April 21, 2004

EATING RAOUL:

Mexican tamale vendor arrested after mutilated body found in his home (April 21, 2004, Associated Press)

A tamale vendor in western Mexico was arrested after police discovered a carved-up body in his home, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors said Wednesday. The vendor denied using human flesh in his food.

The vendor, who sold tamales from a cart in the city of Morelia in Michoacan state, was arrested Tuesday after police received an anonymous tip that he had a dismembered body in his house, said Lorena Cortes, a spokeswoman for Michoacan state prosecutors.

Police entered the home and found body parts, some of which appeared to have been boiled with herbs. A daylong analysis of the tamales found in the house revealed that they were free of human flesh, Cortes said.


Thus the Time Zone Rule.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 21, 2004 11:51 PM
Comments

What is the Time Zone Rule?

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at April 22, 2004 12:22 AM

Yeah, I'll bite too. What's the time zone rule? And it had better not be anything like the five second rule...

Posted by: joe shropshire at April 22, 2004 1:39 AM

It's OJ's excuse (in part) for not leaving NH absent catastrophe (and maybe not even then). Never leave the Eastern Time Zone, I believe is how it goes.

Posted by: Chris at April 22, 2004 6:54 AM

"Eating Raoul"?

That wouldn't be a Bliss Band reference would it?

Posted by: Jeff Brokaw at April 22, 2004 8:27 AM

OOPS - just remembered "Eating Raoul" was a movie, I think. "Dinner with Raoul" was the Bliss Band record. Never mind! Not enough coffee yet ...

Posted by: Jeff Brokaw at April 22, 2004 8:29 AM

I've never understood the point of the Time Zone Rule, since he also has a state line rule. The former would seem to be irrelevant in the presence of the latter.

Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at April 22, 2004 10:47 AM

AOG:

One sin is cardinal, the other venial.

(In other words--my in-laws are in MA, my fantasy baseaball draft in NY & we do go to Disney every couple years)

Posted by: oj at April 22, 2004 11:00 AM

I'm still here.

(And this story fits right in with the Vancouver B.C. area hog farmer and serial murder who may have given his neighbors certain "special cuts.")

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at April 22, 2004 11:56 AM

Another argument for immigration as an improving force, I guess.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at April 22, 2004 7:15 PM
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