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    10 days ago

    https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/jawless-skull-and-guns-fished-from-bayou-st-john-new-orleans-police-report-says/article_2cb32d00-1d3a-11ef-a810-5b19684c4ab4.html

    Bayou Bougaloo crowds reveled and splashed in the waterway at the music festival a couple miles south as the fisherman dangled a magnet the size of a hockey puck from a red rope off the Bayou St. John bridge.

    He pulled a gun barrel from the bridge’s south side near its center, police said. He also retrieved a handgun on the bridge’s northeast side, near the water’s edge.

    Then came a 15-pound dumbbell, tied to a shirt or cloth, which was padlocked around a human skull, police said. That skull was “fully decomposed, lacking a jaw or the top row of teeth,” New Orleans police said.

    The NOPD did not immediately respond to questions regarding investigations of any decapitated crime victims.

    On the whole, New York sounds like a better place to be magnet fishing than New Orleans.