FIPS Broken News: Skinned Goat Heads Found Hanging Over 5th Ave. Lamp Post

Photo credit: Katherine Hurd

While this FIPSter lost hours and gained several gray hairs waiting on line to return something at the Old Navy at Atlantic Center, exciting things were happen in the South Slope yesterday -- two skinned goat heads attached by a string (a shoelace?) were flung over a lamp post on the corner of 9th Street and 5th Avenue, grossing out pretty much everyone.  

According to DNAInfo, police arrived around 11:30 a.m., but it was a driver from a Continental Car Service who took matters into his own hands by climbing a ladder, knocking the goat heads down with a stick, and then throwing them in the garbage. No word on whether he's single, ladies! 

Man tries to remove animal heads at Ninth St and Fifth Ave. in Park Slope.

A video posted by leslie (@reporterleslie) on Nov 11, 2014 at 9:00am PST

Of course, there's lots of speculation as to whether this was a Halloween prank or result of Santeria or voodoo practice, but we think this summed it perfectly: