"B.B.Q." Spells "Doom"

There's no two ways about it-barbecuing is bad for your health. Not eating it so much, but attending them. Proof of this came in the early hours of July 10, when peaceful barbecues all over the city erupted into violence.

Mayhem visited a block party in Jamaica around 2 a.m. when a guy with a gun showed up and shot 31-year-old Kirk Neufville in the chest, killing him. The hundred or more people who'd been enjoying themselves up to that point all decided it was a good time to call it a night. In the panicked mad dash for safety that ensued, a 38-year-old mother of two who'd been attending the after-hours shindig was also shot in the leg, but should be fine.

Half an hour later, 250 people-including lots of little kids-at a backyard barbecue in South Jamaica celebrating a recent graduation decided to go home after someone shot 20-year-old Aaron Holloway in the head three times. Once again a stray bullet also wounded a scampering partygoer.

Then, half an hour after that, a 17-year-old was shot and killed from a passing car when he stepped away from a party in East New York. There have been no arrests yet.

This barbecue-related carnage is terrible, yes, but all we can say is, if our neighbors had hundreds of people partying in their backyard at 3 a.m., we might be tempted to shoot them, too.

Area barbecue horror didn't stop there. When 47-year-old truck driver Bass Rivera returned to his Midwood, Brooklyn, home for the first time since July 4, he naturally wanted to unwind. And what better way to do that than to have some friends over and fire up the ol' grill in the backyard?

But when he went out back Monday afternoon to pick up a bit before they arrived, he found more than stray trash and a garden hose that needed to be coiled up. There was that half-naked, decomposing corpse to deal with, too.

Nobody was exactly sure how long it'd been there, let alone how it got there, but cops are investigating. Initial reports that it was Rivera's sister were apparently dismissed, as the woman was identified only as having lived on 15th St.

Brooklyn wasn't the only place to find unexpected corpses last week. At 10:30 Tuesday morning, a parishioner at Harlem's Mount Olive Church excused herself and went downstairs to the ladies room. There, she was more than a little surprised to find the body of a nude woman hanging from the ceiling by one leg.

It's thought that the woman-who wasn't a congregant-had been trying to sneak into the church through a basement window when she snagged her leg on a pipe, but who knows? It's unclear how long she'd been hanging there, her exact cause of death, why she was naked, or whether or not a barbecue was involved in some way.