So, I looked out the window just now, and there's this thing threaded onto my radio antenna. It has fur, and looks like meat showing on the end. I am soooo glad the car is locked. I guess I'm gonna have to get dressed and take a plastic bag out there to get it off my car. It's about the size of a groundhog head. Ew! It might BE a groundhog head. This is so gross. And it makes me feel weird. Why would anyone put a dead groundhog head on my car?
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I dunno . . . why would anyone name themselves after a deceased equine?
(sorry, couldn't resist flippant response. You may feel free to harrass me the next time a tree upends itself on my car. And I'd be extremely freaked out by the idea of anyone doing something that disgusting to my car, how horrible.)
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
I inherited this name from Belle during the time when new members were prohibited and the board members charitably gave up their aliases to desperate people who had forgotten their passwords and to sponsor new members.
Did I miss harrassing you the last time a tree upended on your car? I'm sorry...
And...IT'S STILL there!!!! Eeewww!!!!
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Okay, I have about convinced myself that I must take a ziploc bag out and use it as a glove to get the head off my car. But then what do I do with it? Trash day isn't until Wednesday.
I'm also sort of scared to look on the other side of the car...what if the rest of the poor groundhog is there?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
If you've got a large enough ziplock, turn it inside out, and use it as a glove like you were thinking. While holding the dead thing, use your other hand to turn the bag rightside out around the critter. zip it up. If any gore got on the outside bag, drop it in a second bag and zip it up. Then take it to the nearest dumpster and drop it in.
The strangest dead animal leaving that I've personally experienced happened when I was working in fast food. We were closed, and a vehicle pulled up at the drive through. I went out the back door to tell them that we were closed, and got there just in time to see a pickup pulling off, with the driver kind of hanging out the window and grinning hugely at me. I turned to go back inside and saw that they'd draped a cow's leg over the drive through marquee. Very strange. It was half mummified, and covered with hay.
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Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Thats ... vaguely disturbing Noemon. And Dead_Horse. Is there any way you could bury the ... offending appendage?
My worst story (and this is pretty gross, so be warned) was when we had pigs. We were novice pig farmers at the time (heck, we still are novice pig farmers) but we let them get big. Huge really. And the pen we were keeping them in was inadequately enforced. So they would escape regularly and it was extremely hard to get them back in. But one day they escaped and I went outside to round them up and the male (we had a male and a female) was dragging something towards me. It was half of a rabbit. A live half of a rabbit. It still remains one of the saddest things I've ever seen, that rabbit struggling to get away without the back half of its body. I'll refrain from going into detail. I laid it on that pig so hard he never came anywhere near me again.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Thank you. Now I am grateful it's not a larger cut.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
And I'm pretty sure it's completely dead. Poor bunny. Poor groundhog.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Seriously, I'd call the police before removing anything. People who kill animals "as a joke" have a strong tendency to be real sickos in their behaviour toward humans.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I vote bury over the double-layer of plastic and dumpster routine. It's a sad day when we take the most biodegradable things on earth and hermetically seal them so they are preserved in landfills for a million years.
Of course, if you do the baggie thing, some archaeologist in 3000 C.E. will probably thank you someday. (Probably not personally, though.)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Calling the cops isn't a bad idea, although it's worth noting that we don't know if the person who did this killed the animal in question. It could easily be a piece of roadkill or something that some idiot decided to make use of.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Good point, Karl. It all depends on where Dead Horse is located and what kinds of tools she has available to her, though.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Oh, good. I did call the sheriff's office and ask them to log it but not file a report. Just in case. Because I work with our local women's shelter, and there could be some jerk that did this to me on purpose. I asked them not to put it on the police reports on the radio. If it was kids, they'd get a kick out of hearing that a woman reported a groundhog head on her car antenna.
My husband told me someone was going to start harrassing me and was probably out to get me and next they would burn down my house. I'm pretty sure he had nothing to do with it, that's just him thinking of what he would do if he was them. Him saying stuff like that is part of why we don't live together. I shouldn't have said anything to him, but he wanted me to come there and sew his long underwear shirt so he could wear it today. I'm not going anywhere until this thing is off my car. I don't think he's physically capable of bringing it to my house. His recent harrasment has consisted of padlocking the door to upstairs in our house so I can't have my personal belongings, and that's been for over a year.
I'm waiting until the neighbor wakes up then I will ask him to bury it. So we will only touch it with newspaper or paper towels or something.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Yeah. I once had a funeral for a deer gut some stupid hunter had left on my driveway. I have a shovel, but I'm not physically capable of digging much of a hole right now.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
See, there. That didn't take long. And I did it myself. It wasn't a groundhog head, it was a deer ear. I hope that's what it was. It was deer season for teenagers here this weekend. It was the ear of something big anyway. So that's probably all it was. Stupid kids with guns and knives. Wonderful.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Personally, from your description of him, I'd tell him to sew his own damn shirt.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Amen, Karl.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Thank you, Karl and Uprooted. I'd like to. He can't sew. He's mostly blind. But I did tell him he'd have to wait until Thursday.
Just because he treats me badly is no reason for me to treat him badly.
Besides, he has my cat, too.
Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :
Take back the cat!
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
*sigh*
It's not that easy. I wish it was.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dead_Horse: I inherited this name from Belle during the time when new members were prohibited and the board members charitably gave up their aliases to desperate people who had forgotten their passwords and to sponsor new members.
Heh. I was one of those, and I believe Bob the Lawyer was too. Never found out who gave it, though.
--j_k, who isn't a trekkie
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Maybe it was William Shatner?
Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
"I inherited this name from Belle during the time when new members were prohibited and the board members charitably gave up their aliases to desperate people who had forgotten their passwords and to sponsor new members."
What, new members were banned? When? Why?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
There has been a temporary moratorium on new members joing for a time or two during spam floods.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
As in right now there's one?
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Nevermind. You mean in the past there has been. Sorry. Posted before my mind really got that...
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
No worries. I'm a bit unclear on my best days.
Posted by ladyday (Member # 1069) on :
Okay this thread clears up -so much- for me. I was totally confused as to why Belle was talking to herself and why PC didn't sound -anything- like PC. I thought it was some sort of inside joke.
Yeah I kind of feel like a ditz now Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Oh, dear. But I'll take it as a compliment that you still thought I was Belle.
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