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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoat's head delivered to Wrigley Field in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Cubs found a severed goat's head at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, and they're treating the cruel reference to a longtime curse as a crime.
Chicago police were called in to investigate after a man stopped the white van he was driving, walked a box to a security entrance on Waveland Avenue and wordlessly put it down, Cubs spokesman Julian Green said.
Security workers opened the box, addressed to team owner Tom Ricketts, and discovered the severed head. The team immediately called police.
Green said Thursday that police were given surveillance video, and that he doesn't know why someone would deliver a goat's head. Police did not comment on who might have left the goat head or a possible motive - other than to refer to the head in a brief statement as an ''intimidating package.'' .......................(more)
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Goat's head delivered to Wrigley Field in Chicago (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2013
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Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)1. A waste of a good cabrito head
Intimidating? I'd call it mouth watering.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)2. I thought there would be no sports threads in GD...
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)3. Someone is just a little to obsessed with their team........
~facepalm~
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. curses!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)5. Poor goat.
Fuck Ricketts.
GO CUBBIES!!!