The Headless Horseman who chased Ichabod Crane through Sleepy Hollow is getting some frightful competition in the ghost world as crime groups in Mexico continue to dispatch poor souls into the afterlife without their heads.
In the resort town of Acapulco along the Pacific Coast police discovered a wooden box with five heads outside a primary school as reported by BBC News: "last month, as the new school year began, dozens of teachers in Acapulco said criminal gangs had threatened them with violence if they did not hand over half their salaries from 1 October."
The cartels long ago diversified beyond the drug trade to include the extortion racket.
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