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- From: bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: body in college rug
- Keywords: legend
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.182826.2278@panix.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:28:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.213544.5321@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Dec26.213544.5321@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- >One of the FAQ stories involves some people picking up a rug from the
- >garbage, bringing it home, and finding a body in it.
- >
- >I hate to use the phrase, but this one ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Yes, and I was
- >(almost) there.
- I was there. I did not see the body, but I did see the rug,
- newspaper reports, cops, rug-carrying-students, etc.
- >
- >In 1985 give or take a year, some college students from Carman Hall,
- 1983. Late Sept. or early Oct.
- >Columbia College (NYC) pulled a rug out of a dumpster (quick side
- >question: is dumpster a trademerk?) and brought it upstarirs. Yep, there
- >was a body in it.
- >
- Low-level mobster, killed elsewhere, dumped in Manhattan.
- >Made quite a hit in the news at teh time, too.
- >
- >I was assigned to a different Emergency medical Service unit at the time,
- >so didn't go on the call, but I certainly remember it going out, and we
- >all kidded the crew who had the removal detail...
- >
- >danny
- >
- ><dannyb@panix.com> <dburstein@mcimail.com>
- >
- >
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