Ahead of the Packs:
I always have had lots of hobbies some where the standard types, like stamp collecting, coin collecting and model making. One was a little unusual, making skeletons of animals. I supplied my High School biology department with about 13 various vertebrate skeletons. One of my teachers Mr. Mahoney, my European history teacher and advisor to the student council, asked if I could make him a dog skull that he could use for a paper weight. At that time I was volunteering at Montefiore Hospital and one of my duties included work in the research lab (I'm working on a memoir of this). When the dogs needed to be sacrificed we would then incinerate them. Well why waste a good head. So with permission, I decapitated the head of one of the dogs and looked for a box to put it in. After looking around for a box the only one I found was a B& D syringe box. Well that evening I didn't want to wait for my father to drive me home so I took the subway, the 4 Lexington Ave Line that went from the Bronx to Midtown Manhattan by going through the south Bronx (at that time the worst crime area in the country) and then Harlem. Well I fell asleep on the subway train. When I awoke the box was missing. I can only imagine the end to this story when some junkie opened the box expecting a great score on some hyperdermic syringes. Mr Mahoney had to wait for later to get his paper weight.
More to follow.
