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March 31, 2005
From the eww files
Ohio is great. Today I dropped my car off at Bob-Boyd Ford/Mazda to get my brakes checked. After I sat in the office for a few minutes, Stu the serviceman came back and said I needed to get something with the brakes fixed.
"Go for it," I said. He told me it would take two hours, so I walked over to the River Valley Mall, which is about a mile from Bob-Boyd.
The time at the mall was pretty nondescript. I went to The Gap, and decided on a new jacket that I think I might get. The walk there was something to behold, however.
About halfway through my walk, which took place along a four lane divided highway, as I was buzzed by pickup trucks and high schoolers in old Civics, I saw a big pile of bones along the road. They were dear bones, and as one would expect, there was no head. In Ohio, apparently it's acceptable practice to cut the heads off roadkills, mount them, and pretend like you shot the deer.
[A side note: I don't really approve of hunting for sport, but on the hierarchy of acquiring deer heads, hunting it definitely beats hitting it with your car.]
I was particularly amused by this because of that awesome story a few months back about the police officer in Des Plaines who took the head of a deer. At least nobody threw that deer at anyone, I think.
The one headless deer would have been strange enough. On the way back, though, I found *three* more deer skeletons without heads. What the shit? What kind of town is this?
Posted by oz115 at March 31, 2005 04:08 PM