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Nineteen posts and nobody’s mentioned the illegality of travelling ANYWHERE with a severed human head unless you’re a medical examiner??
I’d call bullshit on this story on that count alone.
Please. :rolleyes:
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What do you mean? That’s exactly why the article says he was arrested. So I don’t see your point.
Cartooniverse - Here’s another link to the story.
Frequently, things are not what they seem. Look at this picture (may be upsetting, so I have broken the link):
http://peninsulaclarion.com/images/052606/11927_512.jpg
For the less sensational explanation, read the whole story:
http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/052606/news_0526new002.shtml
[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
peninsulaclarion.com/stories/052606/news_0526new002.shtml
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Takes me to a signup page for the newspaper.
[QUOTE=Rigamarole]
What do you mean? That’s exactly why the article says he was arrested. So I don’t see your point.
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The cops got duped too… ? It can happen, in the heat of the moment. If the piece is a prop, it’s not illegal to transport.
Uncommon Sense is right. The thing is a fake. Human blood dries to the same color tone. Would it dry faster thinly spread on the face, opposed to an area saturated like the torn-apart neck area? Sure. But c’mon, this “head” has been in a guy’s BAG?
It’s a latex prop. People see what they want to see.
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
The cops got duped too… ? It can happen, in the heat of the moment. If the piece is a prop, it’s not illegal to transport.
Uncommon Sense is right. The thing is a fake. Human blood dries to the same color tone. Would it dry faster thinly spread on the face, opposed to an area saturated like the torn-apart neck area? Sure. But c’mon, this “head” has been in a guy’s BAG?
It’s a latex prop. People see what they want to see.
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I got the feeling that the picture used the the news story was the fake, as opposed to the actual head from the story.
The news needed a graphic, so they staged it.
It that right?
Yeah, the story is real, the picture is of a fake.
[QUOTE=Sage Rat]
Takes me to a signup page for the newspaper.
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If you just cut and paste this;
**http://peninsulaclarion.com/images/052606/11927_512.jpg
**
it’ll take you to the photo.
And to all; yes the photo is a fake photo used to illustrate a real story. The guy was carrying a real head. The photo in my link was of a fake head that someone at MOPO.CA used for their story.
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
Uncommon Sense is right. The thing is a fake. Human blood dries to the same color tone. Would it dry faster thinly spread on the face, opposed to an area saturated like the torn-apart neck area? Sure. But c’mon, this “head” has been in a guy’s BAG?
It’s a latex prop. People see what they want to see.
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Someone a few posts up linked to the exact head for sale on a website.
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
Someone a few posts up linked to the exact head for sale on a website.
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The exact photo even.
Looking at the rest of the stories on that site, they frequently have an entry that mentions an article, then a photo which is tangentially related to the article while not actually claiming to be a photo from the story itself. It seems like this is the case with this story. They wanted a graphic for their “guy caught with severed head” story, so they googled up a graphic of a severed head, not caring if it is real or fake. It’s just for effect. We have no reason to believe that the guy who was arrested didn’t have a real severed head, nor any reason to believe that the linked web site is claiming to have an actual picture of the head found in the luggage.
Here [NSFW]is a perfect example. It’s a story about an officer strip-searching a prostitute, and the accompanying photo is of a group of naked women lined up against a wall as if they’re going to be frisked. It obviously has nothing to do with the story.
The exact photo, you say?
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
The exact photo, you say?
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The exact photo. Follow my link above. It’s the third image down.
That’s as maybe. But I recently picked up a photography book called Anonymous and was confronted with 2 shots of a grisly car accident on a rural road sometime in the 1930s. The car was totaled and lying on its right side, the driver crumpled beside it – his head lopped off by some unknown force – and rather neatly, I must say.
Stranger yet, said head was some 20 feet in front of the car –resting neatly upright in the road. A medium closeup of just the head was also taken: it looked as if the poor bastard had simply been buried up to his neck in the dirt.
