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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles Manson Announces Separation From Fiancee For Truly Bizarre Reason
And no not because he's Charles Manson:
Its the same old story elderly lunatic serial killer meets young, attractive girl. Girl plots to marry elderly lunatic serial killer so she can turn his body into a tourist attraction when he dies, elderly lunatic serial killer doesnt much care for that plan. Weve all seen the movie.
Journalist Daniel Simone discovered Stars plan lay out Mansons remains in a glass crypt and reported on their break up.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/09/manson-wedding-off-bride-only-wanted-him-for-his-bodyliterally/
CrispyQ
(36,610 posts)What a weird world.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Of course, that's because he thinks he's immortal, but that's just another level of bizarre.
From the same article:
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,890 posts)Just what the world needs for a good "look".
No wedding ye say?
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
Initech
(100,174 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,890 posts)No eternal life? indeed!
Initech
(100,174 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)I suppose one could be impressed with Star's entrepreneurial spirit, but it's still pretty weird.
onethatcares
(16,231 posts)it'll be the death of us all, including Charlie.
u4ic
(17,101 posts)They were perfect for each other..
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)I wonder how someone feels if Charles Manson claims you're just a little too crazy for his taste.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Initech
(100,174 posts)brooklynite
(95,157 posts)...per Rolling Stone
CountAllVotes
(20,890 posts)No need for those Wedding Bell Blues I guess.
Best of luck to the *choke* happy couple!
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)A Memphis lawyer claimed that the mummy of John Wilkes Booth was stored in his Central Gardens garage. Was he right?
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop - Sylvester, The Desert Mummy
About 1895, two wandering cowboys riding through the Gila Bend Desert of Central Arizona came upon the nude body of a man half-buried ... The body was exhumed and carried to a near-by town for possible identification. It has since remained unidentified.
For a dollar, you walk past the register and into a tiny outside courtyard ... After walking through the maze of bizarre stuff, you finally see The Thing?, a mummified mother-and-child tableau encased in a glass-cover coffin.
Do you remember that crappy TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man? Lee Majors? ... In 1976, they were filming an episode of aforementioned crappy show in the funhouse at the Nu-Pike Amusement park in Long Beach, California. While arranging things to look best in the shots, someone adjusted a dummy which hung from a noose and accidently broke it's lower arm off ... The coroner .. found it was actually the .. mummified remains of a male between 30-40 years old ... A bullet wound was found, the trajectory still visible through all the bones and organs inside. Although the bullet had been removed, the half-copper jacket was still in the body; a type made from in the early 1900's. A 1924 penny and some old tickets stubs was found stuffed down the Dead Guy's throat. More than enough clues to figure out who this man was. One of the ticket stubs read "Louis Sonney's Museum of Crime, 521 S. Main street, Los Angeles". The museum was long gone, but the police found the former owner's son who told them that his dad bought the embalmed body of Elmer McCurdy .. and charged folks a quarter to see it.
In 1976, the staff of the Musée de lHomme in Paris dismantled an exhibit which had been on show since 1816 ... The macabre display, which consisted of the cast of a womans body, her skeleton, pickled brain and genitalia, was all that remained of Saartjie Baartman, better known as the Hottentot Venus ... Baartman had been brought from her home in South Africa to England in 1810 and put on the Piccadilly stage ... The display of Baartman was one of the earliest and most famous examples of a phenomenon that became known as the human zoo.
In 2002, President Nelson Mandela formally requested the repatriation of her remains.
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