25 dead cats in bags found hanging from tree branches in N.Y. woods

[n2doc]

What a grisly scene.

About 25 dead cats were found in plastic bags hanging from tree branches in the woods in Yonkers, N.Y., the Journal News reports. The bags were neatly tied around the branches.

City sanitation workers performing their annual cleanup of the woods discovered the bags. Police responded on Thursday.

"It's something very odd," Ernest Lungaro, director of the SPCA of Westchester's Humane Law Enforcement Division, told the Journal News. "It's a lot of cats to be disposed of in a year."

Each bag appeared to have one cat inside, which varied in age and stage of decomposition. Wildlife appeared to have ripped open five or so bags, spilling the dead cats out, Lungaro said.

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http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/8141177

[darkangel218]

1. How sickening..

Wish I hadn't read this

[FarCenter]

2. Check for chips?

[In_The_Wind]

3. That's horrible! There is a very dangerous individual in Yonkers.

[VScott]

4. Sound like someone was on ther way to St. Ives.

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

[Maedhros]

5. This sounds like something staged to fit with the Slenderman Mythos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

Essentially, a fictional monster invented via web forum discussions. A number of serial YouTube video series have been created within the Mythos (e.g. TribeTwelve, Marble Hornets, EverymanHYBRID).

Bags of mutliated animals/body parts hanging from trees is associated with the presence or activity of the Slender Man. The EverymanHYBRID series has an episode in which these are found:

http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Joke%27s_Over

My guess some fans of this stuff crossed a line.

[RKP5637]

6. I'd like to see whoever did this hanging in a tree in a plastic bag! n/t