“Police describe two suspects including one white male, 6’2” to 6’3" tall, lanky build, short blond hair parted down the middle, with slight pock marks on his face. The second suspect is described as a 6’ tall white male, about 200 lbs., with a shaved head and possible cauliflower ear and possible Philadelphia accent, police said. He was seen wearing a dark shirt with a light colored stripe across the chest, police said."
What is a cauliflower ear?
A cauliflower ear is what wrestlers get–serious wrestlers, not WWF. It comes from all that clinching, side of head pressed against side of head, which rubs and irritates and eventually “rearranges” the cartilage so the ear looks, well, like cauliflower. Wrestlers now wear helmets to prevent this.
I’ll go see if I can find a picture, if you want. 
“Cauliflower ear” refers to an ear which is swollen and/or deformed as a result of an injury.
From this site: http://www.ccent.com/ENT/caul.html
It is also common among boxers (the human kind, not dogs).
My cousin has some bashed in ears, he playes rugby.
When I used to play I used to tape mine back with insulation tape around my head, stopped them getting ripped off aswell.
Here’s another pic of cauliflower ear. It is accompanied by some other photos which were pretty nasty, don’t look if you are squeamish.
yuck.
Although upon further browsing, I now see that helmets don’t necessarily prevent it, so I’m glad I was here, because Bonzo started wrestling this year as a freshman, and now I have something new to worry about. I’m so glad!
Evidently a Greco-Roman wrestler named Randy Couture has one, but I’m having trouble finding a pic that shows his ear really well. Cornflakes, is that Randy Couture in your link?
Cauliflower was a euphemism for the vagina in the late 18th and 19th century.
Francis Grose, author of A Classical Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue (1785) reports that:
‘A woman, who was giving evidence in a case wherein it was necessary to express those parts, made use of the term cauliflower, for which the judge on the bench, a peevish old fellow, reproved her, saying she might as well call it an artichoke. Not so, my lord, replied she, for an artichoke has a bottom, but a **** and a cauliflower have none’.
A nice example of 18th century wit there.
You’re not saying that the suspect in the police report had a vagina-shaped ear, are you?
Insert obligatory “aural sex” joke here.
Hee hee hee hee…
Now with a vagina shaped ear I’m not sure he would be able to hide from the cops for long… everyone would know who this guy was
I think that cauliflower as a slang term for the vagina sadly fell into disuse at the end of the 19th century.
At that time it became known as a cabbage.
I know this is nothing to do with ears or cauliflowers but other terms for the vagina over the years have been *green meadow, greengrocery, groceries, mushroom, nettle bed, parsley bed, *and sweet potato pie.
The most recent plant euphemism I have is lettuce from the 1990’s, as in shaking the lettuce for urination.
Interestingly, it is a rule in American high school style wrestling that you must wear a headgear. In international style (Greco-Roman and freestyle) the only people who wear them are Americans, because we are so concerned about looks in our society. I never wore one when I wrestled Greco. It left me with a tiny bit of cauliflower, but not much. In most other countries, wrestlers with cauliflower ear is considered a badge of honor. I play rugby now, and if you don’t wear tape to keep your ears down, they HURT after the match. I think rugby players have more of a problem than wrestlers sometimes, because the tape doesn’t always stay on the whole 80 minutes.
I’ll confess that I don’t know Randy Couture from Adam, but yes it is, apparently:
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