Boxed offering sparks investigation

Salisbury Times ^ | November 20. 2007

[3AngelaD]

OCEAN CITY — A wooden box, apparently placed into the ocean as a religious offering, sparked a police investigation when it washed ashore and was found by a resident last week behind his home...Police said the box, the size of a shoebox, contained several notes written in Spanish as well as some balled up paper and gave out a rancid smell.

An investigation into the box led detectives to an El Salvador man from Silver Spring, Md., who admitted to making the box and putting some notes and a piece of uncooked chicken in it before placing it in the water as a religious offering during a visit to Ocean City last month. The man, who was not identified, told police the notes were prayers for prosperity and good health. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland also looked at the box and determined the material found in the box was not human, police said.

[3AngelaD]

Turned out to be a chicken the Salvadoran immigrant had sacrificed. Oh, the benefits of diversity, multiculturalism and uncontrolled immigration.