Monday, June 30, 2008

Aztec Crime Victims Disarmed, Given Whistles

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.


Actually, I think that the victim was formerly an axe owner who had believed in self-defense and the right to own axes, but had been disarmed by anti-axe forces in the Aztec government, who got axe control laws passed by demonizing axe owners and describing their axes as "assault axes with no legitimate purpose." To compensate Aztecs for complying with the axe control laws, the government distributed whistles, and said that if the citizens were in danger of attack, all they had to do was blow the whistle, and guards would come to help them.

Didn't help this guy at all, did it? Dude had two whistles, one in each hand, and he still got killed by an axe-wielding criminal.

When axes are outlawed, only outlaws will have axes.

1 comment:

Geoff. said...

Dripping with irony and hyperbole, nice piece Bob.