Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012

Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012
Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas at Luche Libre Taco Shop in San Diego, March 2012

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It had arrived in an easy to assemble kit. At least that's what it said on the box. "Easy To Assemble" right next to "Use No knives".

He had carefully opened the box (using a pair of Surgeons scissors to cut through the plastic straps that encircled all four vertical and horizontal sides of the package) and removed the contents.

The torso was laid out in the middle of the living room, in the spot that had been previously occupied by the coffee table. 

What he discerned to be the head was placed directly above what looked to be the neck, and what he believed to be the legs were placed next to each other just below what he hoped was the bottom of the torso.

On either side of what could not possibly be anything but the shoulders were placed limbs that just had to be arms, and at the ends of each arm he placed mitten-like appendages that could not be anything but hands.

After he had it all laid out, he inserted two short copper rods into the holes on opposite sides of what he thought was the head (the "earholes" as he called them), and then connected the negative and positive alligator-clamp-tipped ends of a pair of jumper cables to those copper rods.

Stepping back a few feet and ducking behind a counter he glanced about the room one last time - not so much to check to make sure anyone in the area was out of harms way as it was a paranoid reaction.

Then he flipped the switch.

An action he immediately regretted.


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