Is there anything in Prospect Park besides discarded animal parts? No. That's not a tree; it's a disembodied giraffe's neck wearing a luscious crown of parrot wings. That's not grass; it's a vast assemblage of amputated tadpole tails. The friendly dog? Yeah, that's a dog. But it's dead. Chaos reigns.
Area dog walker Christopher Reid said he happened upon the above pictured "large platter" of rooster heads around noon yesterday. To be fair, the gruesome dish was found not in Prospect Park, but an adjoining space nearby called Dr. Ronald McNair Park. Ronald McNair was an astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion, as well as a devout follower of Bahá'í, a faith in which ritual is discouraged. Suffice to say McNair would probably not be thrilled with the presence of plated rooster heads in his park.
As with Monday's Goat Head (teens: There's your punk band name, you are WELCOME), we turned to our Priest of African Traditional Religions for answers, and received the following response:
"Unfortunately, yes, it does seem like something for a ritual," he wrote in an email. "Something like this (whether done by someone licensed or not) is supposed to be disposed of differently...not in a park setting."
It is worth noting that a bunch of decapitated roosters were found at the exact same time last year in North Carolina. WHAT DOES IT MEAN!
