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    Owner of severed bison’s head in Colorado forgot to tell roommates

    Photo of a bisonPhoto of a bison (Eric Kayne/AP/Houston Chronicle)Police in Boulder, Colo., have figured out why a severed bison head mysteriously turned up Sunday on a decorative rock in a local resident's front yard.

    The truth was more innocuous than a Western-themed ode to one of The Godfather's most disturbing scenes. The bison head belongs to someone who lives in the house who forgot to tell his roommates about the disturbing temporary lawn ornament.

    A police spokeswoman, Kim Kobel, said authorities first made sure to rule out an attack on the University of Colorado's mascot, a buffalo named Ralphie.

    With Ralphie's safety assured, police discovered that the bison head came from a recently slaughtered buffalo at a Nebraska ranch. The head's new owner told police he was simply drying out his "souvenir" so it could be displayed on a wall inside the house.

    Kobel said her department would not release the names of the housemates involved.

     
    • LocalYokel  •  Wasilla, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Idiot's never heard of a taxidermist.
    • Kirara  •  Salt Lake City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      To dry it out? You don't dry out heads to hang them, they have to be prepared in special solutions or the stink. This kid needs to do more research
      • Hans Delbruck 6 mths ago
        The skin has to be removed and tanned, and then, a cast of the skull is made out of fiberglass, and the skin is carefully glued back on, glass eyes, etc,.. it's a long costly process.
      • ______ 6 mths ago
        shhhhhhhhhhh dont tell them.
      • gene047 6 mths ago
        Most everyone in that f'd up state are stoned out of their skulls anyway. Pardon the pun.
    • Truth  •  6 mths ago
      Dude really be heading for trouble..
    • James E  •  Owensboro, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Is dry out mean the same as rotting?
    • Nick42`  •  Akron, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Morons.
    • BeanThere  •  6 mths ago
      I'll bet that smelled smart.............. I guess the idiot never thought of that.
    • skubie  •  6 mths ago
      So, let me get this straight.
      The bison was slaughtered.
      He took it home.
      To dry it out?
      In the front yard?
      Really?!?!?!?!
    • whinner  •  6 mths ago
      yeah, it's going to take more then "drying out' if you want to hang it indoors or for that matter within a 100 yards of the house
    • Jim  •  6 mths ago
      Now that's using your head.
    • Krakabich  •  6 mths ago
      They weren't really using their head.
    • John  •  Newark, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Hello Health Department? I would like to report an odd odor coming from next door...
    • Marcia  •  Indianapolis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      hmmmmm, doesn't sound like this guy knows a proper way to have the head prepared and mounted.
    • relix  •  6 mths ago
      hey idiots- put it in a big bucket of hot lime for a week or 2. then take it WAY out in the country to remove ANYTHING on the skull...
    • Ice-Queen  •  6 mths ago
      why wasn,t it taken to a taxadermist ? Ohhhhhh the stench that was prob. making eugh.
    • Common Sense  •  6 mths ago
      Fireants are the way to go.....
    • ______  •  6 mths ago
      sick f uck
    •  •  6 mths ago
      At first I thought a Mosliem was responsible for the decapitation.
    • PsyCat  •  6 mths ago
      Sick
    • David  •  Fayetteville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The humidity in Boulder is so low that it probably will dry out.
    • yellowvalley  •  6 mths ago
      While working at Yellowstone at Old Faithful this summer, there was one of the men in the dorms had a severed bison head hidden under his BED. His roommate was too scared of him to report it, but the RA of the dorm found it by smell of decomp after complaints of neighbors.
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