Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

They're aiming for the lights!

People who work in law enforcement tend to be, well, "masters of the obvious". Never was this more clear to me than when I was driving along in my 1984 VW Rabbit, which was then on its last legs, and the hood actually blew open. I pulled over (of course), and just as I was getting out of the car to push the hood back down so I could complete the drive home (luckily, I was only half a mile away), a New York State Trooper comes by, stops, rolls down his window, and says, "Is there a problem here?"

I'm thinking of this right now because of this news item from Scotland, linked by Warren Ellis, in which Edinburgh detectives describe the death of a local man -- whose body was found fully clothed, stuffed into a suitcase, and submerged in a local waterway -- as "suspicious".

(Yes, that headline is a movie quote, in a tipping-of-the-hat to Sir Matthew the Not Quite So Brave As Sir Robin, who likes to use movie quotes as his own headlines.)