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P.O. Box 81 Albuquerque, NM 87103 BUSINESS HOURS: 10AM–5PM MON–FRI PHONE and FAX: (505) 346-0660 Alibi (ISSN 1088-0496) is published weekly 51 times per year. The content of this issue is Copyright © 2019 by NuCity Publications, Inc., and may not be reprinted in part or in whole without written consent of the publisher. All rights are reserved. One copy of each edition of Alibi is available free to county residents and visitors each week. Anyone caught removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Yearly subscription $100, back issues are $3, Best of Burque is $5. Queries and manuscripts should include a self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Association of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2019 suggest a possible explanation for the many monster sightings. “There is a very significant ODDS amount of eel DNA. Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness, with eel DNA found at pretty much every location sampled—there are a lot of them … Therefore we can’t discount the possibility that what people see and believe is AND ENDS the Loch Ness Monster might be a giant eel.” WEIRD NEWS Many independent researchers have balked at the team’s findings, however, pointing out Dateline: Florida that an eel would have to be much larger At least 16 bricks of cocaine have washed up than any in the historical record to fit the on two Florida beaches following the passing descriptions of the monster. of Hurricane Dorian. South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that a Melbourne, Fla., police Dateline: Australia officer was patrolling at Paradise Beach Park A planned BBQ protest against a vegan last week when a couple brought his attention woman who sued her neighbors for hosting to a suspicious package that had washed up on backyard cookouts has been canceled by its the beach. The officer said the package was organizer, who cited concerns over “wrapped in a way that is consistent with a trespassing. According to 10 Daily in Sydney, kilo of illegal drugs.” Days earlier, at Cocoa Australia, a recently canceled Facebook event Beach, a red duffel bag stuffed with what titled “Community BBQ For Cilla Carden” appeared to be 15 bricks of cocaine was invited Australians to visit the home of the discovered by a beachgoer and reported to vegan woman who had made headlines by police. All 16 bricks tested positive for suing her neighbors. 9 News reports that cocaine. It is believed that the bricks washed Carden took her neighbors to the State ashore due to the passing of Hurricane Administrative Tribunal and the Supreme Dorian, which stirred ocean waters off the Court to complain about a number of issues eastern coast of the US. A photo of the brick she was having with them. According to the found at Paradise Beach Park was released by complaint, Carden—a vegan—alleged she police. It shows a package labeled with was unable to sleep because her neighbors lettering that is partially concealed by a man’s were intentionally harassing her by playing hand. The visible letters spell “D-I-A-M-A- basketball, smoking cigarettes and cooking N-T.” Police are currently investigating the meats in their back yard. “They’ve put it incident and have not revealed if the bricks there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish,” found at Cocoa beach shared the same label. she told reporters. “I can’t enjoy my backyard, A kilo of cocaine reportedly has a street value I can’t go out there … It’s deliberate, that’s of $20,000 to $30,000 in Orlando. The bricks what I told the courts, it’s deliberate.” A were turned over to US Customs and Border Supreme Court Judge and the State Protection. Administrative Tribunal said her claims were unreasonable and lacking in evidence, Dateline: New Zealand however, and dismissed her case. The tribunal A New Zealand research team believes it has reportedly said the family was not behaving in a new theory about the Loch Ness Monster. a way that could be considered a nuisance. According to The Washington Post, geneticist “What they are doing is living in their Neil Gemmell, a professor at New Zealand’s backyard and their home as a family,” read its University of Otago, and a team of scientists decision. It was also pointed out that the have been analyzing DNA collected from 250 family had moved their barbecue to the other samples of the famous Loch Ness in Scotland. side of the yard and stopped turning on their The lake is a freshwater loch that is best lights in an attempt to appease Carden. The known for its association with alleged woman attempted to appeal the decision, but sightings of what witnesses believe is a large her request was denied. The Facebook event underwater monster. Many theories about the inviting diners to enjoy barbecue at Carden’s alleged monster have been postulated, home was organized in “protest” of her including that it is a prehistoric marine reptile actions. According to its description, the called a plesiosaur that somehow survived to event was meant to “get some pork on her present day. The sightings reportedly date fork” and keep her from “destroying” an back to 565 AD, with the majority occurring “Aussie tradition.” Thousands RSVP’d to the during the 1930s. Gemmell’s team used the event, but Carden’s lawyer threatened legal DNA samples to build a comprehensive index action if anyone trespassed on her property. of the creatures living in the waters of Loch The barbecue organizer, Baley Masan, issued a Ness. The researchers were able to catalog a statement last week that the event was being number of organisms, including bacteria. canceled. “We do not condone the According to Gemmell, there was no sign of a harassment of Mrs. Carden or the trespass monster in the loch. “We can’t find any onto her land,” he wrote. He asked that evidence of a creature that’s remotely related attendees use the money they would have to that in our environmental-DNA sequence spent on sausages to donate to a drought relief data,” he told BBC News. “So, sorry, I don’t fund for Australian farmers. a think the plesiosaur idea holds up based on the data that we have obtained.” But he did Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] NEWS CITY BY JOSHUA LEE NEWS | ON ASSIGNMENT Corrections Dept. Tried to Conceal Evidence Vigil’s Quest Details of a 2014 report that the New Mexico Department of Corrections attempted to conceal have become public. Now the agency is Focusing on homelessness and addiction facing sanctions. non-profits helping those people long-term According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, BY AUGUST MARCH state district judge Raymond Ortiz heavily with residential [aid] are few and far between. The [Little] Brothers of the Good Shepherd is sanctioned the department for concealing and alking down the street toward Central destroying evidence related to a lawsuit filed in one such organization.