch your head and say “Just what the hell is wrong with people?!”

Cops: Woman, son went out for pizza after letting relative die

A woman and her son are accused of refusing to help their 70-year-old relative after she fell on the floor, and police say the pair went out for pizza when she died two days later instead of calling authorities.

Mary Coleman died in May of 2009, but charges were not filed in the case until Tuesday. Coleman’s 71-year-old sister, Veronica King of Madison, Wis. and her 45-year-old nephew, Steven King, are charged with first-degree reckless homicide and hiding a corpse.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Steven and Veronica King told police Coleman fell in a bedroom on May 7, then lay there, talking now and then, until her death.

“I told her quite frankly to shut up because that old woman in the backyard” would call the police, Steven King told police, according to a criminal complaint.

After Coleman died, King and her son didn’t call to have her body removed “because we had other things to do that day,” the complaint states. [emphasis mine]

The two kept the death a secret, hiding her body in the basement and then the garage until Madison police found her mummified remains more than three months later, according to the complaint.

In the meantime, Veronica King withdrew cash and wrote checks from Coleman’s bank account, where Coleman’s pension and Social Security payments were automatically deposited, authorities said.