Mystery Meat Found in Framingham

If you follow current current events in the Bay state you may remember Framingham as the site of a recent high school stabbing, or as the town where a student pulled a knife on a teacher in a personal fund raising event – the goal sum being enough to buy himself a copy of GTA4. He ended up raising a grand total of $0.

But both of these stories pale in comparison to the latest news rocking the large suburban town. Boston.com is reporting that mystery meat has been appearing on the town’s common. That’s right, mystery meat.

Michael Levenson writes,

For five weeks, butcher-quality cuts of red meat – it appears to be beef – have been appearing regularly beneath a tree in the historic Town Centre Common, and the caper has perplexed just about everybody in town. Police and town health officials are investigating. Residents are bewildered, even worried…

…The mystery began in early October, when dog walkers began finding slabs of raw meat, seemingly carefully arranged at the base of a large evergreen.

Situations such as these call for a bit of reflection. In this particular case, the reflection should come in the form of a question, “What would you lick that meat for?”

Perhaps large sums of money? A new car? More meat? A dare? Or maybe just for kicks?

I guess the real question is whether or not you would you lick the mystery meat for love? Luckily, Meat Loaf wrote a song aimed at helping us answer this very question.

Enjoy (the mystery meat).

(Photo courtesy of Jim Carrol)

Disclosure: I’m originally from Framingham and precariously close to the mystery meaty.