Why is it that so often news reports leave out the very things a person wants to know? A recent example is about 10 miles south of where I am located a human hand was found...they tell about the person that found it and when it was found but not whether it appeared to be a male hand or a female hand,nor if there was jewelry or other markings on it. I suppose that was in case several people are missing their hands they won't be able to falsely identify it?? give me a break! A book I was reading awhile back had another humorous example. A 70 year old man was beaten to death with a shoe...what is the first thing that you would want to know after reading that? What kind of shoe it was, right? Was it a slipper (not likely),a high heel? probably not a sneaker,perhaps a boot? The one that seems to top all of them is one that Mark Twain relates of a story that happened when he was traveling through India (keep in mind that this was in the 1800s and not a current event). At the time there were groups that roamed the land for the sole purpose of killing people and taking their belongings,it was an actual occupation. They were called Thugee or thugs for short and always killed their prey by strangulation. The story he related was of the killing of a group of 7 men and women that were traveling together,the Thugee killed the 7 but left two toddlers alive. So what became of the children??? It never mentions if they were kept by the Thugee and in turn trained to take up their trade or if they were abandoned,nothing more about them. Maybe it's just me and morbid curiosity,but I don't like to be left hanging on the details when it seems to me to be an important part of the story.
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