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appeared to be decayed.” Officer Bryce Mondragon also noticed a “foul smell.” Unfortunately, the mystery lives on: The court filing does not say who the finger be- longed to or why Chavez-Zu- niga had it, but he was held on a charge of desecration of a dead human body, among
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counter, but he had cooked some of their food, slept in a bed and bathed in a bathroom.
Choque, a miner, hired an artist to create sculptures of long-horned skeletal devils from cement and wood and mount them on the outside of his home. He told Reuters that the sculptures hearken to life in Bolivian mines centuries ago, when indigenous men were forced into digging for silver. Colonial masters would use devil images to scare the men into working.
Bullish On Biking
Riders in the Bianchi Rock Cobbler, a California bike race known to be “stupidly hard,” expected the usual sore mus- cles after the 80-mile off-road- er on Feb. 12. They did not ex- pect, however, neck and back injuries suffered after being attacked by a bull.
The bull, after dislodging him from his bike, flipped Inderbitzin up in the air. Two other riders were also attacked but were able to finish the race and celebrate with beers.
Armed And Courteous
When a couple returned home in Santa Fe, New Mexi- co, on Jan. 30 after a few days away, they were shocked to find a messy kitchen and a young man with a gun in- side, The Washington Post reported.
But even more stunning was the intruder’s behavior: He explained that his family in east Texas had been killed and he was on the run from someone. He told the husband that his car had broken down about 100 miles away.
“He was extremely embar- rassed and apologetic,” the husband told sheriff’s officers.
As he left, he dropped $200 on a table to help pay for the window he had broken to get in. None of the couple’s items had been stolen, including jewelry that was left on a
Investigators figured he owed the couple $15 for beers and shrimp he consumed.
But some neighbors fear that his décor signals satanic worship. Maria Laurel said
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W hen police officers in Orem, Utah, pulled over Victor Chavez-Zuniga, 27, for a bro- ken headlight on Feb. 9, they discovered that he had sever- al outstanding warrants, The Smoking Gun reported. As a result, they searched him and found something “extra” in his wallet: a severed finger in a cloth wrap, which had “what appeared to be pus and blood on it” and “was beginning to turn green and the fingernail
Decaying Finger Discovered In Man’s Wallet
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she has heard about naked rit- uals in Choque’s house: “The truth is, it frightens me.”
Tony Inderbitzin told KMPH-TV that he did see the animal, but he usually safely bikes right by cows.
In the Bolivian city of El Alto, David Choque has alarmed his neighbors with his new decorating scheme, Reuters reported.
Choque pooh-poohs this idea. “Closed-minded people will think it’s something su- pernatural, but people need to open their minds and see it as a tourist attraction, something that can improve the area,” he said.
“As I got 10-15 yards from him, he turned ... squared up, and I had maybe a second to brace myself or do anything,” he said. “It’s a case of a mis- taken identity from a cow to a bull.”
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