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I mean, if an elephant dies what do they do with the body?

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 19 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

There's an urban legend in New York City.

One day, a patrol car in the Bronx finds a headless body laying in the street. The victim's hands, feet, and skin was removed. There's a massive response to find the deranged killer. Everything gets called off in a few hours, after the coroner realizes that it's the body of a gorilla.

There was a hot dog factory in the area.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

I was gonna say this was some high-quality bullshit but after this year I just assume RFK Jr. was involved somehow.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So what was the pretended point of the story? They were transporting the skinned gorilla body to be used in the hot dog factory and it fell of the truck or what?

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago
[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

For a similar story, which isn't a urban legend. My mother used to be the main resource for an archeological information center in the US Southwest. When work crews dug up a body, she'd get a call from the coroner to ask, "is it yours or mine?" While both are going to want to know the cause of death, the coroner isn't going to open a criminal case for a Native America burial.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds like the start of a Tony Hillerman [author] Joe Leaphorn mystery. Someone finds a body that looks like it's a Native American ritual burial, but it's not...

[see TV show 'Dark Winds']

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 hours ago

...And then the gorilla's hand held up one more finger.