Just Some Heads Looking for Some Bodies

Who is the head of the pack? More like: whose heads are in those packs?

According to a report on CNN.com, five human heads were discovered in ice chests under a tree in Jalisco, Mexico today at 2 a.m. 

Another result from convievably epic drug cartel wars, the heads were left with eyes taped shut and their bodies nowhere to be found.

What is more disturbing is the messages attached to the chests promising future violence, and conversing with a mysterious man named Goyo, who the messages suggest could now be chopped suey (dead). How far will these drug lords go?

However, some interesting observations can be made from this incident.

• Why tape the eyes?
  

Either the drug lords have a sick sense of humor, or the guilt that comes with "waste management" has finally caught up with them. They kill and kill and kill, but when faced with the result, they just cannot seem to handle it.

Decapitated heads can be somewhat unnerving, so I guess the manly, cutthroat agents of the drug cartels would be afraid of staring into the blank, dark, potentially "soul peering" eyes of the dead. 

• Ice chests

How sick is that. Imagine opening a fridge and seeing a head poke out at you. Now this head is not just any head. See, with a decapitated head, there's first, the swelling, the gaping mouth, complete with tongue sticking out and yellowish teeth, then the disconnected blood vessels, spinal cord, and of course, the blood. 

Overall, that is just not cool.

• 2 a.m.

Either Mexicans like to wander aimlessly by the road in the early mornings, or there's something suspicious going on. The bodies were discovered way too conveniently only hours after the percieved time of decapitation. A potential set up?

• Sorry for the dead?

On one hand, the five unidentified men who were murdered probably had families, jobs, lives. The community knew them, their kids probably loved them, and they used to be alive. 

But, as television has taught us, there is always more to the story. Why would these people be targeted? Were they drug dealers themselves or advocates for a drug free Mexico? 

In the end, we can only be skeptical, and know that involvement with drugs is bad.