Park Slope residents were apparently so busy cooing at the contents of their all-terrain strollers and farm-fresh kale bundles that they allowed several days to elapse before anyone bothered to look up and notice the rotting set of goat head chimes swaying in the early autumn breeze.
(Marilee Herring)
According to tipster Marilee Herring, the heads have been affixed to the lamp post on 5th Avenue and 9th Street since at least Saturday. AT LEAST Saturday.
It is possible for the goat heads to have remained there for so long? These fuzzy photos are from Saturday evening. I was on a Scavenger Hunt (The Wilde Hunt) searching for a clue with my team. After repeatedly searching around telephone poles and street signs for taped up clues, we naturally looked up and together spotted the haunting skulls. It was raining, so there was liquid dripping from their jaws, and in our cold, drenched and riddled minds this was the blood of the sheep. I noticed the photos featured on Gothamist were from yesterday, so perhaps this is helpful information as to how long they have actually been there!
Here we are, knickers in a twist over the NSA monitoring us through our cell phones, and we can't even be bothered to cast the occasional skyward glance to ensure there's no surveillance drones or mustachioed man in a trench coat staring at us from the window of a fifth floor walk-up.
I'm not saying there are tiny cameras mounted in the goat's empty eye sockets, but...
(Valerie Heinmets)
