Posted on 06/07/2011 6:39:21 PM PDT by avg_freeper
Authorities converged on a residential property near the Liberty County town of Hardin on Tuesday night after the sheriff’s office received a phone tip from a self-professed psychic that 25 to 30 dismembered bodies were buried there.
By 8 p.m., Liberty County Judge Craig McNair said that no bodies were found inside the house. Cadaver dogs were inside and found nothing.
A preliminary search by law enforcement officers earlier in the day found evidence of what they believed was blood, but no sign of anything else, leading them to suggest the call may have been a hoax.
A search warrant was obtained and a quick look around revealed nothing out of order. A state law enforcement source confirmed that DPS officials had obtained the warrant and entered the residence, after making a fruitless search of the property.
A foul stench emanating from the house was found to be coming from piles of rotting garbage. And the blood found at the residence was related to an earlier incident, the source told the Houston Chronicle.
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Shows me what I know about pop culture...
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lol.
or maybe a desperate act to get Weiner pushed to the background?
There’s a reason newspaper articles are called stories. That’s what they are most of the time. Stories. A reporter is nothing more that a storyteller when it comes right down to it. He has a limited number of facts to work with, and from those facts he must weave a tale that will hold the reader. Some of the facts the reporter has are accurate; some are not. But either way, the facts are not the story. The story lies in the inferences, the color, and the spin. These are what reports are paid for, and their job – their sacred oath – is to make the news pop. It has to sing. It has to thrill. Without all that, it isn’t really news to anyone.
ever see the movie Idiocracy? I think we are living it.
That is scary.
You know....I can see (through my psychic ability) a future movie here. Some idiot will make three correct predictions for grandma....and then thinks he has the “power”...and spends an entire day predicting twenty different things. In the end...the last one will be the only one that’s correct with someone going off to jail...the psychic himself.
As for the cops involved in this...you have to imagine the next time they get a phone call like this....they won’t do much of anything.
Can’t believe the Sheriff and the Judge were STUPID enough to fall for this.
My guess is that when the police get a tip like this they suspect that the so-called psychic is actually someone involved in the crime (perhaps caught up in a sense of guilt) or has knowledge of it by other than psychic means, and simply is using the “i know this because i’m psychic” routine as a way of trying to protect themselves should their identity become known. Therefore i can see how they would feel compelled to check it out,
Good point. Thanks.
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