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Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?
- sunyata 12y agoCould it just be that there is a Halal butcher in the area who doesn't want to pay disposal costs for older goats whose heads are not as prized as the young ones for culinary usage?
- zhemao 12y agoIt takes some effort to hang goat heads from a telephone pole. You wouldn't do that if all you wanted to do was throw them away.
- deckar01 12y agoThis should be the plot for the next season of "True Detective" starring Danny DeVito as Marcos Quinones.
- jksmith 12y agoNah, too mild for True Detective - maybe severed babies' heads, or dead babies wearing severed goats' heads. This would be more of an x-file, IMO. And wherever you could place DeVito would be entertaining.
- bobthenameless 12y agohail satan
- dhimes 12y agoI gather that the username 'Lucifer' was taken?
- jimktrains2 12y agoMaybe it's a Twin Peaks reference?
- lotsofmangos 12y agosnow buddha
- nickhalfasleep 12y agoThis is Brooklyn we're talking about. It's Hail Seitan!
- cbd1984 12y ago> Hail Seitan Well, if you're gluten intolerant, they both cause trouble down below.
- IvyMike 12y agoA friend I knew pledged an MIT frat in the 80's. The upperclassmen realized that you could get goat heads for like 50 cents a pound at one of the local stores. For one of their hazing pranks, they gave each pledge a goat head and instructions to hide the goat head on campus, which whichever head was hidden the "best" would get a prize. The resulting kerfuffle and news articles on the incident (including allegations of satanism on the MIT campus) is definitely something that frat will be proud of forever.
- patrickmay 12y ago"Fraternity", please. You wouldn't call a sorority a "sore", would you? You wouldn't call your country a . . . yeah, I'll drop it there.
- civilian 12y agoI would absolutely call my country a cunt.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI am not sure that the frat system is really in a position at the moment to demand respectable nomenclature from others.
- kazazes 12y agoUnlike the other two, "frat" has no alternative denotation and is a common alternative to fraternity. By your logic we wouldn't be using "app" or "admin" or "limo" or "memo."
- therobot24 12y agoi notice a lot of fraternity members make the "you wouldn't call your country a ...", guess it's just the common chant (amongst others), though i don't understand why they consider 'frat' a derogatory statement
- pyromine 12y agoEven as a member of a fraternity, let's be honest calling it a frat is completely acceptable considering it's pretty colloquial.
- partisan 12y agoI for one welcome our new satanic overlords. In all jest, it is probably someone trying to scare people out of a gentrifying neighborhood. That's as malicious as I can imagine it being.
- exar0815 12y agoWell maybe they are just fans of a certain Football(as in "Soccer") club. Here in Germany, they often lay goat heads infront of the stadium of their rivals before matches, cause the rival's mascot is a goat, and they even have a living goat in their ttadium.
- systemtheory 12y agoIf this was happening in Manhattan I don't think anyone would think twice about it. What a wonderfully crazy city.
- Semiapies 12y agoJust as a side note, I like reading a report about something where it's clear the author did their homework and pounded the pavement.
- CPLX 12y agoHow unoriginal. I was in Brooklyn long before the goat heads showed up, and I can tell you the whole "ritual sacrifice" thing has been kind of done for a while now. I hear all the real cutting edge indie mutilations are in Ridgewood, Queens anyways.
- T_Rex 12y agoIt's Ridgewick, not Ridgewood, and it's Quooklyn, not Queens.
- crmd 12y agoMy neighbor's dog found a cow tongue full of nails hammered through in prospect park. I saw the pic this morning, it was pretty gross.
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- curiously 12y agoso with all the surveillance in the city they don't know who's been putting these things up?
- omilu 12y agoWhen I was a teenager I was trying to impress some girls so I showed them the head of this goat I had shot hunting, it had an impressive rack. I was storing it in the fridge wrapped up in a trash bag because I wanted to show it to my dad who was away on a trip. Anyway they were kind of impressed cause they never saw that kind of thing before being sheltered city girls. Then I had the inspiration to take the goat head and sneak into the public pool and leave it in the life guard tower, the girls were super excited like it was the funnest thing they ever did. It was a great night. Don't know what ever happened with the lifeguard that found it. The whole thing didn't have anything to do with satanism or ill will, just a teenager trying to impress some girls and it worked.
- Tunecrew 12y agoWhen I lived in Miami in the late 80s/early 90s there was a story about how the main courthouse in Dade County had to clean up various parts of chickens, goats, etc. most mornings from around the property. Allegedly, these were sacrifices from practitioners of various Afro-Caribbean religions (just like the article says) seeking to influence ongoing court cases. It sounds a bit crazy, but at that time there were fairly frequent stories in the news about Santeria, etc. followers being arrested for sacrificing goats in their backyard and so on. I stepped into an elevator in an office building once and there was a (live) rooster in it...