Airline Finds Crate of 60 Severed Heads Just Thrown in a Box.

[IndigoSkies 168]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ark_coroner_launches_probe_shipment_7XbdDn3E7GqvRew40NEgqO?CMP

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So that's where that went

Seriously, how horrible.

[Nagishkaw 510]

An Arkansas coroner was investigating after a cargo shipment of 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by a Southwest Airlines employee, NBC DFW reported Thursday.

The container of heads was found in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday and was set for transportation to a Medtronic research lab in Fort Worth, Texas.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman, told NBC DFW. "They called the local authorities."

Police were called by the airline, who investigated before turning them over to the county coroner.

A spokesman for Medtronic told NBC DFW it was common practice to ship body parts for medical education and research, adding his firm expected suppliers to follow proper procedures.

Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper, charged with the investigation, said he was waiting for the correct documentation to prove the heads were for medical research before releasing them.

"In our discussion with the health department, we've come to the conclusion that there is a black market for body parts out there," he was quoted as saying by NBC.

"We just want to make sure these specimens aren't part of that underground trade."

[ScottThuy 140]

where does one come by 4 to 5 dozen human heads?

Are we importing them from overseas also?

Edited June 17, 2010 by ScottThuy

[Niels Bohr 72]

It's members of the GOP head hunters.

[mawilson 2,133]

[Jenn! 918]

Haha, I was thinking of Fringe as well.

[ValerieA 350]

Can you imagine being the employee who opened the first box?

[besaangel 17]

Can you imagine being the employee who opened the first box?

LOL, poor thing... probably was about to faint... So why do they not have like a "special" transportation for dead heads? Aint there some kind of sanitation rule to floow or somethin?

[ValerieA 350]

LOL, poor thing... probably was about to faint... So why do they not have like a "special" transportation for dead heads? Aint there some kind of sanitation rule to floow or somethin?

It's not like the heads have to worry about catching an infection or something...

Seriously, I am baffled by them not being in airtight, sealed containers.

[besaangel 17]

It's not like the heads have to worry about catching an infection or something...

Seriously, I am baffled by them not being in airtight, sealed containers.

Thats what Im sayin At least their ears dont pop (or their head would blow up, right?)

[Niels Bohr 72]

There's a black market for them. There are doctors from ivy league schools such as Harvard School of Medicine for making a deal with a funeral director to replace a dead body legs with wooden ones so the doctor can use the legs for experiment.

This is not illegal. However, it's illegal when the family of the dead body doesn't know about the deal. And, there's already an open business to sell dead body parts, cadavers, but, it's way more expensive than cutting a deal with the funeral director.

[ScratchIt 12]

Dead Heads I'd like to see. I no particular order and by no means all-inclusive. (ought to start a thread on this!)

[Brad and Vika 129]

Seriously, I am baffled by them not being in airtight, sealed containers.

I wonder what the research was? And what is the shelf-life of a human head?

[Teacher Mark 53]

An Arkansas coroner was investigating after a cargo shipment of 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by a Southwest Airlines employee, NBC DFW reported Thursday.

The container of heads was found in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday and was set for transportation to a Medtronic research lab in Fort Worth, Texas.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman, told NBC DFW. "They called the local authorities."

Police were called by the airline, who investigated before turning them over to the county coroner.

A spokesman for Medtronic told NBC DFW it was common practice to ship body parts for medical education and research, adding his firm expected suppliers to follow proper procedures.

Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper, charged with the investigation, said he was waiting for the correct documentation to prove the heads were for medical research before releasing them.

"In our discussion with the health department, we've come to the conclusion that th

there is a black market for body parts out there," he was quoted as saying by NBC.

"We just want to make sure these specimens aren't part of that underground trade."

Thanks for fixing the lazy post Nagi.

At first I got pissed then I thought "This is really nothing to lose my head over!".

Edited June 18, 2010 by Mr. Saigon