One advantage of those double-height entries and oversized arched door-topping windows that come free with the purchase of your new home in Fairfield, as reporter Jennifer Bauer demonstrates: As you’re coming down the stairs, it’s easy to scan your front yard for mummies. KPRC photographer Jon Hill is lighting up the internets with the harrowing tale of his encounter last Wednesday night with a man who had an actual Ace bandage wrapped around his head. After spotting the sorta-masked sorta intruder lurking in his yard in the Fairfield neighborhood of Inwood Park, Hill ran out the front door with hopes of launching a surprise tackle. The wrapped visitor made an un-mummy-like exit, but Hill wasn’t able to chase him down. Thanks to a teevee report documenting the episode and other sightings of the unidentified interloper, all of Fairfield is now officially on mummy alert. Money quote: “Harris County sheriff’s deputies recommended that homeowners who see the man dressed as a mummy in their yard call 911 immediately.”
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- ‘Mummy’ Has Neighborhood On Edge [KPRC, via io9]
LMAO!!!!
I live in Cypress and just heard about this from a neighbor yesterday.
What a strange deal.
It is really against the law to walk around with your head wrapped in an ace bandage? I still say the best late night freaks walk the streets of Sharpstown. Either way, awesome Houston story.
There use to be a guy who rode a bike around Montrose and always had his head wrapped around with LOTS of gauze bandages. As I recall he only rode at night and it was some kind of big open sore.
There’s a guy in my neighborhood who has been wearing a bandage on his arm and around his head for 7 years. I see him waiting for the bus in a wheelchair all the time. I don’t know what ailment he has but it must be rough to have to wear bandages for so many years.
I think it was a slow news day and perhaps some ‘imagination’ went into that story.
Zombies are soooo 2010.
Sounds like someone is about to get shot.
I think Mummies may be the new Zombies?
It is really against the law to walk around with your head wrapped in an ace bandage?I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have a problem in Cypress with someone driving their SUV with bandages on their head. It must be the walking that’s problematic.
Demolition report : sacret tomb of Bubankhamun
Gee clairedammit, jealous much? Would the Cypress kids not let you play with their toys?