Severed Bison Head Found In Boulder Yard, Police Say It's Not CU-Boulder Mascot 'Ralphie'

BOULDER, Colo. -- Police in Boulder, Colo., have solved the mystery of how a severed bison head ended up on a decorative rock in someone's front yard. It belongs to somebody who lives in the home but forgot to tell his roommates about it.

The roommates called police about the head Sunday, and investigators quickly ruled out one obvious potential source: the beloved buffalo mascot named Ralphie at the University of Colorado.

Police spokeswoman Kim Kobel said Monday that the head came from a buffalo recently slaughtered from a ranch in Nebraska. The head's owner told police he was drying out his souvenir so he could display it on a wall.

Kobel says the case is now closed.

Police didn't release the names of the people involved.

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Comments

[WminPhoenix]

04:04 PM on 11/16/2011

Luca Brasi lives!

[smeeg]

04:02 PM on 11/16/2011

only in Boulder....

[KOPman]

03:24 PM on 11/16/2011

It's like "The Godfather" in the Rockies.

[Fletch55]

03:13 PM on 11/16/2011

This kid is a college student and doesnt know you cant just dry the head out to mount? It has to be preserved and cleaned or he will just be hanging rotten flesh and the insides such as the brain well.... he should just drop out and start working at Burger King if he is that stupid.

[thetxsndn]

04:19 PM on 11/16/2011

Burger King probably wouldn't even hire him.

[ascri38223]

02:21 PM on 11/16/2011

GODFATHER PART ????

[DDL13]

01:10 PM on 11/16/2011

slow news day for huff fluff

[superultralib]

03:58 PM on 11/16/2011

inquiring minds want to know

[psandysdad]

12:32 PM on 11/16/2011

But aliens love to mutilate our cattle! Isn't a bison close enough?

[Samsdog212]

12:08 PM on 11/16/2011

I thought they stopped making buffalo head nickles.

[MORAL SOLUTION]

11:52 AM on 11/16/2011

huff post is desparate for articles today.

[lifeandvictory]

11:42 AM on 11/16/2011

That's what it's for, riiight . .

[flschneck]

11:41 AM on 11/16/2011

Let this be a lesson to everyone. The NEXT time Frank Sinatra wants to be in a movie, let him.

[cqdeed]

11:32 AM on 11/16/2011

Young, city boy who never heard of a taxidermist.

[Llib Noswad]

11:09 AM on 11/16/2011

Has the guy never heard of a taxidermist? You can't just dry it out and hang it on the wall.

[rodterry1]

03:32 PM on 11/16/2011

Well sure you can if you are a young college student and you don't care how things smell.

[Rooftop Voter]

04:11 PM on 11/16/2011

I have plenty of air dried shrunken heads at my place. Hang on, have to get another one off the clothes line, brb............

[kimaz]

11:05 AM on 11/16/2011

Opening day for gun was yesterday. Beware of possible deer heads drying near you ;)

[lilbit4368]

09:43 PM on 11/15/2011

I always dry out my Bison heads on rocks in the front yard. Sheesh. Freaks out the neighbors a little but the dogs don't crap on my lawn anymore. =-)

[kareemachan]

11:13 AM on 11/16/2011

I think they'd be chewing on the head, thinking they had died and gone to heaven!

;-)