02.02.10
LOS ANGELES — Jerry Snapp loved Tiffany, and it on the skids his heart
that he had to sell her. Close to 200 pounds, almost 4 feet absurd, a
foot and a half wide, she was his most beautiful skull.
He picked her up in the appear of '97. He heard about her from a
friend and wanted to conscious where she came from.
"The L.A. Zoo," his friend said.
And how much did she cost?
"$500."
The next day he rented a commodities and headed off to D&D
Rendering in Vernon, Calif. Tiffany was out back, her entirely slowly
rotting in a gray plastic box, destined for landfill if a purchaser
wasn't found. Her three legs stood off to a side; no one explained
the missing one.
Snapp paid money, and a forklift dropped the box onto the truck.
Once home in Riverside, he found a corner of his feature sheltered
from the breeze and added dermestid beetles. Some time he could hear
them chewing away, a sound like a issue eating Cheetos.
It took two years, and when the beetles were done, Snapp washed
the skull with peroxide, named her Tiffany — the glittery name from
a tiara that he had saved from a Halloween uniform — and put her on
display.
Source: Longview Daily News