• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/jawless-skull-and-guns-fished-from-bayou-st-john-new-orleans-police-report-says/article_2cb32d00-1d3a-11ef-a810-5b19684c4ab4.html

    Bayou Bougaloo crowds reveled and splashed in the waterway at the music festival a couple miles south as the fisherman dangled a magnet the size of a hockey puck from a red rope off the Bayou St. John bridge.

    He pulled a gun barrel from the bridge’s south side near its center, police said. He also retrieved a handgun on the bridge’s northeast side, near the water’s edge.

    Then came a 15-pound dumbbell, tied to a shirt or cloth, which was padlocked around a human skull, police said. That skull was “fully decomposed, lacking a jaw or the top row of teeth,” New Orleans police said.

    The NOPD did not immediately respond to questions regarding investigations of any decapitated crime victims.

    On the whole, New York sounds like a better place to be magnet fishing than New Orleans.

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      4 months ago

      At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

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    4 months ago

    These kinds of articles make sure that the sides of the canals where I used to live, will never be rust free.

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      You call no one. You buy a safe of your own. You start buying your groceries in two transactions, one with your card like always, the other in cash. Every other time you fill your gas tank you use a little of the cash. Clothes are all cash till that safe is empty. Buy all your gifts from the farmer’s markets or other “street walk” events. Who cares if it’s more than you normally spend, the point is that officially, you bought no gifts. Cash anytime you go out to eat.

      Get what you can from Facebook marketplace or Craigslist, but never anything that would mean title or registration. Those all need to come with deductions from bank accounts you can point to. The point is that by “cutting” a bunch of explainable expenses, you can eventually save up for the big spend item and buy that officially.