Posted Aug 17, 2010, 10:52 PM
|
 |
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,979
|
|
|
Package with cow tongue puts kink in morning trains
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...ng-863161.html
Quote:
MetroRail service was disrupted Monday morning after a package containing a cow tongue embedded with nails, a note and a photograph was found between the tracks in East Austin.
Just after 7 a.m., a passerby noticed the package, wrapped in white butcher paper with red tape on it, sitting on the railroad ties between the rails about 100 feet west of Fifth and Chicon streets, Capital Metro spokesman Adam Shaivitz said. As a precaution, Capital Metro truncated the runs of the several remaining morning southbound trains so that they would not pass the spot where the parcel was found and canceled the one remaining northbound train from the downtown station...
A beef tongue about a foot long was wrapped in the paper, and the meat was studded with nails. There was also a glass jar nearby with an unidentified liquid in it, Jones said. The butcher paper had a message on the inside that included a series of names and a series of unpunctuated words: "Against us stop now close the mouth."
...Public incidents elsewhere involving displays of beef tongues, sometimes with nails or photos, have been linked with Santería , a religion that combines aspects of Christianity with traditional West African beliefs.
Miguel De La Torre, author of the book "Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America," cautioned that whoever put together the package might not be a practitioner of Santería. But if so, De La Torre said, the meat could be an offering to Ogun, a god of war but also of metal who believers say often resides on railroad tracks...
|
|
Linear Mode
