Fact check: Grim Reaper, Los Angeles, 1994

A meme I saw today says:

I could not find any corroborating evidence. Did this really happen? I was living in L.A. at the time, and I don’t recall hearing anything about it.

That same blog said that, when a male bee climaxes, its testicles explode and it dies, so I have my doubts about the veracity of the claim. I searched, and I could find no other source other than that same blog, and the blog listed no source for its claim.

With my Newspapers.com account, I looked up the Los Angeles Times for 1994. Nothing that approaches that meme. I even looked up other California papers in the 1993-1995 timespan, and the only thing even close to that is a few high schools using a Grim Reaper to dramatize drinking and driving.

Don’t Fear the Reaper

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