By
Donal MacIntyre
An
Australian pleaded with the Police that he was not involved in the underworld
after a horse’s head was placed on the bonnet of his car, in a scene nearly
directly lifted from the film 'The Godfather'.
In
a scene reminiscent of the 1974 classic,
‘The Godfather’, where a horse’s head was placed in the bed of an enemy
as a mafia warning, , the horse’s head was bloody and a shock to the victim but
he was keen to insist that for him, it had no such connections.
The
Australian victim said that he believed that he may have been the target of a
disgruntled girlfriend but admitted that people might jump to conclusions, he
told the Sidney Morning Herald.
He
said that he awoke to strange sounds outside his house and then saw the horse’s
head.
"It
could have been an ex-girlfriend from two or three years ago, that's about it.
'm not involved (in gangs). That's 100% true. I'm in a relationship with a girl
just trying to live my life and everyone's turning this into something that
it's not”, he told the Morning Herald.
It
is not an altogether rare occurrence.
Earlier
this year, a Florida neighbourhood awoke to a similar scene.
Residents
in a Miami-Dade discovering the severed head of a horse but this time it was
not connected to gangland but to a animal abuse cult.
Richard
Couto, animal expert said that he believed the animal was killedduring the
religious practice of Santeria, during which animals are sacrificed.