"It was a different world then"

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On a 2013 episode of Criminal Minds, they dug up a time capsule from 25 years ago and found a severed head in it. How could it have gotten in there? Wasn't the capsule guarded? The sheriff explained, "It was a different world then: no one even locked their doors!"

So this different time, when no one worried about crime, was... 1988! In the middle of the crack years, when crime rates were sky high compared to today!


Comments

  1. rob10:03 AM

    I'm not surprised that crime rates were sky high back then if no one bothered locking their doors.

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  2. Unknown8:14 PM

    Oh the crack years. That explains why no one noticed a head was missing for 25 years.

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  3. Josiah Neeley9:20 PM

    Why would you guard a time capsule anyway?

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