CREEPING FASCISM UPDATE
Now they're trying to take away the fundamental right to kill dead vampires.
(Thanks to Elizabeth Davies)
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March 26, 2004
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ha ha, I post first!
Posted by: Scott | March 26, 2004 at 07:40 AM
I like the wording "(...)vampires occur(...)."
Okay, I'm really going now. I'm not playing around.
Posted by: Doug Brockmeier | March 26, 2004 at 07:46 AM
Eat your heart out, Vlad!
Posted by: steve | March 26, 2004 at 08:01 AM
I think if we were talking about embalmed corpses here, the Romanian authorities would have much bigger problems on their hands than simple desecration of the dead. Like, mass self-poisonings from swallowing formaldehyde.
Though if you hear of crazy-in-love-mand-Romanian disease, you know what started it.
Posted by: Saheli | March 26, 2004 at 08:35 AM
MeL.. i've been accused of already having mine removed (heart, that is)...
Posted by: The Bob | March 26, 2004 at 08:36 AM
"Before Toma Petre's relatives pulled his body from the grave, ripped out his heart, burned it to ashes, mixed it with water and drank it, he hadn't been in the news much."
This would be a great start to a book.
Posted by: Marty | March 26, 2004 at 08:40 AM
Darn you, punky brewster - I can't believe you posted almost the same thing at the same time!
Posted by: Marty | March 26, 2004 at 08:42 AM
KEY QUOTE:
"Its view, expressed by Constantin Ghindeano, the chief agent for the region, is that vampires aren't real and dead bodies in graves aren't to be dug out and killed again, even by relatives."
Even _relatives_!! That's good to know.
Posted by: Pam | March 26, 2004 at 09:11 AM
Where's Buffy when you need her?
(Man, that was creepy)
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | March 26, 2004 at 09:17 AM
I have several friends (and a wife) who are fans of vampire-related fiction and I'll be curious as to their take on this item. One or two would probably say that of course vampires are real!
Punky & Marty: you're both right, great opening.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 26, 2004 at 09:33 AM
BETTER QUOTE:
"That's the problem with vampires," said Doru Morinescu, a 30-year-old shepherd who, like many in the village, has a family connection to the current case. "They'd be all right if you could set them after your enemies. But they only kill loved ones. I can understand why... "
I really don't want to meet his relatives.
Posted by: rottweiler | March 26, 2004 at 09:57 AM
I´m studying here with a Romanian guy, reasonable man (never tried to steal a car, that is ;-)). He told me and an American friend pretty much the same story a week ago. Say what you want about this story...these guys REALLY believe that.
Posted by: Felix Krausch | March 26, 2004 at 11:51 AM
IT is preseumed his relatives ate his heart??? I don't remember that scene in any horror flick I've seen.
Posted by: looneygirl | March 26, 2004 at 12:24 PM
Dammit! Thats why I'm moving. If icant have the right to kill already dead things, I'm leavin'
Posted by: Alex | March 27, 2004 at 04:47 PM