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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.

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14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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?

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- JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  well yeah
  
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hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I was gonna say this was some high-quality bullshit but after this year I just assume RFK Jr. was involved somehow.

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loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
…And then the gorilla’s hand held up one more finger.

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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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’]
  
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