A headless pigeon's body was found near the main gate of a municipal junior high school in Kobe this week, police said.
The grisly discovery was made at around 7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Sankei Shimbun reported. A teacher contacted police.
According to police, the pigeon's body was placed on the ground about one meter from the main gate of the school in Kita Ward. Its head has not been found and looked to have been severed from the body by a sharp blade. The body had not started to decompose and there was no blood nearby.
Police believe the bird was decapitated during the night elsewhere and left at the school gate early in the morning.
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kurisupisu
Hopefully,history doesn’t repeat…
Meiyouwenti
“Hopefully, history doesn’t repeat…”
Older posters may remember Sakakibara, a highly publicized case of mutilation killings by a junior high school kid in Kobe in 1997.
WoodyLee
Man there are some really twisted souls out there.
blackpassenger
didnt some kid put a severed human head on an elementary school gate pole in Kobe in 2003? One of my exgf’s xbf placed a headless can in front of her door in Kobe. Mmmmm, must b something in the beef.
wallace
A bad joke or a reminder of a very serious crime of beheading a Kobe schoolboy.
MiuraAnjin
Why is it always Kobe?
travelbangaijin
Sound like a kid did this, possibly at the school - they are a work in the making.
gsa
Why this is even a news?
garypen
Psychotic killers often start with animals. In this case, by placing the carcass by a school entrance, he got the thrill of killing a living thing and the kicks from human fear, without having to kill a human. But, it may only be a matter of time before he graduates to that next level.