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Cattle Decapitation About to be Blamed for Murders?

Bravewords.com posted this report earlier:

cattle_decapitationAuthorities in San Diego County have confirmed that the remains of several bodies have been unearthed in the backyard garden of a coastal San Diego home on Wednesday.

Authorities found the bodies after an anonymous tip led them to the location.

For much of the day Sunday, neighbors tried to catch a glimpse of what was going on as a number of detectives were digging in what appears to be a vegetable garden of the home, located just off Interstate 5.

Then around 9 PM, they watched as several body bags were rolled out on stretchers from behind the home. Those body bags were then driven away by San Diego coroners.

“I thought there was just one. I was surprised to see they kept bringing them out,” said neighbor Josephine Wagacknyk.

After witnessing the disturbing scene, dozens of neighbors were left with even more questions.

But the one thing that was obvious to everyone Sunday night was a strong foul odor which seemed to emanate from the home.

“The stench. [It's a] real bad smell. If you’ve never been around a dead dog or something, then you wouldn’t know. But I’ve been around dead animals so I know it’s pretty bad,” said Wagacknyk.

Although police aren’t releasing the name of the owner of the home, neighbors tell Channel 12 News that the suspect spends much of his time working in the vegetable garden while listening to heavy metal music.

Upon further investigation, authorities found a CD which contained a song titled ‘A Body Farm’ in the suspect’s home; a song from an album that was released by local San Diego heavy metal band CATTLE DECAPITATION. Authorities are looking into this tragedy as being a possible “copycat crime” based on the band’s disturbing music and lyrics.

Channel 12 News attempted to contact the band, but the band’s representatives declined to comment.

The sheriff’s office isn’t expected to release the victims names until the coroner finishes the identification process and the next of kin are notified which is expected to be lengthy due to the advanced state of decomposition the bodies were in.

Great. Just what metal needs, another batch of idiots saying “This person was obviously not disturbed until he listened to ‘A Body Farm’ by Cattle Decapitation, at which point he completely lost his freakin’ mind and went on a killing spree!” The victims’ families will be lamenting the evils of metal music in general, and maybe Congress will want to get involved in a bit more censorship.

Or maybe nothing will happen at all.

Look, this dude (whoever the hell he his) was a psycho before he started listening to metal. The only music that has ever made me want to kill is Turkish pop and pretty much anything by Attack! Attack! or Hollywood Undead.

So what do you think? Will this blow up into some big unnecessary war on metal, or will it quietly go away?

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  2. By Scott
    371 days ago

    Yep…on January 20th was when things started to go a little wacky in this dudes head. I’d hate to see what he would have done if he listened to some old Cannibal Corpse.

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  3. By Scott
    371 days ago

    BTW, it’s a publicity stunt leading in to their new video of the same name. Check the Gauntlet.

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  4. By SheRyche
    370 days ago

    It will go away. Worst case scenario is it will turn in to a big pain in the ass for the band, but then it will go away. We saw this kind of thing happen in the 80s with Ozzy and Judas Priest. There’s no way to make it stick.

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  5. By Eric J
    370 days ago

    Absolutely the most brilliant publicity stunt I have seen in a long time.

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