Mystery Meat Regularly Turning Up in Park; No One Knows Why
Photograph from MetroWest Daily News
An unidentified meat lover in Framingham, Massachusetts, has been regularly leaving butcher-quality cuts of raw meat under a tree in the Town Centre Common since October. While dogs may be excited, people are just confused. After testing the meat, police and town officials have yet to determine its origins, but concluded that the meat doesn't seem to be tainted.
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21 Comments:
Sounds offally suspicious!!!
PerkyMac at 8:49PM on 11/22/08
Maybe this person is hoping the decomposition of these cuts will help encourage truffle-growth underneath?
"A Truffle Grows in Framinham"? Has a nice ring to it.
Sigma_Greg at 9:08PM on 11/22/08
Wasting meat is a crime arrest them.
JerzeeTomato at 9:14PM on 11/22/08
LOL Perky!!
buffy at 1:02AM on 11/23/08
I work in Framingham and a few months ago someone left what appeared to be a beef shoulder in a bag by the back door. It was huge and it actually looked OK. We tossed it in the dumpster and didn't think much of it but now I wonder if it was connected?
martij at 1:53AM on 11/23/08
I seriously hope they are testing this to verify just what kind of meat this is. It's too creepy.
Mares at 2:04AM on 11/23/08
Reminds me a bit of the Stinky Meat Project from the 90s. Guy leaves assorted meat out in a public park for a couple of weeks and photographs the slow decomposition.
Warning: the photos on that site can be a little unsettling for the weak of stomach.
Benitowine at 2:25AM on 11/23/08
That seems pretty unsanitary..
jangkaeng at 3:21AM on 11/23/08
Are the police maybe barking up the wrong tree? I'll go out on a limb and guess that maybe someone's just trying to naturally age their meats. Of course, that may not really be the root of the issue.
I know, PM, I should just leave ... ;-)
LunaPierCook at 9:39AM on 11/23/08
I hope "Law and Order" gets ahold of this. The possibilities are endless.
annien at 10:49AM on 11/23/08
Looks kinda like a heart and liver there. Maybe someone trying to communicate how much we waste by not eating whole beef, pork, etc.?
OliverRanch at 11:39AM on 11/23/08
@LPC ~ Acorn ee and clever reply. Had me laughing, so NO, don't ever leave!!! Is leave the past tense of leaf? I love your puns. (wow that was close, had typed buns - what a typo!)
PerkyMac at 11:55AM on 11/23/08
Maybe someone is sending a message to "meat" under the tree? Get it? MEET?!
*cough*
IbisFlight at 12:30PM on 11/23/08
@PM, remember this? "McFly ... make like a tree ... and get the Hell outta here." ;-)
@IbisFlight sure ... "Meat under the tree ... I'll give you my heart and we'll live happily liver after."
LunaPierCook at 12:56PM on 11/23/08
On an episode of "animal cops" on the animal planet, there was one case in Texas where some people were illegally butchering horses and leaving the carcass by the side of the road. Although this looks less sinister, but you never know.
lunaire at 2:06PM on 11/23/08
Squirrels on steroids?
ReneeRobinson at 3:03PM on 11/23/08
@McFly ~ can you believe Marty got the girl?
&......happily Liver after. :oP
I know I'm easy (said the girl to the sailor), but you make me laugh.
PerkyMac at 4:54PM on 11/23/08
Perky has been watching tv all day like me.
JerzeeTomato at 6:56PM on 11/23/08
The other day, we saw what looked like an uncooked roast, plus a couple steaks, in a bag inside the bus shelter. But it looked like some dogs got there first - it was all messy and chewed up.
Needless to say, we waited for the bus outside the shelter. But anyway, is this some kind of international trend??
piccola at 8:38PM on 11/23/08
I wonder if this is related to the piano in the woods ... which, coincidentally, was also in Massachussetts.
LunaPierCook at 4:14AM on 11/24/08
This happened at my office a few years ago. Someone kept leaving different types of meat on a grassy hill on our property. One day it would be beef, then some pork, and sometimes chicken. This start happening soon after a new BBQ restaurant opened a block away so we called the city and they sent someone from Animal Control to speak to the manager at the restaurant. I guess he denied that it was them, but the meat offerings stopped after that. Weird!
GoldenEel at 11:36AM on 11/24/08