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"If You're Bored Of the Planet Earth" - Victorian Blotter

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Jack Babalon

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Victorian Blotter

[Jan. 13th, 2009|12:37 am]

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Here in Terminus, we have a free magazine called The Creative Loafing that comes out every Wednesday. One of my favorite sections in it is 'The Blotter', a long running feature that encapsulates the sordid highlights of the previous weeks police reports here in the city. It usually details the more interesting cases, often ranging from the sadly mundane to the outright preposterous. The following illustrations reportedly come from what appears to be a rough Victorian equivalent of 'The Blotter' called the Illustrated Police News which ran from 1864 to 1939. Here one encounters all manner of gruesome scenes that seem as if they were plucked out of a Penny Dreadful or the ending to some ripping yarn.

These would be some of my favorites of the few I've found online.

But a warning first dear reader... let those of a more sensitive disposition turn away now, lest they find themselves made to witness the tragic fates of daring aeronauts, homesick gorillas and those who would recklessly tease the noble elephant.

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From:

kittenspeaks
2009-01-13 06:34 am (UTC)

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Extraordinary Collection of Cats is about me isn't it?
;-)

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From:

jackbabalon23
2009-01-15 04:07 am (UTC)

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Well, you're an extraordinary cat in my book either way:)

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From:

kittenspeaks
2009-01-15 04:22 am (UTC)

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Might you even say that I'm.... The Cat's Pajamas
:-)

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jackbabalon23
2009-01-15 04:24 am (UTC)

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But of course.

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From:

ammutbite
2009-01-13 09:18 am (UTC)

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idiot boy is my favorite superhero.

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jackbabalon23
2009-01-15 04:12 am (UTC)

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Pity the teen side kicks of the Victorian Superhero set. Poor Chimney-Sweep Lad, Match Stick Lass, Idiot Boy and the Fighting Waif... masked children sent into the slaughter battling science villians and the demons of the Steam Age.

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From:

ammutbite
2009-01-15 06:39 am (UTC)

demons of the steam age

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they stood no chance against Gin Alley, and Molasses Flood

Edited at 2009-01-15 02:02 pm (UTC)

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vomikronnoxis
2009-01-13 12:47 pm (UTC)

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The case of the dying ape looks like a very sobering experience for everyone involved. How did we manage to go on from this to two world wars?

~~rl

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From:

jackbabalon23
2009-01-15 04:09 am (UTC)

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In fact the ape was predicting the coming of the two world wars but sadly this death-bed prophesy was spoken in his native tongue of grunts and the warning was lost on all who witnessed it.

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