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| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/21/2008 2:05:34 PM | show profile I do have the cosmic "Sucker" sign on my forehead. Found it yesterday. It was wearing a collar. Looks like it was just shaved. Have posted on craigslist to try to find the owner, but just wondering what else I should be doing. Don't really want to involve the local police. They are very strict about turning in heads. On the other hand, if someone goes there looking for this head, I'd like them to be able to get my contact info. Ideas? Thanks! |
| chucho | Posted – 6/21/2008 3:06:56 PM | show profile Funny, because I know somebody who actually did find a head in a bloody backpack that he saw get tossed in a dumpster in an alley by a naked man. True story. Telling from his experience, the best thing to do is call the cops. They're actually not that strict about people reporting heads with missing bodies. In fact, I bet they encourage it. :) |
| writesonwater | Posted – 6/21/2008 5:28:02 PM | show profile Warning: graphic material Okay ... I pulled up in the grocery store parking lot, and there was a dog's head laying on the pavement. It looked alive, animated, eyes open, mouth open as if it was panting. It was as if it was just climbing out of a hole in the parking lot, there was no blood or wound visible. It was VERY disturbing. There had been stories of animal mutilations, and it freaked me out. A policeman was called and he said it is not unheard of for an animal's head to get caught in the grille when a car hits it, unbeknownst to the driver. That better not ever happen to me, is alls I'm sayin. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/21/2008 10:22:54 PM | show profile yikes. i'm sorry for this dumb parody. i didn't need to read real horror stories. my fault. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 6/22/2008 2:39:06 PM | show profile perhaps it belongs to the infamous headless body found in the topless bar... |
| beenthere | Posted – 6/22/2008 3:04:19 PM | show profile My uncle was the rookie cop at a bad car accident where one of the passengers had been decapitated. The veteran cops assigned him the task of finding the head in the weeds and bushes along the roadside. This was back in the early 1960s. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 6/22/2008 4:08:13 PM | show profile i want wedding cake. |
| chucho | Posted – 6/22/2008 4:44:02 PM | show profile The less than two weeks after the naked guy threw the head stuffed in a bloody backpack in a dumpster, a man who was intoxicated with his daughter in the back seat stopped at a railroad crossing to put a coin on the tracks (he was going to impress his girl) he underestimated the approaching train's distance, and when it whooshed by his head go caught between a ladder of the engine and lopped it off clean behind the ears, right in front of his daughter. It took about a quarter of a mile for the train to stop so the cops could pry the man's head from the side of the engine. My friend said he went by the crossing later in the day and saw residual human brains in the grass. True story. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 6/22/2008 5:33:13 PM | show profile | email poster Bleak, see what you started! You can hardly put a post like that up and not expect to get true stories ... Famous movies featuring decapitated heads: Sleepy Hollow Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| mad fingers | Posted – 6/22/2008 6:07:45 PM | show profile 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/22/2008 7:08:16 PM | show profile Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite movies even though it's flawed big time. I like the atmosphere...and growing up one of my favorite cartoons was Disney's short The Headless Horseman, which our grade school teachers would usually show us around Halloween. But real life stories I don't care for. It's best to live in a fictional world. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 6/22/2008 10:09:11 PM | show profile Crazy in Alabama - another head movie. |
| irishloop | Posted – 6/22/2008 11:07:07 PM | show profile Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- ultimate severed-head movie. Desplechin's La Sentinelle is another great one. Now can we decapitate this distressing thread? |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 6/22/2008 11:07:55 PM | show profile When I was in middle school I wrote a novel (for class) about a boyfriend who cut his girlfriend's head off, placed it on a mantle where it was devoured by maggots. Her ghost hunted him down and killed him by shooting flames at his body until he roasted to death. Oh, and I read from this story at my school's Author's Night. Gotta love the days before Child Protective Services got all up in your bidness ... |
| irishloop | Posted – 6/22/2008 11:39:18 PM | show profile Since the head got revenge and all, it sounds like a cool story. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 6/23/2008 1:37:15 AM | show profile Indeed, we should quit while we're ahead. Head it off at the pass. |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 6/23/2008 9:36:45 AM | show profile In medic school, we were taught what to do with a decapitated head. (Truth). 1. Have police photograph said head for evidence. 2. Preserving as much matter as possible, (veins, skin, brain tissue, bone, muscle), carefully place head in a sterile plastic bag and place on ice. 3. Place in a cooler for transport to the medical examiner's office or morgue. While I've never had to deal with a decapitated head, I had a landscaper who cut off his hand with a hedge clipper a month ago. I wrapped the severed hand in gauze, put it in a sterile bag on ice and placed a tourniquet on his stump. I then vomited and thought long and hard about why the hell I do this kind of shit. |
| mmc | Posted – 6/23/2008 10:24:43 AM | show profile This thread actually brought back a great memory... One of my favorite books when I was little was The Man Who Lost His Head. The poor guy's left his head behind somewhere, but he's worried he'll freak people out when he ventures out to look for it, so he tries out a series of prosthetic heads - a jack-o-lantern, and carved parsnip, a wooden head... It all turns out to have been a dream, of course, but good lord, I loved that book. The illustrations were fantastic. I just looked it up, and they were done by Robert McCloskey of Make Way for Ducklings fame. The book was written by Claire Huchet Bishop. In other body-parts news, how about all those severed feet washing up in Canada? Weird. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/23/2008 11:29:53 AM | show profile update The man whose head I found claimed it this morning. This is him: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2604464566_6ca067bcf5.jpg?v=0 |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 6/23/2008 12:13:00 PM | show profile mmc: I have that book!! I just bought it at a Salvation Army - it's a 1970 2nd printing. I thought it was so cool and disturbing - though I don't think my 4-yr-old is ready for it. And Janet - you do it because you were probably really nice and you did a good job. If I hacked off any of my limbs, I'd want you there ... |
| mmc | Posted – 6/23/2008 12:53:33 PM | show profile HisGirlFriday - it's so nice to hear that somebody else has read it! That carved parsnip head always made me laugh my butt off. :-D |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 6/23/2008 1:03:35 PM | show profile Lived in Sleepy Hollow for 5 years (nice town, but I wouldn't lose my head over it...). What's pretty cool is that the location that Washington Irving based his story on (and he borrowed the tale from local legends of many years before) still exists relatively unchanged. It was farmland up until the early 1900s and then owned by the Rockefellers until the 1980s, when they donated about 1,000 acres of their land (they still have 3,000 more) to NY State for a park. The location of the tale has been considered haunted as far back as Indian times, and to this day there's a strange vibe to the place. As for the movie? I came away thinking Tim Burton got a volume discount on fake blood and bought it by the drum. Enjoyed Christopher Walken as Mr HH though, but he's fun in any role he plays. |
| wineaux | Posted – 6/23/2008 1:03:58 PM | show profile OMG...I LOVED that book as a kid! I wish I still had it. My boys would dig it. |
| linjohn | Posted – 6/23/2008 2:31:28 PM | show profile Bleak, that was one of my favorite books as a kid. I haven't thought of it in years! |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/23/2008 2:56:21 PM | show profile Barton Fink is a great movie where people lose their heads. I like this dialogue of the 2 detectives who question Fink about Mad Man Mundt: Detective Mastrionitti: His name's Mundt. Karl Mundt. Detective Deutsch: Also known as Madman Mundt. A little funny in the head. Detective Mastrionitti: He likes to ventilate people with a shotgun. Detective Deutsch: And cut their heads off. Detective Mastrionitti: Yeah, he's funny that way Detective Deutsch: Started in Kansas City. Couple of housewives. Detective Mastrionitti: We got the same M.O. in Los Feliz. Detective Deutsch: Doctor. Ear, nose, and throat man. Detective Mastrionitti: All of which is missing. Detective Deutsch: Well, some throat was there. Detective Mastrionitti: Physician, heal thyself. Detective Deutsch: Good luck with no fucking head. |
