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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:55 AM Apr 2013

Goat's Head Delivered to Wrigley Field

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."

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http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/goats-head-delivered-wrigley-field-18928527#.UXPIR0qsp7k

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Goat's Head Delivered to Wrigley Field (Original Post) cali Apr 2013 OP
. Motown_Johnny Apr 2013 #1
Poor goat...n/t orwell Apr 2013 #2
Goat BBQ Can Be Quite Tasty - Goat probably got slaughtered for food & head was leftover dballance Apr 2013 #3
Curry goat and rice.. HipChick Apr 2013 #4
Wow, an odd coincidence... DreamGypsy Apr 2013 #5
For the record, this was on April 10th so at least it wasn't yet another event from this crazy week. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2013 #6
Whats in the box. What's in the box. What's in baaaaaawks. What's in the baaawwwwwkkkkss.... TheManInTheMac Apr 2013 #7
 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
3. Goat BBQ Can Be Quite Tasty - Goat probably got slaughtered for food & head was leftover
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:35 AM
Apr 2013

I'd imagine the perpetrator didn't have to go find a goat to get the head. Probably could have gotten one from a slaughter house or farm. That's where I'd start looking if I were the police. Find out if anybody had been to local farms outside the city and bought just a head.

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
5. Wow, an odd coincidence...
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 11:30 AM
Apr 2013

...last evening during dinner I listened to my CD of Chuck Brodsky's album Tulips For Lunch for the first time in quite a while.



And what is the first song on that album??

The Curse of the Billy Goat

"Billy Goat" Bill Sianis
Had box seats to game four
Of the '45 World Series
Cubs versus Detroit
One seat he would sit in
The other was for his kid
A goat by the name of Murphy
Who the Cubs had always admitted

That day an usher wouldn't let them
To their box at Wrigley Field
So directly to the owner
PK Wrigley he appealed
The answer came from Wrigley
It was final and succinct
He said there'd been a few complaints
Some people didn't like the stink

Sianis, he was livid
His face was turning blue
He went out past the turnstiles
Onto Waveland Avenue
The vendors on the sidewalk
Say he raised his arms up first
And with his hands above his head
They say he placed The Curse

Just then a cloud passed over
From the lake a chilly wind
Anybody within earshot
Woulda had goosebumps on their skin
The skeptics say baloney
The poets make up verse
60 some years later
They still blame it on the curse

Those two box seats bore witness
As the Tigers took the game
Like they would games five & seven
The Cubbies came up lame
Ol' Billy Goat Sianis
Got the last word, Holy Cow
He telegrammed Mr. Wrigley
Asked him “Who smells now?”

It stared at Leo Durocher
Stared right at his lip
And Leo stood there staring back
With his hands upon his hips
On the top step of the dugout
A cat the color of a hearse
They blew a nine game lead in '69
People say it was The Curse

They were playing for the pennant
In 1984
Against the San Diego Padres
They only had to win one more
To advance to the World Series
But they slipped into reverse
And when Durham flubbed a grounder
People blamed it on the curse

Most recently, 2003
And just five outs away
When a Cubs fan tried to catch a foul
While the ball was still in play
The lockers had been plasticised
But the bubble had just burst
The Marlins drank the champagne
People blamed it on The Curse

Just ask someone in Boston
How long it took to break
The Curse of the Bambino
With its annual heartache
And every time it happens
It just feels that much worse
They say there's always next year
And that might be the curse


From the album: Tulips For Lunch
written and copyrighted by Chuck Brodsky (BMI)


I couldn't find a video, but on the Music Page at Chuck's website, if you click on the album title Tulips for Lunch, it will take you to an audio player for the whole album...and the Curse is the first song.


(Hi, Cali. Didn't expect another reply to you so soon. Hope you enjoy this song. Chuck is also a great quirky songwriter (like Bill Morrissey, but different). If you listen to the song on the audio player, the two songs that follow are great examples of Chuck's work as well.
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