Suspicious Package on Decatur Square Turns Out to Be Cow’s Tongue
Decatur Metro | October 27, 2011UPDATE: Here’s the AJC article on the tongue.
So, I’ve received a couple of inquiries about a lot of police activity around Decatur Square this afternoon. Apparently there was even a rumor that police found an “arm” or something?
Decatur Police Chief Booker tells DM that police responded to reports of a “suspicious package” on the northeast corner of Decatur Square “near a large tree”, but it turned out the package contained “wrapped up and discarded…beef tongue”.
So there you go. Everyone can stop panicking now. No arm or other human appendage was found.
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It’s 76 degrees out, so a wrapped up, discarded beef tongue should probably be handled as a bio assault on the City. Three days of being out there and we would have had a real situation.
I like Deputy Chief Lee’s qoute in the ajc “All is well, except for the poor cow who lost his tongue.”
Ahahaha. Thanks for clearing the air on that one. I think folks have a case of Halloween fever!
“What’s the matter? SWAT got your tongue?”
I was in the court house when Leslie of the History Center came back from Starbucks and mentioned the strange item under the tree. I checked it out. The weird thing about it was it was completely wrapped in silver duct tape. It was obviously something organic because it was swarming with flies and ants. I poked it with a stick and thought that perhaps it felt something like a beef tenderloin. I suggested to the DHC staff that they call the police in any case. The rest is history.
Ah, YOU!
Aw, the train leaves at seven, all go to heaven
Nothin here to make me stay
Cause that las vegas glitter sure beats kitty litter
Countin the cows every day…
Yep, 20 cows, 19 tongues. Sorry y’alll!
I wondered where I left that.
I get it…Ellen James. Pretty funny. It was all that when it came out, but I don’t think I could read it again…
+1
I couldn’t read it again, but I could watch the movie. What a great cast that was.
Whoops…need to change my name back.
Jeeez…and then spell it correctly.
Anybody remember that great Atlanta/Decatur band “Ellen James Society”?
huh uh, ut I et ey ouunt ing airy ell.
I saw the EJS do a New Year’s Eve show at the Variety with Uncle Green opening. Amy Ray sat in with the EJS.
Don’t knock Irving. The book’s better than movie.
Loved them both, but don’t have the time for a second reading.
yall have great memories. The World According to Garp come out in 1978! Took me more than a few minutes to remember the Ellen James Society.Best part of the movie was John Lithgow (as a woman) saying he played tight end for the Eagles.
Ellen James? I was going to go with “Andreas”:
http://news.sky.com/home/article/12802237
Where’s the beef?
McDonald’s left that out there, they were letting it “season” under the hot sun before grinding it up for some McRibs.
Eight comments before the McRib reference? I’m disappointed in you folks…
+1
Excuse me, but that was actually tongue of dog…
If the PD would kindly return this to where they found it, my sister in law needs it for her cauldron this weekend.
…double double toil and trouble
Now the cat’s out of the bag about the new McTongue sandwich…
HA! Cat got your tongue??
I always wrap my exploding tongue in duct tape.
With apologies to Dave Barry, Exploding Tongue is a great name for a rock band!
A warning from Decatur’s chicken population to those Chick-fil-a cows, perhaps?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20533263/detail.html
Voodoo?
Eat more chicken!
thug life in the D: when free range goes wrong
So out of the 1,424,145 “suspicious packages” that we deal with every year around Atlanta, what percentage actually turn out to be dangerous?
Decatur cow owner looking for tongue on Craigslist…
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/laf/2672004328.html
This only proves that there are people out there in need of a life more urgently than me!