speedsweep

Hello everyone! Yesterday was my very first time in DayZ, and I have a question. I read and watched many tutorials, videos, threads, etc. and I came across something very strange on my first play. So I spawned on the coast near to Kamyshovo I guess. I went into the direction of the town in order to try and find some equipment. After a while getting my hands on the controls and evading some zombies, I approached to coast where a big industrial warehouse is, and while walking near the shore, surprise: There was a guy prone in a ghillie suit with an AS50 and another very good weapon and quite some stuff. I was pretty scared he would shoot me but he didn't move at all. So I thought he might be dead and approached. I could open his inventory and take stuff inside and apparently his name was "Sniper" if it is the name you see in the inventory on the top left. Sometimes it looked like he stood up for a quarter second then went back prone. So I was wondering if it was a player, or if there can be some human npcs spawned by the server or if it was hacked stuff. Because I took the backpack and some things and I don't want to make something bad. Oh and to finish the story with of course some big dumb noobie stuff, I wanted to take of the weapon I took to put it in the backpack and take the other one in the hand, but I selected the weapon and clicked on drop and they disappeared!!! Is that a mistake by me or you just can't put stuff on the floor? Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers!

Ok perfect! I knew about the disappearing stuff issue, and as well about how to handle the backpack. The thing I did was clicking on the weapon I just grabbed from him and had in my main weapon slot and clicked on "drop". Then I took the other weapon in his backpack and did the same, but couldn't find them on the ground anymore. After that, I emptied his backpack, emptied mine, took his and put stuff back in. And obviously after seeing your answers he was dead, because I took the weapon from his hands, his backpack etc. Thanks a lot for all this useful information! Too bad the weapons dissapeared because it was hell of a lucky time to find this on my first hour of play. I found a hatchet afterwards so I am running with that for now :) Cheers folks!