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The Sun-Times News Wire is reporting, via CBS 2, that animal cruelty charges may be pending after a goat's skull was found in a building at 2901 N. Milwaukee Ave. A police lieutenant quoted in the article hinted that the goat could have been sacrificed in a Santeria ritual (the religion, not the song). Details are still sketchy, but no Cubs fans were seen leaving the premises.
Chicagoist hasn't been able to find city-specific laws on animal sacrifice, and the state law doesn't mention it either. However, according to a 1993 Supreme Court case, as long as a law against animal sacrifice doesn't specifically target a religion like Santeria, it is constitutional, so we would imagine that if this goat were indeed sacrificed there could be some fallout. Of course, we've made a lot of assumptions here too. The skull could have come from a butcher shop. People do eat goats, you know.
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A decapitated goat was found in a cemetery in Forest Park a few weeks ago. Police speculated the Santeria was involved in that too. (Forest Park doesn't have a big wild goat population.)
People do eat goats, you know.
A goat sacrificed as a Santerian offering would be eaten. I guess as long as you don't pray while you slaughter an animal for consumption, you'll be ok...
Freaky, something like that was on CSI Miami the other day.
Was also Kevin Lomax's first case at Milton Chadwick & Waters in Devil's Advocate. Though that was New York.
Was also Kevin Lomax's first case at Milton Chadwick & Waters in Devil's Advocate.
That's the one I couldn't think of. The defendant was Delroy Lindo right? And Pacino put a curse on the prosecutor so he couldn't talk.
Matt,
Correct. Delroy Lindo was Moyez. Moyez actually put the curse on the DA with the nail he put through the tongue while speaking to Kevin.
Nothing is funnier than hearing people cough like that during the homily at mass.